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Life of Gordon B. Hinckley
The Apostasy
The Renaissance and Reformation
The Restoration
Revealed Truths
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Church history sites such as Palmyra, the Hill Cumorah, and Nauvoo.
Where did Gordon B. Hinckley and other returning missionaries visit when they returned home?
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The central figure of human history
Who is Jesus Christ?
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There came a movement of bold and courageous men and women who looked heavenward in acknowledgment of God and His divine Son.
What was the Reformation?
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One of these spoke to him, calling him by name and, pointing to the other, said, “This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
What was said to Joseph Smith at the Sacred Grove?
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This grand theophany is, in my judgment, the greatest such event since the birth, life, death, and Resurrection of our Lord in the meridian of time.
What is the nature of deity?
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His experiences at the Sacred Grove.
What did President Hinckley relate at a Christmas Devotional in 2000?
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The church drifted into apostasy
What happened following the Savior's death?
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When this was not realized, the reformers organized churches of their own. They did so without priesthood authority. Their one desire was to find a niche in which they might worship God as they felt He should be worshiped.
What is the Reformation?
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They were ushering in the dispensation of the fulness of times, the last and final dispensation of the gospel, when there would be gathered together in one the elements of all previous dispensations. This was to be the final chapter in the long chronicle of God’s dealing with men and women upon the earth.
Why did both the Father and the Son appear?
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A companion witness to the bible?
What is the Book of Mormon?
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On Saturday I said to the brethren who were with me, ‘Let us get up early in the morning, early Sunday morning, and go to the Sacred Grove before the conference.’ They all agreed. Accordingly, very early on that spring Sabbath, the mission president, the stake president, the regional representative, and I went out to Palmyra and walked into the grove. No one else was there. It was peaceful and beautiful. It had rained during the night. Tiny new leaves were upon the trees. “We spoke quietly one to another. We knelt upon the damp ground and prayed. We did not hear an audible voice. We did not see a vision. But in an indefinable way we were told in our minds, each of us, that yes, it happened here just as Joseph said it happened.
What happened when he was assigned to a Rochester Stake Conference?
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They cried out for strength among the followers of Christ, lest they fall into the ways of the wicked one. But a spirit of apostasy ultimately prevailed.
What do Paul's letters say?
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The birth of a nation whose Constitution declared that government should not reach its grasping hand into matters of religion was caused by this. A new day had dawned, a glorious day. Here there was no longer a state church. No one faith was favored above another.
What was the Revolutionary War?
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The year of the First Vision.
What was 1820.
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It was bestowed under the hands of those who held it when the Savior walked the earth.
What is the priesthood?
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It parted the curtains through which came the restoration to earth of the Church of Christ. It came out of the wilderness of darkness, out of the bleakness of ages past into the glorious dawn of a new day.
What did the First Vision do?
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It was a season of plunder and suffering, marked by long and bloody conflict. … It was an age of hopelessness, a time of masters and serfs.
What were the apostasy and dark ages like?
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He had foreseen a stone which was cut out of the mountain without hands and which became a great mountain and filled the whole earth
Who was Daniel?
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Every claim that we make concerning divine authority, every truth that we offer concerning the validity of this work
What finds their roots in the First Vision?
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The family is a creation of the Almighty. It represents the most sacred of all relationships. It represents the most serious of all undertakings. It is the fundamental organization of society. Through the revelations of God to His Prophet came the doctrine and authority under which families are sealed together not only for this life but for all eternity.
What is the plan for the eternal life of the family?
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The ancient church, Christ's church, governed by His priesthood.
What was again upon the earth with all of the blessings, powers, doctrines, keys, and principles of previous dispensations?
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The first thousand years passed, and the second millennium dawned.
How long was the apostasy?
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That they might worship God as they felt He should be worshiped
What was the one desire of the reformers?
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It was the great curtain-raiser on the dispensation of the fulness of times, when God promised that He would restore all the power, the gifts, the blessings, of all previous dispensations.
What was the First Vision?
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We are sons and daughters of God. God is the Father of our spirits. We lived before we came here. We had personality. We were born into this life under a divine plan. We are here to test our worthiness, acting in the agency which God has given to us. When we die we shall go on living. Our eternal life is comprised of three phases: one, our premortal existence; two, our mortal existence; and three, our postmortal existence. In death we die to this world and step through the veil into the sphere we are worthy to enter. This, again, is a unique, singular, and precious doctrine of this Church which has come through revelation.
What is the nature, purpose, and potential of God’s children?