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| + | #REDIRECT [[Question: How did Christ achieve deification before mortality?]] |
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| − | ==Criticism==
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| − | Critics claim that Latter-day Saint doctrine, which teaches that a physical body is necessary for a fulness of glory, is inconsistent, since Jesus was God prior to his mortal birth.
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| − | ===Source(s) of the Criticism===
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| − | *{{CriticalWork:Abanes:Becoming Gods|pages=241}}
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| − | *{{CriticalWork:McKeeverJohnson:Mormonism 101|pages=Chapter 2}}
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| − | *{{50Questions}}
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| − | ==Response==
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| − | Having a body is necessary for a fullness of joy ({{s||DC|93|33}}). The Holy Ghost is also God, but does not at present have a body in LDS doctrine.
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| − | It was necessary that at some point Jesus receive a body, but the specific time in which He did so is not particularly important. (To travel overseas, one needs both a passport and an airplane ticket. It doesn't matter in which order one gets the passport or the ticket, but one must eventually have both in order to reach one's destination.)
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| − | If a specific sequence is an absolutely requirement, then all Christians would need to explain how Christ's atonement could be efficacious to those who were born, lived, and died prior to His crucifixion. The fact that the atonement ''was'' effective should caution us against adopting an absolute requirement for sequence concerning Christ's receipt of a physical body.
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| − | ==Endnotes==
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| − | ''None''
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| − | ==Further reading==
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| − | ===FAIR wiki articles===
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| − | {{JesusWiki}}
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| − | ===FAIR web site===
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| − | {{JesusFAIR}}
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| − | ===External links===
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| − | {{JesusLinks}}
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| − | ===Printed material===
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| − | {{JesusPrint}}
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