Elder James E. Talmage
“That Child to be born of Mary was
begotten of Elohim, the Eternal Father. … In His nature would be combined the
powers of Godhood with the capacity and possibilities of mortality. … The Child
Jesus was to inherit the physical, mental, and spiritual traits, tendencies,
and powers that characterized His parents—one immortal and glorified—God, the
other human—woman” (Jesus the Christ, 3rd ed. [1916], 81).
