1. Before the King Follet sermon, Lorenzo Snow understood “As man is God once was. As God now is man may become.” 1 John 3:1-2 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, an it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

2. In 1844, the prophet Joseph Smith arose and said with power, “God was once a man as we are now.”

3. Many World relgions disagreed with such an anthropromric doctrine as blasphemous. By definition, blasphemy is illogical, malicious, and erroneous declarations. The philosophical religionist argued that “God is immaterial, incorporeal, beyond space, beyond time, unchanging, and unembodied”. Suggesting that God was incomprehensible, unapproachable, and mythical; a non-anthropological being of no substance and incapable of direct communication and therefore not capable of understanding and generating empathy towards man.

4. The mysterious God was without substance and therefore unknowable. However, our very existence contradicts an unknowable God because “Why did God create us?” The religionist claims God create us for his own pleasure and by his inscrutable will to have creatures to honor and worship him, for our own happiness. But in the eyes of the religionist it is impossible to say God need to create us because God has no needs. God is all-powerful and all knowing and has anticipatory wisdom and knew exactly what he was about. Why since God could have created co-creators, did he choose to make us creatures? God’s very nature request that he should have peers and worthy of our love.

5. The Messiah and heirship: “You are possessor of all things; for all things are subject unto you, both in heaven and on the earth, the life and the light, the Spirit and power, sent forth by the will of the Father through Jesus Christ.” D&C 50:27 The day shall come when you shall comprehend even God, being quickened in him and by him (D&C 88:49). If your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things. (D&C 88:67). He hath made us kings and priest unto God and his father. (Rev 1:6)

6. Pride is a vice. If we can strip ourselves of pride, everything becomes better: pride of Church status, pride of self-righteousness, and pride of aspiration. “In as much as ye have done it unto the lest of my brethren” has real significance, if we are devoid of pride. We can love our brother, suffer with him and understand his weaknesses; and together overcome the world. Man must see himself as less than the dust of the earth and consider himself a fool before God, only then will we stop hating our brother.

7. Godliness can’t be conferred and it must be acquired.

8. The nearer one comes to living celestial law the greater the opposition.

9. Freedom is worth sacrifices

10. Learning is but a recollection. All things are spiritual. The mind is spiritual. If Christ knew before hand his mission, so did we. Life can only come from life. That is an eternal law. Ordinances trigger our infinite memories. Ordinances have been hidden but the Lord has “renewed and confirmed” them in our day, D&C 84:48. “And without the ordinances thereof, and the authority of the priesthood, the power of godliness is not manifest unto men in the flesh.” D&C 84:20-21 Ordinances are a form of prayer of the highest kind, form with power. Our lives are a sacrament unto the lord. We are the temples of God, a connection to all of his creations.

11. Everyone has ups and downs in life.

12. Christ paid for sin. The penitent will not be turned away. Christ reconciles use with Justice by granting us mercy.

13. “All things which have been given of God from the beginning of the world, unto man, are the typifying of him. (2 Nephi 11:4) Zion’s camp was a test like unto Abraham’s test of obedience. Abraham loved the Lord and his sacrifice of Isaac, his birthright son, was in similitude of the God and his begotton son”. Some say this was a terrible way to test a man. We must be chastened and tried even as Abraham. (D&C 101:4) Joseph Smith taught, God will wrench your very heartstrings and if you can not stand it then you are not fit for the kingdom of God. Why the test? Abraham need to learn something about Abraham. He learned that he loved God unconditionally, and God blessed him unconditionally. God required Abraham to prove his love to him, in the midst of his sacrifice. If God could have found a more challenge feat for Abraham to prove his love, he would have done it.

14. Abraham was called the friend of God.