LDS Quotes: July 2015

Monday, July 27, 2015

The LDS church believes in the Plan of Salvation. Allow me to explain what this plan exactly is. Before we came to Earth and received mortal bodies, we lived with our Heavenly Father. Then He sent us to this world to be born to an earthly mother and father. Our Earth life is like a big test. When his son Jesus Christ returns to the Earth, our spirits will be resurrected. Then we will be judged of our actions and choices we made while living on Earth, and if we repent and ask for forgiveness of our sins, we will be accepted into one of the three kingdoms: Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial. If we do not repent of our sins and mistakes, we will be sent to outer darkness (hell) to reign forevermore with the devil.

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

The 13 Articles of Faith

What are the 13 Articles of Faith?

"One of the first things we're taught as children are the Articles of Faith - 13 statements that summarize our fundamental beliefs." ~Mormon Website

Who wrote them?

"Two years before he died, the Prophet Joseph Smith wrote them in a letter to a newspaper editor, John Wentworth, who had asked for information about the Church. Ever since the Articles of Faith were written, they've inspired and directed us in the basic principles of our gospel. They enhance our understanding of certain doctrines and help us commit to living them. They invite further thought. And they're a good tool for explaining our beliefs to people unfamiliar with them." ~Mormon Website

The 13 Articles of Faith

1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.

2. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.

3. We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and the ordinances of the Gospel.

4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.

5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.

6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the primitive church, namely apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.

7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.

8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.

11. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.

13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul - we believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

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