Seven of Everything

There is one God; there is only one God. There will never be any other God other than the one true God. However, there are many individuals who are Gods, none are Gods unless they are one with the only true God. Any who are not one with God are not Gods at all, whether thy be false gods or idles, they are not God and have no power or glory. Of the many Gods who are the true God, because they are one with God, we know of three from ancient scripture: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. They are not separate from God but they are separate personages. To say that one is a God, separate from the others would not be true, because they are one God; yet they are separate personages. Christ gave us a parallel analogy: The body of Christ is one body; there is only one body of Christ. There will never be any other body of Christ other than the one true church. However, there are many bodies, or people who are called saints, no one is a saint unless they are one with the only ...

Today I taught a lesson from Chapter 3 of the Teachings of the Presidents of the Church series about Joseph Fielding Smith. I love teaching at church and the plan of salvation is one of my favorite topics. My outline followed the chapter pretty well but it seemed less than perfect when trying to follow the pattern of seven. This is the outline that I used: 1) The Plan Presented 2) The Fall of Man 3) The First Death 4) The Atonement of Christ 5) The Probationary State 6) The Resurrection 7) The Second Death or Eternal Life Step three in my understanding of the seven pattern does not fit in spot number three but rather fits as a subset of number two or possibly in number four. In the past I put resurrection as number five and judgement as number six but that is a little unsettled in my mind at this point. The Atonement has to be number four because of its central nature to all things. This order did work very well in teaching about the plan of happiness. I did not go into the differen...