BOM 2 Nephi 16

Today’s reading, 2 Nephi 16 (= Isaiah 6), recounts the prophetic call of Isaiah.

His awestruck, even terrified, reaction to his vision is noteworthy.  He fears that he’s going to die, but, having undergone a supernatural purification, he survives.

However, what’s really remarkable about the chapter is the simple but plain fact that Isaiah saw God.

People who insist on denying that God has a form or can be seen are free, of course, to attempt to dance around that fact, to try to maneuver away from it, to pretend that the chapter doesn’t say what it plainly does say.  But surely nobody approaching Isaiah 6 (2 Nephi 16) without a preexisting commitment to the incorporeality and absolute invisibility of God would ever read it as saying anything other than that God has bodily form and, not only in principle but in reality, can be seen.  It’s only on the basis of such a preconceived dogma that readers of the chapter will attempt to explain Isaiah’s vision away.