The Resurrection and a Physical Body

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The Resurrection and a Physical Body

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Parenting is getting harder
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Words of Wisdom From 4th Graders

• A bird in the hand . . . is a real mess.
• It's always darkest . . . just before I open my
  eyes.
• You have nothing to fear but . . . homework.
• If you can't stand the heat,. . . go swimming.
• A journey of a thousand miles begins. . . with a
  blister.
• The grass is always greener . . . when you put
  manure on it.
• Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry . . .
  and someone yells, "Shut up!
• Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes
  and caterpillars.
• The pistol of a floweris its only protection
  against insects.
• The tides are a fight between the Earth and
  moon. All water tends towards the moon, because
  there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors
  a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this
  fight.
• Equator A menagerie lion running around the
  Earth through Africa.
• Vacuum A large, empty space where the pope
  lives.
• To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down
  over the nose.
• To keep milk from turning sourKeep it in the
  cow.
• The body consists of three parts - the brainium,
  the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium
  contains the brain, the borax contains the heart
  and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the
  bowels, of which there are five - a, e, i, o, and
  u.

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Question

• How do Latter Day Saints differ from the world,
  in the way we view our physical bodies?

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2006 National Poll of Christians

• 65 were absolutely certain Jesus was
  physically resurrected.
• 36 believe in their own resurrection

Joseph Smith ...for if there be no resurrection
from the dead, then Christ has not risen and if
Christ has not risen He was not the Son of God
and if He was not the Son of God, there is not
nor cannot be a Son of God, if the present book
called the Scriptures is true because the time
has gone by when, according to that book, He was
to make His appearance."
(TPJS, p62)
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From a Primary Teacher

• "While telling the story of the
  resurrection of Jesus, one of the
  children asked, 'Why did Jesus come alive
  again?'
• The only answer I could give was that he was so
  good that he just could not stay dead. I have
  read the scriptures on the crucifixion, but
  cannot seem to get the full reason for the
  necessity of his death, and how he had the power
  over death. Will you please explain this to me as
  it is given in the scriptures?
• (Answers to Gospel Questions 1, p. 29)

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Amalgamated Version

• In the end of the Sabbath day, as it
  began to dawn towards the first day
  of the week, early in the morning, came Mary
  Magdalene, and the other Mary to see the
  sepulcher.
• two angels of the Lord descended from heaven, and
  came and rolled back the stone from the door, and
  sat upon it and the women seeth the stone taken
  away from the sepulcher, and two angels sitting
  thereon.
• And their countenance was like lightning, and
  their raiment white as snow and for fear of them
  the keepers did shake, and became as though they
  were dead.
• And the angels answered and said unto the women,
  Fear not ye for we know that ye seek Jesus who
  was crucified.
• He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he
  spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
• Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the
  hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the
  third day rise again?
• Come, see the place where the Lord lay and go
  quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen
  from the dead and, behold, he goeth before you
  into Galilee there shall ye see him lo, I have
  told you.

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Amalgamated Version Continued

• And they departed quickly from the sepulcher,
  with fear and great joy and did run to bring his
  disciples wordand told all these things unto the
  eleven, and to all the rest.
• And their words seemed to the disciples as idle
  tales, and they believed them not.
• Then arose Peter, and I, and came to the
  sepulcher.
• we ran both together and I did outrun Peter,
  and came first to the sepulcher.
• And I, stooping down, and looking in, saw the
  linen clothes lying yet went not in.
• Then cometh Simon Peter following me, and went
  into the sepulcher, and seeth the linen clothes
  lie, and he departed, wondering in himself at
  that which was come to pass.
• Then I went in, and I saw, and believed.
• For as yet we knew not the Scripture, that he
  must rise again from the dead.

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JST John 20 Continues

• Then the disciples went away again unto their own
  homes.
• But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping
  and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked
  into the sepulcher,
• And seeth two angels in white setting, the one at
  the head, and the other at the feet, where the
  body of Jesus had lain.
• And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou?
  She saith unto them, Because they have taken away
  my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
• And when she had thus said, she turned herself
  back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that
  it was Jesus.
• Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou?
  whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the
  gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne
  him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and
  I will take him away.
• Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself,
  and saith unto him, Rabboni which is to say,
  Master.
• Jesus saith unto her, Hold me not (dont delay
  me, dont hold me back) for I am not yet
  ascended to my Father but go to my brethren, and
  say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your
  Father and to my God, and your God.

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Our Own Physical Bodies

• Gift, from God, through His Son.
• Ours, on a lease to own basis.
• How are we doing?

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Elder Holland

• I plead with you young women to
  please be more accepting of yourselves,
  including your body shape and style, with
  a little less longing to look like
  someone else. We are all different. Some are
  tall, and some are short. Some are round, and
  some are thin. And almost everyone at some time
  or other wants to be something they are not! But
  as one adviser to teenage girls said You cant
  live your life worrying that the world is staring
  at you. When you let peoples opinions make you
  self-conscious you give away your power.
  Every young woman is a child of destiny and every
  adult woman a powerful force for good.
• I mention adult women because, sisters, you are
  our greatest examples and resource for these
  young women. And if you are obsessing over being
  a size 2, you wont be very surprised when your
  daughter or the Mia Maid in your class does the
  same and makes herself physically ill trying to
  accomplish it. We should all be as fit as we can
  bethats good Word of Wisdom doctrine. That
  means eating right and exercising and helping our
  bodies function at their optimum strength. We
  could probably all do better in that regard.

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What We Do Effects Our Kids
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One Hollywood Actress

• Weve become obsessed with beauty and the
  fountain of youth. Im really saddened by the
  way women mutilate themselves in search of
  that. I see women including young women
  pulling this up and tucking that back. Its like
  a slippery slope. You cant get off of it.
  Its really insane what society is doing to
  women.

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Cleaning the Temple
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Joseph F. Smith

• And there were gathered together in one
  place an innumerable company of the
  spirits of the just, who had been
  faithful in the testimony of Jesus while they
  lived in mortality
• I beheld that they were filled with joy
  and gladness, and were rejoicing together because
  the day of their deliverance was at hand. They
  were assembled awaiting the advent of the Son of
  God into the spirit world, to declare their
  redemption from the bands of death. . . .
• For the dead had looked upon the long absence of
  their spirits from their bodies as a bondage
• While this vast multitude waited and conversed,
  rejoicing in the hour of their deliverance from
  the chains of death, the Son of God appeared,
  declaring liberty to the captives who had been
  faithful. . . .
• And the saints rejoiced in their redemption, and
  bowed the knee and acknowledged the Son of God as
  their Redeemer and Deliverer from death and the
  chains of hell. Their countenances shone, and the
  radiance from the presence of the Lord rested
  upon them, and they sang praises unto his holy
  name. (DC 138)