RE: [ZION] Subject to natural law

[John W. Redelfs]

Jim Cobabe favored us with:

He comprehendeth all things, and all things are before him, and all
things are round about him; and he is above all things, and in all
things, and is through all things, and is round about all things; and
all things are by him, and of him, even God, forever and ever.

And again, verily I say unto you, he hath given a law unto all things,
by which they move in their times and their seasons;(D&C 88:41-42)

Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol.3, OMNIPOTENT GOD; OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD; OMNISCIENCE OF GOD

However, the Church does not understand this term in the traditional sense of absoluteness, and, on the authority of modern revelation, rejects the classical doctrine of creation out of nothing. It affirms, rather, that there are actualities that are coeternal with the persons of the Godhead, INCLUDING ELEMENTS, INTELLIGENCE, AND LAW (D&C 93:29, 33, 35: 88:34-40). Omnipotence, therefore, cannot coherently be understood as absolutely unlimited power. That view is internally self-contradictory and, given the fact that evil and suffering are real, not reconcilable with God's omnibenevolence or loving kindness (see Theodicy).

D&C 93:29
29 Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be.

Bibliography:
Roberts, B. H. "The Doctrine of Deity." Seventy's Course in Theology, third year. Salt Lake City, 1910.
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Redelfs' Commentary: God became God by obedience to pre-existing, coeternal law. And if we are to become Gods we must follow the same path that he took. The idea that God made up the laws by which he became God is a Protestant idea. It is not the gospel.

John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"...by proving contraries, truth is made manifest" --Joseph
Smith, History of the Church, Volume 6, p.248
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All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR

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