"He That Hath Seen Me Hath Seen the Father"

John 14:7-11; Three personages comprise the eternal Godhead—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also." (D&C 130:22.) "I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name, and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!" (Joseph Smith History 2:17.)

John 14:7-11; The resurrected Lord Jesus—having a tangible body of flesh and bones, a body which was felt and handled by the apostles in the upper room, a body that ate and digested food (Luke 24:36-43)—is in "the express image" of his Father's "person." (Hebrews 1:3.)

John 14:7-11; So the Son appears and is in all respects like his Father; and conversely, the Father looks and acts and is in all respects like the Son. Their physical appearance is the same, both possess the attributes of godliness in their fulness and perfection; each would do and say precisely the same thing under the same circumstances. (Mormon Doctrine, pp. 294-295.) Hence the enigmatic and epigramatic statement: "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father."

John 14:7-11; Thus, God was in Christ manifesting himself to the world—a gracious and condescending thing for the Eternal Father to do, for thereby men could come to know him and to gain that eternal life which such knowledge brings.

John 14:7; 7. 'If ye had known that as the Son of God, I am in the express image of his person, and that I possess his character, perfections, and attributes, then ye would have known the Father, for he is manifesting himself to you through me; and you may now, therefore, say that ye know him, for he is in all respects as I am; and since ye have seen me, it is as though you had been him.'

John 14:8; 8. 'Philip saith unto him, Lord, Show us the Father himself so we may say we have seen him as well as his Prototype, and then we will be satisfied.'

John 14:9; 9. 'Jesus saith unto him, Philip, after all your association with me, have you not come to know that I am the Son of God, and that the Father is manifesting himself to the world through me? Surely by this time you should know that he who hath seen me hath seen the Father, as it were, for I am so fully and completely like him. Why, then, do you ask for that which you are not now ready to receive, by saying, Show us the Father also?'

John 14:10-11; 10-11. See John 17-20- 26. 11. 'If your soul does not respond to my testimony that I am the Son of God, so that you believe it without more, then believe in me because of the work itself, a work which none but God could do.