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Today we had a cursory conversation about who is speaking in the Doctrine and Covenants.  At times it seems equally if the Father is speaking, when the Son is the 1 who is speaking.  This is illustrated in D&C 29 where the speaker is identified as Christ, who afterward says that angels declare repentance and redemption "through faith on the proper name of mine Only Begotten Son."  This is very disruptive to readers equally it begs the question as to who is speaking in this section.

Joseph Fielding Smith said, "All revelation since the fall has come through Jesus Christ, who is the Jehovah of the Sometime Attestation. In all of the scriptures, where God is mentioned and where he has appeared, it was Jehovah who talked with Abraham, with Noah, Enoch, Moses and all the prophets. He is the God of Israel, the Holy Ane of Israel; the ane who led that nation out of Egyptian bondage, and who gave and fulfilled the Law of Moses. The Father has never dealt with homo directly and personally since the fall, and he has never appeared except to innovate and bear record of the Son ." (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Conservancy, 1:27.)

Jesus Christ explained to a group during his Palestinian ministry, "I am come in my Father'due south name" (John five:43). Our Lord acted and spoke on behalf of God the Male parent, such that he could proclaim, "My doctrine is non mine, but his that sent me" (John vii:sixteen). Christ is therefore known as Father "past divine investiture of potency," significant that "the Begetter has placed his name upon the Son, has given him his own power and authorisation, and has authorized him to speak in the first person as though he were the original or cardinal Begetter." (McConkie, The Promised Messiah, p. 63; come across likewise A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, p. 69.)

There are numerous instances throughout the standard works wherein we tin can see this principle in operation. "And [Jehovah] called upon our father Adam by his own vocalism, saying: I am God; I made the world, and men before they were in the flesh. And he besides said unto him: If thou wilt plough unto me, and hearken unto my vocalisation, and believe, and repent of all thy transgressions, and exist baptized, even in water, in the proper name of mine But Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth, which is Jesus Christ, the just name which shall be given under sky, whereby salvation shall come unto the children of men, ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost" (Moses 6:51-52; emphasis added). To Enoch the Lord spoke: "And That which I have chosen [the Savior] hath pled before my face. Wherefore, he suffereth for their sins; inasmuch as they will repent in the twenty-four hour period that my Chosen shall return unto me, and until that 24-hour interval they [those in "prison" in the spirit world] shall be in torment; Wherefore, for this shall the heavens weep, yea, and all the workmanship of mine hands" (Moses 7:39-40; emphasis added). Another dramatic occasion wherein the premortal Christ spoke on behalf of his Male parent is found in the feel of Moses on an unnamed mount. Jehovah said, "My works are without end, and also my words, for they never finish." And then he continued: "And I have a work for thee, Moses, my son; and thou art in the similitude of mine But Begotten; and mine Only Begotten is and shall be the Savior, for he is full of grace and truth" (Moses i:4, 6; cf. vv. 32-33).

Nosotros find the principle of divine investiture of authority particularly prevalent in the Doctrine and Covenants. In fact, there were a number of occasions on which the Lord chose to speak as both Christ and Elohim in the same revelation. For instance, in section 29 of the Doctrine and Covenants nosotros read the following verse: "Mind to the vocalization of Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, the Great I AM, whose arm of mercy hath atoned for your sins" (D&C 29:1; accent added). But now note poetry 42 of the same section: "I, the Lord God, gave unto Adam and unto his seed, that they should non die every bit to the temporal expiry, until I, the Lord God, should send forth angels to declare unto them repentance and redemption, through organized religion on the name of mine Only Begotten Son" (accent added). In Doctrine and Covenants 49 the same principle is at work, this time in an opposite sequence. "Thus saith the Lord; for I am God, and have sent mine But Begotten Son into the world for the redemption of the globe" (v. 5; emphasis added). Now notation the last verse of the revelation: "Behold, I am Jesus Christ, and I come chop-chop" (D&C 49:28; accent added). What better way is there to establish firmly in the minds of the Saints that the words of Jehovah are the very aforementioned words as those of Elohim; that they take the same mind and thoughts; that they are totally and completely one?

The Book of Mormon demonstrates investiture of authority in all the same other ways than those nosotros have considered so far. 1 of the powerful witnesses of the Nephite and Jaredite records is that Jesus Christ is Father considering Elohim has literally invested his Son with his ain attributes and powers; in this sense, Christ is Father by inheritance. In the words of Elder Bruce R. McConkie: "How is our Lord the Father? It is considering of the amende, considering he received power from his Father to do that which is space and eternal. This is a affair of his Eternal Parent investing him with power from on loftier so that he becomes the Father because he exercises the power of that Eternal Beingness."  In like manner, President John Taylor wrote that Christ "is also called the Very Eternal Father. Does not this mean that in Him were the attributes and power of the very Eternal Father?"  (Paul R. Cheesman, ed., The Volume of Mormon: The Keystone Scripture [Provo: BYU Religious Studies Centre, 1988], 62.)

Another corking text to read is a document published past the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles chosen "The Father and the Son: A Doctrinal Exposition by the First Presidency and the Twelve." This is a document worth reading!

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Source: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2010/11/16/jesus-christ-father-by-divine-investiture-of-authority/

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