LDS Doctrine and Covenants Slideshow 08: D&C 29-34

7/30/2019 LDS Doctrine and Covenants Slideshow 08: D&C 29-34

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DOCTRINE andCOVENANTS

Hurricane Utah Adult Religion Class

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D&C 29

Received before 26 September 1830, inthe presence of Six Elders.

D&C 29:3440.

Moses 4:14.

D&C 29:3435. All things unto me are

spiritual, and not at any time have I givenunto you a law which was temporal.


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Spiritual and temporal laws

The Latter-day Saint men and women who settled thesevalleys of the mountains acted upon [the] principle [ofspiritual interpretation and understanding]. Judged interms of the values and aspirations of the world, somepioneer enterprises were failures. The iron mission did

not succeed in making significant quantities of iron. Thecotton mission did not give the Utah Territory self-sufficiency in cotton production. Efforts to manufacture sugar didnot achieve material success for forty years. The PerpetualImmigration Fund did not perpetuate itself because many

immigrants were unable to pay their debt to it.But, when measured against the eternal values of loyalty,cooperation, and consecration, some of the most conspicuousworldly failures are seen as the pioneer enterprisers greatesttriumphs. Whatever their financial outcome, these enterprises calledforth the sacrifices that molded pioneers into Saints and prepared

Saints for exaltation. Elder Dallin H. Oaks, October 1985


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D&C 29

D&C 29:35, 39. I gave unto [Adam] thatshould be an agent unto himself. And itmust needs be that the devil should tempt

the children of men, or they could not beagents unto themselves.

Agency. Free agency.

Agency free will.


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Agency

The phrase free agency does not appear inscripture. The only agency spoken of there is moralagency, which, the Lord said, I have given untohim, that every man may be accountable for his

own sins in the day of judgment. (D&C 101:78;italics added.) Elder Boyd K. Packer, April 1992

Agency.

Free agency.

Agency free will.


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Agency

Noah Webster,American Dictionary of theEnglish Language, 1828 ed., s.v. Agency.

2 Nephi 2:26

D&C 64:29Moses 7:32D&C 104:1718


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D&C 29

D&C 29:4647.

Children unable to sin. Not moral agents.

Children alive in Christ (Moroni 8:22).


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Samuel Smith


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Phinehas H. Young

Brigham Young

Heber C. Kimball


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Early missionaries

Samuel Smith (4,000 miles in 15 months).

Joseph Smith, Sr. and Don Carlos Smith(St. Lawrence County, New York).

Hyrum Smith(Palmyra/Fayette/Colesville, New York).

Jared Carter (Ohio, New York, Vermont,Pennsylvania).

Thomas B. Marsh (Massachusetts).

Solomon Chamberlain (Canada).


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Lamanite Mission (18301831)

Four missionaries called in October 1830: D&C 28:8. Oliver Cowdery.

D&C 30:56. Peter Whitmer, Jr.

D&C 32:13. Parley P. Pratt, Ziba Peterson.


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Parley P. Pratt


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We visited an old Baptist deacon by the name ofHamlin. After hearing of our appointment for evening,he began to tell of a book, a STRANGE BOOK, a VERYSTRANGE BOOK! in his possession, which had been justpublished. This book, he said, purported to have beenoriginally written on plates either of gold or brass, by abranch of the tribes of Israel; and to have been discovered andtranslated by a young man near Palmyra, in the State of New York,by the aid of visions, or the ministry of angels. I inquired of him how

or where the book was to be obtained. He promised me the perusalof it, at his house the next day, if I would call. I felt a strange interestin the book. Next morning I called at his house, where, for the firsttime, my eyes beheld the BOOK OF MORMON,that book ofbooksthat recordwhich was the principal means, in the hands of

God, of directing the entire course of my future life.

Parley P. Pratt and the Book of Mormon


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I opened it with eagerness, and read its title page. Ithen read the testimony of several witnesses in relationto the manner of its being found and translated. Afterthis I commenced its contents by course. I read all day;eating was a burden, I had no desire for food; sleep wasa burden when the night came, for I preferred readingto sleep.As I read, the spirit of the Lord was upon me, and I knew andcomprehended that the book was true, as plainly and manifestly as a

man comprehends and knows that he exists. My joy was now full, asit were, and I rejoiced sufficiently to more than pay me for all thesorrows, sacrifices and toils of my life..



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I esteemed the Book, or the information contained in it,more than all the riches of the world. Yes; I verily believethat I would not at that time have exchanged theknowledge I then possessed, for a legal title to all thebeautiful farms, houses, villages and property whichpassed in review before me, on my journey through oneof the most flourishing settlements of western New York.

Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt



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Parley P. Pratt Orson Pratt


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19John Hamer bycommonconsent.com/author/johnhamer


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Sidney Rigdon

John Hamer bycommonconsent.com/author/johnhamer


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Results of the Lamanite Mission

1. Began the Churchs commitment topreach to the descendants of theLamanites.

2. Established Kirtland, Ohio, as a gatheringpoint for the Church.

3. Jackson County, Missouri, identified asZion, the New Jerusalem.


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