Unit 2:1 “Keep Yourselves in the Love of God”
Those that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in
Jesus Christ will have mercy, peace, and love multiplied to them if they
contend for their faith. The appropriate ways to contend for our faith include:
doing missionary work, fulfilling callings to the best of your ability, going
visiting teaching, talk about Christ, do as He would do, serve our fellow
beings, and be kind to everyone.
The “first estate” is referring to our premortal existence. There
were a third of God’s children who followed Satan into darkness and chose not
to go with the Plan. All those who are on this Earth, have been on this Earth,
or who will be on this Earth with mortal bodies are those who, while in the
first estate, accepted God’s Plan.
Moses was a righteous man, but there was this one instance
in his life that he murdered an Egyptian. Satan tries to claim Moses’ body
after he was to die because he feels that because Moses committed such a grievous
sin that he would be damned. That is what the argument in Jude is about
concerning Moses, Satan, and Michael, the archangel. We learn from “The
Assumption of Moses,” an Apocryphal book that was not canonized because it was
not felt to be correct in every particular even if we did learn some truths
from it.
We, as Latter-Day Saints believe that the bible is true as far as it
is translated correctly (Article of Faith 1:8). This means that there are even
some things in the bible we are unsure of, but as much of the bible that has
been translated correctly is what we believe to be the word of God as much as
the Book of Mormon is the word of God.
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