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Eternal Families Exam 1 Flashcards

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What three things happen to you when you raise your hand to answer a question in class?

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  1. Motivate you
  2. Allows you to be led by the spirit
  3. Recognize and feel what spiritual guidance is.
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If you want to improve your ability to recognize the Spirit, what three things must you do?

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Feeling impressions, recording them, and obeying them

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What is a doctrine?

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A truth of salvation revealed by a loving heavenly father
Identify three characteristics of true doctrine. 1. Doctrines, which are eternal and do not change, are true no matter what the circumstances
2. Doctrines motivate behavior
3. Doctrines answer “Why” questions and deepen our discipleship

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What is a gospel principle?

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A doctrinally based guideline for the righteous exercise of moral agency

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Identify two characteristics of gospel principles

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  1. principles are applicable to a wide variety of circumstances, but are situation specific. In other words, a true principle followed in one situation (A) might ellict a different response in another situation (B)Principles are applicable to a wide variety of circumstances
    Principles make decisions clear even under the most difficult or confusing circumstances
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What does it mean to “ponder”?

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To meditate, to deliberate, to mentally give weight to something.

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Name three blessings of pondering.

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  1. Pondering invites revelation 2.brings physical and spiritual healing 3.facilitates conversation
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Eve was created to be a “helpmeet” for Adam. What is the meaning of the word “helpmeet?”

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President spencer W. Kimball taught that a help meet is a women created as a companion who is proper and fitting for adam because she likes him and is corresponding to him

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.Moses was shown the “worlds without number” created by God and yet was taught that “all things are numbered unto God.” What does that mean?

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Its numbered to god because he has perfect knowledge. And it was without number to moses because there were so many he couldn’t comprehend it

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We might ask, “Why does God want us to become like Him?” How did Lehi answer that question?

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So that we can have joy. Adam fell that men might be. Men are that they might have joy. I think because we are in this fallen state, we can learn and grow and eventually become like God. Having a full knowledge and understanding will bring us joy.

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What must we understand first before we can correctly comprehend our divine destiny?

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Understanding of the nature of God

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Name the five saving ordinances of the gospel.

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1Baptism
2Confirmation
3Endowment
4Sealing 
5Ordination to the melchezedic priesthood
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. Elder Hales identified three ways Satan is working to destroy the sanctity of the family. Name them.

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  1. demean the importance of the role of men and women
  2. encourage moral uncleanliness and violations of the sacred law of chatity
  3. to discourage parents from placing the bearing and rearing of children as one of their highest priorities
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When, where, and by whom were Adam and Eve sealed as husband and wife?

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In the garden of Eden before the fall

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. In the King Follett discourse, Joseph Smith taught four essential truths about the nature of God. What are they?

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  1. It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of God
  2. if men do not comprehend the character of God, they cannot comprehend their own character
  3. if men do not comprehend the character of god, they cannot comprehend anything that is past
  4. if men do not comprehend the character of God they cannot understand anything that is to come
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Name four things we know about premortality?

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  1. God is the father of the spirits of all mankind
  2. our spirit bodys are in the form of Gods physical body
  3. we were endowed with agency
  4. we were instructed and prepared for earth life
  5. Many became noble and great; others became sons of perdition
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. Lehi taught his son, Jacob, that men and women are free to choose—to act for themselves and not to be acted upon. But, then he added the clarifying statement that the freedom to choose is really a choice between what two things?

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Liberty and eternal life or captivity and death

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True or False: God knows our thoughts and intents. Satan does not.

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True

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Alma taught that many of God’s children were foreordained to particular purposes or missions on earth because they demonstrated what two things in premortality?

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  1. choosing good (exceedingly good works) 2. exceeding faith
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Name the three pillars of eternity.

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  1. creation
  2. fall
  3. atonement
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Give the three-fold definition of agency.

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  1. Right to choose
  2. Responsibility to choose
  3. Results and or reckoning of our choices
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Identify two principles associated with the “right to choose.”

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  1. The right to choose is the right to choose which influence we want in our lives (God or Satan)
  2. If we choose to do more, we will know more, feel more, do more, and become more
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What did Elder Scott say is the difference between making decisions based upon circumstance or making decisions based upon eternal truth?

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Making decision based on circumstances causes us to make choices based on the outcome we desire rather than what is right or wrong.
Making decisions based on eternal truth are centered in doing what is right rather than what we want.
What is President Monson’s formula for making good choices? Fill your minds with truth (know)
Fill your hearts with love (feel)
Fill your lives with service (do)

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Elder Christofferson said the Lord does not promise to spare us from adversity, even if we are keeping all of His commandments. But what two things does he promise the obedient?

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To console us in our afflictions and to consecrate them for our gain.

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After partaking of the fruit, Adam and Eve attempted to hide from God. God called unto them and asked them a question. The question recorded in Moses 4 is different from the question recorded in Genesis 3. What were the two questions?

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Moses 4- Where goest thou? Genesis 3- Where art thou?

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. What is the meaning of the phrase, “multiply thy sorrow and thy conception?”

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discomfort and size

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. In class, we discussed four conditions that existed in the Garden of Eden. What were they?

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1.The earth and all things on it, including Adam and Eve, existed in a spiritual state
2 Adam and eve were in the presence of God
3 Adam and eve were incapable of having children
4 Adam and Eve were in a state of innocence. They could not understand good or evil or joy and misery

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What was the dilemma faced by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?

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To multiply and replenish the earth (commandment) But do not partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Law or garden of eden)

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Identify five conditions in which people are more likely to succumb to temptation while in mortality.

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B Boredom- Most people give way to temptation over breaks
 L Loneliness
 A Anger
 S Stress
 T Tiredness
30
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The Fall represented a step downward, a step forward and a step upward. How was that specifically true for Adam and Eve?

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Adams fall was a step downward, but it was also a step forward and upward in the eternal march of progress
Downward- pretty obvious- universal- they effect everyone ex child birth
Forward- Agency- Whether we keep moving forward or not
Upward- atonement- How well we are able to apply the atonement in our lives and struggles- *Drawing closer to and becoming more like god. Achieving our ETERNAL potential

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What is the key to overcoming the effects of the Fall?

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The degree to which we are able to draw the Atonement into our experience.

32
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What do we learn from the parable of the two foundations in Matthew 7?

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It is the responsibility of every individual to choose to hear the saviors voice and to accept the invitation to come into his fold. The saviors fold is a place of safety and protection “in” (not from) lifes storms

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What do we learn from the parable of the True Vine in John 15? What promises are we given if we abide in Christ?

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As long as we abide in Christ (keep his commandments and seek to become like him), life will abide in us. We will bear good fruit, be filled with love and joy and will receive whatever we ask for.

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What do we learn from the parable of the Good Shepherd in John 10?

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The Savior calls and invites every person into his fold (kingdom)

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What do we learn from the parable of the Good Shepherd in John 10?

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The Savior calls and invites every person into his fold (kingdom)

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How is Christ the Rock? What promise are we given, in Hellman 5, if we build upon the “rock?”

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those who continue to build their lives and their relationships upon the rock of Christ cannot fall (spiritually) of fail (to endure to the end)

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True or False: Christ can redeem us from our sins and in our sins.

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False “the lord should surely come to redeem his people, but he should not come to redeem them in their sins, but of their sins

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How, did Elder Bednar say, the enabling and strengthening aspect of the Atonement helps us?

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“… It is likewise through the grace of the Lord that individuals, through faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ and repentance of their sins, receive strength and assistance to do good works that they otherwise would not be able to maintain if left to their own means. This grace is an enabling power that allows men and women to lay hold on eternal life and exaltation after they have expended their own best efforts” (p. 697).Thus, the enabling and strengthening aspect of the Atonement helps us to see and to do and to become good in ways that we could never recognize or accomplish with our limited mortal capacity.

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Sister Burton taught three principles that, if pondered, will help us develop and feel deep faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement. Name them.

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  1. what in your life seems unfair?
  2. Where are you struggling to overcome the natural (fallen) man or women
  3. How do you see God’s hand moving in your life and feel his love?
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How did Elder Christofferson define justification and sanctification? What is removed from our lives by each one of those manifestations of God’s grace?

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1.Elements of a divine process that qualifies us to live in the presence of God the Father and his son Jesus Christ.
2. are at the center of God’s gracious plan of salvation and are the essence of our witness of the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. fruit of the Atonement’s “infinite virtue, which virtue we also refer to as mercy or grace
REMOVED FROM OUR LIVES= If justification removes the punishment for past sin, then sanctification removes the stain or effects of sin

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How did Elder Christofferson say a person chooses Christ?

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By accepting and applying the doctrine of Christ! Lehi says-Broken heart and contrite spirit Nephi expands and says repentance and baptism

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How do we turn “head” knowledge into “heart” knowledge and “heart” knowledge into “soul” knowledge?

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Head to heart- by pondering

Heart to soul- consistent application living what we know and feel to be true

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What did Jacob say would have happened if Adam and Eve had fallen and no Atonement had been made?

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??? We would have become like satan

44
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. Besides sin and death, what else did Alma say the Savior took upon Himself?

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Alma 7:11-12

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Amulek said the Atonement had to be infinite. What does that mean?

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I think it means a never ending and all powerful atonement in alma 34 10 it says it cannot be a sacrifice of man or beast, but it must be infinite and eternal
It says in the verses that in the flesh should rise no more and we would become angels to the devil to rise no more
He must feel what we feel to it is perfect and infinite

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. The Lord said, “I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent.” Does that mean that those who repent do not have to suffer for their own sins?

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D&C 19;16-17 it will compel us to change. Not a punishment but motivation

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. The Doctrine and Covenants teaches that Christ bled from every pore. As Latter-day Saints, do we believe that to be literal or figurative?

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Literal

48
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Why was Christ the only one capable of carrying out the Atonement?

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. What word is used in the scriptures to describe the strengthening or enabling power of the Atonement?

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Define the “enabling” power of the Atonement.

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“The enabling and strengthening aspect of the atonement helps us to see and to do and to become good in ways that we could never recognize or accomplish with our limited mortal capacity” Devine means of help or strength given through the bounties love and mercy of Jesus Christ. ( Individuals through faith in the atonement and repentance receive strength and assistance to do good works they would not be able to do on their own.) Allows men and women to reach eternal life after they have expended their own best efforts.The enabling and strengthening aspect of the Atonement helps us to see and to do and to become good in ways that we could never recognize or accomplish with our limited mortal capacity.

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. How do we access the enabling power of the Atonement?

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The doctrine of Christ!

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