Exam 3

Question 1

Identify the time and place for King Benjamin’s address

Answer 1

130 BC- AD 35 in Zarahemla

Question 2

Name two reasons that King Benjamin addresses the people

Question 3

Know what the people were doing at the temple (and how this is relevant to King Benjamin’s address)

Answer 3

They assembled in gratitude. Thanking God for deliverance from Jerusalem/enemies and just teachers and king

Question 4

Explain how King Benjamin’s service to his people is a model for understanding God’s service

Answer 4

King Benjamin served with all his hert, might, mind, and strength. His service shows his love for his people. Demonstrating God’s love for his children.

Question 5

Know the double meaning of “service of God”

Answer 5

God’s service for us and our service for God.

Serve God directly and Serve others

Question 6

Explain the debt that we owe to God and our obligation

Answer 6

We create more work than we are worth. We will never be able to pay off the debt

Question 6

Explain how being “unprofitable” and less than the dust of the earth helps us understand our value in God’s eyes

Answer 6

He still cares for us and gives us blessings even though we are less than dust and cannot give him anything in return.

Question 7

Explain what the term ‘yield’ teaches us in Mosiah 3:19

Answer 7

We will forever be from the fall of Adam unless we yield to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

We must give our everything to the Lord. God is always trying to reclaim us and get into our lives, stop contending and fighting against this love. We must yield.

Question 8

Explain how contention is rejecting our debt to God, acting in rebellion, and asking for payment

Question 9

Describe the purposes of the natural man and how they differ with God’s goals

Question 10

Describe how prayer is the first step in exercising faith unto repentance, and what this means for repentance in general

Answer 10

If we want a relationship with God, this makes sense.

Question 11

Be familiar with other stories in the Book of Mormon where conversion starts with prayer

Answer 11

Alma the Younger

Question 12

Describe what should move us to repentance, according to King Benjamin and Mormon

Question 13

Describe how we repent of all our sins in the Book of Mormon and what this tells us about repentance

Question 14

Know Elder Holland’s quote on repentance

Answer 14

You can change anything you want to change, and you can do it very fast. That’s another satanic sucker punch that it takes years and years and eons of eternity to repent. It takes exactly as long to repent as it takes you to say, “I’ll change”—and mean it. Of course there will be problems to work out and restitutions to make. You may well spend—indeed you had better spend—the rest of your life proving your repentance by its permanence. But change, growth, renewal, and repentance can come for you as instantaneously as for Alma and the sons of Mosiah.

Question 15

Be able to the explain King Benjamin’s argument for why we should help those in need

Question 16

Be able to list the primary ways we can “impart [our] substance” and why isn’t just a nice thing to do but the very heart of our relationship with God

Question 17

Know what Elder Hollands quote about “obtaining” and “retaining” a remission of our sins teaches us about the. connection between our relationship with God and others

Question 18

Describe our relationship with Christ after we make a covenant with him and how this relates to taking his name upon us

Question 19

Describe the main events and
locations found in Mosiah 9-
17, including locations
important to the story

Question 20

Describe Zeniff’s choice to
start a colony in the land of
Nephi (i.e. was it good idea?,
was Zeniff a bad person?,
what was God’s reaction?),
and how this comforts us as
we make our own decisions

Answer 20

It wasn’t a great idea. He was not obeying the Lord because the Lord wanted him to leave the land of Nephi.

Question 21

Use examples from the Book
of Mormon to describe
Zeniff’s character

Answer 21

He was over-zealous, very trusting, very strong convictions,

Question 22

What was the priests’
question that prompts
Abinadi’s teachings in Mosiah
12-16? Why did the priests
ask it and how does Abinadi
answer it?

Answer 22

What meaneth the words which are written, and which have been taught by our fathers, saying:

You are going to hell if you don’t repent

Question 23

Know the background of Isaiah 52:7-10

Answer 23

2nd Exodus, A new act of deliverance

Question 24

Describe the metaphor of
Jesus breaking the “bands of
death”

Answer 24

It is never the same again because he broke the bands of death. Death doesn’t have the hold on us that it once did

Question 25

Be able to answer Abinadi’s
question, “Does Salvation
come by the law of Moses?”;
Explain how this applies to
the Restored Gospel as well

Answer 25

He is not saying that we don’t need to keep the commandments. Salvation does not come by the law alone. He will rescue us from sin and death and then give us the commandments to follow. God is the one who rescues us. The law helps them keep their relationship with God in tact.

Question 26

Understand how Isaiah 53
prompts Abinadi to call Jesus
Christ both “Father” and “Son”
and the three ways Christ is
“Father” according to the
1916 First Presidency
Statement

Question 27

Describe the main events and
locations found in Mosiah 18-
24

Answer 27

A church is established for the first time.
Amulon, Helam, Jerusalem, Nephi, Shilom, Zarahelma

Question 28

Describe the core values of
the church established by
Alma; describe what kind of
community this was and the
responsibility that individuals
had for each other

Answer 28

Service, giving what you have to give what you have to help others.
Bear one another’s burdens.

Question 28

Know Elder Gong’s quote
about covenant belonging

Answer 28

When we come to God’s great
commandments to love Him and
those around us by covenant, we do
so not as stranger or guest but as
His child at home. The age-old
paradox is still true. In losing our
worldly self through covenant
belonging, we find and become our
best eternal self—free, alive, real—
and define our most important
relationships. Covenant belonging is
to make and keep solemn promises
to God and each other through
sacred ordinances that invite the
power of godliness to be manifest in
our lives.

Question 29

Describe how we stand as
witnesses of God when we
make a covenant to serve
others and the reward for this
covenant

Question 30

Know the baptismal prayer in
Mosiah 18 and how it is
different than the one we use
today

Question 31

Describe some reasons we go
through adversity and how
these reasons matter to God

Question 32

Describe the similarities and
differences between the
bondage and deliverance of
Limhi’s people and Alma’s
people

Question 33

Describe the situation in the city of Ammonihah, the reasons the people give for rejecting Alma’s teachings, and how Alma and Amulek address these issues.

Answer 33

-
-They aren’t members of the
church. Alma is not chief judge
anymore
-

Question 34

Describe and discuss Antionah’s question and Alma’s answer, and the purpose of life

Question 35

Explain how we can eat of the fruit of the tree of life

Question 36

Describe the “plan of redemption” as described by Alma and how this is different than the timeline of salvation

Question 37

Be familiar with the storyline of the
missionary efforts of the sons of Mosiah and the significant figures in
these stories

Question 38

Describe the motivations that lead the missionary efforts of Ammon, Aaron, Omner, and Himni and how they exemplify the principles taught D&C 58

Question 39

Describe the struggles and opposition that the sons of Mosiah faced before their missionary efforts began

Question 40

Know what king Lamoni’s father was willing to give up to have a relationship
with Jesus Christ

Question 41

Describe why King Anti Nephi-Lehi was thankful he had been “convinced of [his] sins.

Question 42

Describe the transfer of
authority in Mosiah’s kingdom
when Alma’s church arrived

Question 43

Describe the kind of equality
that Mosiah wanted among his
people

Question 44

Know Elder Oaks quote about
the importance of
responsibilities vs. rights

Question 45

Describe how repentance is
the most defining
characteristic of God’s people
(how does this relate to being
part of God’s people, knowing
God, and being perfect?)

Question 46

According to Alma’s
description of his conversion
in Alma 36, describe how he
developed a relationship with
God

Question 47

Know the quote by Elder James
Rasband and the healing
power of Jesus Christ

Question 48

Describe what it means to live
in a carnal and sinful state and
how we can help lift others out
of this state