Marks of Divinity

I wanted to share this talk that I have recently read about the divinity of the Lord's mission. I have found it interesting to note, over the last couple of weeks, the comments given about this holiday season and the birth of Jesus Christ. It seems more and more common that the world is trying to justify the signs given at Christ's birth as just symbolic literary discriptions. It is interesting to think that his birth is one of the five marks of divinity spoken of by President Benson. The marvelous events of his humble birth testify of His divinely appointed mission.

Five marks of divinity
By President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994)

"From the time of His heaven-heralded birth there have crept into the Church heresies which are intended to dilute or undermine the pure doctrines of the gospel. These heresies are, by and large, sponsored by the philosophies of man and in many instances are advocated by so-called Christian scholars. The attempt is to make Christianity more palatable, more reasonable, and so they attempt to humanize Jesus and give natural explanations to those things which are divine. An example is Jesus’ birth. There are those who would seek to convince us that the divine birth of Christ as proclaimed in the New Testament was not a divine birth at all—nor was Mary, the virgin girl, a virgin at the time of Jesus’ conception. They would have you believe that Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, was His physical father, and that Jesus was therefore human in all His attributes and characteristics. They appear generous in their praise of Him when they say that He was a great moral philosopher, perhaps even the greatest. But the intent of their effort is to repudiate the divine sonship of Jesus, for on that doctrine rest all other claims of Christianity."