"Behold My Wounds" (Doctrine and Covenants
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I like the image of my Savior being visited / comforted by an angel ❤.
Me too!
Thank you for your writings on the topic of the crucifixion. It has deepened my whole gospel paradigm and I seek to recommended your book and articles and teach others about it whenever I can.
Never thought of it this way. But realized that I have used his crucifixion-many times in my appreciation and eternal gratitude for all my Savior has sacrificed for me, that I might knowledge and personal witness of his Love for me. ❤
Thank you for sharing this!
Very interesting. Very worth pondering. Thank you!!!❤❤
I’ve always pictured him in my mind on the cross for many reasons. My parents always thought it was morbid for me to say this. The brave young woman who shared her experience is correct. He did experience every single thing we have and will. It is a sure sign. ❤ 🙏🏻 ♾️
Amen!
❤ Thank you Brother Hilton! I love this video and will share it. ❤
It's a good point we need to "view" and ponder His willingness to sacrifice His life for me, and "view" His wounds with gratitude.
The physical pain that Christ experienced at His crusifiction is more specific and graphic to us and easier to relate to than His mental and spiritual sufferings in Gethsemane. My viewing of Christ sufferings for me and for us is not either in Gethsemane or on the cross is a continuing mental, physical and spiritual suffering from Gethsemane, during the physical torturing, the court, the rejection of the people and the unfair condemnation all the way to the cross. You cannot exclude the one or the other in you limited understanding and experience of His suffering.
I believe the sacred and eternal atonement began from before the world was created. Christ carried the responsibility in the eternities, His actions reflected his mission from his pre existence birth until now and forevermore. I believe when the brother of Jared saw Christ’s body he saw the marks that he had not yet received. The garden does not diminish Golgotha. The atonement is an eternal series of events that culminated in Gethsemane AND on the cross. Did Christ not say on the cross, “it is finished” The plan of happiness was written by the Father and would have been rendered a fairytale with out the love, devotion, courage and complete oneness from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I saw a documentary with medical professionals detailing what Christ experienced before and on the cross. It breaks my heart because I've experienced these three things separately, but they said from Gethsemane between sweating and sweating blood and then being scourged, he went into hypovolemic shock - losing 75% of the blood in his body added to that shock. On the cross, he would've had difficulty breathing because of the way they nailed him to the cross. In one day, he suffered all that plus more. Knowing that it's extremely difficult to see him on that cross
For me, recognizing this increases my love and gratitude for Jesus Christ.
For me too but it is really jaw dropping to see or be shown what he went through. I also just watched something on Glenn Beck. It was about the shroud of Turin but the doctor that was with him, an expert in Roman crucifixion, brought examples of the nails, of the helmet of thorns and the whips they used and it drove it home even more how much he suffered for us and yes, I'm glad that he thought I was worthy of that, but it breaks my heart that he had to do that
I always think that Christ's greatest suffering was in Gethsemane. I think of the cross as the final part of that suffering. Perhaps I should contemplate the cross more.
While some people have supposed that Christ suffered for our sins only in Gethsemane, Gerald N. Lund, who later became a member of the Seventy, called this a “doctrinal error.”5 In fact, more than 50 passages of scripture teach that Jesus Christ died for our sins; at least 12 such passages are in the Doctrine and Covenants. See johnhiltoniii.com/crucifixion or www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2021/04/united-states-and-canada-section/jesus-suffered-died-and-rose-again-for-us?lang=eng for more details.
Pres. Nelson taught that “All of this (Gethsemane’s) suffering was intensified as He was cruelly crucified on Calvary’s cross.” So all the suffering returned and intensified on the cross. Both places are crucial to Christ’s atonement but that is powerful to understand.
I just completed my final preparations for teaching D&C 6, and the material presents this as not as a literal "viewing", but an appreciation of His wounds, and what He went through in Gethsemane and on the cross. He invited Joseph and Oliver to "behold" His wounds, or to see and observe. Jacob wrote his invitation to "view his death" over four hundred years prior to Jesus' crucifixion and being halfway around the world at the time; people could not physically "view" it, but rather appreciate the eternal sacrifice and Jesus' Atonement for the sins of the world as part of their devotions to God.
Jacob was clearly aware that Jesus would die on a cross. I think there's something really powerful in Mormon's words: "May his sufferings and death, and the showing his body unto our fathers, and his mercy and long-suffering, and the hope of his glory and of eternal life, rest in your mind forever."
I would say that both views can be edifying. 1 Nep. 11:33 makes it very clear that Nephi saw Jesus die on the cross (see also 1 Nep. 19:10). It seems reasonable to me that Jacob would have been aware of the physical nature of Christ's death on the cross and could thereby literally "view His death" in his minds eye. In the same breath, why not let this be metaphorical in helping us appreciate his Atonement? "why not speak of the atonement of Christ, and attain to a perfect knowledge of him" (Jac. 4:12). Thanks for both of your thoughts!
I think separating the multiple scenes of the atoning sacrifice of the Savior is silly. The garden, the cross, and the empty tomb are all parts to a whole. No single part would have fulfilled the necessity of the others, and without one the others are meaningless because the ultimate design of the Plan is not complete. It’s like hyper-focusing on the bread vs the water in the sacrament. Yes we can teach about the symbolism of importance of each, but they both are just “the sacrament” together and not individually.
The suffering in Gethsemane is to overcome sin. The suffering on the cross was overcoming physical death. Am I wrong?
Furthermore I don't think it is correct to say there is an aversion to the image on the cross simply because someone chose a picture of Christ in Gethsemane.
While some people have supposed that Christ suffered for our sins only in Gethsemane, Gerald N. Lund, who later became a member of the Seventy, called this a “doctrinal error.”5 In fact, more than 50 passages of scripture teach that Jesus Christ died for our sins; at least 12 such passages are in the Doctrine and Covenants. See johnhiltoniii.com/crucifixion or www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2021/04/united-states-and-canada-section/jesus-suffered-died-and-rose-again-for-us?lang=eng for more details.
I'm not trying to be contentious, but the crucifixion horrifies me *because* we are the kind of beings who made it necessary.
We are the spirit children of heavenly parents who themselves have heavenly parents. So our parents must have fellow members of their "heavenly generation" who have also become celestialized creators, heavenly parents of their own spirit offspring. And, just as in mortal life here, it must be that some families have very serious "problem children (Lucifer)" and many do not. Some families have children in which all are faithful. All these spirit families need someone to be the Savior... someone to be the perfect example and to atone for the minor mistakes made, but there must be spirit families or creations in which no one has an Adversarial, or even a telestial, nature. But not us; this is not who we are as a whole. This is why I don't like the crucifixion -- the necessity for one makes me so sad.
You're such a very thoughtful, contemplative man .. what are your thoughts about this perspective?
And thank you SO VERY MUCH for these videos. I wish I was your neighbor so I could bring your trash cans up and down to the curb for you.
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Thank you for sharing this perspective (and for volunteering to help with the trash!) :)