Gospel Doctrine Scriptures and Quotes - Lessons 5 & 6

Lesson 5: “If Thou Doest Well, Thou Shalt Be Accepted”
Lesson 6: “Noah … Prepared an Ark to the Saving of His House” – Email Handouts


Moses 5:2

Moses 5:12

Reading 1 – Moses 5:13-15

Reading 2 – Moses 5:16-17

Reading 3 – Moses 5:18-24

Moses 5:5

Reading 4 - The Prophet Joseph Smith taught: “Abel offered to God a sacrifice that was accepted, which was the firstlings of the flock. Cain offered of the fruit of the ground, and was not accepted, because he could not do it in faith. … Shedding the blood of the Only Begotten to atone for man … was the plan of redemption; … and as the sacrifice was instituted for a type, by which man was to discern the great Sacrifice which God had prepared; to offer a sacrifice contrary to that, no faith could be exercised … ; consequently Cain could have no faith; and whatsoever is not of faith, is sin” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith [1976], 58).

Reading 5 – Moses 6:27-29

Moses 6:37

Moses 6:38-39

Reading 6 – Moses 7:13

Reading 7 – Moses 7:16-19

In the midst of a great vision given to Enoch, Moses 7:23 tells us, "And after that Zion was taken up into heaven "

Moses 7:48-52

Moses 8:2

Noah and his sons hearkened unto the Lord, and gave heed, and they were called the sons of God. – Moses 8:13

Reading 8 – Joseph Smith said: "Then to Noah, who is Gabriel: he stands next in authority to Adam in the Priesthood; he was called of God to this office, and was the father of all living in this day, and to him was given the dominion. These men held keys first on earth, and then in heaven." (TPJS p157)

Moses 8:16-17,19-20

Moses 8:28-30

Reading 9 - Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote: "The coming of the flood of Noah, and with it the 'end of the world' for the carnal civilization of that day, is a perfect type of the coming of the Lord, and the end of the world for the wicked of the latter-days. In both days all the normal activities of life continue until Deity intervenes to stay the mounting mass of iniquity." (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 1:667)

Reading 10 - President Spencer W. Kimball explained that when Noah built the ark, “there was no evidence of rain and flood. … His warnings were considered irrational. … How foolish to build an ark on dry ground with the sun shining and life moving forward as usual! But time ran out. The ark was finished. The floods came. The disobedient and rebellious were drowned. The miracle of the ark followed the faith manifested in its building” (Faith Precedes the Miracle [1972], 5–6).

Genesis 9:8-17