I am on a FB discussion group where they are discussing the nature of Christ’s personage.  There are several likenesses like the one above that nearly perfectly embody Him.

A few of them out there do not fully encapsulate the essence of Him, and I pointed out that He has sharper cheekbones (slightly), than these excellent paintings show.  I was asked if I had seen Him.  Here is my response – where I quickly go over what I experienced as a youth:

No – a personal manifestation – in the flesh? No. I have seen him in vision in the night right after I had my baptism by fire in my early teen years, but not a physical person to person visit. No. Far more important than a personal visitation (at least for now) is how you feel when you are in His presence – this is how you would know Him if he were incognito – say helping with the clean-up after a large EQ in SLC and you had no other way to identify Him. In the vision I had after I had asked to know Him (fervently prayed to give up all my sins and was baptized with the second baptism), I lost all my strength and could hardly physically move and it took several days to totally recover (I know what Lehi speaks of). I finally opened up to my seminary teacher and asked what was happening to me. She wept with me – and told me that I was being re-born and being made a new creature. At some point after that (several weeks, I had a vision of heaven and saw Him – but not the Father). When I see these terrible misrepresentations of Jesus, I am reminded of that which is burned into my soul – but which is actually quite hazy in my “temporal mind”. Fourteen years ago, my wife and I had the privilege of losing our baby to SIDS and, in that hell, being given a glimpse of that love once again when I had a dream a few hours after they said he passed, wherein I felt the OVERWHELMING – may all consuming love that I am sure he brought back from the presence of our Savior. I testify that it is real – and you will know it when you feel it. It is unmistakable and an all-consuming fire that burns for days and even weeks after you have been touched by it (and do not entertain sin in any form).

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I am on a FB discussion group where they are discussing the nature of Christ’s personage.  There are several likenesses like the one above that nearly perfectly embody Him.

A few of them out there do not fully encapsulate the essence of Him, and I pointed out that He has sharper cheekbones (slightly), than these excellent paintings show.  I was asked if I had seen Him.  Here is my response – where I quickly go over what I experienced as a youth:

No – a personal manifestation – in the flesh? No. I have seen him in vision in the night right after I had my baptism by fire in my early teen years, but not a physical person to person visit. No. Far more important than a personal visitation (at least for now) is how you feel when you are in His presence – this is how you would know Him if he were incognito – say helping with the clean-up after a large EQ in SLC and you had no other way to identify Him. In the vision I had after I had asked to know Him (fervently prayed to give up all my sins and was baptized with the second baptism), I lost all my strength and could hardly physically move and it took several days to totally recover (I know what Lehi speaks of). I finally opened up to my seminary teacher and asked what was happening to me. She wept with me – and told me that I was being re-born and being made a new creature. At some point after that (several weeks, I had a vision of heaven and saw Him – but not the Father). When I see these terrible misrepresentations of Jesus, I am reminded of that which is burned into my soul – but which is actually quite hazy in my “temporal mind”. Fourteen years ago, my wife and I had the privilege of losing our baby to SIDS and, in that hell, being given a glimpse of that love once again when I had a dream a few hours after they said he passed, wherein I felt the OVERWHELMING – may all consuming love that I am sure he brought back from the presence of our Savior. I testify that it is real – and you will know it when you feel it. It is unmistakable and an all-consuming fire that burns for days and even weeks after you have been touched by it (and do not entertain sin in any form).

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