REL C 225- Final Questions and Answers with complete solution

"The Vision" (D&C 76) actually consists of how many smaller individual visions? What are they? - There were 6 Visions- 1. Vision of the Father and the Son 2. Vision of Satan 3. Vision of the Sons of Perdition 4. Vision of the Celestial Kingdom 5. The Vision of the Terrestrial Kingdom 6. Vision of the Telestial Kingdom According to Doctrine and Covenants 132, what are three reasons why the Church practiced plural marriage during the 19th century? - 1. Because the Lord commanded it 2. It was part of Joseph Smith's appointment to restore all things 3. To multipy and replenish the earth According to Doctrine and Covenants 21, what two words define how we are to follow living prophets? - In patience and faith According to the Lord, why did the city of Zion fail to be established? - A result of their disobedience At the time it was written, to whom did Doctrine and Covenants 121:13-23, 39 refer? - Talking about church leaders who turned against the church and joseph smith How and when did the Word of Wisdom become a binding commandment? - By the 20th century, medicine was widely available making strong drinks unnecessary. President Heber J. Grant made it a binding commandment in 1921 How and where was the temple endowment introduced in Nauvoo? - Joseph gathered 9 men and introduced the endowment ceremony in the upper room of the Red Brick StoreHow can we each also receive a fulness? - We must keep the commandments How can we participate in the ongoing restoration? - One of the first things is to actively participate in the work of salvation. This includes participating in the four purposes of the Church: "helping members live the gospel of Jesus Christ, gathering Israel through missionary work, caring for the poor and needy, and enabling the salvation of the dead by building temples and performing vicarious ordinances." How did we get The Pearl of Great Price, and when was it canonized? - Apostle Franklin D. Richards compiled the Pearl of Great Price while serving as president of the British mission. The book was widely used as the church grew, and in 1880 church leaders voted it into the canonized standard works. How is doctrine established for the Church? - The President of the Church, who is Prophet, Seer, and Revelator, and whose right and responsibility it is to make judgment and direct the course of the Church, invariably consults with his counselors to determine their feelings. If there is a lack of unity, there follows an absence of action. Two counselors, working with a president, preserve a wonderful system of checks and balances. They become a safeguard that is seldom, if ever, in error and affords great strength of leadership. How many years passed from Moroni's first visit to Joseph Smith until Joseph could obtain the gold plates? - Four years How was the Book of Mormon translated? - By means of urim and Thummim, spectacles, brown stone, white stone, often place them in a hat to see the words more clearly How, when, and where was the Church organized? - April 6, 1830, in the home of Peter Whitmer Sr. in Fayette, New York How, why, and when was Official Declaration 1 released? - Received as revelation by Wilford Woodruff on October 6, 1890. It led to the end of the practice of plural marriage in the Church.In conjunction with sealings, what is the law of adoption and how and when did it end? - The law of adoption is also known as dynastic or horizontal sealings. At this time, it was common for a person to be sealed or "adopted" to a high-ranking church leader and not to their biological parents. The process ended in April of 1894 when President Wilford Woodruff taught that we should honor parents by being sealed to them. On what legal charges was Joseph Smith incarcerated in Carthage Jail? - they were initially charged for destroying the Nauvoo expositor, though the charges that prevented them from leaving carthage were for treason against the United States Second only to Brigham Young, who was the person largely in charge of making temple worship central to the Saints? - Wilford Woodruff What are 3 types of marriage described in D&C 132 and their heavenly results? - Non-eternal marriage: These are marriages that are not sealed for eternity through the power and authority of the priesthood. These marriages "are not of force when they are dead" as there is no priesthood sealing binding them to one another. The participants "remain separately and singly, without exaltation, in their saved condition, to all eternity; and from henceforth are not gods, but are angels of God forever and ever" Unfaithful eternal marriage: describes a man and a woman who "make a covenant . . . for time and for all eternity," but this covenant is not according to "me or by my word, which is my law." This seems to apply to those who make an eternal marriage vow but don't have the priesthood keys of sealing to actually bind it, or to those who make an actual eternal marriage covenant but are not faithful to those covenants and oaths. These "cannot . . . inherit my glory; for my house is a house of order." Faithful eternal marriage: These verses describe "a man" and "a wife" who enter "the new and everlasting covenant," which covenant is "sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise". They are faithful to the Lord and to their marriage covenant and eventually are sealed to "their exaltation and glory in all things," and "then shall they be gods." What are five factors for evaluating a historical source? - 1. Primary Source- account was written or produced by a participant or an observer of the event 2. Contemporary Account- account was recorded at (or relatively near) the time of event 3. Objective Perspective-Personal agenda that may bias content is mitigated. Tone is fair, balanced, open, and objective 4.Relationship to other sources- dates, facts, claims, are consistent with other sources that deal with the same events5.Ssupporting evidence- statements are based upon solid evidence and supporting data and avoid subjective opinion What are four levels of evaluating an official Church teaching? - Church publications- teachings found in current books, manuals, magazines, and websites published by the church Repeated teachings of GAs- what is taught collectively and consistently by current General Authorities United voice of the First Presidency and 12 Apostles- united statements under the approval of the First Presidency and 12 Apostles Harmonized scriptures- teachings that are found consistently in the canonized scriptures