Origin of Man

February 17 – Origin of Man. Genesis 1:26-27 “And God said, Let us make man in our image,  after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

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Today ask a Mormon this: If the Bible has been translated incorrectly why does the Church still use it? Why doesn’t the Joseph Smith Translation of Genesis tell us that we were first created spiritually?

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Ensign, ‘The Origin of Man,’ February 2002’ “In presenting the statement that follows we are not conscious of putting forth anything essentially new; neither is it our desire so to do. Truth is what we wish to present, and truth—eternal truth—is fundamentally old… To tell the truth as God has revealed it…

“God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. … The creation was twofold—first spiritual, secondly temporal. This truth, also, Moses plainly taught—much more plainly than it has come down to us in the imperfect translations of the Bible that are now in use. Therein the fact of a spiritual creation, antedating the temporal creation, is strongly implied, but the proof of it is not so clear and conclusive as in other records held by the Latter-day Saints to be of equal authority…” – By the First Presidency of the Church (Originally Published in Improvement Era Nov. 1909, pp. 75-81.)