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Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 93. Revelation through Joseph Smith, Kirtland, Ohio, May 6, 1833.

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This is a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) canonized scripture — specifically Doctrine and Covenants Section 93 — presented as a direct revelation received by Joseph Smith in 1833. Its central theological argument is a distinctive Christology: Jesus did not possess the fullness of the Father's glory from the beginning but attained it progressively "from grace to grace," a claim that directly challenges traditional Christian notions of Christ's eternal, unchanging divine nature. The text also advances a pre-existence doctrine, asserting that both Christ and all human spirits existed "in the beginning with the Father," and introduces the philosophically notable claim that "intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made" — meaning some aspect of human existence is co-eternal with God, not a creation ex nihilo. A further distinctive claim equates "the glory of God" with intelligence and light and truth, framing spiritual progress as an epistemic pursuit culminating in knowing "all things." The revelation closes on a practical, disciplinary note, rebuking specific early church leaders — Frederick G. Williams, Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith himself, and Newel K. Whitney — for failing to raise their children properly in "light and truth," grounding its cosmic theology in concrete domestic obligation. Someone deciding whether to read further would find this text most rewarding for its radical departures from Nicene orthodoxy on divine nature, human pre-existence, and the eternal, uncreated status of intelligence.

Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 93. Revelation through Joseph Smith, Kirtland, Ohio, May 6, 1833.

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