Excerpt from "THE KING FOLLETT DISCOURSE"

The Being and Kind of Being God Is; The Immortality of the Intelligence of Man

By Joseph Smith the Prophet

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp.342-361 (footnotes not included in these excerpts)

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The Relation of Man to God

I want to talk more of the relation of man to God. I will open your eyes in relation to your dead. All things whatsoever God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit and proper to reveal to us, while we are dwelling in mortality, in regard to our mortal bodies, are revealed to us in the abstract, and independent of affinity of this mortal tabernacle, but are revealed to our spirits precisely as though we had no bodies at all; and those revelations which will save our spirits will save our bodies. God reveals them to us in view of no eternal dissolution of the body, or tabernacle.