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• As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

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  Men, Errors, Long

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• Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.

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  Children, Husband, Home

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• We make our own choices, and then we present the matter to the Lord and get his approving, ratifying seal.

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  Choices, Matter, Lord

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• Adam and Eve and all forms of life, both animal and plant, were created in immortality; that is, when first placed on this earth, all forms of life were in a state of immortality. There was no death in the world; death entered after the fall.

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  Fall, Animal, World

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• To worship the Lord is to stand valiantly in the cause of truth and righteousness, to let our influence for good be felt in civic, cultural, educational, and governmental fields, and to support those laws and principles which further the Lord's interests on earth.

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  Educational, Law, Support

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• The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the Father and the Son, of revealing the truths of salvation to men on earth, and in due course, of revealing to them, all truth.

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  Father, Son, Men

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• Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the field concerned, and all pointing attention to his power to deal in the spiritual field with human souls as these mortal counterparts deal in their temporal pursuits.

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  Spiritual, Technology, Soul

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• Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.

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  Jesus, Father, Men

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• We expect to see the day when temples will dot the earth, each one a house of the Lord.

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  House, Earth, Dots

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• We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to live the law of obedience. We are under covenant to live the law of sacrifice. We are under covenant to live the law of consecration. It is our privilege to consecrate our time, talents, and means to build up his kingdom. We are called upon to sacrifice, in one degree or another, for the furtherance of his work. Obedience is essential to salvation; so, also, is service; and so, also, are consecration and sacrifice.

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  Mean, Angel, Sacrifice

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• Salvation is a family affair.

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  Affair, Salvation

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• God... is a personal Being, a holy and exalted man.

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  Men, Holy, Exalted

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• The Atonement of Christ is the most transcendental event that has ever occurred or that will ever occur, since the sunrise of creation to all ages of eternity

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  Sunrise, Age, Events

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• Yes, President Young did teach that Adam was the father of our spirits, and all the related things that the cultists ascribe to him. This [i.e., Brigham Young's teaching on Adam], however, is not true. He expressed views that are out of harmony with the gospel.

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  Father, Teaching, Views

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• When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

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  Real, Fall, Men

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• Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.

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  Fashion, Should Have, Needs

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• There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.

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  Honesty, Evolution, Devilish

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• As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of that Holy Man who is literally our Father in heaven. He was born in mortality in the literal and full sense as the Son of God. He is the Son of his father in the same sense that all morals are the sons and daughters of their fathers.

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  Daughter, Jesus, Father

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• It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.

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  Echoes, Church, Doctrine

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• And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural course of events, for he is the Son of God, and that designation means what it says.

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  Jesus, Real, Father

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• Salvation is in Christ, not the Holy Ghost; our Blessed Lord redeemed us and the Holy Ghost is his messenger to carry the message of redeeming grace into the hearts of men. Thus, the joyous words spoken by the Holy Ghost are in reality the words of Christ. The Spirit is simply the one who delivers the word.

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  Blessed, Heart, Reality

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• Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness. Thy are living in adultery, have already sold their souls to Satan, and (whether their acts are based on ignorance or lust or both) they will be damned in eternity.

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  Ignorance, Keys, Soul

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• Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord’s desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

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  Men, Baptism, Desire

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• Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the three heavens within the celestial kingdom. With few exceptions this is the salvation of which the scriptures speak. It is the salvation which the saints seek. (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed., Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966, p. 670.)

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  Lakes, Cities, Heaven

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• Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.

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  Soul, Damnation, Doctrine

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