Exam 1

Question 1

What did Gordon B Hinckley say about The Proclamation?

Answer 1

It’s “a declaration and reaffirmation of standards, doctrines, and practices.”

Question 2

Individual autonomy vs societal obligation: give two examples of laws that show our society’s preference.

Answer 2

1. No-fault divorce law
2. right to choose to have an abortion

Question 3

President Eyring identified 3 things about the title that deserve our attention. What were they?

Answer 3

1. the subject: the family
2. the audience: the whole world
3. Those proclaiming it: prophets, seers, and revelators.

Question 4

Malachi’s prophecy (Malachi 4:5-6)

Answer 4

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Question 5

Where does our doctrine come from according to D. Todd Christofferson?

Answer 5

“Establishing the doctrine of Christ or correcting doctrinal deviations is a matter of divine revelation to those the Lord endows with apostolic authority.”

Question 6

5 reliable sources for doctrine

Answer 6

1. Current, correlated publications
2. Cumulative teachings of current General Authorities and officers of the church
3. The united voice of the First Presidency and the Twelve Apostles
4. Harmonized doctrine in the Scriptural Canon
5. The doctrine of Christ

Question 7

3 Criteria for Measuring Doctrine

Answer 7

1. Is it an Eternal principle?
2. Does it represent the United voice of the First Presidency and the Twelve Apostles?
3. Is it essential to our salvation?

Question 8

What are the four different types of teachings?

Answer 8

1. Core eternal doctrine
2. Supporting teachings
3. Policy teachings
4. Esoteric teachings

Question 9

What have church leaders taught about Core Eternal Doctrine?

Answer 9

• They are few and far between (Elder Bednar)
• Instruction vital to our salvation is not hidden in an obscure verse or phrase in the scriptures. (President Packer)
• To single out a passage of scripture to prove a point, unless it is so confirmed… is always a hazardous thing. (Harold B. Lee)

Question 10

The Role of Prophets and Apostles (give one example of human fallibility of the prophets)

Answer 10

Ex: JFS thought man would probably never send any device to the moon or another planet. “Well, I was wrong, wasn’t I?”

Question 11

JS lectures on Faith 3 beliefs

Answer 11

1. The idea that God actually exists
2. A correct idea of his character, perfections, and atributes
3. an actual knowledge that the course of life which he is pursuing is according to his will.

Question 12

JS description of the Father and the Son.

Answer 12

“Who exactly resembled each other in features and likeness”
- Joseph Smith
By being the son, people could envision exactly what and who the Father is. - Bruce R. McConkie.

Question 13

Statements about Heavenly Mother

Answer 13

“All men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother and are literally the sons and daughters of Diety.” 1909 First Presidency Statement

“All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny.” Family Proclamation, 1995

“Logic and reason would certainly suggest that if we have a Father in Heaven, we have a Mother in Heaven. That doctrine rests well with me.” Gordon B Hinckley, 1991

“In the heav’ns are parents single? No, the thought makes reason stare. Truth is reason; truth eternal tells me I’ve a mother there.” Eliza R Snow

Question 14

What does Dallin H Oaks say about heavenly parents?

Answer 14

“Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them.”

Question 15

What are the three pillars of eternity?

Answer 15

The Creation
The Fall
The Atonement

Question 16

The purpose of the Earth (refer to the 3 pillars)

Answer 16

“The Creation of the earth provided a place where families could live… The Fall made it possible for them to have sons and daughters.”

Question 17

Where does Jesus fit in the plan? Where is hell?

Answer 17

contemplate the plan of salvation

Question 18

What did President Boyd K Packer say about the purpose of church?

Answer 18

The end of all activity in the Church is to see that a man and woman with their children are happy at home, sealed together for time and all eternity.”

Question 19

What do we know about Lucifer’s plan?

Answer 19

Not much. Just that he was anti-choice.

Question 20

What do we know about the Creation?

Answer 20

The Earth fulfills the measure of it’s creation (D&C)
Created that families might be (President Nelson)
The creation was not accidental (D. Todd Christofferson)

Question 21

How long did the creation take? (trick question)

Answer 21

“The physical Creation itself was staged through ordered periods of time. In Genesis and Moses, those periods are called days. But in the book of Abraham, each period is referred to as a time. Whether termed a day, a time, or an age, each phase was a period between two identifiable events—a division of eternity.”
(President Russel M Nelson).

Question 22

The creation did not come by chance or

Answer 22

“ex nihilo” (out of nothing).

There is no stance on evolution.

We know were were with God in the beginning. When we came to earth we lost all knowledge to gain it back “grace for grace.”

Question 23

Ingredients for agency (4)

Answer 23

1. Eternal Law
2. Opposition
3. Knowledge of good and evil
4. The power to choose

Question 24

What does Elder Jeffery R Holland say about the FALL?

Answer 24

“[T]here is no way to truly celebrate Christmas or Easter—without understanding that there was an actual Adam and Eve who fell from an actual Eden, with all the consequences that fall carried with it.”

Question 25

What does Dallin H Oaks say about the two commandments Adam and Eve were given? What does he say about Eve?

Answer 25

“This commandment [to “be fruitful and multiply”] was first in sequence and first in importance. It was essential that God’s spirit children have mortal birth and an opportunity to progress toward eternal life.”
“Her act, whatever its nature, was formally a transgression but eternally a glorious necessity to open the doorway toward eternal life.”

Question 26

What is the atonement? (4 parts)

Answer 26

1. The Garden of Gethsemane
2. The Cross of Calvary
3. The Ministry in the Spirit World
4. The Resurrection

Question 27

What does Russel M Nelson say about the atonement?

Answer 27

“[Jesus Christ’s] Atonement is infinite—without an end. It was also infinite in that all humankind would be saved from never-ending death. It was infinite in terms of His immense suffering. … It was infinite in scope—it was to be done once for all. And the mercy of the Atonement extends not only to an infinite number of people, but also to an infinite number of worlds created by Him. It was infinite beyond any human scale of measurement or mortal comprehension”

Question 28

What does Joseph Smith say about the atonement?

Answer 28

“The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.”

Question 29

According to the LDS bible dictionary, what is grace?

Answer 29

“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.”

Question 30

Why was Christ chosen?

Answer 30

(1) He was the only sinless man ever to live on this earth and therefore was not subject to the spiritual death resulting from sin,
(2) He was the Only Begotten of the Father and therefore possessed the attributes of godhood that gave Him power over physical death
(3) He was apparently the only one sufficiently humble and willing in the premortal council to be foreordained to that service.
- Jeffery R. Holland in the Ensign March 2008

Question 31

Universal Gifts

Answer 31

• Ransom for Adam’s transgression
• Resurrection from the dead of every man

Jeffery R. Holland in the Ensign March 2008

Question 32

What does President Russel M Nelson say about “the Atonement”?

Answer 32

There is no amorphous entity called “the Atonement” upon which we may call for succor, healing, forgiveness, or power. Jesus Christ is the source.

Question 33

What are the practical effects of the atonement according to Linda K. Burton, Ensign May 2015

Answer 33

1. All that is unfair about life can be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
2. There is power in the Atonement to enable us to overcome the natural man or woman and become true disciples of Jesus Christ.
3. The Atonement is the greatest evidence we have of the Father’s love for His children.