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- ==Question: Why does the Church continue to use the KJV instead of the JST as its official bible?== #There is no revelation that has directed the Church to replace the KJV with the JST. Such a change would require both prophetic5 KB (779 words) - 16:34, 28 April 2024
- ...ngs of Joseph Smith, Jr. While FAIR consists mainly of members of the LDS Church, we provide these links and explanations as a public service. ==The Community of Christ (RLDS)==5 KB (769 words) - 15:00, 13 April 2024
- Like all religions, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has terms or expressions which may not ...ree offices Deacon, Teacher and Priest each with increasing duties. In the Church it is generally given to young men starting at age 12. In the Community of27 KB (4,268 words) - 15:00, 13 April 2024
- ...cord, it would have been impossible for him to have organized the restored Church." #''History of the Church'' 3:2927 KB (4,316 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...no contemporary account of witnesses accusing Joseph of unchastity in the Church's early years, save a single, second-or-third hand charge that was neither ...ganization, though no such charges appeared before the organization of the Church.24 KB (3,817 words) - 13:15, 27 April 2024
- |L1=Response to claim: 39 - the church has encouraged a 'thorough and impartial examination' of the Book of Mormon ==Response to claim: 39 - the church has encouraged a 'thorough and impartial examination' of the Book of Mormon17 KB (2,652 words) - 14:11, 13 April 2024
- ...uinn said that Joseph "failed to clarify for the highest leadership of the church the precise method of succession God intended" ...and other Smith relatives returned to Far West and founded the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints27 KB (4,121 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L1=Response to claim: 365 - The Bible has secondary status in the Mormon Church ...nse to claim: 365 - Thomas Paine's book The Age of Reason influenced early Church leaders to criticize the Bible12 KB (1,895 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- ...002|p=95}} ("Joseph quickly settled in and assumed control of the Kirtland Church."). ...[Christian communism]], and Smith adopted a communal system within his own church, calling it the [[United Order|United Order of Enoch]].38 KB (5,032 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |L3=Response to claim: "The LDS Church has canonized part of this 1838 account" ...und in an account told by Smith in 1838 and incorporated into the official church histories of some [[Latter Day Saint movement]] denominations.3 KB (452 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ...ious=[[../1827 to 1830: Organizing the Church|1827 to 1830: Organizing the Church]] ...ming millennium. Members were required to consecrate their property to the church so that "every man may receive according as he stands in need."20 KB (2,952 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ...ious=[[../1827 to 1830: Organizing the Church|1827 to 1830: Organizing the Church]] ...ming millennium. Members were required to consecrate their property to the church so that "every man may receive according as he stands in need."20 KB (2,951 words) - 15:05, 13 April 2024
- ...." Law was also convinced that Smith was misappropriating money donated by church members to complete the Nauvoo House hotel in order to buy land and sell it ...e and Richard Collin Mangrum, ''Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900'' (Urbana: University of Il15 KB (2,187 words) - 13:35, 13 April 2024
- After Joseph Smith's death, schisms threatened to rend the early Mormon church. *The church had published a revelation in 1841 stating, "I say unto my servant Joseph,10 KB (1,403 words) - 13:35, 13 April 2024
- ...that was inherently distasteful to the vast majority of the members of the Church allowed members to draw close to the Lord. ...to experience a moderate amount of tension with its host society. The RLDS Church rejected plural marriage, and perhaps not coincidentally are now small in n5 KB (756 words) - 15:30, 13 April 2024
- ...wn cultural biases and assumptions, rather than upon the actual motives of Church members who participated in the practice. ...p. They claimed that the Independence, Missouri temple site was rightfully RLDS property, since they were the direct heirs of Joseph Smith's original relig9 KB (1,461 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2024
- ...ound", the Spaulding document discovered in 1884 and published by the RLDS Church.{{link|url=http://www.solomonspalding.com/docs/rlds1885.htm}} ...|start=94|end=95}}{{link|url=http://www.lds.org/ensign/1977/09/news-of-the-church?lang=eng}}4 KB (504 words) - 15:52, 28 July 2013
- |L1=Response to claim: "one of the reasons most commonly given in church to justify polygamy is: There were more women than men in the 1800s" ...aim: "The reasons most commonly given by members (even if not published in church lesson manuals) to justify polygamy are:...Polygamy was not practiced until69 KB (11,303 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...usly capable of reading the Bible, which led to the First Vision. What the Church claims, and what Joseph himself claimed in his 1832 history that was writte {{:Question: Does the Church teach or believe that Joseph Smith was "illiterate"?}}56 KB (9,377 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...rsonal interview Emma Smith-Bidamon gave to a committee of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1879, cited in Robert N. Hullinger, ...ven to ''Kansas City Journal'', June 5, 1881, reprinted in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ''Journal of History'', vol. 8, (1910)20 KB (2,816 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024