Lectures on Faith
The Lectures on Faith are this part the Doctrine and Covenants. (Choose "Doctrine" or "Covenants")
"The Council of Fifty" (also known as "the Living Constitution", "the Kingdom of God", or its name by revelation, "The Kingdom of God and His Laws with the Keys and Power thereof, and Judgment in the Hands of His Servants, Ahman Christ") suspended meetings in October 1851. The council met again only briefly in 1867 and 1868 to vote for the establishment of Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution. The Council resurfaced during the administration of this prophet in 1884 to combat federal involvement in overseeing Utah elections.
Who is "John Taylor?"
It has a higher percentage of Mormons than any other state except Utah.
When a child living with a same-gender couple has already been baptized and is actively participating in the Church,this happens to his or her membership activities or priesthood privileges and further ordinances.
As part of the LDS Church's Good Neighbor policy reform started in 1927, this president of the church removed the oath of vengeance from the temple endowment ceremony. The oath was made by participants in the ceremony between about 1845 and the early 1930s.
Who is Heber J. Grant?
On December 5, 1933, when predominantly Mormon Utah became 36th state to consent, this came to an end.
A man may be sealed to more than one wife if his previous wives are either dead or legally divorced from him; a living woman can be sealed to this many men.
The Lectures on Faith were prepared for this school conducted in Kirtland, Ohio during the winter of 1834-35.
What is the "School of the Elders?" (School of the Prophets did get them, but they were prepared for the school of the elders over which Sidney Rigdon presided.)
Prior to the LDS Church's Good Neighbor policy reform in 1927, part of the second verse of the hymn "Praise to the Man" referred to one of the 50 states, reading: "Long shall his blood, which was shed by assassins, / Stain [ STATE ], while the earth lauds his fame." What is this state?
What is "Illinois?"
It was published March 26, 1830; a very popular work with the same name premiered March 24, 2011.
A man may be sealed to more than one wife if his previous wives are either dead or legally divorced from him. How many men may a dead women be sealed to?
This man, close to the Prophet Joseph Smith, is considered by church historians to be the author of many of the Lectures and main editor of the entire collection.
Who is Sidney Rigdon?
When David O. McKay presided over the church, there was a ban on some blacks receiving the priesthood. While black Fijians and Australian Aborigines could be ordained to the priesthood, black men of this descent were barred from the priesthood.
Mormons believe that the angel Gabriel and this sailor of Genesis are the same person.
The law of adoption was a ritual practiced in Latter Day Saint temples between 1846 and 1894 in which men who held the priesthood were sealed in a father–son relationship to other men who were not part of nor even distantly related to their immediate nuclear family. Brigham Young was adopted by this prophet, making them related in heaven.
Who is Orson Pratt?
This disciplinary council has only been convened twice: in August 1838, after the return of Zion's Camp, to consider charges made by Sylvester Smith against Joseph Smith, and in September 1844, which ended in the excommunication of Sidney Rigdon, the senior surviving member of the First Presidency after the death of Joseph Smith.
What is the "Common Council of the Church"?
Mormons settled this city in 1855 but thought it was "too much of a gamble" and abandoned it in 1857.
Although a divorce dissolves a civilly-recognized marriage, the church still recognizes a sealing as binding. A couple who has been sealed may request to have their sealing [this], but this is uncommon, occurs only under special circumstances and is only granted by the President of the Church.