Keywords
Joseph Smith, 1820 First Vision, nature of God, God's physical image
Abstract
Given the knowledge of the corporeal, embodied nature of God that the Prophet Joseph Smith received in his 1820 First Vision, Latter-day Saints have argued from their earliest days that the Bible is most accurately understood as teaching precisely the same thing — that God has a body and that humans are literally created in his physical image. Now, a new book from an unlikely (and quite unintentional) ally makes a strong case for our position. It is a book that will both gratify Latter-day Saints and, at some points, offend them. In any event, readers of Interpreter should be aware of it.
Recommended Citation
Peterson, Daniel C.
(2022)
"An Unexpected Case for an Anthropomorphic God,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 50, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol50/iss1/3
