Day One Entry: Nov 13, 2014

Seminary journal doctrine and covenants section 43

Today we discuss section 43, we learned about prophets and how the Lord appointed Joseph Smith to be the one that receives revelation on this earth. during this section there were other people who were receiving revelations and claiming to be able to teach the Saints, section 43 came as an answer to Joseph's inquiry about this. we discussed how we can always have faith in the prophet. According to Wilford Woodruff, the Lord will not allow his prophet to lead the people astray. We talked about how if the prophet loses his gift of being a seer or prophet, that he has the ability to appoint somebody in his stead. we shared some examples of this happening in the Old Testament and even in the book of Mormon how there were some prophets that called other prophets as they were leaving this earth life. we talked about in our day how this is less likely to happen simply because we have an entire first presidency and quorum of 12 apostles. We discussed the Holy Ghost and the gift of the Holy Ghost, and how when we are baptized we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. That gift allows us to receive the Holy Ghost's influence through all parts of our life. We talked about how knowledge is action or should lead to action. An example would be as somebody is studying about the church or we were teaching somebody about the church on a mission, we should challenge them to be baptized. Knowledge should lead to action.

Questions
What is a prophet?
What is a seer?
Can someone other than the prophet receive revelation for the entire church?
Can a prophet lead the entire church astray?
What does it mean to edify?
What is the difference between the gift of the Holy Ghost and the influence of the Holy Ghost?
Explain the parable of the shepherd going through the door to his sheepfold as described in John chapter 10 versus one through five and how that compares to Doctrine and Covenants section 43 verse seven.
In John who is the shepherd?
Who is the Porter?

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