Son of Man

Often we hear of Christ as being the Only Begotten in/of the Flesh, which has reference to the fact that God the Father is the literal Father of God the Son, Jesus Christ. That both are God becomes confusing to many and has created many a false doctrinal concept regarding the two. In clarification, God the Father of Spirits and God the Father of Jesus Christ as His only Begotten Son of the Flesh, is the Heavenly Father of all of us in the spirit, even Jesus Christ who is the same as Jehovah of the Old Testament. Our Father in Heaven or our Heavenly Father, is just that, He is that eternal Celestial God who dwells in the Celestial Kingdom of Heaven above. And though he is not confined to that 'location', He is Eternal, Immortal and a Celestial God who by that very nature is not of or does not pertain to the temporal estate of mortality.

There is a law of eternity which states that only those who do pertain unto the temporal mortal estate man directly minister unto it (D&C 130:5). This is logical, for such an advanced Celestial God as God the Father of Spirits is, would not contradict the Law of Eternal Progression by retrogressing back to the temporal mortal estate, which is below Him and His advanced Celestial State. For he is there already a Celestial God of body, parts and passion, one of immortal flesh and bone with the eternal life giving spirit flowing in him rather than that of corruptable mortal blood. In this He is a glorified being and man cannot of himself endure his glorified presence expect by the over shadowing power and protection of the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost.

And thus as a matter of course, God our Celestial Father proceeding in the precouncils of heaven to select 'one from among us', his spirit children, to be ordained and anointed to be our empowered ministering and interceding God between mortal man and Heavely Father. That empowered Heavenly Spirit Child was His Firstborn Son in the Spirit, who was Jehovah the first born in the spirit of every creature as the Bible teaches. By that empowering blessing of the Father, Jehovah had the power and authority of creation that by and according to the Word and Direction of the Father, Jehovah could so create the temporal estate as presented by John's gospel chater one. And also by that empowerment, Jehovah under the direction of the Celestial Father was authorized to create temporal bodies for the habitation of Adam and Eve (Ether 3:6-16 & Genesis 1:26). As revealed to the prophet Mahonri Moriancumr or the brother of Jared, it was Jesus Christ who is the same as the Lord God Jehovah who did perform the creation of temporal mortal man and this in concert with the Celestial Father being of his company and under his direction as so stated by the gospel of John.

"IN the beginning was the Word [the Firstborn Spirit Son], and the Word [the Spirit Son Jehovah] was with God [the Celestial Father], and the Word was God [Anointed and Empowered as Ministering God by the Celestial Father]. The same was in the beginning with God [the Celestial Father]. All ] things [of the temporal creation] were made by him [Jehovah under the direction of the Father]; and without him [Jehovah] was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. . . . He was in the world [Jehovah pertained to this world], and the world was made by him (D&C 130:5), and the world knew him not. . . . And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." ~ John 1:1-4, 10, 14)

And as the creation was this joint venture of Jehovah the Word of Creation with God the Celestial Father by His direction, Moses in the Genesis account so states:

"And God [the Celestial Father] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: . . . So God [Jehovah] created man in his own image, in the image of God [Jehovah] created he him; male and female created he them." ~ Genesis 1:26 & 27)

Thus the then Ministering Spirit God Jehovah, by the direction and empowerment of the Celestial God Elohim, his and our Father of our spirits, so created man in the image of his spirit body which is in the same form and image our our temporal bodies; head, shoulders, knees and toes, eyes, ears, mouth and ] nose. The spirit is in the same image of that body which was formed to house it or that is to say the temporal body was formed in that same shape, form and image as that spirit which it was made to be the tabernacle of.

And thus, though the translators may not have gotten it right in all cases, the two similar terms of the 'Son of Man', meaning one being a Spirit Son or in the case of Jesus, who is the same as Jehovah, only as the Begotten Son of that Man of Holiness, our Heavenly Father; and the that of the 'son of man', merely meaning an off spring of a human mortal, both actually reflect that the image of God, of the spirit body and the temporal body, Celestial or Telestial, are of the same image though the one, Son of God infers one's divine origin, while the other 'son of man' reflects our motal origin. But both and either are in that same image as so we are thus created in the image of God.