Units 8-14

Question 1

Which Doctrine and Covenants section is the great revelation on the three degrees of heavenly glory?

Answer 1

76

Question 2

What was Joseph Smith doing right before he received Doctrine and Covenants 76?

Question 3

What is a central message of section 76?

Question 4

“The Vision” (D&C 76) actually consists of how many smaller individual visions? What are they?

Question 5

What are the general descriptions of who enters the celestial, terrestrial, telestial degrees of heaven, and outer darkness?

Question 6

Which Doctrine and Covenants section teaches that Christ continued from grace to grace until He received a fulness?

Question 7

How can we each receive a fulness of what Heavenly Father offers to us?

Answer 7

Keeping the commandments and making and keeping covenants.

Question 8

Soteriology

Answer 8

The aspect of theology dealing with salvation

Question 9

What is the eternal nature of the mind/spirit?

Question 10

What was the purpose of the original School of the Prophets?

Question 11

What practices were implemented in the School of the Prophets to help accomplish its objectives?

Question 12

What were the circumstances before Joseph Smith received the Word of Wisdom?

Question 13

How and when did the Word of Wisdom become a binding commandment?

Question 14

What is a doctrinal definition of endowment?

Question 15

What was the Kirtland “endowment,” and how did it develop?

Answer 15

An endowment of knowledge, power, and keys. The Lord uses it to continue revelation. Sealing keys, missionary keys, keys of the Abrahamic covenant are given. Not an endowment like we know it today.

Question 16

Who are the heavenly beings who restored priesthood keys, as recorded in section 110?

Question 17

What is the definition of the “new and everlasting covenant of marriage”?

Question 18

What ordinances are required for exaltation and to become like God?

Question 19

What is meant by “the more sure word of prophecy” or “calling and election sure”?

Question 20

What are three types of marriages described in Doctrine and Covenants 132?

Question 21

What are the Church’s teachings related to those people who don’t have the opportunity to marry in this life?

Question 22

What is the context and content of Doctrine and Covenants 132 Links to an external site?

Question 23

What are the general details of Joseph Smith’s practice of plural marriage (when it began, how it was implemented, what is known and also not known, etc.)?

Question 24

What is polyandry? What is polygyny?

Question 25

According to Doctrine and Covenants 132, what are three reasons why the Church practiced plural marriage during the 19th century?

Question 26

What are some of the theological concepts associated with plural marriage, including dynastic sealings?

Question 27

What is the Church’s standing law of marriage?