In what ways is Jesus Christ both the Father and the Son?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Jesus Christ is known as Father by virtue of his role as the Creator. … Christ is [also] the Father through spiritual rebirth. … Our Lord acted and spoke on behalf of the Almighty Elohim and is therefore known as Father by divine investiture of authority, meaning that [the Father] … ‘has authorized him to speak in the first person as though he were the original primal Father’ (McConkie, Promised Messiah, 63). … Jesus Christ is Father because Elohim has literally invested his Son with his own attributes and powers” (Millet, “Abinadi’s Messianic Sermon,” 101).

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