So the 13 Articles of Faith... which are
very important because I also article
you eight my faith.
Like articulate, article you eight. You know? That is a
terrible pun. Back in the early 19th
century, Joseph Smith was inquired by the
Chicago Democrat to explain-- By
the way, that was a paper, it wasn't a
Democrat who lived in Chicago. The Chicago Democrat, the only Democrat Chicago! No the
Chicago Democrat was a newspaper that
wanted to know what Mormons believed.
Joseph Smith decided to create a article
for the newspaper and there are the
articles of faith and there are thirteen
of them. Yes, yeah. So there's a
misconception that the articles of faith
are the foundation for all doctrine in
the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day
saints. This is a misconception
because people think like, "Oh it's like
the Nicene Creed, you believe everything
because of this Creed." No, the articles of
faith, like I said earlier, were just
basically an informational guide for the
Chicago Democrat the newspaper, explaining
generally what Mormons believe. It's a good general understanding of
what we believe. Yeah so this Democrat was
sitting in the street and he's like, "Yo I got
to know what do you Mormons believe in?" And then Joe Smith walked up he's like,
"Hey you a Democrat?" and he goes, "Yeah
this is Chicago." No, it was not political...
Oh his name is Democrat. Hey my name is Democrat, I'm here in Chicago... I'm just being silly!
I don't know. So the letter was to John
Wentworth and this was actually in 1842
after the church was organized. So it
wasn't like you said, it wasn't like,
"What do I believe? I believe the ten
tribes will be blah blah blah in America blah blah blah"
Make the church! It wasn't
really like that. No not at all. Who thinks that
though? I'm sure someone will comment
about it so it's better we beat them to
the punch. So let's talk about some of
them. Number four in the thirteen articles
of faith, "We believe that the first
principles and ordinances of the gospel
are faith! in the Lord Jesus Christ,
repentance!, third baptism!
Can you say that again? Baptism! by immersion
for the remission of sins, fourth
laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. Yes. So a lot of times people
will say things to us like the most
important thing is that you have to have
faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is
your Savior. Okay you don't have to work
your way to heaven and we go no, no we
agree. None of the
ordinances... that's the first principle of the gospel. So the first principle of the gospel is
faith in Jesus Christ but guess what?
That's not the whole gospel and I think
sometimes it's something people confuse
where they go, "All I got to do is say I
believe Jesus Christ, you're my Savior
and that's it." That's just the beginning!
That's just the first little step laid
down, you got a lot more stairs to walk
up. I think naturally it leads into
repentance because if you had faith in
Jesus Christ that means you have faith in
the atonement or his atoning blood or
sacrifice or however anyone wants to
phrase it and if you have faith in
that, that means that your mistakes can
be cleansed.
So having faith immediately leads into
you being able to reconcile with God.
And if you have faith in the Savior and
if you want a greater understanding of
what he did and already have the
spiritual touch of what he did,
and you've repented, you
want to follow his example and you want
to be baptized and you know what, we'll
probably talk about that. I feel like you
just brainwashed. You're like, "You want to do this and you want to do this and then
you will want to be baptized. I don't
think we came across that way.
Number seven is one of my personal faves. "We
believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy
revelations, visions, healings,
interpretation of tongues and so forth."
The first clause it says we
believe in the gift of tongues so these
things can be acquired through faith,
these things can aquired by building up
the kingdom of God. In order to build up
the kingdom of God sometimes you may
need to speak in tongues and what I mean
by that is not maybe gibberish that no
one can understand. I'm talking about
talking to people that live across the
seas and so you can communicate. So there,
you know, we've all heard our
the Sunday School lesson where 
the Elder's Quorum president tells a
miraculous story from his mission where
you know someone was talking and then
he had the gift of tongues, he was speaking
in that language whether it was
Portuguese or whatever and he didn't
know it you know, this happens but so
the gift of tongues is a little more
complex or a little more easy sometimes. Can I give
a personal example? Give a personal example. I lived in Brazil for two years
on my mission and the gift of tongues
wasn't like I showed up on the border
and was like, *Portuguese*
it didn't just like flow out of my mouth. I
had to do some preparation and so lots
of studying of the native language helped
me but there were moments where I was
talking to someone where I would say
things that seemed very
colloquial that I couldn't have learned
in the books that just came to my
remembrance somehow. I probably heard
them somewhere on the street or I heard my
companion say it at once but it was
never like I had prepared for that
moment in time to say something
inspiring or to say something that I
could use to connect with someone and so
there would be times where Portuguese
would flow out and it maybe wasn't the most
profound thing ever but it was
impressive to me myself because I was
like how did I say that, I've never
practiced this before but it just seemed
right in the moment and that's how I
see the gift of tongues.It's something
that you acquire over time if you are
faithful. Yeah, we could have
a whole episode about the
gifts tongues, let's move on. This talks about prophecy, revelation and
visions. So many things right
here that it's saying that in the latter
days people will have prophetic visions about
the future or maybe revelation of the
Word of God. Visions have been
around since the days of Adam.
Since God is a God of yesterday,
today and forever, these visions and
revelations will go on until the end of
the day. Until the end of the day...
Until 11:59p.m. Our show will be
canceled. It won't. I hope not... but what I'm
saying is it'll go until the last days
when Jesus Christ comes there will be
visions and revelations and prophecy. Oh
yeah definitely.
Number eight, "We believe the Bible to be
the word of God as far as it is
translated correctly. We also believe the
Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
This is one we thought we had to cover
because it's a little bit of a
controversial one but I feel like if you
watched our show, you know what we're
about. So we believe the BIble to be the word of God as far as its translated
correctly. There are many
translations of the Bible and then there
are even the Dead Sea Scrolls which
have some differences between
the standard ESV Bible that most
people use. We can reference people to our own
video which is the Bible in the book of
Mormon. So we put on our Instagram
story, we asked people, "What are
your favorite articles of faith or what
you have questions about and Rembo Ruiz
and Ellie's Adventures asked about
number 10 which is, "We believe in the
literal gathering of Israel and in the
restoration of the ten tribes that Zion
the New Jerusalem will be built upon the
American continent, that Christ will
reign personally upon the earth and that
the earth will be renewed and receive
its paradisiacal glory. The covenant
people who have taken upon them the name
Christ who or have the fullness of the
gospel will be brought together in their
respective areas. Christ will reign from
Jerusalem and from America and the
temple that will be raised in in Israel
and temple that will be raised here near
Adam-omdi-amen. And the earth will
become the celestial kingdom and we will
live with Jesus Christ and God. Number
thirteen, "We believe in being honest, true,
chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and doing
good to all men. Indeed we may say that
we follow the admonition of Paul - We
believe all things, we hope all things, we
have endured many things and hope to be
able to endure all things. If there is
anything virtuous, lovely, or of good
report or praiseworthy we seek after
these things. So number thirteen is
generally everyone's favorite. Yes.
Basically it says if there's something
good in the world, you should seek after
it righteously but you should read it
for yourselves so you can find out for
yourself. It also, kind of an interesting...
for yourself. It's fine. I hope you guys
like the articles of faith I like them I
think they're pretty cool anyway make
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you can find the articles displayed in
the Pearl of Great Price which is a
small little book in the back of the
Doctrine and Covenants. That's really
cool. And it's on lds.org. You know, you sounded
like Kronk from Emperor's New Groove. It's really good.
Isma!
