Candle 5- The Creation

Light of the Restoration
Some of the most important knowledge restored is the Plan of Salvation. The next three candles discuss the light that has been restored concerning who we are, why we are here, and where we are going. We use the three pillars of eternity model to describe the plan of salvation.

From “Preach My Gospel” p, 49
Under the direction of the Father, Jesus Christ created the earth as a place for us to live and gain experience. In order to progress and become like God, each of us had to obtain a body and be tested during a time of probation on the earth. While on the earth we are out of God’s physical presence. We do not remember our pre-earth life. We must walk by faith rather than by sight.

From the LDS CES publication “Basic Doctrines”
Heavenly Father is the Supreme Creator. Jesus Christ created the heavens and the earth under the direction of the Father. The earth was not created from nothing; it was organized from existing matter. Jesus Christ has created worlds without number.

The creation of an earth was essential to God’s plan. It provided a place where we could gain a physical body, be tested and tried, and develop divine attributes.

We are to use the earth’s resources with wisdom, judgment, and thanksgiving.
Adam was the first man created on earth. God created Adam and Eve in His own image (see Genesis 1:26–27). All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God.

From “Doctrines of the Gospel” Institute Manual
“The whole object of the creation of this world is to exalt the intelligences that are placed upon it, that they may live, endure, and increase forever and ever” (Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, 57).

Missionary Application and Personal Dedication
Read the following quote from Elder Holland. Do you recognize that by serving as a missionary, you have become intimately involved in the work of saving souls? Can you bear testimony through spirit so that your contacts can feel its influence?

Jeffrey R. Holland, from a talk given at the Provo (Utah) Missionary Training Center on 20 June 2000 as quoted in the March 2001 Ensign.
“There are several reasons for bearing testimony. One is that when you declare the truth, it will bring an echo, a memory, even if it is an unconscious memory to the investigator, that they have heard this truth before—and of course they have. A missionary’s testimony invokes a great legacy of testimony dating back to the councils in heaven before this world was. There, in an earlier place, these same people heard this same plan outlined and heard there the role that Jesus Christ would play in their salvation.”