Salvation & the Gospel: Are You a Latter-day Saint? New Era, December 2009, pg. 5; "A Saint loves the Savior and follows Him in holiness and devotion. Evidence of this kind of holiness and devotion is exemplified by consecration and sacrifice. Sacrifice is the...
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Pre-existence Ensign, February 2012, The Doctrine of the Father; “Our Heavenly Father has chosen not to reveal many details of our premortal life with Him. Perhaps this is because we can learn many things simply by observing the pattern for righteous families He...
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Creation of the Earth JST Isaiah 45:18; “For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited; I am the Lord, and there is none else.”1 KJV...
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Salvation; Kill to Save Someone Journal of Discourses 4:53; “I know, when you hear my brethren telling about cutting people off from the earth, that you consider it is strong doctrine; but it is to save them, not to destroy them.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City,...
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Yesterday we posted an article on the history of the church of Jesus Christ – the Christian church, body of Christ. I’d like to take another look at the questions we posted in this article to highlight what is really going on in the LDS scriptures and what members of...
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Salvation by Following the Prophets Journal of Discourses 4:3; “My feelings are for you to learn to follow our leader, our Prophet, our President. He will be our President in eternity, and Joseph is his President and will counsel him, and you need not trouble...
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Curse of Cain, Blacks, Satan Needed a Representative on Earth Journal of Discourses 22:336-337; “Why is it, in fact, that we should have a devil? Why did not the Lord kill him long ago? Because he could not do without him. He needed the devil and a great many of those...
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Christianity Journal of Discourses 18:44; “If we can find a church that has the gifts and the signs spoken of by the New Testament, we can find true Christian Church; but if we can't find such, we have no reason to believe that there is such a Church on the earth....
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Salvation by What? 2 Nephi 10:24; “24 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are...
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Pre-existence & Original Sin D&C 93:38; “Every spirit of man was innocent in the beginning; and God having redeemed man from the fall, men became again, in their infant state, innocent before God.” Romans 5:12; “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the...