Eternal Family Final Notecards – Flashcards
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According to our readings, what does the First Presidency counsel regarding intentionally exciting emotions feelings and emotions?
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Don't do it
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According to our readings, what is "the Lord's standard regarding sexual purity"?
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Intimate relations are only proper between a man and a woman in the marriage relationship in God's plan.
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According to our readings, what does the First Presidency counsel regarding passionate kissing?
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We shouldn't do it before marriage.
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According to our readings, what did Elder Holland refer to as "drugstore psychology"?
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We don't have control over our bodies
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According to our readings, Elder Holland said we "will never be more like God at any other time in this life than when" ......
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You are using your power to procreate.
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According to our readings, true or false: the eternal importance of the law of chastity can only be understood within the context of the plan of salvation.
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True
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According to our readings, what is one of the great ironies of eternity related to the law of chastity?
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The adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, entices us to share in his misery through the improper use of our bodies.
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According to our readings, what is the 48 hour rule?
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The length of time allowed to talk about problems after they occur.
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According to our readings, we should end the activities of our day before we are exhausted because......
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Husband and wife intimacy deserves and needs quality time.
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According to our readings, the scriptures and prophets counsel us to be virtuous not because romantic love is bad, but _____________.
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Because it is sacred
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According to our readings, terminating the life of a developing baby involves .......
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murder of an innocent human being
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What are the possible exceptions to the prohibition on abortion?
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If the mother was raped or if the birth of the baby will put the mother's life in danger.
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According to our readings, true or false: it is not possible to be forgiven for the sin of abortion.
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False
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According to our readings, the First Presidency in True to the Faith asks us to consider two things when making decisions about how many children to have and when. What are they?
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(1) The sanctity and meaning of life (2) The meaning of eternal posterity (3) The joy children bring to the home.
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According to our readings, we can be in the world but not of the world by ____
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rejecting false concepts and teachings and sticking to the truth
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According to our readings, what question did President Kimball ask of Elder Mason regarding beginning his family?
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Brother Mason, would the Lord want you to break one of his important commandments in order for you to become a doctor? With the help of the Lord, you can have your family and still become a doctor. Where is your faith?'"
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According to our readings, why did Elder Anderson bring up the examples of Adam and Even / Lehi and Sarah / Mose's parents / Joseph and Mary?
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To provide examples of where having children was a financial sacrifice, but the parents had faith and carried out God's will. They were ultimately blessed for doing so and grew closer together.
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According to our readings, what did Elder Faust say brings the greatest happiness?
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Partnering in parenthood
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According to our readings, "Few concepts have more potential to mislead us than the idea that ____
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choice or agency is the ultimate goal
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According to our readings, "Tolerance does not require _________
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abandoning one's standards or opinions
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According to our readings, what was Elder Bednar's first suggestion for how we can be more diligent and concerned at home?
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Express love and show it
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According to our readings, what was Elder Bednar's second suggestion for how we can be more diligent and concerned at home?
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Bear testimony and live it
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According to our readings, what was Elder Bednar's third suggestion for how we can be more diligent and concerned at home?
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Be consistent
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According to our readings, what did Elder Hales say was "the key to strengthening our families"?
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Having the spirit in our home
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According to our readings, true or false: though parents should stay informed, they should not pry into their children's on-line life.
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False
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According to our readings, what "could make it more likely that people in the family would love and serve one another"?
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Hearing the word of God and then trying it in faith
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According to our readings, Joseph Smith taught that we work by faith when we
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speak
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According to our readings, according to President Eyering, what is part of the evidence of God's infinite love for us?
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The opportunity to face adversity.
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According to our readings, true or false: President Packer said the virtues and attributes upon which exaltation depends come equally to men and women.
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False; they come more easily to women.
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According to our readings, Elder Maxwell taught that husbands and wives must both be Christians and__________
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Theologians
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According to our readings, President Hinckley plead with us to "work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it because .........
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it does!
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According to our readings, where is happiness to be found according to President Monson?
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in the home.
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According to our readings, what did President Monson say was the greatest deterrent to sin?
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family prayer
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According to our readings, men and women "are enough different that we would need to.............."
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........Work together, but similar enough that we would love each-other.
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According to our readings, if we would treasure motherhood in the world to come, we must learn to ........
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.........treasure it here on earth.
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According to our readings, what is "far more lasting, far more powerful, far more influential than any earthly position or institution?
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Parenthood
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According to our readings, "Indeed, one of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to _______________."
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love their mother
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According to our readings, as a father, what is your most important and sacred responsibility?
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leadership
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According to our readings, what did President Faust say was the greatest challenge in the world?
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parenting
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According to our readings, what takes more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other activity?
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The teaching, rearing, and training of children.
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According to our readings, what is a consequence of the sacrifices demanded of parents to meet the needs of their children?
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They develop nobility of character and learn to put selfless attributes of Christ into action.
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According to our readings, what should be the overarching and undergirding principle in disciplining our children?
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It must be motivated by love rather than punishment.
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According to our readings, what is the "pernicious philosophy" that undermine a woman's moral influence?
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Devaluation of marriage, motherhood, and homemaking as a career.
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According to our readings, Sister Burton said that a husband is most attractive to his wife when he is _______________.
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Serving in his God-given priesthood duties, especially in the home.
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According to our readings, what are acceptable reasons for incurring reasonable debt?
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Education, a reasonable home, or a basic automobile that may be needed to sustain the family.
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According to our readings, what basic commandment must we keep as a provident provider?
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Thou shalt not covet.
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According to our readings, what is a primary purpose of the law of tithing?
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To help us develop faith in our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.
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According to our readings, true or false: we become more self-reliant by becoming more reliant on God
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True
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According to our readings, what is the key to spending less than we earn?
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Discipline
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According to our readings, what should take precedence over money production?
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Seeking the kingdom of God
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According to our readings, true or false: President Monson has counseled women to focus her education in traditional home-making areas.
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False
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According to our readings, what "has a profound influence on the educational choices" of children?
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A mother's education.
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According to our readings, what lesson do we learn from how Christ responded to his detractors?
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We need to respond with Christian courage. He responded with love, but differently in each case. We need to follow the spirit to know how to respond to each individual accuser. We always need to keep the spirit of contention out of what we are saying.
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According to our readings, what is more regrettable than being accused of not being Christian?
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Reacting in an un-Christian-like way.
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According to our readings, what does Sister Oscarson proclaim to be the greatest honor and most elevated title and important role we can seek for in life?
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mother/father
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According to our readings, Elder Nelson taught that men and women were created for..................
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.........What they can do and become together.
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According to our readings, true or false: pressures to change marriage laws are resulting in practices contrary to God's will.
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True
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According to our readings, until we have sufficient time and strength to be healed of abuse, Christ invites us to _____________.
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share our burden with Him.
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According to our readings, what did Elder Scott ask us to realize if we feel that we are not loved by Heavenly Father?
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Those feelings come from Satan.
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According to our readings, true or false: we may need to challenge laws that would impair our freedom to practice our faith.
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True
