Evolution Is Not True In This Sense - We Do Not Find Any Radical Change From One Species To Another

     "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be:  but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see Him as He is."

     God, then, the God of the Bible, ...the person who manifested Himself to Israel...is an individual, a personality, and He made man in His image and His likeness.  Now, if we are the children of God, and if Jesus Christ is the Son of God, we can upon that reasoning understand something about what God is like, for there is an eternal principle in heaven and on earth, that every seed begets of its kind, every seed brings forth in its own likeness and character.  The seed of an apple, when it is reproduced, brings forth an apple, and so with a pear, and so with a plum, and so with all the varieties of the vegetable kingdom.  It is the same with all the varieties of the animal kingdom. 
     We do not find any radical change from one species to another.  It is an eternal principle that every seed produces its own kind, not another kind.  And as we are the children of God, we can follow out the idea and perceive what God our Father is, the Being who is the progenitor of our spiritual existence, the being from whom we have sprang.  We being the seed of God, that Being is a personality, an individual, a being in some respects like us, or rather we are made in His image.
     "Man also is spirit," we are told in the revelations of God...Man, the real man, is a spirit, an individual that dwells in a body, a spiritual person clothed upon with earth; a being who will live when the earth goes back to mother dust.  Man's spirit, then, is an individual, a personality, and the spirit is in the likeness and shape of the body which it inhabits.  When the spirit goes out of the body which we now see with our natural eyes.  Spirits living in the flesh, unless operated upon abnormally by some spiritual beings.  A spirit can see spirit.  Spirit ministers to spirit; and when the spirit goes out of the body that spirit can see other spirits, beings of the same character and nature, and we shall find when we have emerged from this body, that we will be in the company of a great many persons like ourselves; and if we should have the experience that the Prophet Joseph had when the mob took him and tore his flesh with their nails, and tried to poison him with a vial of some corrosive substance, if our spirits should be separated from our bodies as his was, we, like him, could look at our bodies and see that they are in form like our living spiritual realities.

-Charles W. Penrose
    

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