The Savior and Joseph Smith—Alike Yet Unlike

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1. Doctrine and Covenants 135:3

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   “Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it” (D&C 135:3).

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2. Moses 4:2

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   Their births were foreseen long in advance.

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3. Moses 5:57

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   Their births were foreseen long in advance.

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4. 2 Nephi 3:15

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   Their births were foreseen long in advance.

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5. John 1:27

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   No wonder then that John the Baptist, who up until his time was the greatest prophet of all, said of the Savior that he, John, was not worthy to unloose his shoe’s latchet (see John 1:27).

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6. Moroni 4:3

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   While we honor and revere Joseph Smith as the Prophet of the Restoration and seek to emulate his qualities of character, we adore and worship the Savior.

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7. Alma 7:11

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   The supernal status of our Savior, Jesus Christ, and the preeminent place which he occupies in the eternal scheme of things cause us to stand in awe at what has been called the condescension of Christ, meaning his willingness to step down from his exalted place and to go forth, as the scripture says, “suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; … that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be f...

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1. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 33: The Last Supper and the Betrayal

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   • Alma 7:11

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     Open paragraph (Alma 7:11)

     In Jesus the Christ:

     Open paragraph (i)

     In some manner, actual and terribly real though to man incomprehensible, the Savior took upon Himself the burden of the sins of mankind from Adam to the end of the world.

2. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 5: Earthly Advent of the Christ Predicted

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   • John 1:27

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     Open paragraph (John 1:27)

     In Jesus the Christ:

     Open paragraph (h)

     John the Baptist, whose ministry immediately preceded that of the Christ, proclaimed the coming of One mightier than himself, One who should baptize with the Holy Ghost, and specifically identified Jesus of Nazareth as that One, the Son of God, the Lamb who should assume the burden of the world’s sins.h

3. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 6: The Meridian of Time

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   • Moses 5:57

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     Open paragraph (Moses 5:57)

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     Open paragraph (b)

     Unto Moses, with whom the Lord spake “face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend,”a the course of the human race, both as then past and future, was made known; and the coming of the Redeemer was recognized by him as the event of greatest import in all the happenings to which the earth and its inhabitants would be witness.