Our
Testimony of God
"The Lord has blessed us with a knowledge that he
lives, and has a body, and that we are created in his image. We do not
believe that he is some kind of essence or that he is incomprehensible.
If you have received the witness that has come to me and know as I know
that our Heavenly Father has revealed himself to the children of men,
that he is a personal God, that we are created in his image, that our
spirits were begotten by him, that he has given us an opportunity to
dwell upon the earth to receive a physical tabernacle, in order that we
may be prepared to return into his presence and live eternally with
him, I say, if you have received that assurance, then you have a
foundation upon which you may build your faith. Take that from you, the
knowledge that God really lives, the assurance that Jesus Christ was
the manifestation of God in the flesh, take from you the assurance that
there will be a literal resurrection from the dead, and you will find
yourselves in the condition that our Father's children are in
throughout the world, and I ask you, what comfort remains to you then?
These are the truths that are fundamental."
George
Albert Smith, Conference Reports, October 1921, p. 39