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  • Question: Who was James Strang?
    ...ch leadership/Succession in the Presidency of the Church|Succession in the Presidency of the Church]]''). One of these was James Strang, a recent convert to the ...obvious reasons. There are a few things in dispute about the document. The first is that the wording of the document is somewhat ambiguous. The document see
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  • Logical fallacies/Page 1
    ...Their statements are not doctrinally-binding unless ratified by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. See [[General authorities' statements as scriptu ...ble) which he knows will automatically exclude the LDS. He must, however, first prove this assumption to be true. When stated baldly as above, the circula
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  • GospeLink quick links
    * Messages of the First Presidency [James R. Clark, editor] ** [http://gospelink.com/library/contents/819 Joseph Smith's First Vision: Confirming Evidences and Contemporary Accounts]
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  • Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto
    |L=Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto |H=Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto
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  • 1844 Succession to Joseph Smith
    {{Critical sources box:Mormonism and church leadership/Succession in the Presidency of the Church/CriticalSources}}
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  • Primary sources/Nauvoo Expositor Full Text
    ...e taught and practiced in the Church; determined me to leave the office of first counsellor to the president of the Church at Nauvoo, inasmuch as I dared no ...agonistical parties for the success of their respective candidates for the Presidency, we shall remain neutral, and in an editorial capacity, inactive. Anther pa
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  • Primary sources/Evolution
    :The first great scientists were themselves devout Christians, who believed that in th ...ly the Standard Works and statements written under assignment of the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles are considered official declarations
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/Mormon Doctrine
    From the day of their first announcement, these theories of organic evolution found themselves in confl ...imitive organisms of all living beings exist in the same form as when they first received their impress from their Maker. . . . If we take man, he is said t
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Evolution
    ...shed by the First Presidency in 1909 and stated again by a different First Presidency in 1925: ...with divine attributes (see Appendix, "Doctrinal Expositions of the First Presidency").
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/McKay Letter 1959 sec
    ...ate truth covering these matters, it would only be confusing for the First Presidency to make any statement regarding such things.<br><br>
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/IE 1910
    ...age 778, article, "Creation and Growth of Adam;" also article by the First Presidency, "Origin of Man," Vol. XIII, No. 1, page 75, 1909. <br><br>
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Creation
    First, the Book of Moses establishes Mosaic authorship of its creation account in ...the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body" (see First Presidency, "The Origin of Man," Nov. 1909 [Appendix]; see also Spirit Body).<BR><BR>
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Origin of Man
    ...gin of the human family" and "the first man"; (3) creation was sequential: first spiritual, later physical; and (4) each human body displays the characteris ...uent official statements indicate that the details of how Adam became "the first man" are considered not to have been revealed clearly enough to settle ques
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  • Primary sources/Bruce R. McConkie/Seven deadly heresies
    Should we accept the famous document of the First Presidency issued in the days of President Joseph F. Smith and entitled "The Origin of Do not be deceived and led to believe that the famous document of the First Presidency issued in the days of President Joseph F. Smith and entitled The Origin of
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  • Question: Do Mormons believe that there is there progression between the three degrees of glory?
    1952: Joseph L Anderson, Secretary of the First Presidency ...f the First Presidency” </ref>Joseph L. Anderson, Secretary to the First Presidency in a 1952 letter; and again in 1965.</ref>
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  • Question: What is the stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on birth control?
    ...dbook 2 is not considered scripture itself but it is approved by the First Presidency of the Church and much of its content is taken from prophetic teachings. I
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  • Source:Stick of Ephraim/Erastus Snow statement
    ...ed and subsequently stolen, and of which an abridgement is given us in the first Book of Nephi, which is the record of Nephi individually, he himself being .... Yet we find in the Doctrine and Covenants the declaration concerning the first Elders of this Church, that they were of the house of Ephraim; and another
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  • Official Declaration&mdash;1
    :Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court combined to generate repressive legislation and dist ...was to become the Manifesto. After the Manifesto was revised by the First Presidency, three members of the Quorum of the Twelve, and a few others, it was sent t
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1909
    |L=Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1909 |H=First Presidency statement on evolution in 1909
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1910
    ''Source: "Words in Season from the First Presidency," ''Deseret Evening News'' (17 December 1910), part 1: 3.''
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1925
    A statement by the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...ppeared to Joseph Smith, when, as a boy of fourteen years, he received his first vision.
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  • Question: Was Brigham Young a racist?
    ...trine of the Church. The doctrine is taught by all 15 members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. It is not hidden in an obscure paragraph of one t From our perspective as "enlightened" people of the early twenty-first century, virtually everyone in America up until the last few decades &mdash
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  • Mormonism and science/Death before the Fall
    |L8=First Presidency statement (1931): "Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no {{:Source:First Presidency statement:1931:Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Articles/LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904
    Let not my servants who are called to the Presidency of my church, deny my word or my law, which concerns the salvation of the c *Also in in James R. Clark, ''Messages of the First Presidency'' Vol. 3, (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966), 175&ndash;176. Text in {bracke
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  • Question: Are Latter-day Saint prophets not really "prophets" because they don't foretell unknown events?
    ...tion:1995/Full title}}</ref> published in 1995 over the names of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and read by President Hinckley to the ...Evening. In 1915 President Joseph F. Smith and his counselors in the First Presidency began a Churchwide effort to strengthen the family. They called on parents
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  • Question: Why do Mormons follow the practice of most Christians by resting and worshiping on Sunday?
    ...ay Saints in the Holy Land be changed. The four concerns were as follows: First, for the Jews, public transportation ceases on Saturday, stores and places We believe the Lord's day ({{b||Revelation|1|10}}) to be the first day of the week.
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  • Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple
    ...who holds the keys is the one who directs the work; keys are the right of presidency. Thus Gabriel, who stands next to Michael (Adam) in the heavenly hierarchy, 10. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things, ''as the prophets have written''.
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  • Evidences that support the Book of Abraham
    ...Additionally, the Book of Jasher as listed in this collection of lore was first published in New York 1840. The appearance of the English translation was n ...Jasher 11:51, p. 143<ref>The Book of Jasher frames the attempt with Terah first pleading with the king to take Abram's life. The king then sends men to get
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  • Primary sources/Unwritten Order of Things
    ...ember his first name, but I shall never forget the first thing he said the first day we met. ...r of weeks. I thought it was hopeless, until that first few minutes in the first class. He began the class with this announcement: "While many of you have h
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  • Question: Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battles?
    ==Question: Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battl Many Latter-day Saints (including apostles and members of the 1st Presidency) have expressed opinions about the location of Cumorah (or other [http://mo
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Archaeology
    *[[Book of Mormon geography:Statements:First Presidency Letter|No official position on Nephite Cumorah location]]
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Polygamy
    ...t;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Claim: "An amazing experience like [the First Vision] should radically change a person's life but by the age of 21, Josep ...a that it increased the comfort, or added to the ease of anyone. From the first it was known to involve sacrifice, to make a large demand upon the faith, p
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/DNA
    :''As to whether these were the first inhabitants...we don't have a position on that. Our scripture does not try :''The First Presidency has often been asked to prepare some suggestive map illustrative of Nephite
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Call to Leaders
    :''The First Presidency have of right a great influence over this people; and if we should get out
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Letter (annotated)
    ::''The First Presidency has encouraged Church members to convey their response to questions and cri
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  • Mormonism and culture/Attitude toward non-members/Statements
    ==Official First Presidency Statements==
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  • Question: Why are "hot drinks" forbidden by the Word of Wisdom?
    ...y, 1975),10&ndash;13.</ref> an official statement of policy from the First Presidency is available, in which the use of any habit-forming drug is discouraged: ...m Egypt. The Israelites were to mark their houses with lamb's blood at the first Passover. Houses so marked were protected from the "destroying angel." (See
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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?
    ...any of the expressions he used in his speech are objectionable to a twenty-first century audience that has better learned the lessons of racial equality and Throughout my service as a member of the First Presidency, I have recognized and spoken a number of times on the diversity we see in
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  • MormonFAQ/Community of Christ
    ==The First Presidency== ...edia.org/wiki/First_Presidency_%28Community_of_Christ%29 Wikipedia - First Presidency (community of Christ)])
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  • MormonFAQ/LDS Org
    =The First Presidency= .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presidency_%28LDS_Church%29 Wikipedia - First Presidency])
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  • MormonFAQ/Who are they
    ...ay Saints is led at the highest levels by two presiding quorums: The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. (See [http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom
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  • MormonFAQ/Other groups
    The Community of Christ is presided over by the First Presidency and The Council of Twelve Apostles. Congregations are communities and are l
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  • MormonFAQ/Terms
    ;Book of Commandments: A book of scripture first published in 1833, consisting of revelations received by Joseph Smith. It w ;Elder: There are three uses for the term "Elder." First it is a level of priesthood that belongs to most male members between the a
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  • Paid and unpaid Church leaders
    ...capacity, but you have begun to think of your future retirement. The First Presidency and the Twelve, of course, do not retire. Neither are they released. With t ...their desire to strengthen His children everywhere. They would be the very first to acknowledge their own faults or failings, just as we can readily point t
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  • Book of Mormon geography:Statements:First Presidency Letter
    #REDIRECT [[Question: Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battl
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  • Times and Seasons/1/6
    ...corrupt characters, like unto himself, have taught many things, which the presidency never knew of, until after they were made prisoners which, if they had know ...nd distraction, and all of which has been endeavored to be palmed upon the presidency, who were ignorant of these things which were practised [practiced] upon th
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  • Evolution:Primary sources:First Presidency 1909
    #REDIRECT [[Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1909]]
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  • Evolution:Primary sources:First Presidency 1910
    #REDIRECT [[Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1910]]
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  • Evolution:Primary sources:First Presidency 1925
    #REDIRECT [[Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1925]]
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  • Times and Seasons/1/5
    ...e, however, was not as terrifying as it might have been, had this been the first time that it had been proclaimed in the ears of the saints, but they, being ...quare, and the most of the lots sold; and in one year from the time of the first settlement in Caldwell, there were from one hundred to one hundred and fift
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  • Topical Guide/Church history/Prophetic Succession
    |link=Mormonism and church leadership/Succession in the Presidency of the Church |subject=Succession in the Presidency of the Church
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Who is God
    ::<small>&mdash;Gordon B. Hinckley, "First Presidency Message: In These Three I Believe," ''Ensign'' (July 2006): 2&ndash;8.{{lin First, Paul follows this statement, referring to those that are called gods, with
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  • Question: Was Zarahemla located near present-day Nauvoo?
    Anthony W. Ivins, member of the First Presidency, said in General Conference: ===D&C 125 was not the first application of the name Zarahemla to the area===
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  • Question: Why are there no women prophets in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today?
    ...er, the spiritual gift of prophecy is different from the calling the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles have to act as "prophets, seers, and Surely the women called as General Auxiliary Presidency members are forthtellers. They travel the world teaching and testifying; t
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  • Mormonism and politics/California Proposition 8
    ...-stories/first-presidency-urges-respect-civility-in-public-discourse First Presidency Urges Respect, Civility in Public Discourse] (Nov. 14, 2008)</ref> See [htt ...-stories/first-presidency-urges-respect-civility-in-public-discourse First Presidency Urges Respect, Civility in Public Discourse]). A good summary of post-elect
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  • Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) invest more money in Proposition 8 than in all of its combined humanitarian efforts?
    ...epresent a generous offering of the value of 2 meals abstained from on the first Sunday of each month. The combination of personal sacrifice (fasting) and f ...been instituted by divine design for the betterment of society. The First Presidency and Quorum of the 12 Apostles warned "that the disintegration of the family
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  • Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)
    ...f Mormon is not...President George Q. Cannon, First Counselor in the First Presidency, stated: “The Book of Mormon is not a geographical primer. It was not wri ...ale=0&sourceId=c47674536cf0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “First Presidency Message: The Keystone of Our Religion,”] Ensign, Jan 2004, 2–6
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  • Question: Does FAIR provide "official" answers to questions?
    It is important to first recognize that FAIR is an organization completely independent of the Church ...ut necessarily receiving this as an official calling or going to the First Presidency to speak on each and every issue.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 2
    ...picuously absent" when Joseph Smith spoke to those who would be among the first to receive the full endowment necessary "to finish their work and prevent i ...ph's day, this was not the case. Most of Joseph's counselors in the First Presidency were to betray his trust, including Jesse Gause, Frederick G. Williams, Sid
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  • Times and Seasons/1/4
    ...driving, and the saints were determined not to be driven by them, without first trying their strength;) Wherefore the most intelligent, and respectable cit ...he state of Missouri; and entirely broken up, without having committed the first offence [offense]: or without there being the least shadow in the very slig
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/The LDS as Mindless Followers
    *13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency — the highest quorum in the Church. *14. The prophet and the presidency — the living prophet and the First Presidency — follow them and be blessed; reject them and suffer.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 3
    .... Nineteen of the present-day states permit unrestricted marriage between first cousins, and most countries have no restrictions at all on marriage between ...not surprising that he also aspired to the highest office in the land: the presidency of the United States.”
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 11
    ...ne & Covenants, revelations given through Joseph Smith the prophet and the Presidency of the Church as now organized? ...mies who have been in our midst, feeling any worse than they do, they have first to know more; they are as full of bad feeling now as they can hold without
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 13
    ...]'', October 1853, vol. 1, no. 10, 158. (It should be noted that the First Presidency [[The Seer|rejected]] Pratt's writings in ''The Seer'' as Church doctrine.)
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 17
    ...omes the spiritual." Why then, did Brigham Young say that people are "made first spiritual, and afterwards temporal"? "You have never heard one of the First Presidency or the Twelve...advocate this excessive zeal that calls for gaining a so-ca
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 18
    {{:Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it?}} ...as' attack on the Church; this was well-before his aspirations to the U.S. presidency or fall in political fortunes.
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  • Source:First Presidency statement:1931:Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of the souls of mankind, to scientific research
    #REDIRECT [[First Presidency statement (1931): "Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 14
    |L3=Response to claim: 315, 585n12 (PB) - The First Presidency statement “They who fight against Zion shall be destroyed; and the pit wh ==Response to claim: 315, 585n12 (PB) - The First Presidency statement “They who fight against Zion shall be destroyed; and the pit wh
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 16
    *Lowery Nelson, letter to First Presidency, October 8, 1947. Quoted in Steward, 146. *LDS First Presidency, letter to Lowery Nelson, July 17, 1947. Quoted in Steward, 153.
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  • John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo
    |summary1=Joseph's first plural marriage after Fanny Alger. ...ade his second proposal to a previously unmarried woman in Nauvoo and the first proposal since his marriage to Louisa Beaman.
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  • Primary sources/Brigham Young/8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
    ...irlds.org/FAIR_Conferences/2006_Zina_and_Her_Men.html Zina and Her Men]," (First Draft, 29 March 2006). Selection and commentary prepared by Gregory L. Smi ...can discover there is no need for a bill of divorcement. To recapitulate: First, a man forfeits his covenant with a wife or wives, becoming unfaithful to h
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Absurd claims
    ...e Church didn't even exist until 1830, and Joseph wrote the stories of his First Vision and Moroni's visit well after 1823. The author simply wants to drama ...ics, or knaves, (for ''one or the other they undoubtedly are'') made their first appearance amongst us, and ''pretended'' as they did, and now do, to hold p
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index
    ...isted Joseph Smith as "author and proprietor"|Response to claim: 194 - The first edition of the Book of Mormon listed Joseph Smith as "author and proprietor {{disinformation|The First Presidency has issued the following statement about what constitutes tithing:
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Special relationship with Christ
    ...ship" with Christ. McConkie said, "[Y]ou have never heard one of the First Presidency or the Twelve...advocate this excessive zeal that calls for gaining a so-ca
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Demolish Endowment House
    ...solemnization of plural marriages in Mexico. By September 1889, the First Presidency was also refusing to issue plural marriage recommends for Utah. However, ma ...ch had been a matter of somewhat informal discussion among themselves, was first formally expressed to the Twelve on 2 October 1889:
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Wilford Woodruff 1889 revelation
    ...=24 November 1889}}. Also available in {{Book:Clark:Messages of the First Presidency 3|pages=175–176}}</ref> ...ites George Q. Cannon, Diary, 23-24 Nov. 1889, copy in CR 1/48; also First Presidency Office Journal, 24 Nov. 1889, copy in CR 1/48. </ref>
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  • Times and Seasons/1/3
    ...of the saints living on Big Blue river about six miles west of town; they first tore the roof from a house, and injured the furniture within; they then div ...rtally, who died the next day. P. Dibble was wounded, in the bowels by the first gun fired.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Mormon Doctrine and race issues
    ...cle of difference what anybody ever said about the Negro matter before the first day of June of this year [1978]. It is a new day and a new arrangement, and ...nd grows out of the lack of spiritual valiance of those concerned in their first estate. Certainly the negroes as children of God are entitled to equality
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  • Question: Did Boyd K. Packer say, "I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth"?
    ...from Quinn's Fall 1981 lecture to the BYU Student History Association. The first publication was, unsurprisingly, by the Tanner's anti-Mormon press (without ...st teacher.''' The result of his teaching, however, was faith, whereas the first teacher left his students unsettled and doubting. It took some careful anal
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power/Index
    |claim="a First Presidency secretary acknowledges acknowledged that [David O.] McKay liked his ‘cele
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  • Question: Why did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?
    ...proposed as an amendment to the constitution of the United States. It was first introduced in 1923 and rode the tides of American politics until it failed ...common move and took an official position on a political issue. The First Presidency&mdash;then comprised of Spencer W. Kimball, N. Eldon Tanner, and Marion G.
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  • Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple
    *The first thing that we hear the Stake President ask is "So you haven’t tithed in s ...ents" indicates that the person is going to attend the temple for the very first time. This is known as a "live endowment."
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Presentism
    ...ast behavior is evaluated by modern standards or mores. We take our twenty-first century way of think and assume that individuals living in the nineteenth c ...a claim that Bishop Edwin Woolley married a plural wife without having her first divorce her legal husband. On page 333 we see that Parley P. Pratt's "last
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  • Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"
    “Boynton, who first preached in Maine as a Mormon… has, for twelve years, been an anti-Mormon ...ttled in Virginia. President Tyler, first vice-president to succeed to the Presidency following the death of William H. Harrison in 1841, like his father attende
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  • Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Hierarchy of doctrinal authority
    It should also be noted that this "hierarchy" matches exactly the first testimonial on the "DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography" web site: In contrast to the claim that Joseph revealed a geography, the First Presidency has stated that Book of Mormon geography has ''not'' been revealed:
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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?
    ...lford Woodruff, in letter dated June 30, 1856. This account in Burton was first publication of the work by John Taylor] * B.H. Roberts, ''The Life of John Taylor'' (SLC: 1989; first published 1892) p.134
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Omissions/Total submission to Brigham Young
    * The First Presidency have of right a great influence over this people; and if we should get out
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 3
    ...to claim: 27 - The author claims that "the constitutional defenders of the First Amendment" called for Joseph Smith's arrest after the destruction of the Ex |claim=Nauvoo was claimed to be "the first genuine theocracy in American history."
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 17
    {{propaganda|No one from first century Palestine can enter the kingdom without the consent of Jesus' apost ...y thought there might be a chance and nominated the Mormon prophet for the Presidency of the United States....Still, the Mormon prophet was realistic enough not
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  • Mormonism and history/Boyd K. Packer's talk: "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect"
    ...ut the actions of some historians were made clear in a letter to the First Presidency: ...d historian is taught to develop. <ref>Boyd K. Packer, Letter to the First Presidency, 24 October 1974; cited in Lucile C. Tate, ''Boyd K. Packer: A Watchman on
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/3
    When I first reflected upon this removal, my heart felt pained. I well knew the disposit ...us settlements and explorations; and of the many organizations made by the Presidency, This has been joyful to me while abroad in foreign nations.
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/22
    ...or instance, they are at liberty so to do. If any one wishes to preach the first principles of the Gospel—repentance and baptism, with the gifts, he is at The First Presidency proceeded to the south-east corner, to lay the first stone, though it is customary to commence at the north-east corner—that i
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/26
    ...ate themselves, and raise good fields of grain, that they can bring in the first fruits of the earth. This is what is required to be done at the present tim ...ictate where the stone and other materials shall be obtained; and that the Presidency shall be untrammelled from this time henceforth and forever. I want every b
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/28
    ...dead; to call upon the people to repent and be baptized, and give them the first principles of the Gospel, and prepare them to reign in yonder world of glor ...re made to be killed off. When my brother Orson began to speak at all, the first word which I can remember he ever said, was—"Why, dad's gone to shoot the
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/30
    ...n this matter, had more influence to make the Saints obey counsel than the Presidency of this Church had, and could actually kick up a bigger fuss in a few days ...every time I have visited any settlement in Iron County, from the time it first commenced, up to the present, and I have been through a great proportion of
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/42
    ...ng the earth, and then rendering to the Lord the first fruits thereof, the first fruits of your cattle, of your sheep, and of all your increase. This is how ...ill at Coal Creek, pretty much all of them, are ironmongers; they were the first to go into the iron and coal business and leave their farms. There are some
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/4
    ...irst Presidency of the Church of God on earth, and one of the Pioneers who first entered this Valley. He has gone to rest, after being worn out by trials, p ...e assembly, gathered together to commemorate the day on which the Pioneers first arrived in this region to inhabit these valleys.
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/6
    ...h-East Corner Stone of the Temple at Great Salt Lake City, after the First Presidency and the Patriarch had laid the Stone, April 6, 1853. ...rtion of their first endowments, or we might say more clearly, some of the first, or introductory, or initiatory ordinances, preparatory to an endowment.
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/7
    ...h-East Corner Stone of the Temple at Great Salt Lake City, after the First Presidency and the Patriarch had laid the Stone, April 6, 1853.
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/9
    ...may thy blessing and power rest upon him and his brethren, even the First Presidency of thy Church. May they be filled with the spirit of revelation continually
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