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The Lord's Word Through Joseph Smith
Ancient and Latter Day Scriptures B.O.M
Ancient and Latter Day Scriptures D&C
Ancient and Latter Day Scriptures Pearl of Great Price
Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible
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Read D&C 5:9-10. What generation is the Lord referring to?
The phrase “this generation” refers to this dispensation—the time in which we live.
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How has the Book of Mormon blessed your life?
*Heartfelt response
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What is your favorite passage in the Doctrine and Covenants?
*provide a reference
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Read Moses 1:40-41 How is the prophesy in these verses being fulfilled?
In a time when many have esteemed the Lord’s words lightly, the Lord raised up the Prophet Joseph Smith. The words of the Lord are now “had again among the children of men.”
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How does Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible differ from what we normally call a translation?
The Prophet did not translate the Bible from one language to another. His only text was the King James Version of the Bible, and he was guided by the Spirit to make corrections and restore passages that had been lost completely.
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President Brigham Young said, “What I have received from the Lord, I have received by Joseph Smith”. How is this statement true for you? How is it true for all Latter-day Saints?
*A heartfelt response.
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Read 2 Nephi 3:11-15 Who is this prophesy about?
Joseph Smith
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From 1823 to 1831, Joseph Smith received more than 60 revelations from the Lord. A few handwritten copies of these revelations were given to missionaries and others, but most Church members did not have access to them. At a conference held in Ohio in late 1831, Church leaders decided to publish the revelations in a volume called the Book of Commandments (see the headings to D&C 67 and D&C 69). Oliver Cowdery and John Whitmer were selected to take the revelations to Independence, Missouri, a distance of approximately 1,000 miles, where the book would be printed and bound. How many sections are in the D&C?
138
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What is the meaning behind the name Pearl of Great Price?
Like a pearl, it is small in size but great in worth. Although it is only 61 pages long, it spans the eternities, including passages about the Grand Council in Heaven, the restoration of the gospel in the dispensation of the fulness of times, the Savior’s Second Coming, the Millennium, and everlasting life. It contains valuable teachings on the Creation, the Fall, the Atonement, and the agency of mankind.
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Read the eighth article of faith. What is the significance of the phrase “as far as it is translated correctly”?
Because of the Great Apostasy, the Lord withdrew the fullness of the gospel from the earth. During the centuries that followed, many parts of the Bible were changed and many plain and precious truths were lost.
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What latter day truths have come as a result of revelation through Joseph Smith?
Latter-day scriptures, priesthood ordinances, the organization of the priesthood, temple building, etc.
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2 Nephi 3:11-15 What are the writings that are mentioned in these verses?
The Bible and the Book of Mormon
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What was the original name of the Doctrine and Covenants?
The Book of Commandments On 20 July 1833 a mob destroyed Brother Phelps’s printing press and many of the unbound pages of the Book of Commandments.The pages that were salvaged were bound into a few copies of the Book of Commandments, but the revelations still were not widely available. In 1835, after 45 more revelations were added, the Book of Commandments was published as the Doctrine and Covenants.
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What are the five parts of the Pearl of Great Price?
The book of Abraham Joseph Smith—Matthew Joseph Smith—History The Articles of Faith
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Why do we have Joseph Smith's translation of the bible?
Soon after the Church was restored, the Lord instructed the Prophet Joseph to begin making inspired corrections to the King James Version of the Bible. D&C 35:20; 37:1; 45:60–61; 73:3–4; 93:53
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Name a scripture in which the Lord gave the Church direction via revelation through Joseph Smith.
Any scripture given in D&C or Pearl of Great Price. Example D&C 89. The Lord revealed the Word of Wisdom.
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Name three plain and precious truths and their references revealed in the Book of Mormon?
Premortal Existence - Alma 12:25 Adam's fall and human suffering - Nephi 2:22-25 Agency Alma - 42:9-15 The Atonement - Alma 7 First Principles and Ordinances - 2 Nephi 31 Church organization - Moroni 2-6
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What doctrine do we learn about in D&C 132:20-24?
Our potential to become like Heavenly Father.
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Where, in the book of Moses, does it discuss our creation in God's image?
Moses 6:8-9
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Give a bible reference where the Joseph Smith Translation led to “doctrinal restoration”. *Hint: there's one mentioned in D&C 76*
John 5:29
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What scriptures have come to us through the Prophet Joseph Smith?
The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, and Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. Speaking about Joseph Smith, Elder LeGrand Richards of the Quorum of the Twelve said, “As far as our records show, he has given us more revealed truth than any prophet who has ever lived upon the face of the earth” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1981, 43; or Ensign, May 1981, 33).
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Revelations that came through the Prophet helped clarify principles taught in the bible such as mode of baptism. Mathew 3:16 teaches about baptism, where in the BOM is this doctrine explained or clarified further?
3 Nephi 11:22–26; Moroni 8:8–12; D&C 20:71–74
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Who are Mary Elizabeth and Caroline Rollins and what was their story?
The most important project being printed at the newspaper office was the Book of Commandments, the first compilation of revelations received by the Prophet Joseph Smith. When the mob attacked the building, they tossed the unbound pages of the book into the street. Seeing this, two young Latter-day Saints, Mary Elizabeth Rollins and her sister, Caroline, at the peril of their own lives, sought to rescue what they could. Mary Elizabeth recalled: “[The mob] brought out some large sheets of paper, and said, ‘Here are the Mormon Commandments.’ My sister Caroline and myself were in a corner of a fence watching them; when they spoke of the commandments I was determined to have some of them. Sister said if I went to get any of them she would go too, but said ‘they will kill us.’” While the mob was busy at one end of the house, the two girls ran and filled their arms with the precious sheets. The mob saw them and ordered the girls to stop. Mary Elizabeth reported: “We ran as fast as we could. Two of them started after us. Seeing a gap in a fence, we entered into a large cornfield, laid the papers on the ground, and hid them with our persons. The corn was from five to six feet high, and very thick; they hunted around considerable, and came very near us but did not find us.” When the ruffians had gone, the girls made their way to an old log stable. Here, as reported by Mary Elizabeth, they found that “Sister Phelps and children were carrying in brush and piling it up at one side of the barn to lay her beds on. She asked me what I had—I told her. She then took them from us. … They got them bound in small books and sent me one, which I prized very highly.” Our Heritage, page 41
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How did the church obtain the Book of Abraham?
On 3 July 1835 a man named Michael Chandler brought four Egyptian mummies and several papyrus scrolls of ancient Egyptian writings to Kirtland, Ohio. The mummies and papyri had been discovered in Egypt several years earlier by Antonio Lebolo. Kirtland was one of many stops in the eastern United States for Chandler’s mummy exhibition. Chandler was offering the mummies and rolls of papyrus for sale and, at the urging of the Prophet Joseph Smith, several members of the Church donated money to purchase them. In a statement dated 5 July 1835, Joseph Smith, declaring the importance of these ancient Egyptian writings, recorded: “I commenced the translation of some of the characters or hieroglyphics, and much to our joy found that one of the rolls contained the writings of Abraham. … Truly we can say, the Lord is beginning to reveal the abundance of peace and truth” (History of the Church, 2:236).
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In Genesis 2:24 we learn about eternal marriage. Where in the Doctrine and Covenants is this expounded upon?
D&C 131 D&C 132