God is Done Creating
Journal of Discourses 1:54-55; “Do the Scriptures declare that the spirit was formed at the time the tabernacle was made? No. All the tabernacles of the children of men that were ever formed, from remote generations, from the days of Adam to this time, have been formed out of the earth. We are of the earth earthy. The tabernacle has been organized according to certain principles, and laws of organization, with bones, and flesh, and sinews, and skin. Now, where do you suppose all these tabernacles got their spirits? Does the Lord make a new spirit every time a tabernacle is made? If so, the work of creation, according to the belief of Christendom, did not cease on the seventh day. If we admit their views, the Lord must be continually making spirits to inhabit all the tabernacles of the children of men; he must make something like one thousand millions of spirits every century; he must be working at it every day, for there are many hundreds of individuals being born into the world every day. Does the Lord create a new spirit every time a new tabernacle comes into the world? That does not look reasonable, nor Godlike.” – Orson Pratt, Salt Lake City, August 29, 1852
John 5:17; “But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
Psalm 104:30; “Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.”
Notice how these two verses aren’t in the past tense, but are demonstrating that God is still at work, still creating and still in control over creation.
Also notice what it says in Genesis 2:2 which says God saw all that He created and then He rested.
It doesn’t say He stopped creating! He took a rest. To teach otherwise is saying He’s removed Himself from what He’s created.
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