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LESSON
FIVE
BEGINNING MARKS - II
[There
are (24)
responses to this lesson]
Useful links:
Journal
of Discourses Doctrine
and Covenants Book
of Mormon
A.
THE FLDS
1. What is the FLDS?
____________________________________________(1)________________________________________
2. What is meant by the "Short Creek
Raid"?
_______________________________(2)________________________________________
3. What did the city of Short Creek eventually
become?
_______________________________(3)__________________________________________
4. Where is the most recent settlement of the FLDS
church located?
_________________________(4)______________________________________________
5. What is the distinctive doctrine of the FLDS
church?
____________________________(5)___________________________________________
6. What is the FLDS "Law of Placing"?
____________________________(6)___________________________________________
7. What is the highest state of salvation a
man may achieve? ________(7)________________
8. How does he achieve this?
______________________________(8)__________________________________________
B. THE RLDS
9. What is the RLDS
?
____________________________(9)_________________________________________
What is their new
name?_________(10)_________________________________________
10. Where is the headquarters for the RLDS ?
______________________________(11)_________________________________________
11. Describe the organization of the RLDS church?
______________________________(12)________________________________________
12. With whom does Brigham Young compare
Joseph Smith? (J of D V.14; p.203 [from 14:201 5th paragraph down])
_____________________________(13)______________________________
13. Whose permission is needed before one
will ever enter into the celestial kingdom
of God? (J of D V. 7; p 289 -28th paragraph
from top)
__________________________________(14)________________________
14. From Alma 34:32-35, what is said concerning
the possibility of one repenting after death?
_________________________________(15)____________________________________
15. How does
this compare with the LDS doctrine of Baptism for the Dead?
_________________________________(16)_______________________________________
16. What will occur following death according to the
Bible (Hebrews 9:27)?
________________________________(17)______________________________________
17. What things of man will be judged according to the
Bible (2 Corinthians 5:10)?
____________________________________(18)_________________________________
[The below material is taken from the 2001 Lectureship
Book of the Spring Bible Institute, Spring, TX]
18. In the GATEWOOD-FARNSWORTH Debate between brother
Otis Gatewood and Kenneth E. Farnsworth in 1942, Farnsworth affirmed that the
Book of Mormon was of Divine origin. Among his affirmations were the
following points:
a. “If God’s Spirit moved upon men in time past and since God does
not change (being the same yesterday, today, and forever), then He will move
upon men today.”
b. “We have no proof whatsoever to believe that God singled out just
one little handful of the Israelitish nation in one particular location and gave
all His revelation and inspiration to that little handful of people.”
c. “The two sticks in Ezekiel 37:15-32 refer to the Bible and the Book
of Mormon”
d. “The ‘other sheep’ of John 10:16 were the people Jesus visited
on the American continents which are described in the Book of Mormon.”
e. “Revelation 14:6 was a reference to the Book of Mormon”
Your responses 19-23 will be refutations of the above
affirmations by Kenneth E. Farnsworth.
a. How does the Spirit of God inform men today? (2 Timothy 3:15-17) You
may use as many other sources as you can find
__________________________(19)______________________________________.
b. How would you go about proving that God did in fact “single out just
one handful of the Israelitish nation”? [Think of a very simple answer. There
is at least one.]
____________________________(20)______________________________________.
c. To what did the two sticks of Ezekiel 37:15-32 refer?
______________________________(21)_____________________________________.
d. Who were the other sheep of John 10:16?
__________________(22)_____________.
e. To what does Revelation
14:6 refer?______________________(23)______________.
21. Explain the contradiction between D & C 5:13 and
the actions of Joseph Smith regarding who would be permitted to see the
"plates"?
_______________________________(24)________________________________________
A note of interest: During
the 2004 Southern Utah Bible Lectures in St. George, UT a member of the Church
Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints rose to ask a question during the closing
minutes of the open forum. The man's question was answered by the moderator,
brother Eddie Whitten. The Open Forum was completed and the next session began
with brother Eddie Whitten presenting the lesson. The man from the LDS
church called out a question. He was told the Open Forum period had ended. The
man called out other questions and was encouraged to leave. He challenged
brother Randy Mabe to a debate on the Book of Mormon. In the weeks following,
arrangements were being made for the debate and the propositions were signed.
While in conversation with a Mormon bishop I told him of the upcoming debate.
That bishop said Mormons were forbidden to debate and the man who agreed to do
so did not have permission to debate or to represent the LDS church and that the
LDS church would not support anything he might say and they would not permit us
to use their premises for part of the debate. The debate was never conducted
because the LDS church would deny anything that came out of it and we determined
that the man's disruptive behavior would not make for a useful discussion. As
brother Lester Camp noted in his "Introduction" to the
Gatewood-Farnsworth debate, that it is "No doubt the Gatewood Farnsworth
Debate (1942) contributed to this change in attitude of the Mormons toward
debating brethren."