Jesus The Christ

Dear women of the Parley's stake,


I have always wanted to read "Jesus The Christ" but felt a bit intimidated from comments I had heard about it being deep and intense. Albert Einstein said that James E. Talmage was one of the smartest men he had ever met. When the stake R.S challenged us to read it I thought, this is it! I am going to do it! Some of my favorite scriptures came to mind...Phillipians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me; D&C 6:36 Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not; Mark 10:27... with God all things are possible. Knowing that I had to blog about it made me even more nervous. Now that I am reading, I wonder to myself, what that was all about...fear can be so paralyzing.


I am loving this book and learning things I didn't know before!!! Isn't it interesting how you've been taught or known something all of your life and someone says it differently and it finally strikes home in a way that it didn't before. After reading chapters one through four, the following stood out to me.

.... Satan felt triumphant in tempting Eve to partake of the fruit in the garden of Eden(page 20). This passage gave me a new perspective on death...and life. Satan loves to see us hurting and weak, giving into his temptations. It makes me want to try even harder to not let him have any sort of power over me... to always keep my focus on the Savior, the Atonement, His eternal plan and the happiness it brings to my life.

...I liked this analogy on pages 27-28. "The need of a Redeemer lies in the inability of man to raise himself from the temporal to the spiritual plane, from the lower kingdom to the higher. In this conception we are not without analogies in the natural world." The plant, of a higher order than the soil, reaches for the soil to grow. The animal reaches for the plant, and man reaches for the animal. We need a Redeemer and Savior to reach down and lift us so we can obtain a higher condition of spiritual life...a higher kingdom.

...I love the idea that our Heavenly Father has a full knowledge of the nature and disposition of each of His children. (note no. 1 chapter 3). I am grateful for and feel strongly about the power of choice in my life. (note no 2 in chapter 3).

I bear testimony of my Savior Jesus Christ and I am grateful to have this opportunity to learn more of Him.

Mary Lee Warner... Parley's 4th