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• Times and Seasons/1/7
  ...HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED. ...HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED.===
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• Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries
  ...hat they could no longer consider The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the true Church. Not long afterward these and other documents were shown to |author=Elder D. Todd Christofferson
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• Times and Seasons/2/5
  ...t will advocate the doctrines of the "CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS," and will be devoted to Ecclesiastical and Theological matter; for which o ...LING] HIGH COUNCIL AND ELDERS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
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• Primary sources/Nauvoo Expositor Full Text
  ...upon the arm of Jehovah, the Supreme Arbiter of the world, to whom we this day, and upon this occasion, appeal for the rectitude of our intentions. ...as he did anciently the three Hebrews from the former, and Daniel from the latter.
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• Question: Does Jesus already know who will be returning to God's presence?
  ...ns appear to be acceptable alternatives for faithful, believing Latter-day Saints=== ...ns appear to be acceptable alternatives for faithful, believing Latter-day Saints.
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• Question: Should Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") reject "wayward" family members or those who leave the Church?
  ==Question: Should Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") reject "wayward" family members or those who leave the Church?= ===The Saints are encouraged to love everyone, particularly family members, despite their
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• Primary sources/Evolution
  ...He has kept us in darkness. Wait until the Lord speaks, or wait until that day when He shall come, and when we shall be among the privileged either to com :Latter-day Saints should strive to use both science and religion to extend knowledge and to b
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• Primary sources/Evolution/Earth and Man
  ...o the present is correct, namely 1931 years—not from last New Year's day, January 1, but from the month that came to be known among the Hebrews as N ...he best and most advanced scientific thought and philosophic belief of the day to hold that man consists of spirit and body; and Divine revelation makes p
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• Primary sources/Evolution/Ensign 1987
  ...true in the light of greater knowledge. We are assured, however, that the day will come when the Lord "shall reveal all things--<BR><BR> Until that day comes, we must rely on what we are taught in the scriptures and what we ass
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• Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Earth
  ...that will ensure their availability for all succeeding generations. Latter-day scriptures also teach of a plurality of worlds. In itself this is not a uni ...tential support for this view has been found in scriptures suggesting "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years" (2 Pet. 3:8; cf. Abr. 3:2-4; 5:13; Fa
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• Primary sources/Bruce R. McConkie/Seven deadly heresies
  by Elder Bruce R. McConkie<BR><BR> Now I take a text. These words were written by Paul to certain ancient Saints. In principle they apply to us: I hear that there be divisions among you; a
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• Question: What is the stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on birth control?
  == Question: What is the stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on birth control?== ...nds between husband and wife.<ref>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church, 2010'' Salt Lake City, 2010. (195)
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• The Flood
  This idea should be a comfortable one for Latter-day Saints, since modern revelation insists that God speaks in the language and though ...eople were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until t
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• Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1909
  ...o time respecting the attitude of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints upon questions which, though not vital from a doctrinal standpoint, are clo ...f equal authority with the Jewish scriptures. The partial obscurity of the latter upon the point in question is owing, no doubt, to the loss of those "plain
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• Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1925
  ...tement by the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...irst begotten in the spirit, and the only begotten in the flesh. He is our elder brother, and we, like him, are in the image of God. All men and women are i
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• Question: Is it true that Utah has the highest personal bankruptcy rate in the United States?
  ...s often attributed to Mormons and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do not account for Utah's bankruptcy rates. In fact, certain aspects of thi ...orities has been consistent since the foundation of the Church: Latter-day Saints should get out of debt and stay out of debt. In October 2001 General Confer
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• Question: Was Brigham Young a racist?
  ...hing "common" that God had cleansed ({{b||Acts|10|9-16}}), yet some modern-day prophets thought that blacks were inferior to whites; why is that? Elder Neil L. Anderson said,
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• Mormonism and science/Death before the Fall
  ...ience to explore the issue of why they were here. We can only conclude, as Elder Talmage did, that “the whole series of chalk deposits and many of our dee |summary=Do Latter-day Saints believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old? Why does Doctrine and Coven
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• Question: Why are there different versions of the Articles of Faith?
  ...many versions of "articles of faith" prepared by various early Latter-day Saints to support their missionary efforts=== ...th and tumbled out of the hive."<ref>{{Book:Gunnison:Mormons or Latter-day Saints|pages=40}}</ref>
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• Detailed response to CES Letter, Introduction
  ...eople who are 'leaving in droves' over Church history"|Response to claim: "Elder Marlin K. Jensen...was asked his thoughts regarding the effects of Google o ==Response to claim: "Elder Marlin K. Jensen...was asked his thoughts regarding the effects of Google o
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• Times and Seasons/2/9
  ELDER WOODRUFF'S LETTER ...d establish the work in that city, and leave the Potteries in the hands of Elder Turley; but beleiving [believing] it to be my privilege and duty to know th
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• Question: Did procreation exist on the earth before the Fall of Adam?
  ...uently published as a pamphlet by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1931; later published in ''The Instructor'', 100:12 (December 1965) :474&n
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• Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple
  {{Navigation:Latter-day Saint temples}} Elder McConkie provides a good summary:
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• Primary sources/Unwritten Order of Things
  by Elder Boyd K. Packer ...his first name, but I shall never forget the first thing he said the first day we met.
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• Question: Why doesn't Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision account mention a "new dispensation"?
  ...clare His truth to the world; for ‘They had all gone astray.’”<ref>''Saints’ Herald'', vol. 30 (16 June 1883): 388; emphasis added.</ref> *On 1 January 1845 Elder Parley P. Pratt published a proclamation to the Saints in the eastern states of the U.S. and said, “The people did not choose th
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Intro
  Latter-day Saint Christians will agree with other Christians that the divine nature of ...s its viewers to draw. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints insist that they are devout Christians, who worship Jesus Christ as the Onl
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Prophecy and Revelation
  ...ld a temple at Independence. The Lord accepted the diligent efforts of the Saints and wisely instructed them to build temples at other places where they woul ...ested that fallen members of this mission group would be replaced, but the latter added specific names.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Polygamy
  Latter-day Saints have no quarrel with this scripture. However, it says nothing at all about ...({{link|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/scrolls/life.html}}). Latter-day Saints agree that the standard instruction to all believers is monogamy&mdash;exce
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/DNA
  The introduction to the Book of Mormon is not part of the scripture. Elder Bruce R. McConkie, who helped write the introduction and other aids for the ...y as 1928, a completely different view was taught in General Conference by Elder Levi Edgar Young:
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• Plural marriage and the Bible
  ...d Cessation of Plural Marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...rn Christian. Elder Orson Pratt was widely viewed as the victor in a three-day debate on this very point with Reverend John P. Newman, Chaplain of the U.S
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Letter (annotated)
  ...istian cult; nothing must challenge the video's version of what Latter-day Saints "really" believe. ...not discuss these issues with Latter-day Saints, lest they learn that the Saints believe a great many of the same things as they do about Christ. (See discu
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Burning in the Bosom
  ...in prayer and experiencing a personal relationship with Christ. Latter-day Saints also enjoy this same feeling. ...oever the Lord chooses to bless with His presence may see Him. Latter-day Saints believe that this same promise was made manifest once more early in the spr
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• Mormonism and culture/Attitude toward non-members/Statements
  ...on ancient and modern revelation, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gladly teaches and declares the Christian doctrine that all men and women a ...lso declare that the gospel of Jesus Christ, restored to his Church in our day, provides the only way to a mortal life of happiness and a fullness of joy
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Reader Comments
  ...tter-day Saints have made with him. As important as Joseph Smith is to the Saints, he does not compare in any way to the Lord Jesus Christ.</span> :*[[Latter-day Saints aren't Christians|Are LDS Christians?]]
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• Question: In the 1950s, did Mormons teach that the only way a black man could get into heaven was as a slave?
  ===The claim is likely based on talk presented by Elder Mark E. Petersen at BYU in the early 1950s. At the time, much of American s ...d by a talk presented by Elder Mark E. Petersen at BYU in the early 1950s. Elder Petersen's comments were made during a very different time from the one in
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• Question: Why does the Church continue to use the KJV instead of the JST as its official bible?
  ...on, along with the fact that they did not own the copyright, kept the Utah Saints from embracing the JST. The LDS interest in the JST came much later, largel ...s.org/ensign/1981/12/restoring-plain-and-precious-parts-the-role-of-latter-day-scriptures-in-helping-us-understand-the-bible?lang=eng}}</ref>
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• Question: Do Mormons believe in the "rapture"?
  ===Modern revelation makes it clear that the saints will remain on the earth through the tribulation period until Christ's comi ...in the grave shall be changed to a resurrected state at that time. Younger saints will grow old and be changed in an instant at one hundred years of age ({{b
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• MormonFAQ/Terms
  Like all religions, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has terms or expressions which may not be familiar to outsiders. Some of t ;Aaronic Priesthood:This is one of the two Latter-Day Saints priesthoods. It is made up of three offices Deacon, Teacher and Priest each
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• Paid and unpaid Church leaders
  ...tion for service seems contradictory to strongly held values of the Latter-day Saint community. However, it should be noted that priestcraft as it has bee ...e Prophet was told by the Lord to look to the Church for temporal support. Elder Bruce R. McConkie commented about those who are asked to give full-time ser
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• Question: Why might someone not be able to see their spiritual impressions come to successful, obvious, and/or beautiful fruition?
  ====<span style="color:lightblue">3. Continuing in light until the perfect day (Doctrine and Covenants 50:24)</span>==== ...more light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day." It could be that our incomplete or even false understanding now will be a
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• Times and Seasons/1/6
  ...HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED. ...HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED.===
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• Times and Seasons/2/10
  ...re made as the filth of the world-the off-scouring of all things unto this day." I am aware, that a rehearsal of visions of angels at this day, is as inconsistent with a portion of mankind as it formerly was, after all
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• Times and Seasons/1/5
  ...HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED. ...HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED.===
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Who is God
  ...l intelligence is eternal and uncreated (see {{s||D&C|93|29}}). Latter-day Saints do not accept the late, non-biblical Trinitarian creeds. Thus, they see God Latter-day Saints and scripture often use the term "God" to denote what may be more properly
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
  ...Ministries are entitled to take such an approach. However, the Latter-day Saints take a different approach, while readily admitting that there are ways in w Latter-day Saints would agree with the RBC pamphlet when it says that
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Jesus is God
  Latter-day Saints unreservedly claim that Jesus Christ is God. As the Book of Mormon teaches Elder Jeffrey R. Holland said of Jesus' divinity:
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• Question: Is it true that Mormon missionaries are not allowed to swim because Satan has dominion over the waters?
  ...in canoes. On the third day of the journey many dangers were experienced. Elder William W. Phelps, in daylight vision, saw the destroyer riding in power up ...even so in the last days have I blessed it, in its time, for the use of my saints, that they may partake the fatness thereof.
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• Mormonism and politics/California Proposition 8
  ...a better society.<br><br>&mdash;''The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'', Nov. 5, 2008}} |H=Latter-day Saints and California Proposition 8
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• Question: Were Mormons who were opposed to Proposition 8 disciplined by the Church?
  ...or their voting record. Elder L. Whitney Clayton was asked if "Latter-day Saints who publicly opposed Prop. 8 would be subject to some kind of church discip
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• The temple garment
  {{Navigation:Latter-day Saint temples}} |H=Latter-day Saints and temple garments
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• Question: Does FAIR provide "official" answers to questions?
  ...vide a useful resource for people to gain a better understanding of Latter-day Saint history and teachings. Further, it is not necessarily correct for us ...ization completely independent of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FAIR is not owned or endorsed by the Church as an official mouthpiece, so
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Historical Suppression in the Church
  The history of Mormonism — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)— can only be pieced together using a wide variety of historical sou The history of Mormonism—The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)—can only be pieced together using a wide variety of historical sour
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• Times and Seasons/1/4
  ...HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED. ...HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED.===
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/The LDS as Mindless Followers
  |H=The Latter-day Saints as mindless followers? ...Liahona/Tambuli'', June 1981), but it was still specified in the text that Elder Benson belonged to "the Quorum of the Twelve" when his remarks were deliver
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 4
  |L26=Response to claim: 75 - Thomas Stuart Ferguson was an "icon" of Latter-day Saint scholarship ==Response to claim: 75 - Thomas Stuart Ferguson was an "icon" of Latter-day Saint scholarship==
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 5
  ...the Latter Day Saints and then to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...=Response to claim: 89 - Did Joseph have a "Jupiter talisman" with him the day he died?
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 17
  ...hat people join the Church as "the long-held Mormon notion that Latter-day Saints are innately better than non-Mormons" ...im: 379 601n22(PB) - Did President Hinckley actually "confess" that Latter-day Saint do not believe in the same 'Jesus' in which non-LDS Christians believ
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 18
  |L6=Response to claim: 404, 605n14 (PB) - Latter-day Saints performed vicarious baptisms for Jews who had died in the Holocaust |L17=Response to claim: 412 - Latter-day Saints are supposed to only rely on the "burning in the bosom" even if they are "f
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 16
  ...or many years been synonymous terms to persons well acquainted with Latter-day Saint beliefs" |L4=Response to claim: 356, n6 - The author claims that Latter-day Saints traditionally believe that everyone's place in the world was determined by
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Notable omissions
  ...is it that the ''Nauvoo Signal'' will offer accurate information about the Saints? Would Abanes appeal to articles in ''Der Sturmer'' about the Jews? ...the Church saw this as a fulfillment of such expectations as expressed by Elder Hyde.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources
  {{:Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a practice called "celestial sex," and that this is the manner i *Latter-day Saints accept "Son of Man" as a messianic title, and do not attempt to reinterpret
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Christianity corrupt and Satan replaces God
  {{main|Did early LDS leaders denounce Christianity|Latter-day Saints aren't Christians}} ...sy was upon it; and so it would remain until the dawn of another day—the day of the Restoration.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Joseph gave couples marriage certificates
  ...'' 'according to the rules and regulations of the Church of the Latter-day Saints.' '''" {{ea}} ...'''according to the rules and regulations of the Church of the Latter-day Saints''', in the name of God, and in the name of Jesus Christ. I pronounced upon
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Postscript
  ...the charge often dismissed by faithful LDS church members" that Latter-day Saints refused to sell any provisions to the Fancher party? ...447, 616n31 - Did Gordon B. Hinckley "admit" in April 2002 that Latter-day Saints do not believe in the same 'Jesus' as non-LDS Christians?
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• Question: Do Mormons believe that God is limited to ruling over this planet?
  ==Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that God is limited to ruling over this planet?== It is claimed that the Latter-day Saint view of God is provincial or limited, with God simply being a ruler o
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• Times and Seasons/1/3
  ...HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED. ...HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED.===
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy
  ...ticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy |H=Attitude of Saints toward Civil War prophecy
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• Times and Seasons/2/1
  |L9=TO THE SAINTS SCATTERED ABROAD. |L10=SONG OF THE EXILED SAINTS.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism: Shadow or Reality/Index
  In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, '''THERE IS NO HELL. ALL will find a measure of salvation''', ... The gosp *Note how Elder Widtsoe is trying to explain the differences between the sectarian vision o
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 4
  {{:Question: What to Latter-day Saints believe regarding the concept of "original sin"?}} {{misinformation|Joseph and the early Saints were not trinitarian, and understood God's embodiment and the identity of t
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 6
  *Ezra Booth to Presiding Elder, 8 Nov. 1831, in {{CriticalWork:Howe:Mormonism Unvailed|pages=186}}. ...75,3, archives, Historical Department, Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (hereafter LDS archives); quoted in Dan Vogel, ''Early Morm
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 7
  ...of the Church, and he (Oliver Cowdery) the second. It was on the fifteenth day of May, 1829, that we were ordained under the hand of this messenger, and b ...and "apostle" meant the same thing originally. Anyone who was ordained an elder was considered an apostle.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Use of sources
  *Joseph's note is referring to the redemption of the Saints in Missouri and their deliverance from persecution. The quote has ''nothing ...to see a man that was reputed to be a Jew, caused many to call during the day, and more particularly in the evening....
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• Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple
  ...an episode of the series "Big Love" which dramatized a portion of a Latter-day Saint temple ceremony. The producers of the series insisted that the inclus ...reaches a size or prominence sufficient to attract notice. Yet Latter-day Saints – sometimes known as Mormons - still wonder whether and how they should r
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• Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"
  ....&mdash;It seems that Satan and his emissaries are determined to bring the saints into notice, and raise an excitement among the people. Although we depreca ...f August 26th. He informs us that peace and tranquility prevails among the saints at Nauvoo, and that the emigration continues with great rapidity; that the
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• Book of Mormon geography/Models/Limited/Meldrum 2003/Section 3:Joseph Smith
  * All Amerindians in Joseph's day were likely Lehi descendants. This does not tell us where the Book of Morm ...nted. (Joseph Smith, ''History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'', edited by B.H. Roberts, volume 1 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company,
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• Question: Has the Church tried to hide the fact that Joseph fired a pepperbox pistol at the mob which murdered him?
  ...eir death'' (St. Louis 1844); also quoted in “The Mormons, or Latter Day Saints”, ''The United States Catholic Magazine'' 4 (1845): 362-3. ...‘Few Words from a Pastor to his People on the subject of the Latter-day Saints,’ replied to and refuted”. (no date [contains reference to ''Millennia
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• Question: Are Mormon scriptures full of contradictions?
  ...of this oneness. Protestant critics do not like the fact that Latter-day Saints reject the nonbiblical Nicene Creed, which teaches a oneness of substance. * Latter-day Saints believe that God is one, but accept the Biblical witness that this is a one
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• Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835
  ...hat it was nearly day-light, the family soon arose, I got up also: on that day while in the field at work with my Father he asked me if I was sick I reply ...a right to shut it up and also to open it again after many days, or in the latter times; Daniels Image whose head was gold, and body, armes, legs and feet wa
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Letters to a Mormon Elder
  |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Letters to a Mormon Elder |H=Response to "Letters to a Mormon Elder"
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• Behind the Mask/Index/Section 7
  .... Brewster, Jr., ''Sure Foundation'', Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 211. *Elder John A. Widstsoe is quoted as saying:
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 11
  |L6=Response to claim: 339 - "Mormon elder" Dee Jay Nelson, who claimed to be an Egyptologist, translated the papyri b ...'s interpretations of the Facsimiles as utterly absurd; for had any of the Saints during the past century ever taken the pains to check up on the actual stat
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• Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Geographical claims
  * All Amerindians in Joseph's day were likely Lehi descendants. This does not tell us where the Book of Morm ...nted. (Joseph Smith, ''History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'', edited by B.H. Roberts, volume 1 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company,
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  ...he merchant, for instance, seeks with unwearied diligence, by night and by day, facing misfortunes with a determined and persevering resistance, enduring ...e Church, whose home is in distant climes, sighs, and earnestly prays each day of his life for the Lord to open his way, that he may mingle with his breth
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  |>=[[../3|Elder John Taylor's Mission to Europe in 1849-1852]] |S=A Sermon Delivered Delivered by Elder P.P. Pratt, Before the Conference at Great Salt Lake City, April 7, 1853.
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  |H=ELDER JOHN TAYLOR'S MISSION TO EUROPE IN 1849-1852 |T=Journal of Discourses 1: ELDER JOHN TAYLOR'S MISSION TO EUROPE IN 1849-1852
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  |<=[[../3|Elder John Taylor's Mission to Europe in 1849-1852]] ...our experience. If we should suffer ourselves to spend our time day after day, and week after week, as we are today, how long would it be, before we woul
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  ...to say to you, there is not that man that hears the sound of my voice this day, that can say that Jesus lives, whether he professes to be his disciple or ...o books, that can say that one is. true, and the other is false. No Latter-day Saint, no man or woman, can say the Book of Mormon is true, and at the same
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  ...ost ruthless and savage manner upon the people of the Church of Latter-day Saints, they—a few pioneers, 143 in number, had at last the privilege, on the 24 ...en brought to justice; not a single man who has shed the blood of a Latter-day Saint has ever been punished or brought to justice; but they are permitted
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  ...for the Elders to learn and practise upon this lesson in the midst of the Saints at head quarters than in the world; for their facilities for learning are m ...serve me, I expect to improve the time. I love to preach at home with the Saints. I love to meet with them, and look upon their happy countenances, lit up w
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  |S=A DISCOURSE DELIVERED BY ELDER ORSON PRATT, IN THE TABERNACLE,GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, AUGUST 29, 1852 It is well known, however, to the congregation before me, that the Latter-day Saints have embraced the doctrine of a plurality of wives, as a part of their reli
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  |S=AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY ELDER P. P. PRATT IN THE TABERNACLE,GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, MARCH 27TH, 1853. ...perhaps as any one individual now living, as it regards the Church of the Saints in this age.
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  ...g thankful for this privilege, and for all others that I enjoy from day to day. ...Gospel of salvation, or what is called "Mormonism," from its rise to this day. I say to all, both Saint and sinner, that there is not an individual who h
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• Journal of Discourses/1/20
  ...bject on which brother Hyde was speaking, concerning the privileges of the Saints. I think that he has plainly shown us, that privileges are, in a measure, d ...l blessings of this nature are to be used as such, understandingly, by the Saints, and upon righteous principles.
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  ...aise to God, that He has brought back that power again to the earth in our day, by which we may be led step by step to the point we hope to attain. ...e is sustained and supported by the love, confidence, and good-will of the Saints, and of Him that dwelt in the bush. This is the kind of character that ough
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• Journal of Discourses/1/22
  ...quickly—perhaps we might do all that is necessary in half a day, or in a day at the furthest. ...y, it is upon the same principle that it will continue to-morrow, the next day, the next week, or the next year, and, we might say, the next eternity.
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  |H=MOTIVES AND FEELINGS OF THE SAINTS—EXPERIENCE NECESSARY—THE STATE OF THE WORLD—INFIDELS—RELIGIONS AND |T=Journal of Discourses 1: MOTIVES AND FEELINGS OF THE SAINTS—EXPERIENCE NECESSARY—THE STATE OF THE WORLD—INFIDELS—RELIGIONS AND
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  |S=A DISCOURSE DELIVERED BY ELDER PARLEY P. PRATT, IN THE TABERNACLE, GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, JANUARY 30, 1853. ...n for that day, but not to be considered to have anything to do with every-day affairs. This kind of religion not being sufficient for the happiness and g
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  ...they go to hell. This has been explained to a congregation in this hall by Elder Hyde, and also in the Frontier Guardian. If as good a man as Jesus Christ w ...were guilty of, and traduce their character. But they bore the insult like Saints of God. It is true, as it is said in the Report of these officers, if I had
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  |>=[[../31|Weakness and Impotence of Men—Condition of the Saints—Dedication to the Lord—The Millennium]] |S=AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY ELDER GEORGE A. SMITH, IN THE TABERNACLE, GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, AT THE GENERAL CO
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