Resultado de búsqueda
Let the youth practice using these scriptures and others they can find to explain the Apostasy and the Restoration to each other. Read together as a class the first six paragraphs of Dallin H. Oaks’s article “ The Only True and Living Church .”. Ask the youth how we can testify of the only true Church in a way that avoids offending others.
The gospel of Jesus Christ needed to be restored because it was lost during the Great Apostasy. The people had lived for centuries without the true Church. So the Lord restored His Church and gospel through Joseph Smith, just as ancient prophets had prophesied (see Isaiah 2:1–3; 29:13–14; Acts 3:19–21; Revelation 14:6–7; 2 Nephi 3:3–15 ).
Lesson #4: How to Guard Yourself Against Apostasy. Historical Point: The Great Apostasy had been prophesied in Old Testament times (see Isaiah 60:2; Amos 8:11–12 ). The prophecy was fulfilled as false teachings divided the people of the ancient Church. The doctrines that Christ taught became corrupted and many people didn’t know how to find ...
27 de may. de 2011 · Latter-day Saints believe that apostasy occurs whenever an individual or community rejects the revelations and ordinances of God, changes the gospel of Jesus Christ, or rebels against the commandments of God, thereby losing the blessings of the Holy Ghost and of divine authority. The rise of revelatory communities, apostasies, and restorations has happened cyclically throughout the history of ...
Overview. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a worldwide faith of over 17 million members centered on the belief that everyone on earth is a son or daughter of a loving God 1 and that His Son, Jesus Christ, saved the world from sin and death. Jesus Christ invites all of God’s children to come unto, follow, and become more like ...
The most important of the internal causes by which the apostasy of the Primitive Church was brought about may be thus summarized: (1) The corrupting of the simple doctrines of the gospel of Christ by admixture with so-called philosophic systems. (2) Unauthorized additions to the prescribed rites of the Church and the introduction of vital ...
All people have agency, or freedom to choose. With this agency, some of the children of Adam chose to break the commandments. As larger numbers of them made this choice and turned from the truth, they “began from that time forth to be carnal, sensual, and devilish” (see Moses 5:12–13 ). This kind of falling away from the truth is called an apostasy.
