Sunday School Lessons #32 and #33
The Worth of a soul is the lesson I taught last week, and the lesson I will teach tomorow is Love Thy Neighbor.
I used Jeffrey Hollands wonderful talk of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments in my lesson last week. Here is the link.
QUOTES:
“It is peculiar to the theology of the Latter-day Saints that we regard the body as an essential part of the soul. Read your dictionaries, the lexicons, and encyclopedias, and you will find that nowhere [in Christianity], outside of the Church of Jesus Christ, is the solemn and eternal truth taught that the soul of man is the body and the spirit combined.”
[CR, October 1913, p. 117]
“So partly in answer to why such seriousness, we answer that one toying with the God-given–and satanically coveted–body of another, toys with the very soul of that individual, toys with the central purpose and product of life, “the very key” to life, as Elder Boyd K. Packer once called it. In trivializing the soul of another (please include the word body there), we trivialize the Atonement that saved that soul and guaranteed its continued existence. And when one toys with the Son of Righteousness, the Day Star himself, one toys with white heat and a flame hotter and holier than the noonday sun. You cannot do so and not be burned. You cannot with impunity “crucify Christ afresh” (see Hebrews 6:6)”.
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