The Resurrection and a Physical Body

Parenting is getting harder…

Words of Wisdom: From 4 th 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 flower…is 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 sour:…Keep 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.

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

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)

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)

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.

Amalgamated Version Continued And they departed quickly from the sepulcher, with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word…and 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.

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 (don’t delay me, don’t 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.

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

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 can’t live your life worrying that the world is staring at you. When you let people’s 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 won’t 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 be—that’s 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.

What We Do Effects Our Kids

One Hollywood Actress We’ve become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth. … I’m 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. It’s like a slippery slope. [You can’t get off of it.] … It’s really insane … what society is doing to women.”

Cleaning the Temple

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. (D&C 138)