Ahab Posted May 21, 2016 Posted May 21, 2016 1 hour ago, Robert F. Smith said: In his 1844 description of the First Vision to Alexander Neibaur (Hugh Nibley's great-grandfather), Joseph said that the two beings "exactly resembled each other in their features or likeness" (they are father and son). The first personage had "light complexion, blue eyes," etc. Maybe even the same DNA. exactly resembled A highly technical term basically akin to: kinda like kinda close kinda the same as They could have almost been twins!
Robert F. Smith Posted May 21, 2016 Posted May 21, 2016 10 minutes ago, Ahab said: exactly resembled A highly technical term basically akin to: kinda like kinda close kinda the same as They could have almost been twins! I recall being in the Jerusalem chicken market at about 4am one morning back in about 1966, with a truckload of thousands of chickens from my kibbutz, and I saw a father & son from a Yemenite moshav, both bearded. One might have been 50, his son around 25. They looked very much alike. I would have cast them as Lehi & Nephi in a Book of Mormon movie.
Ahab Posted May 21, 2016 Posted May 21, 2016 3 hours ago, Robert F. Smith said: I recall being in the Jerusalem chicken market at about 4am one morning back in about 1966, with a truckload of thousands of chickens from my kibbutz, and I saw a father & son from a Yemenite moshav, both bearded. One might have been 50, his son around 25. They looked very much alike. I would have cast them as Lehi & Nephi in a Book of Mormon movie. I have 2 sons, technically step-sons, who most people think are twins when they first see them, even though they are 3 years apart in age and do have some distinct differences in appearance. And I thought they looked alike too, when I first met them, only later being easily able to tell them apart. And people often think the same thing about my brother and I too, when they first see us together, until they become more familiar with us. And I notice similar resemblances in other people from the same families as well, only able to see the differences between appearances after getting more accustomed to seeing them more often.
CV75 Posted May 21, 2016 Posted May 21, 2016 Scriptural references to uniqueness and diversity: those that speak to gfts of the Spirit come to mind; also Jacob 5 (a diversity of remnants in different places eventually being gathered into one, with good fruit among all of them); those that set Christ apart from every other child of God (John 20:17 for example).
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