Know/ledge
To have been visited by the Lord.1 Faith was always intended to grow into knowledge.2 Knowledge comes from contact with Jesus Christ (see Ether 1:14). This is the knowledge that saves and nothing else (see John 9:18). The idea that knowledge of Christ — through His personal appearance to each person — is now unavailable is an old sectarian notion and is false (see John 9:8).3 “Knowing God is Christ’s definition of eternal life and salvation. Joseph Smith clarified this does not mean to learn something about Him. Rather, it is to meet Him. It is to have Him minister to you, face to face, as one man speaks to another.”4 Since this is life Eternal, to know Him, would it be a simple and plain, but most precious teaching to urge people to part the veil of unbelief and behold their Lord? (see John 9:18).5 God has foreknowledge and, throughout history, has revealed things to us before they occur. God is the God of truth. He has all knowledge. The definition of truth is given in T&C 93:8: And truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come. God lives in a state in which all truth is before Him continually. The angels do not reside on a planet like this earth; But they reside in the presence of God, on a globe like a sea of glass and fire, where all things for their glory are manifest, past, present, and future, and are continually before the Lord. The place where God resides is a great Urim and Thummim (D&C 130:6–8).6 God possesses perfect foreknowledge, and since mankind does not, they see the gap between Him and themselves. Foreknowledge is chief among the things which distinguish man’s limited understanding from God’s perfect understanding.7See also TRUTH; RESTORING KNOWLEDGE; KEYS.
1 “1 Nephi 14:5,” July 6, 2010, comment to blog post.
2 “Faith, Belief, Knowledge,” March 16, 2010, blog post.
3 “The Whole Not the Parts,” December 28, 2011, blog post. See also D&C 130:3. Section 130 of the LDS Doctrine and Covenants first appeared as canon in the 1876 edition prepared by Orson Pratt under the direction of Brigham Young. Its inclusion here is for reference. For original sources see JSP, Journals Vol. 2:323–326, (Dec. 1841–April 1843), 2 April 1843. Willard Richards didn’t accompany Joseph Smith on his four-day trip to Ramus, IL, and reconstructed the Joseph Smith Journal entry from the Journal of William Clayton. See JSP, Journals Vol. 2:403–405, Appendix 2, 1–4 April 1843. WJS, 169, 267n3, 268n14.
4 Passing the Heavenly Gift, 463–464.
5 “3 Nephi 13:31–32,” June 29, 2010,blog post.
6 Section 130 of the LDS Doctrine and Covenants first appeared as canon in the 1876 edition prepared by Orson Pratt under the direction of Brigham Young. Its inclusion here is for reference. For original sources see JSP, Journals Vol. 2:323–326, (Dec. 1841–April 1843), 2 April 1843. Willard Richards didn’t accompany Joseph Smith on his four-day trip to Ramus, IL, and reconstructed the Joseph Smith Journal entry from the Journal of William Clayton. See JSP, Journals Vol. 2:403–405, Appendix 2, 1–4 April 1843. WJS, 169, 267n3, 268n14.
7 *Nephi’s Isaiah*, 86–87.