Baptism
Sacrament
Miscellaneous
Symbols
Definitions
100
Mosiah 18:8-10
What are covenants we make when we are baptized.
100
D&C 20:77,79
What are the Sacrament Prayers
100
A sacred promise with God
What is a covenant?
100
Physical touch by those representing God, transferring blessings from God to others
What is the laying on of hands?
100
Some of these are essential to our exaltation.
What are ordinances?
200
Washing, cleansing, purification from sin.
What is the symbols of water?
200
They are considered in the blessed and happy state. (Mosiah 2:41)
What are those that keep the commandments?
200
Genisis 17:1-10
What is the Abrahamic Covenant?
200
Called “baptism of fire” (see 2 Nephi 31:13); cleansing and spiritual rebirth in Christ
What is the gift of the Holy Ghost?
200
A fundamental law or truth
What is a principle?
300
The death, burial, and Resurrection of Christ
What is immersion?
300
Showing humility, submitting to God’s will; a token of the everlasting covenant
What is Kneeling to pray?
300
One of its purposes is for “the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ.”
What is The Book of Mormon?
300
Behold, all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth”
What is a symbol?
300
A sacred act performed by the authority of the priesthood
What is an ordinance?
400
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.
What is the Fourth Article of Faith?
400
Christ’s bodily suffering on our behalf, His physical death, His Resurrection so that we might live again
What is breaking bread?
400
The covenant of exaltation
What is Celestial Marriage?
400
It renews baptismal covenants and also renews our memory of the Savior’s broken flesh and of the blood He shed for us.
What is the Sacrament?
400
They are important because they provide the ordinances necessary for salvation.
What are temple ordinances?
500
Because God is merciful, He has prepared a way for all people to receive the blessings of baptism.
What is Baptism for the dead?
500
The blood of Christ (shed in Gethsemane, during His sufferings at the hands of the soldiers, and on the cross), which “cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7) and “is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of [our] sins” (Moroni 10:33); blood as “the seat of life or vital energy of all flesh” (Guide to the Scriptures, “Blood”; scriptures.lds.org) and that which atones for sins through sacrifice
What is partaking of the water in the Sacrament?
500
They “solemnly proclaim that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children”
What is The Proclamation to the Family?
500
(1) We must accept covenants. (2) We must receive ordinances. (3) We must live up to the covenants we agree to keep.
What are the 3 essential things we must do to return to the presence of the Lord?
500
The authority to direct, preside over, and govern the work of the priesthood in the Church.
What are Priesthood keys?