This doctrine is to the Church like a battery is to a cell phone. When you remove the battery from your cell phone, it becomes useless. A church in which true doctrine is no longer taught is similarly useless. It cannot guide us back to our Heavenly Father and our eternal home.
III. Eternal Resources in a Mortal Journey
We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom.
III. Eternal Resources in a Mortal Journey
The next three articles of faith—seven, eight, and nine—outline resources available to instruct us in our mortal journey. We are given spiritual gifts to guide us as we follow the Lord’s teachings and to protect us from evil. The scriptures are another guide; if we read carefully the word of God, He will reveal our path back to eternal life.
7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
The ninth article of faith teaches us that God has revealed, does reveal, and will reveal in the future many great and important truths to His prophets, seers, and revelators. We learn that in addition to listening to the still, small voice of the Spirit and reading the scriptures, another source of guidance is our Church leaders, who are chosen, called, and set apart to bless our lives through the lessons they teach.
7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
The ninth article of faith teaches us that God has revealed, does reveal, and will reveal in the future many great and important truths to His prophets, seers, and revelators. We learn that in addition to listening to the still, small voice of the Spirit and reading the scriptures, another source of guidance is our Church leaders, who are chosen, called, and set apart to bless our lives through the lessons they teach.
We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom.
NOW WHAT?
It is such a comfort to know that we are not left alone. The Lord loves us as much as He loved His children in ancient days. He has given us spiritual gifts, including the supernal gift of the Holy Ghost. He has given us scripture - ancient, modern, and on-going. If we go the wrong way in life, it is because we have chosen to do so. We cannot shake our fists at the Lord and say, "You don't understand. You never warned me."
Text copyright November 2013, Gebara Education
Quotes from a Conference Address by Elder L. Tom Perry, October 2013
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Jesus from unknown source
Spiritual gifts from www.newcov.tv
Scriptures from www.nothingwavering.org
Ensign to the Nations from www.lds.org/churchmagazines
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