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Lesson #1 The Restoration Read through the commentary and the accompanying scriptures, then answer the questions in the assessment. When you have completed this lesson click on the next lesson located just below.
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The RestorationCommentary"I think our Father must weep because so many of His children through the ages have exercised the agency He gave them and have chosen to walk the road of evil rather than good. Evil was manifest early in this world when Cain slew Abel. It increased until in the days of Noah “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. “And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart” (Gen. 6:5–6). He commanded Noah to build an ark “wherein few, that is, eight souls” would be saved (1 Pet. 3:20). The earth was cleansed. The floods receded. Righteousness was again established. But it was not long until the family of humanity, so very many of them, returned to the old ways of disobedience. The inhabitants of the cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, are examples of the depravity to which men sank. And “God [utterly] destroyed the cities of the plain” in a summary and final desolation (Gen. 19:29) (Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Dawning of a Brighter Day,” Ensign, May 2004, 81).
ScriptureQuestions1 - What were the thoughts of the people like? 2 - In what ways did Noah become a leader of a new dispensation? 3 - Where is the hope and God's mercy in this story?
4 - What were the thoughts of the people of Noah's time like? (check all that apply) 5 - Did these references help you understand more about the Restoration? (check one)
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