“That It Is Not Reasonable”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

The gospel cannot answer the demands of human reason as imposed upon it by unbelievers. Surely, for instance, the doctrine of resurrection defies such reason. No scientific experience or theory can sustain the testimony of Job that after skin worms had destroyed his body, in the flesh he would see God (see Job 19:25). Nor is it “reasonable” to suppose that Christ could return in the clouds of heaven, bring great hosts with him, and call forth the righteous from the graves and the holy upon the earth to come forth to meet him in the air. Earth-bound principles do not reach to heaven. God’s knowledge, wisdom, and power far exceed man’s. (See Isaiah 55:8-9.)

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 3

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