Jesus Wept: Emotions in the Scriptures Virtual Tour

Exhibition Content

Can you imagine life without emotions? Emotions create texture and richness that illuminate our everyday lives and punctuate our mortal experience. Without a complex range of emotions, our conscience, agency, and ability to learn from experiences would be inhibited.

Universal Emotions

What are emotions?

Emotions are derived from physiological arousal (e.g., heart rate), expressive behaviors (e.g., facial expressions), and conscious experience (e.g., thoughts and feelings about an event).

Emotions can be positive, negative, or neutral, and elicit high or low arousal (i.e., move us to action or inaction).

Understanding Our Emotional Experiences

We cannot always control life’s circumstances or the positive and negative emotions that we feel, but we can use our agency to guide our reactions and responses.

“The question is not whether we will experience seasons of adversity but how we will weather the storms.” Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Ensign Sept. 2013

Juxtaposing Emotions

Moses 2:27 And I, God, created man in mine own image, in the image of mine Only Begotten created I him; male and female created I them.

Jesus Christ exhibits a wide range of emotions in the scriptures. A few of these emotions are highlighted here, juxtaposed with human expressions of the same emotions.