Choice 2: 2 Peter 2. Teaching

1.            Read 2 Peter 2:1–19. Record the characteristics of false teachers described by Peter. Explain in writing how your list helps you recognize false teachers today. 

·         They bring in damnable heresies

·         Denying the Lord,

·         Making evil things seem righteous.

·         Covetousness

·         feigned words 

·         make merchandise of you

·         speak evil of the things that they understand not

·         receive the reward of unrighteousness

·         full of adultery

·         beguiling unstable soul

·         cursed children

·         forsaken the right way

·         speak great swelling words of vanity,

·         allure through the lusts of the flesh

·         servants of corruption

2.            Read 2 Peter 2:20–22; Doctrine and Covenants 82:3, 7. In your own words, write a few sentences describing the dangers of returning to the “pollutions of the world.”

 The greater sin we will have because we have known the way of righteousness. Since the first time we repented, we have received a greater light, which obligates us to be more strict to the commandments.