1/13/16 - CREATION

Question 1

True or False: Christ is the Creator of worlds without number.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or False: All things were created physically before they were created spiritually.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

President Julie Beck said the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a theology of the family that is based on the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement. What did she say is the interrelationship between these three doctrines?

Answer 3

Creation was created for a place to live
Fall was a thing to enable us to grow
Atonement was meant to help us return together as families

Question 4

Elder Oaks said we reached a point in premortality where we had progressed as far as we could without a physical body and an experience in mortality. What was necessary for us to realize a fulness of joy?

Answer 4

To realize a fulness of joy, we had to prove our willingness to keep the commandments of God in a circumstance where we had no memory of what preceded our mortal birth.

Question 5

Toward what is Satan’s most strenuous opposition directed?

Answer 5

Whatever is most important to the father’s plan. (Family, bodies, mothers)
Satan’s most strenuous opposition is directed at whatever is most important to the Father’s plan. Satan seeks to discredit the Savior and divine authority, to nullify the effects of the Atonement, to counterfeit revelation, to lead people away from the truth, to contradict individual accountability, to confuse gender, to undermine marriage, and to discourage childbearing (especially by parents who will raise children in righteousness)

Question 6

What is the difference between a sin and a transgression?

Answer 6

Sin is breaking an eternal principle, a transgression is only breaking a law

Question 7

To those who keep the commandments, remain true to their covenants, and desire what is right, what has the Lord promised?

Answer 7

All that He hath

Question 8

Differentiate between spirit creation, spiritual creation, and physical creation.

Answer 8

The formation of our Spirits by our Heavenly parents (premortality)
The formation of immortal living things not yet subject to death (Garden of Eden)
The formation of a physical body to house our spirit (mortality)

Question 9

True or False: Christ is the Creator and the Savior of worlds without end.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What was the primary purpose of the Creation?

Answer 10

To allow us to be tested and return to our Heavenly Father

Question 11

Name three lessons we learn from the doctrine of the Creation.

Answer 11

1. Was a part of an overall plan to unite and exalt families
2. The creation was ordered and well planned before it was accomplished
3. We know the earth was created by faith.

Question 12

Name, in correct order, the six components in the Romance pyramid.

Answer 12

Friendship, Time, understanding, respect, restraint, romance