Doctrine of Salvation

Question 1

Salvation from Death

Answer 1

Jesus

Question 2

Salvation from Sin

Answer 2

Atonement of Jesus, Faith, Repentance Baptism and the Holy Ghost, Following Laws and Ordinances

Question 3

Salvation: Being Born Again

Answer 3

• Occurs when individuals are baptized and receive the Holy Ghost – Comes as a willingness to enter into a covenant with God to do his will
• Those who have a knowledge of God the Father, Jesus Christ, the purpose of life, the plan of salvation, and their eternal potential are saved from this condition

Question 4

Salvation from Ignorance

Answer 4

• The lack of knowledge of the restored gospel.
• Those who have a knowledge of God the Father, Jesus Christ, the purpose of life, the plan of salvation, and their eternal potential are saved from this condition

Question 5

Salvation from Second Death

Answer 5

• The final spiritual death—being cut off from righteousness and denied a place in any kingdom of glory
• D&C 88:24: “And he who cannot abide the law of a telestial kingdom cannot abide a telestial glory; therefore he is not meet for a kingdom of glory. Therefore he must abide a kingdom which is not a kingdom of glory.”

Question 6

Salvation: Exaltation/Eternal Life

Answer 6

• Eternal Life and Exaltation - to know Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and dwell with Them forever—to inherit a place in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom.
• Requires: 1)Men receive the Melchizedek Priesthood 2) Church members make and keep sacred covenants in the temple, including the covenant of eternal marriage.

Question 7

Know how many levels are in the Celestial Kingdom

Answer 7

3

Question 8

Know the commands to obey.

Answer 8

o	Obedience
o	Prayer
o	Scripture Reading
o	Keeping the Sabbath
o	Baptism

Question 9

Know the two priesthoods

Answer 9

Aaronic and Melchizedek

Question 10

Know the Laws and Ordinances

Answer 10

o Missionary Work
o Eternal Marriage: Only valid when Priesthood holders perform the sealing in the temple. 
o Temple and Family History
o Service through callings
o Teaching assignments
o Endure to the End

Question 11

Know what the washings and anointings in the Temple symbolize.

Answer 11

They signify the cleansing and sanctifying power of Jesus Christ applied to the attributes of the person and to the hallowing of all life

Question 12

Know what drama unfolds in the temple endowments.

Answer 12

o Participants in white temple clothing assemble in ordinance rooms to receive this instruction and participate in the unfolding drama of the Plan of Salvation. They are taught of premortal life; the spiritual and temporal creation; the advent of Adam and Eve, and their transgression and expulsion into the harsh contrasts of the mortal probation; the laws and ordinances required for reconciliation through the Atonement of Christ; and a return to the presence of God.
o During the Endowment, solemn covenants are made pertaining to truthfulness, purity, righteous service, and devotion. In this way, the temple is the locus of consecration to the teaching of the law and the prophets and to the ways of God and his Son.
o This order of instruction and covenant making culminates in the celestial room, which represents the highest degree of heaven, a return to the presence of God, a place of exquisite beauty and serenity, where one may feel and meditate “in the beauty of holiness”

Question 13

Know where the Temple Endowments culminates in.

Answer 13

Celestial Room

Question 14

Know what a Temple sealing is.

Answer 14

the covenants of marriage and family sealing

Question 15

Know why LDS practice Baptism for the dead

Answer 15

So that those in spirit prison have a chance to accept and move towards progression

Question 16

Controversial Mormon Doctrines

Answer 16

o Adam God Theory
o Polygamy
o Restriction of Blacks to the Priesthood
o Individual Blood Atonement

Question 17

Know what Adam God Doctrine is and who was the main teacher of it.

Answer 17

o Adam is our father and our God – Adam is heavenly father

o Brigham Young, based on the teachings of Joseph Smith

Question 18

Know which President Banned Plural Marriage

Answer 18

Willford Woodruff

Question 19

Know why Blacks were denied the priesthood.

Answer 19

o the prophet Jacob, referring to the dark-skinned Lamanites, tells a group of light-skinned Nephites that “unless ye shall repent of your sins that their skins will be whiter than yours.” (Jacob 3:8)
o They were black or darker skinned because of sin in the pre-existence and as a sign of their lack of holiness

Question 20

Know the definition of Blood Atonement and what sins applied to this doctrine.

Answer 20

o Some sins were too grievous for the atonement of Christ to cover, thus, the only way for the sin to be atoned for is for the sinner to have their own sin shed.
o What sins: miscegenation, apostasy, theft, murder, Fornication, Adultery