“Besides Me There is No Saviour.” Isaiah 40-49

Keywords

nature of God, faith and salvation, Isaiah’s prophetic testimony

Abstract

When we come to know the true nature of God our faith can increase, our joy can expand and our eye can be single to the glory of God.  Isaiah 40-49 represent a beautiful testimony of Isaiah’s understanding of the nature of God magnificently presented in symbolic language, metaphor, and poetry.  We learn from the Lectures of Faith

that three things are necessary in order that any rational and intelligent being may exercise faith in God unto life and salvation.  First the idea that [God] actually exists.  Secondly, a correct idea of [God’s] character, perfections, and attributes.  Thirdly, an actual knowledge that the course of life which [one] is pursuing is according to [God’s] will. ((Lectures of Faith, compiled by N.B. Lundwall (Bookcraft: Salt Lake City), p. 33.))

Isaiah was one whose faith had been made perfect by knowledge.  Alma teaches us that “if a man knoweth a thing he hath no cause to believe, for he knoweth it” (Alma 32:18).  We know that Isaiah had communion with the great Jehovah for Isaiah 6 gives us a description of his purging introduction to the Creator of heaven and earth:

Original Publication Citation

“Besides Me There is No Saviour: Isaiah 40-49.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. 2014.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2014

Publisher

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Language

English

College

Marriott School of Business

Department

Marketing

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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