Eternal Family
REL 200C
Unit 2: Video Study
Before Watching the Videos
Step 1:
Read the following paragraph from The Family Proclamation, and provide the information requested.
"All Human Beings---Male and female---are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.”
If these two paragraphs are “the answers,” what are “the questions” the Lord’s apostles are answering?
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What are the doctrinal, unchanging truths in this paragraph?
Step 2:
Answer the following questions.
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President Dallin H. Oaks taught, “Who am I?’ I am a child of God with a spirit lineage to heavenly parents. That parentage defines our eternal potential.”
How does heavenly parentage define our potential? Explain.
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President Joseph Fielding Smith taught, “The union of the two was required to complete man in the image of God.”
What is the image of God? Why is the union of the two (male and female) required to complete man in the image of God?
