Midterm Flashcards
According to the LDS.org article, how is the doctrine of the Church established?
The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles counsel together to establish doctrine.
What did Elder Bednar say is the focal point in a covenant marriage relationship?
Jesus Christ
When did the earliest Christian father dispute the concept of deification
by the end of the first century
According to our readings, what is our highest aspiration?
To become like our heavenly parents
According to our readings, what doctrinal teaching “widened the perceived gulf” between man and God?
The doctrine of creation ex nihilo (out of nothing)
Joseph Smith taught: “If men do not comprehend the character of God they do not comprehend_______________”
Themselves
Elder Oaks taught that our theology begins with____________
Heavenly Parents
President Harold B. Lee taught that Heavenly Mother is likely even more concerned for us than our earthly mother is ( T or F)
True
What analogy did Elder Callister use to explain why Adam and Eve had to fall?
A car stuck in neutral
According to our readings, the saving ordinances are much more than a check list of actions - they are ________________
The key that opens the doors of heavenly power
According to our readings, besides statements speaking of Heavenly Mother’s pro-creative role, what other roles have general leaders spoken about?
Co-Creator of worlds
Co-framer of the plan of salvation
Continued involvment in our mortal probation
Which was the first commandment given to Adam and Eve?
Multiply and Replenish the earth
According to our readings, Joseph F. Smith said being a great father or mother was more
than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.
Julie B. Beck taught that the theology of the family is based on __________
the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement.
According to Sister Beck, the Fall provided a way for __________________.
the family to grow.
Elder Dallin H. Oaks warned of which of the following efforts by Satan to destroy the plan?
To confuse gender, undermine marriage, & discourage childbearing. (All of the above.)
Which one of these three issues was not mentioned by Elder Bednar as Satan’s most direct and diabolical attack on the family?
- confuse understanding about gender
- to promote the premature and unrighteous use of procreative power
- to hinder righteous marriage precisely because marriage is ordained of God and the family is central to the plan of happiness. (So whichever answer is not included in here is the answer.)
Sister Beck taught: “Any doctrine or principle our youth hear from the world that is antifamily is also________________.”
anti-Christ
What was Elder Bednar’s “Reason 1” for why eternal marriage is essential to our exaltation?
The natures of male and female spirits complete and perfect each other, and therefore men and women are intended to progress together toward exaltation.
In answering the question, “Why are men ordained to priesthood offices and not women?” President Gordon B. Hinckley explained __________
it was the Lord, not man, “who designated that men in His Church should hold the priesthood” and that it was also the Lord who endowed women with “capabilities to round out this great and marvelous organization, which is the Church and kingdom of God.”
Elder Oaks taught that there is one exception to the fact that sisters do not officiate in priesthood ordinances. What is the exception?
the sacred work that sisters do in the temple under the keys held by the … only one who holds a priesthood office can officiate in a priesthood ordinance.
Elder Oaks suggested that the words homosexual, lesbian, and gay are ________ and thus we should refrain from using them as nouns to identify particular conditions or specific persons.
adjectives
According to Elder Oaks, What is the most important help the Church can offer to those who have surrendered to sin (including sexual behavior between people of the same gender)?
teach true doctrine and administer the divine ordinances of the restored gospel.
Rather than deny the reality of same gender attraction, how should we view the fact that some people are romantically attracted to people of the same gender?
As a temporary condition that will be resolved in the next life
When thinking about things we do not fully understand, Elder Ballard suggested that we follow the counsel of Elder Neal Maxwell who taught what?
What we already know about God teaches us to trust him for what we do not know fully
As quoted in Brother Goodman’s article, what did Sheri Dew teach would make us more immune to Satan and his counterfeits to Heavenly Father’s plan?
the more clearly we understand our divine destiny, the more immune we become to Satan.
According to the Church’s article on marriage, Why will the Church “continue to defend the sanctity of marriage between a man and a women” in the public square?
Because it is a compelling moral issue of profound importance
Elder Ballard taught that in God’s eyes, there really is such a thing as equal but not the same when it comes to His sons and daughters.
True
