The Atonement
What DID Jesus do for us?...
Turning The Hearts Of The Children To The Fathers
Turning The Hearts Of The Children To The Fathers
FOR,
behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud,
yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh
shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them
neither root nor branch.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
And
he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart
of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a
curse. Malachi 4:1,5,6
And below are the same verses quoted by the angel Moroni to Joseph Smith:
After
telling me these things, he commenced quoting the prophecies of the Old
Testament. He first quoted part of the third chapter of Malachi; and he
quoted also the fourth or last chapter of the same prophecy, though
with a little variation from the way it reads in our Bibles. Instead of
quoting the first verse as it reads in our books, he quoted it thus:
For
behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud,
yea, and all that do wickedly shall burn as stubble; for they that come
shall burn them, saith the Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave them
neither root nor branch.
And
again, he quoted the fifth verse thus: Behold, I will reveal unto you
the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of
the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
He
also quoted the next verse differently: And he shall plant in the
hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts
of the children shall turn to their fathers. If it were not so, the
whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming.
Authority To Act In His Name
Authority THAT is what it is all about.....
Being Taught By The Spirit
What does it mean to be taught by the spirit? And learning by the spirit?
Father, Son, And The Holy Ghost
What we believe.....
The Sabbath Day
The Sabbath, part 1.
Pursuant to divine command men are to rest from all temporal work and to worship the Lord one day in particular each week. This day--no matter which day of the week is involved---is called the Sabbath, from the Hebrew shabbath meaning day of rest. The rest, though important, is incidental to the true keeping of the sabbath. What is more important is that the Sabbath is an holy day---a day of worship, one in which men turn their whole souls to the Lord, renew their covenants with him, and feed their souls
upon the things of the Spirit.
Sabbath observance is an eternal principle, and the day itself is so ordained and arranged that it bears record of Christ by pointing particular attention to great works he has performed. From the day of Adam to the Exodus from Egypt, the Sabbath commemorated the fact that Chirst rested from his creative labors on the 7th day. See Ex.20:8-11. From the Exodus to the day of his resurrection, the Sabbath commemorated the deliverance of Israel from the Egyptian bondage. See Deut. 5:12-15. As Samuel Walter Gamble has pointed out in his Sunday , the True Sabbath of God, this necessarily means that the Sabbath was kept on a different day each year. From the days of the early apostles to the present, the Sabbath has been the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, in commemoration of the fact that Christ came forth from the grave on Sunday. See Acts 20:7. The Latter-day Saints keep the first day of the week as their sabbath, not in imitation of what any people of the past have done, but because the Lord so commanded them by direct revelation. See D&C 59.
Sunday being the Lord's Day, it is a day on which men should do the Lord's work, and do it exclusively. There should be no unnecessary work of a temporal nature, no recreation, no unnecessary travel, no joy riding, and the like. The Sabbath is a day for affirmative spiritual worship, aside from which, "thou shalt do none other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart." D& C 59:13.
Part 2.....
Pursuant to divine command men are to rest from all temporal work and to worship the Lord one day in particular each week. This day--no matter which day of the week is involved---is called the Sabbath, from the Hebrew shabbath meaning day of rest. The rest, though important, is incidental to the true keeping of the sabbath. What is more important is that the Sabbath is an holy day---a day of worship, one in which men turn their whole souls to the Lord, renew their covenants with him, and feed their souls
upon the things of the Spirit.
Sabbath observance is an eternal principle, and the day itself is so ordained and arranged that it bears record of Christ by pointing particular attention to great works he has performed. From the day of Adam to the Exodus from Egypt, the Sabbath commemorated the fact that Chirst rested from his creative labors on the 7th day. See Ex.20:8-11. From the Exodus to the day of his resurrection, the Sabbath commemorated the deliverance of Israel from the Egyptian bondage. See Deut. 5:12-15. As Samuel Walter Gamble has pointed out in his Sunday , the True Sabbath of God, this necessarily means that the Sabbath was kept on a different day each year. From the days of the early apostles to the present, the Sabbath has been the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, in commemoration of the fact that Christ came forth from the grave on Sunday. See Acts 20:7. The Latter-day Saints keep the first day of the week as their sabbath, not in imitation of what any people of the past have done, but because the Lord so commanded them by direct revelation. See D&C 59.
Sunday being the Lord's Day, it is a day on which men should do the Lord's work, and do it exclusively. There should be no unnecessary work of a temporal nature, no recreation, no unnecessary travel, no joy riding, and the like. The Sabbath is a day for affirmative spiritual worship, aside from which, "thou shalt do none other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart." D& C 59:13.
Part 2.....
Are Mormons Protestants?
The
answer to this question is, no the Mormons or members of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are not protestants. Then they are Catholics. No they are not Catholics either. Well, how can that be?
Members of the various sects of that portion of Christiandom which broke off from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation in the 16th century, as also the members of those sects which have since broken off from these original dissenting groups, are called Protestants. Martin Luther and others, for instance, first remonstrated and protested in the most solemn manner against the practices and doctrines of the Roman Church, and then finally, in good conscience, had no choice but to sever their affiliation with this organization. This Protestant revolution was inspired of God; it was one of the necessary occurrences which prepared the way for the restoration of the gospel.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are not Protestants and the Church itself is not a Protestant church. The true Church is not a dead branch broken from a dead tree; it is a living tree planted again by revelation in the vineyard of the Lord, and it shall grow and flourish long after the vineyard has been burned and every dead branch and vine has been consumed as stubble.
Above comments by Bruce R. McConkie.
Members of the various sects of that portion of Christiandom which broke off from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation in the 16th century, as also the members of those sects which have since broken off from these original dissenting groups, are called Protestants. Martin Luther and others, for instance, first remonstrated and protested in the most solemn manner against the practices and doctrines of the Roman Church, and then finally, in good conscience, had no choice but to sever their affiliation with this organization. This Protestant revolution was inspired of God; it was one of the necessary occurrences which prepared the way for the restoration of the gospel.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are not Protestants and the Church itself is not a Protestant church. The true Church is not a dead branch broken from a dead tree; it is a living tree planted again by revelation in the vineyard of the Lord, and it shall grow and flourish long after the vineyard has been burned and every dead branch and vine has been consumed as stubble.
Above comments by Bruce R. McConkie.
Where Did I Come From?
Have
you ever asked yourself, where did I come from? why am I here? where
am I going? Where are the answers to these, life's most important
questions? We will talk about the first question here, where did I come
from? Many verses in both the old and the new testaments bear record
of the fact that there is a premortal existence of our spirits and that we are
all literal spirit children of our Heavenly Father. That we lived in
His presence before we were born on this earth. Some of these verses
are: Job 38:4,7; John 1:1-14, 6:62, 16:28, 17:5; Hebrews 12:9;
Jeremiah 1:4-5; Ephesians 1:3-5; John 9:1-3. There are others.
In these verses we see that not only Jesus was with the Father before this world was formed but also Jeremiah and Job and all of us. This explains the question that we all have asked at some time in our life, 'Where did I come from?' It also explains why we as Christians say that we are all God's children....Now a comment on John 9:1-3......Read and think about this verse for a minute...The apostle asked, 'who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?' How could this man sin before his birth? The apostles knew of the doctrine of pre- mortal existence apparently but didn't understand it well yet.
In these verses we see that not only Jesus was with the Father before this world was formed but also Jeremiah and Job and all of us. This explains the question that we all have asked at some time in our life, 'Where did I come from?' It also explains why we as Christians say that we are all God's children....Now a comment on John 9:1-3......Read and think about this verse for a minute...The apostle asked, 'who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?' How could this man sin before his birth? The apostles knew of the doctrine of pre- mortal existence apparently but didn't understand it well yet.
Why Am I Here?
That's a good question....
Where Am I Going?
Another good question......
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