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The Teaches of Jesus Christ

By Diane L. Mangum The brother of Jared saw Jesus Christ. he Old Testament tells us about Jesus Christ before THe came to live on earth. He was called Jehovah. The Old Testament tells about people who followed Jehovah. The is the book of scripture that tells us about Jesus’s life on earth. His disci- ples wrote about His life and His teachings.

The voice of the Lord came into Enos’s mind when he prayed.

The Book of Mormon also teaches about Jesus Christ and people who followed Him. The Book of Mormon begins in earth. They also taught that repent- Jerusalem during the time of the ing and following Jesus Christ Old Testament, about 600 years would bring happiness. before Jesus was born. It tells how After Jesus was crucified and the prophet Lehi and his family left resurrected in Jerusalem, He vis- Jerusalem and were led to a prom- ited the New World to teach the ised land, far across the ocean in the people. He taught about baptism, New World. the , and how to love Prophets in the Book of Mormon others. He organized a church

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King Benjamin taught Lehi saw Jesus Christ in a dream or vision. the people about the Atonement of Jesus.

the children and blessed them, Moroni wrote that everyone who just as He had in the New reads the Book of Mormon can Testament. know that it is true if he or she Like the prophets in the , prays in faith. Moroni invited Book of Mormon prophets shared everyone to “come unto Christ” their testimonies of Jesus Christ. (Moroni 10:32). The last prophet in the Book of Children today can also pray to Mormon was Moroni, who lived receive a testimony that the Book of about 400 years after Jesus visited Mormon is true and that Jesus Christ

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