{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc093_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc093_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc093_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mor/dc/dc093.htm","summary":"This is a scriptural revelation from the *Doctrine and Covenants* (section 93), a canonical text of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints presented as direct divine speech. The passage opens with a promise that faithful followers can literally see God's face, then develops an extended Christology drawing on Johannine language: Christ is identified as the pre-existent Word, the light of the world, and the Spirit of truth who progressed \"from grace to grace\" rather than possessing full divine glory from the beginning \u2014 a distinctively LDS theological claim that sets it apart from mainline Christian views of Christ's eternal, unchanging divinity. The text advances a striking metaphysical framework in which human intelligences are co-eternal with God (\"Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence...was not created or made\"), human agency is grounded in this eternal existence, and full joy requires the permanent union of spirit and physical element. The revelation then pivots to practical and ecclesiastical concerns, rebuking specific named church leaders \u2014 Frederick G. Williams, Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith, and Newel K. Whitney \u2014 for failing to raise their children in \"light and truth\" and for broader domestic disorder. It closes with directives to the early church to continue translating scriptures and acquiring worldly knowledge for the building up of Zion. Readers interested in LDS theology, early American religious history, or distinctive doctrines of pre-mortal existence and human deification will find this section particularly substantive.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Doctrine and Convenants: 93. Revelation through Joseph Sm...","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","translated_text":null,"word_count":1402}