“The Law of Moses It Pointing Our Souls to Him”

“ The law of Moses was the type, Jesus the antitype; he was that toward which all creation looked and waited. The law was the symbol, Jesus the ultimate reality toward which it pointed. The law was the means, Jesus the end. These simple but pertinent verities are all but lost in the Bible, particularly in the Old Testament. Only through the clarifying and illuminating lenses of the Book of Mormon do we come to know that the law was anything more than a schoolmaster or teaching device. The law of Moses-including the intricate system of animal sacrifices-was the prophecy; Jesus was the grand fulfillment of the prophecy.”

“We Worship the Father”

For many generations God the Father has been unknown to the Christian world; the creeds of Christendom have essentially denied him a separate existence. The Book of Mormon and other modern revelations provide a penetrating glimpse into the past: these scriptural gems make us privy to the fact that the righteous from the beginning of time have had a correct concept of God the Father; that he “is the only supreme governor and independent being in whom all fullness and perfection dwell; ... and that he is the Father of lights; in him the principle of faith dwells independently; and he is the object in whom the faith of all other rational and accountable beings center for life and salvation.” (Lectures on Faith 2:2; italics added.)

God the Father is the ultimate object of our devotion and worship. We worship the Father in the name of the Son, by the power of the Holy Ghost (see JST, John 4:25-26; D&C 18:40; D&C 20:18-19). We worship the Son in the sense that we emulate his example and seek to pattern our lives after his own immaculate life. See commentary on 2 Nephi 25:16, 29-30.

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 2

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