(by Dennis B. Horne)
President Spencer W. Kimball
The
scientists taught for decades that the world was once a nebulous, molten mass
cast off from the sun, and later many scientists said it once was a whirl of
dust which solidified. There are many ideas advanced to the world that have
been changed to meet the needs of the truth as it has been discovered. There
are relative truths, and there are also absolute truths which are the same
yesterday, today, and forever—never changing. These
absolute truths are not altered by the opinions of men. As science has expanded
our understanding of the physical world, certain accepted ideas of science have
had to be abandoned in the interest of truth. Some of these seeming truths were
stoutly maintained for centuries. The sincere searching of science often rests
only on the threshold of truth, whereas revealed facts give us certain absolute
truths as a beginning point so we may come to understand the nature of man and
the purpose of his life. . . .
The Gods organized the earth of materials at hand, over which they had control and power. This truth is absolute. A million educated folk might speculate and determine in their minds that the earth came into being by chance. The truth remains. The earth was made by the Gods as was the watch by the watchmaker. Opinions do not change that.
The Gods
organized and gave life to man and placed him on the earth. This is absolute.
It cannot be disproved. A million brilliant minds might conjecture otherwise,
but it is still true. . . .
“Now,” said
the Lord, “we shall take of the elements at hand and organize them into an
earth, place thereon vegetation and animal life, and permit you to go down upon
it. . . .
A few more
salient facts, which I shall not attempt at this moment to elaborate upon: Adam
and Eve transgressed a law and were responsible for a change that came to all
their posterity, that of mortality. Could it have been the different food which
made the change? Somehow blood, the life-giving element in our bodies, replaced
the finer substance which coursed through their bodies before. They and we
became mortal, subject to illness, pains, and even the physical dissolution
called death. (“Absolute
Truth,” BYU Speeches, September 6, 1977.)
President Spencer W. Kimball
I know that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Only Begotten Son
of our Heavenly Father, and that he assisted in the creation of man and all
that serves man, including the earth and all that is in the world.
A past First Presidency, letter to Ferdinand F. Hintze September
15, 1915;
Revelations are numerous to the effect that the Mighty Being
who was “in the beginning with God” and was one of the active organizers in the
creation of this world had been personally associated with the Eternal Father,
in ages that were past, and was the Jehovah, who with Michael as directed by
Eloheim, commanded the elements to coalesce and take form and order and bring
forth life. He understood the process by actual observation and Divine
explanation for as he declared “the Father loveth the son and showeth him all
things that himself doeth,” &c. John 5:20. Worlds created by the father were
made through and by the Son, even him who became Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of
God and of Mary the virgin. . . . Do not run beyond the revealed word of God and
not attempt anything for which you are not appointed and you will not go
astray.
Boyd K. Packer:
The
scriptures use the words “organize” and “form” when discussing the Creation
(Abr 4:1 , 12, 15, 25, 30). The earth was created or formed of imperishable
substance, for the revelations tell us that “the elements are eternal” (D&C
93:33). Matter already existed, but it was “without form, and void” (see Gen
1:2; Moses 2:2).
That word
beginning applies only if create is defined as form or organize. There was no beginning
and there shall be no end to matter.
https://rsc.byu.edu/book-mormon-jacob-through-words-mormon-learn-joy/law-light
Bruce R. McConkie:
The
Abrahamic account of the creation of the heavens and the earth specifies that
“the Gods” planned and executed their decisions with reference to what should
and did take place on each of the six days of the creation. There would, of
course, be no need for Elohim and Jehovah to sit down and plan what should be
done on each day. They had already created more worlds than man can number. The
number of particles comprising this and millions of other earths is not a
beginning to the number of their creations. But it would be tremendously
important for the spirit hosts to learn what each of them would be appointed to
do, as order came out of chaos, and as the world and living things came into
being. In this connection, what do we suppose the spirit hosts were doing in
the long expanse of time they spent in preexistence? Certainly, for one thing,
some of them were being schooled and prepared to participate in the coming
creation of their own earth. And what a glorious and wondrous thing it must
have seemed to them to be engaged in creating the very world on which they
would be privileged to dwell as mortals as they continued their course toward
immortality and eternal life. We can suppose they rejoiced exceedingly at such
an opportunity.
Bruce R. McConkie:
Scientists
may discover some of the laws pertaining to creation. They may come to know
that creation is reorganization, that the primal elements are arranged in an
appointed way to form an earth, and that the laws of physics and chemistry and
gravity and what have you always apply. All this may be in the realm of
research and reason. But truth-seekers can never know that this earth was first
created spiritually; that when it first came into being physically it was
paradisiacal in nature; that it then fell to its present mortal state; that
there will be a new and changed heaven and a new and changed earth in the Millennial
day; and that ultimately it will be a celestial sphere—none of this can be
known except by revelation.
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