Or was further enhanced with healings and other miracles—but without Gethsemane’s and Calvary’s awful but consecrated hours of the Atonement? How then would we regard Jesus’ ministry? Where would mankind be? Brothers and sisters, whatever we embrace instead of Jesus and His work will keep...
The article also discusses the Church's efforts to shape its visual culture and image-making, including the commissioning of non-Latter-day Saint artists. The Church's emphasis on Christ-centered imagery has evolved over time, with a shift towards images of Christ's suffering...
December 26 — LDS: Adam had the Ten Commandments.Exodus 20:3-17“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the ea...
We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, [worked out in Gethsemane and on the Cross] all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel. 4 We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ;...
LDS Our Savior, Jesus Christ, who sees from the beginning to the end, knew very well the road He would travel to Gethsemane and Golgotha when He proclaimed, “No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62). A Osobeled...
Accept the fact that Jesus Christ suffered and paid the price in Gethsemane and on the cross for your sins if you accept Christ and repent of your sins. Accept the fact that Joseph Smith was visited by The Father and The Son and that they commissioned him to be the great prophet of the...
He expresses feelings of grief in Gethsemane (Matt. 26:38) and abandonment on Calvary (Matt. 27:46). Christ, in his human nature, was a man like us in all things but sin (Heb. 4:15). At other times he says and does things that go far beyond the words and actions of a mere ...
that He suffered in Gethsemane and then again on the cross; that he voluntarily gave up His life to overcome Death for all of us; that he was buried in the garden tomb; that he rose again, a perfect holy being with the power to save us all; that I am completely dependent on His ...
Sometimes I wonder if the Atonement was a particularly intense session ofzazen, the Christ sitting cross-legged on a meditation pillow in Gethsemane, blood oozing out of every pore, his trembling yet perfectly upright frame hiding the impossible torrent inside him as he takes all of the world’...
His sacrifice of his life’s blood and body in Gethsemane and on the Cross, his agony in the garden and on the cross, atoned for the sins of all mankind. “The word [atonement] describes the setting “at one” of those who have been estranged, and denotes the reconciliation of man ...