Final Exam Flashcards
DyC section on 3 degrees of glory
DyC 76
Central message of DyC 76
By grace of Christ, everyone is going to a degree of heaven
People who go to outer darkness
-perfect knowledge of plan, calling and election made sure
-try to dethrone Christ
DyC Section: Christ continued from grace to grace
93
T/F We are not perfected until long after the Resurrection
True!
DyC 88 and 137 on Final Judgement
based on law willing to receive, works, desires
doctrinal definition of endowment
divine power
presentation of the endowment
authorized religious ceremony to facilitate power
Why was the Word of Wisdom given in historical context?
JS wanted to make people more holy (school of the prophets)
WOW avoid consuming
-wine and strong drink
-tobacco
-hot drinks
WOW encourage
-wholesome herbs
-fruits
-beasts and fowls
When did WOW become binding commandment
-1948
-HJG temple recommends
What was the Kirtland Safety Society
bank
What caused the Kirtland apostasy?
-failure of Kirtland Safety Society
-debate over role of prophetic leadership
What was the Kirtland apostasy?
28 people excomm in 9 month period (3/3 BOM witness, 1 1st Pres, 4 apost)
Who was sent on the mission to England to help save the church?
Heber C Kimball & 12 apostles
Where was the Church headquartered in 1838 after the Saints left Kirtland?
Far West, MO
Salt Sermon given by
Sydney Rigdon
What did the Salt Sermon address?
Internal Apostates
Who gave the July 4th Oration
Sydney Rigdon
What did the July 4th Oration address?
External Mobs
What was the MO “Mormon War” of 1838?
-sparked by Gallitin
-Mormons and Missourians claimed being attacked
-battle of Crooked River
-Governor Boggs extermination
Danites/Daughters of Zion/Gideonites
drive out dissenters as a result of the Salt Sermon
Where did Saints flee after MO?
Quincy, IL
assistant president of Church in Nauvoo
Hyrum Smith
Who was first baptized for the dead and who witnessed?
Jane Nyman baptized for her son Cyrus, witnessed by Vienna Jacques
modern offering of the sons of Levi
temple work
central premise of King Follett
nature of God
early spiritual practices of RS
-strengthen, comfort, heal, teach
-school of prophetesses
-prophesy, vision
What is the School of the Prophetesses?
-early RS only accepted covenant keeping worthy women
-temple prep
Where was the temple endowment introduced in Nauvoo
Red brick store
What is meant by “eternal increase”
having children after the Resurrection/creative powers
“more sure word of prophecy” or “calling and election made sure”
promised eternal life
ordinance to confirm calling and election
second annoiting
historical context of DYC 132
Emma Smith concerned about plural marriage
how many wives JS married
about 30, 10 confirmed
ages of JS wives
14-58
5 factors from John Taylor’s talk on why JS was killed
- plural marriage
- apostate dissension
- religious suspicion
- political power
- wicked men
Who was John C. Bennett and what role did he play in martyrdom
-taught spiritual wifery (teachings of Joseph to seduce women)
-political and financial power
-excomm
connection between Laws, Fosters, and Higbees and the martyrdom
-conspired about Joseph as fallen prophet
-Nauvoo Expositor destroyed
Thomas Ford
-governor of Illinois
-promised protection to Joseph but allowed martyrdom
On what legal charges was JS incarcerated in Carthage
-robbing property / burning printing press
-treason
Church’s process of prophetic succession
- first presidency dissolved
- motion is made
- vote
- laying on of hands
- new president of the 12
RLDS church believed succession through
Joseph Smith 3
Who oversaw completion of Nauvoo temple and administering of endowments
Brigham Young
Council of 50
looked for additional places for the saints to settle
Where did the Church look to settle when fleeing Nauvoo
Texas
California
Oregon
Mexico
When & where vicarious endowments
1877 St. George
Second only to Brigham Young, who was the person largely in charge of making temple worship central to Saints
Wilford Woodruff
When did law of adoption end
Wilford Woodruff 1894
people now sealed vertically
name of fed law that disenfranchised the Church and seized its assets
Edmunds-Tucker act
Great Indignation Meeting
-largest female protest of that time
-in favor of polygamy
When was OD1 released
1890
Who issued OD1
Wilford Woodruff
How much longer was plural marriage practiced after OD1
50 years
Second Manifesto
penalties for entering into more plural marriages
Final Manifesto
responding to and denouncing fundamentalists who continued to practice plural marriage
Names of 2 black men ordained to priesthood during JS time
- Elijah Abel
- Q Walker Lewis
When and by whom did the priesthood and temple restrictions for Black Africans begin
1852
Brigham Young
3 events that possibly contributed to the restriction Black priesthood
- apostasy of William McCary
- interracial marriage of Wlkaer Lewis
- passing of slavery leg in Utah
Who received OD2
Spencer W Kimball
where are prophets infallible
testifying of Jesus Christ
