Ethics and Principles

• - Is Universal
• - Applies to every person whether they know it or not
• - Comes to us from God via revelatoin, prophets, scripture
• - Unchanging, fixed, constant

• Absolute
• Unchanging, constant, fixed,
• Universal for everyone
• Always able to trust
• Source is External to individual

• Relative
• Open to change
• Flexible
• Real if real for me
• Real for a time
• Create my own reality

Spiritually significant doctrine= quicker attack from the devil

• One false doctrine leads to another
• Premortality, resurrection, man becoming god-like were all early casualies

• - Values consistent with one's principles/beliefs
• - Foundation upon which to build a complete philosopy of life
• - Assurance of reality accompanied by securtiy and peace
• - Hope for eternal happiness

• Other blessings come to us through the Fall. It activated two closely coupled additional gifts
• agency
• accountability
• Eternal Life to those who
• walketh uprightly
• speaketh uprightly

• Lord sends most righteous and worthy saints to eath through the lineage of Abraham and Jacob
• saved in celestial kingdom
• inherit eternal life

• God's omniscience is not solely a function of prolonged and discerning familiarity with us
• past, present, future- part of eternal now

God knows us perfectly, loves us perfectly

• Purpose of life is to test man, see what they will do with their bodies,
• righteous exercise of agency

• - That which we know is harmful but insist on doing anyway
• - Something we feel we need to lie about
• - Spirit takes body out of harmony with exteranl truths
• - Exercise becomes an addiction if it goes beyond the point of enhancement and becomes a neccesity...necessary to the individual much as a "fix" to a drug addict

• - Introverted
• - Unable to express anger
• - High Achievers
• - Upper-middle socioeconomic class
• - Self-disciplined
• - Type A personality

• - Requires daily exercise to cope
• - Believe that can't live w/o daily exercise
• - Manifests withdrawl symptoms without exercise
• - Continues exercise even if detrimental medically, socially, vocationally

• - Activaties in which prevalence of exercise addiction is found
• - Tendency to add to the mileage one is doing to maintain the high
• - Closely tied to eating problems
• - Often unaware there is a "problem", denial, compulsive behavior, exercise a necessity more than a choice, like a "fix"

- Through surveys it has been discovered that many teens with eating problems have come from homes with authoritarian parents...those who try to control, in a negative way, the bahaviors of the sone or daughter

• - Respond with concern
• - Listen with empathy
• - Recommend professional help

• - Desires profoundly affect the use of our moral agency and individuality, they become real determinants, even when we don't want the consequences of our desires
• - what we insistently desire, over time, is what we will eventually become and what we receive in eternity
• - Judged according desires of hearts

• - Seek to be guided constantly by Holy Ghost
• - Use agency to obey
• - Will power is NOT the way, but an indication still have desire for wrong
• - NEVER give up
• - Contrary to order of heaven to be locked into compulsive immoral behavior with no way out
• - The Holy Ghost changes lives