The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is
the greatest of all events
The
resurrection is “the greatest of all events in the history of mankind . . . Of
all the events of human history, none is so significant as the resurrection of
the Son of God. . . Of all the victories in human history, none is so great,
none so universal in its effect, none so everlasting in its consequences as the
victory of the crucified Lord who came forth in the Resurrection that first
Easter morn” (Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, May 1988, pp. 65-66).
No blood in the resurrection
When he
[Christ] was resurrected, another element took the place of the blood. It will
be so with every person who receives a resurrection; the blood will not be
resurrected with the body (Discourses of Brigham Young, p.374).
God Almighty
Himself dwells in eternal fire; flesh and blood cannot go there . . . When our
flesh is quickened by the Spirit, there will be no blood in this tabernacle.
(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.367).
Children resurrect as children and
are raised by their parents
“When a
child is raised in the resurrection, the spirit will enter the body and the
body will be the same size as it was when the child died. It will then grow
after the resurrection to full maturity to conform to the size of the spirit.
If parents are righteous, they will have their children after the resurrection”
(Joseph Fieldgin Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 2:56).
Christ suffered for us individually
C. S. Lewis:
"He [Christ] has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. He does
not have to deal with us in the mass. You are as much alone with Him as if you
were the only being He had ever created. When Christ died, He died for you
individually just as much as if you had been the only man in the world."
(Mere Christianity p131)
The Father withdrew from the Son so
that Christ would know what it felt like
Elder
Holland “With all the conviction of my soul I testify that … a perfect Father
did not forsake His Son in that hour. Indeed, it is my personal belief that in
all of Christ’s mortal ministry the Father may never have been closer to His
Son than in these agonizing final moments of suffering. Nevertheless, … the
Father briefly withdrew from Jesus the comfort of His Spirit, the support of
His personal presence”
“It was
required, indeed it was central to the significance of the Atonement, that this
perfect Son who had never spoken ill nor done wrong nor touched an unclean
thing had to know how the rest of humankind—us, all of us—would feel when we
did commit such sins. For His Atonement to be infinite and eternal, He had to
feel what it was like to die not only physically but spiritually, to sense what
it was like to have the divine Spirit withdraw, leaving one feeling totally,
abjectly, hopelessly alone” (“None Were with Him,” Ensign, May 2009, 87–88).
