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  • Logical fallacies/Page 1
    ...nion on Joseph Smith's character cannot be trusted, because Brigham was an apostle and utterly committed to Mormonism." ...to appear more Christian by emphasizing the doctrines which speak of basic Christian principles because they think this will appeal to broader society?"
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  • Apostasy
    |H=The early Christian Church and the Great Apostasy |L4=The office of Apostle within the ancient Church of Jesus Christ
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  • Primary sources/Nauvoo Expositor Full Text
    ...Lord concerning them, and what awaits the faithful follower of Joseph, the Apostle and Prophet of God, When in the stead thereof, they are told, after having ...and absurd. We believe, it is inconsistent, and not in accordance with the christian religion. We do not believe that God ever raised up a Prophet to christiani
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  • Question: Why do Mormons follow the practice of most Christians by resting and worshiping on Sunday?
    ...ving the day of rest and worship on Sunday is consistent with the earliest Christian practice of which we have record=== ...ash;like most of the Christian world—is consistent with the earliest Christian practice of which we have record.
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  • Times and Seasons/2/9
    ...numerate [enumerate] a host of our members who regularly attend those anti-christian meetings-but I will just mention with your permission the names of a few wh God, according to the apostle's statement, had fixed it by an irrevocable decree and that before the worl
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  • Question: Does the Nauvoo Temple display symbols that are either occult or Masonic?
    ...gic, evil or ancient paganism. Why are these symbols visible on supposedly Christian buildings, of all places? Many ex-Mormons have claimed that the LDS secretl ...of Revelation. There it is said of a vision that was shown to the ancient apostle John, "And there appeared a great sign in heaven, in the likeness of things
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Intro
    ...to any other mortal, including Joseph Smith. Is Mr. Powell unsure of what Christian theology is concerning Christ when he states that Jesus is merely one "of t ..._to_be_Christian_only_recently.3F|Have the LDS only recently claimed to be Christian?]]
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Eternal Life
    *[[Born again translation|Being "born again": early Christian perspectives]] ...ake it appear as if the Latter-day Saints do not believe these fundamental Christian concepts.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Polygamy
    ...ing:0.2em 0.4em;">Claim: "Furthermore the Bible repeatedly commands that a Christian leader is to be the husband of only one wife. (On screen: {{b|1|Timothy|3|2 Multiple early Christian writers also understood there to be no absolute prohibition against plural
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Summary
    ...produced out of love for our Lord Jesus Christ and love for our Mormon and Christian friends. We pray that it will touch the hearts of all who watch through the ...The viewer need only look to their abuse of scripture as we reinstate the apostle Paul's words (in brackets) that they removed in their video presentation.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Burning in the Bosom
    It is very strange to hear a Bible-believing Christian claim that a burning in the bosom is of no importance, since it is taught i When the apostles were confronted with the issue of circumcision for Christian converts, they actually violated Jewish scriptural commands regarding circu
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Distorted quotes
    ...es more about God than philosophical speculation, and insists that he is a Christian, but the video does not quote this material: :''Am I Christian? Of course I am. I believe in Christ. I talk of Christ. I pray through Chri
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  • Question: Why does the Church continue to use the KJV instead of the JST as its official bible?
    ...holarly work of Robert Matthews on the manuscripts in the early 1970s, and apostle Bruce R. McConkie's embrace of the JST. ...KJV serves as a connection between the LDS Church and the remainder of the Christian world.
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  • Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons
    ...that this particular list of questions was put together by an Evangelical Christian ministry. The answers provided here by FairMormon are directed to Christian ...he true church on earth, does that mean that the 3 living Nephites and the Apostle John went into apostasy also?"
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  • MormonFAQ/Terms
    ...mons generally share one of two ideologies: (a) Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christian groups or (b) secular/agnostic/atheist, usually former members. Authors sh ...um of the Twelve Apostles. In the RLDS Church it may be used as a title, ''Apostle John Smith''. Use the term Elder in the LDS Church, ''Elder John Smith, a m
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  • Question: Does the film "September Dawn" about the Mountain Meadows Massacre accurately portray the historical events?
    ...rnoldy, "Ahead of 'September Dawn,' Mormon Church revisits dark period," ''Christian Science Monitor'' (24 August 2007). {{link|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/20 ...her people's faith. There is, unfortunately, a large tradition among some Christian ministers of mocking Mormon beliefs. Some of these ministers literally trav
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  • Times and Seasons/2/10
    ...t rest as relates to the antiquity of the gospel proclamation is, that the apostle Paul says that the gospel which he proclaimed, or what was to the same effe ...gels should appear in this age of the world, as well as in the days of the apostle and prophets? there is certainly as much need of their administration now,
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  • Times and Seasons/1/5
    ...ng from the Author of our exisence [existence], and is here defined by the apostle, as the power of God manifested in the salvation of the believer. Here was ...the true points of Christ's doctrine. In view of what is above stated the apostle said, 2nd Timothy, 4:3, 4 . for the time will come, when they will not endu
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Who is God
    ...the Church of Jesus Christ believe in more than one divine personage. Any Christian who does not embrace the late, non-biblical Trinitarian creeds will underst ...ter-day Saint supposition. Origin (A.D. 185–''ca.''254), head of the Christian Church in Alexandria, wrote:
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Bible and Nicea
    ...fication of previously accepted ideas. <ref>Maurice Wiles, ''The Making of Christian Doctrine'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), 4, 144.</ref> ...s speak of an unqualified Trinitarianism, one has moved from the period of Christian origins to, say, the last quadrant of the 4th century. <ref>RL Richard, "Tr
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Origins of Nicene Trinitarianism
    :Mormons [and other groups]....insist that the orthodox Christian doctrine of the Trinity is unbiblical and is a hangover from the polytheism ...ought to use religion for their own purposes&mdash;were left to articulate Christian doctrine as best they could. Many turned to the best, most sophisticated t
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
    ...he ''same'' oneness into which He invites the apostles and all believers. Christian doctrine does not teach that all believers will be absorbed into God as par An apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ, Elder Jefffrey R. Holland, recently spoke on
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 5
    |L11=Response to claim: 519n58 (PB) - The author states: In 1998, Apostle David B. Haight "reinvoked the astrological principle that people should 'd {{:Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 15
    {{disinformation|These hymns are a rather mild Christian apocalyptic, and do not "glorify vengeance" in any way. * Note that this claim is from the excommunication hearing of former apostle Matthias Cowley.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 16
    |>=[[../Chapter 17|Claims made in "Chapter 17: Is Mormonism Christian?"]] *A quote from Apostle Mark E. Petersen is provided to support this assertion.
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  • Question: Do the Latter-day Saint "Three Degrees of Glory" have a basis in the Bible?
    ...eing the post-mortal heavens as having multiple degrees was a common early Christian belief, lost over time. |L4=Biblical and early Christian use of sun, moon, and stars as types of the degrees of glory
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources
    ...or in all the eternities, that is, that were, or that ever will be. As the Apostle Paul has expressed it, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being." ..." and then compares Latter-day Saints with other groups who claimed to be "Christian:"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Christianity corrupt and Satan replaces God
    Mormonism "officially still teaches that all Christian churches are corrupt," and that "Satan sits in the place of God in Christia ...rue religion came the rejection of true authority as well....With the last Apostle gone from the church, the night of apostasy was upon it; and so it would re
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Double standard on race
    ...al solutions to racial division.<ref name="emerson">Richard O. Emerson and Christian Smith, ''Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in ...n. And to be fair, Mormonism is not alone in this predicament. A number of Christian denominations (e.g. the Southern Baptists) have had to work very hard at ra
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  • Question: Why did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?
    ...erica to oppose the ERA. Religious groups sponsored by Catholic and other Christian and Jewish faiths also opposed it. Secular organizations, most notably Phy ...speaking of women’s rights. In 1942, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostle, John A. Widtsoe said:
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  • Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"
    ===1900 Inter-denominational Council of Women for Christian and Patriotic Service=== * 38: "Contrary to Apostle Widtsoe's statement, anti-Mormon writers have not been afraid to discuss th
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/1
    ...mmon soldiers, the commodore, and sailor before the mast, the fair-skinned Christian, and the dark-skinned savage, {{page break|2|top}} all, in their respective ...nd attribute of the holy Gospel, we may say of that people, as the ancient Apostle said to his brethren, "Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ i
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/36
    ...../35|Effects and Privileges of the Gospel—The Latter-day Saints and the Christian World]] ...aracter of such a man, it is the nature of his calling and office to be an Apostle, and issue forth the light and truth of God, from this time henceforth and
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/43
    ...ons weigh anything, but come right to the fact of the matter. If Peter the Apostle were here to-day, and a person were to relate to him a vision wherein an an .... Cornelius had the ministering of angels before he became a member of the Christian Church, or understood there was a crucified and risen Redeemer. He prayed t
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/1
    ...ay be added to this, more power, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. The Apostle does not say, grow in grace, and in the knowledge of the truth, as Jesus di ...ould not have known what to do with such a vast amount of information. The Apostle says, "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/22
    ...tter-day Saints. Jesus says, if you are not one, you are not mine. Let the Christian world who profess to believe in Jesus Christ, and in his Father, and in thi Jesus says, "Except ye are one, ye are not mine." And yet the Christian world take a course to justify themselves in division, in strife, in animos
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/26
    ...man could be upon the earth; as righteous, so far as they knew how, as any Apostle or Prophet that ever lived, I will go and be baptized, confirmed, washed, a ...human being would not be as great as many sins committed by the so-called Christian nations.
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/34
    In the last General Epistle of Franklin Pierce, Chief Apostle of the United States of America, written to his brethren of the Senate and "There can be no fellowship between Mormon and Christian. They cannot exist under the same social system. They cannot be partners in
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/37
    ...ing while I read to you that scripture recorded in the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians, 1st. chap. All who understand the language of this passage, will agree that the Apostle alluded particularly to the Gospel that he had preached to the Galatians an
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/45
    Now, my friends, you may go to work with all your Christian benevolent societies, to gather the Jews from the nations; you may combine ...are the ones to whom the standard should be first raised. This is what the Apostle Paul says in the 11th chapter of Romans, "For as ye (Gentiles) in times pas
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/49
    |H=ARGUMENTS OF MODERN CHRISTIAN SECTS AGAINST THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS |T=Journal of Discourses 2: ARGUMENTS OF MODERN CHRISTIAN SECTS AGAINST THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/50
    |<=[[../49|Arguments of Modern Christian Sects Against the Latter-day Saints]] ...hink and believe that all men, who shall believe on the Savior through the Apostle's words, will become the same identical person; this is not the idea convey
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/7
    ...the side of Mahomet, for on this point he is on the side of truth, and the Christian world on the side of idolatry and heathenism. ...h all my education in favor of Christian nations and Christian powers, and Christian institutions, so called, with all my prejudices of early youth, and habits
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/12
    ...nd all those good gifts that are spoken of in the Scriptures of truth. The Apostle says, if all these good gifts abound in you, "ye shall neither be barren no ...can understand the principles of, or enter the kingdom of heaven, and the Christian world are not willing to humble themselves, and become as little children;
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/13
    ...ook into some portions of it, as it comes to me in the 19th century of the Christian era. ...ou will find the mother, and grandmother, and great-grandmother of all the Christian denominations upon the face of the earth—though these are but a scanty pr
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/20
    ...heathen nations alone—as we denominate them in contradistinction to the, christian world—that are groveling in darkness, that are worshiping they know not w ...lects its light there. Does it wear away? No, it is there continually. The Apostle chose that as a figure, that was as near something immutable and without ch
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/21
    ...place everything where it belongs. That is the only way to be a scientific Christian; there is no other method or process which will actually school a person so ...d part of the 15th verses of the 5th chapter of the general epistle of the Apostle James, "If any are sick, &c." But why not say to the sick, be made well; ju
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/28
    ...n the earth, or that had lived upon it, neither a reformer nor a professed Christian, from the time the Priesthood was taken from the earth until Joseph Smith c ...Write it down, and write it back to your friends in the east, that I am an Apostle of Joseph Smith. He was a man of God and had the revelations of Jesus Chris
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/51
    ...bsence of the testimony of his friends, I do not know but that the present Christian world would all be Jews, so far as their belief that Jesus Christ was an im ...ghty. He is still an Apostle, still a Prophet, and is doing the work of an Apostle and Prophet; he has gone one step beyond us and gained a victory that you a
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/4
    ...nd set it in order, and to ordain proper officers to execute the law. This Apostle of {{page break|17|top}} Jesus Christ told the people that if they would ob Some, in the so called Christian world, contend that the spirit is the word, and that word, they argue, will
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830
    ...of [[Saint Peter|Peter]], [[James, son of Zebedee|James]], and [[John the Apostle|John]] who he said gave Smith and Cowdery an apostolic authority. ...] area and converted [[Sidney Rigdon]] and over a hundred members of his [[Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)|Disciples of Christ]] congregation,
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1838
    Prior to conversion, the congregation had also been practicing a form of [[Christian communism]], and Smith adopted a communal system within his own church, cal ...(The five equal councils were "the [[First Presidency|presidency]], the [[Apostle (Latter Day Saints)|apostles]], the [[Seventy (Latter Day Saints)|seventies
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/39
    ...l the knowledge they possess, and that is required by the parents. But the Christian nations with whom we have been associated, boast of their intelligence, sup ...fathers who shall endure, and whose posterity shall never end; though the Apostle turned the point very quick, because the people were not prepared to receiv
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/54
    ...as of a great many characters that they call God. With the majority of the Christian world there are three Gods in one. With them that one God is three persons, ...ty, He attributes that to the delusion and ignorance which His professedly Christian people have spread so generally in the minds of the people, and holds them
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/17
    ...o me, surely within me and all around me I could see very plainly what the Apostle meant in the words, "When the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." ...sted to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness.
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/22
    ...is letter bore testimony of the wickedness and the fallen condition of the Christian world. My father read the letter, and I well remember the remark he made ab ...ntance and baptism for the remission of sins, precisely as preached by the Apostle Peter and by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. These doctrines I was pleas
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/26
    ...heart were ever touched with the fire of truth, into any kind of orthodox Christian, would require as much faith and skill as it ever did to turn water into wi
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/27
    It was a very correct figure that the Apostle made use of formerly, when he spoke of men being as ignorant as brute beast ...of the forest; we had to seek that mercy from the hands of the savage that Christian civilization denied us.
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/61
    ...t they were not originally used in the Catholic churches nor in any of the Christian churches previous to their becoming mixed with Romanism. ...ome saint or personage, imaginary or real; thus completely co-mingling the Christian religion with idolatry. Then men started up to assign reasons for this, and
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/62
    ...ng can harm them. But I can tell you what the Devil is doing. It is as the Apostle said—"We are not altogether ignorant of the devices of Satan." ...e no need to open it, and the devils won't get in at your ears. James, the Apostle, said that the tongue was an unruly member, and {{page break|374|top}} that
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  • Question: Was William Smith promised in a blessing that he would remain on the earth until Christ comes?
    Since William Smith apostatized and was not true to his calling as an apostle, any promise made to him is arguably forfeit. However, one can be "preserve Unlike many Christian theologies, the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/21
    ...is not any man inspired to rise up and teach them the way to be saved—no Apostle to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, had there been an Apostle there to have said, "Go and repent, be baptised for the remission of your s
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/36
    ...lowest caste are practised among those nations that bear the fair title of Christian nations, and they have sunk the deepest of all others in degradation, wicke We are free, for Christ has made us free; and the Apostle says, "Whom the Son makes free is free indeed," If you are free by the bloo
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/37
    It was said in the days of the Apostle Paul, "Say not in your heart, Who shall descend into the deep to bring Chri ...all ranks of society in the world, and they will receive you, if you are a Christian; but you must mind one thing—you must not name "Mormonism"—you must not
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/52
    ...comes in contact with all the prejudices and prepossessed feelings of the Christian world. In the practical part of our religion we do not differ from them in ...les he put forth actually circumscribed the religious knowledge of all the Christian world. Almost every principle and every idea taught in the Gospel, that the
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/53
    ...h this volume; then search all those books which have been rejected by the Christian nations as not canonical, and any other writings of Prophets and Apostles, ...s the Lord; to your posterity there shall be no end. You remember what the Apostle says concerning this matter. It is this:—"His seed shall be like the sand
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/63
    ...ever spoken against it by any inspired writer? Has any Patriarch, Prophet, Apostle, angel, or even the Son of God himself, ever condemned polygamy? We may giv ...on the earth. It was named by the Apostles as one that was binding on the Christian as well as on the Jew. "Thou shalt not kill." Every one who reads this sacr
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/1
    ...ornelius tell Peter that he had received the Holy Ghost, and was as good a Christian as he? But, no; he must send to Joppa for one Simon Peter, who would tell h ...conversed with him, and told him what to do. Did he tell him that he was a Christian, that his sins were forgiven, and that there was nothing more to be done? H
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/4
    ...the Old Testament at the present day date from the twelfth century of the Christian era. You will find proof of this in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the 8th e ...nd Greek Bibles were formed. We are informed by St. Chrysostom, an ancient Christian writer who lived soon after the days of Christ, that "many of the prophetic
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/13
    ...authority: and in order that it might be restored, it was needful that an Apostle, holding the {{page break|79|top}} office, and authority, and the keys, sho ...n ignorance of the authority and power of the Gospel—in ignorance of the Christian religion. They, having only a history of it, had no one authorized to admin
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/34
    ...avel through the whole of the Eastern continent and not find a Prophet, or Apostle, or Revelator, or any one who had heard the voice of God or received any co .... It became entirely extinct from the earth about four centuries after the Christian era, and there was nothing left on the face of the wide earth but the wisdo
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/39
    ...u must have faith in such a principle as birth of water. "Faith," says the apostle, "comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." That is, in ancient da ...i by the voice of the trump of God—that law that was continued under the Christian dispensation—namely, the ten commandments. If you have coveted your neigh
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/57
    ...time in which the sun began to rise a little above the horizon; and of the Christian dispensation, as it now exists in the world, as being the fulness of light ...ousness of God was always revealed through the Gospel as specified by this Apostle. Whenever and wherever the the Gospel of Jesus Christ existed, there the po
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/12
    ...than a wicked person can in leading hosts astray. Let a Prophet of God, an Apostle, or any servant of the Lord Jesus have the privilege of bringing the very s ...version!'" This proves the false ideas and vain notions entertained by the Christian world. They have no good sense pertaining to God and godliness.
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/34
    ...s a long time, for they are all texts. We have not time to show wherein an Apostle or Prophet meant thus and so, but we pour out the words of life to the peop ...ct conception of revelation and its Spirit. What do the present professing Christian world know about the words of the Lord that came to Jeremiah, Isaiah, and o
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/16
    ...t is. Where does this idolatrous worship prevail so much as it does in the Christian world? Among the nations it seems to be the object of both merchants and mi ...as brother Pratt, who addressed you this morning, although he has been an Apostle for many years, and was one before I was baptized. This causes me to rejoic
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/32
    ...nk a great deal about the life that is to come, and the life-labour of the Christian part of the world is to prepare for that. The time we now occupy is in eter ...ss infant upon its {{page break|171|top}} mother's breast we see a man, an Apostle, a Saint,—yea generations of men with kingdoms, thrones, and dominions. T
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/3
    ...first principles of the Gospel, contrasting them with the religion of the Christian world, showing the authority by which they administered in different ages t ...d, but the Lord sustained me and his work just as well as if I had been an Apostle. We baptized father Hubbard and his wife, after which we went on our way re
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/10
    ...lates from which was taken the Book of Mormon until this day, in which the Christian, the moral and the political world, or any other portion of the inhabitants ...so prejudice the mind of a High Councillor, a High Priest, a Bishop, or an Apostle, that he will lean to the individual instead of the truth. I despise a man
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    ...revealed religion of the Savior; also the Jewish as the forerunner of the Christian religion. This people are an object of derision and astonishment to our Christian neighbors, and to the whole world an object of reflection and serious thoug
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    ...y wrongs, but they do not design to do wrong. They can truly say, with the Apostle Paul, "When I would do good evil is present with me." Paul had been a very ...oman Catholic priest pushed under the ice while he professed belief in the Christian religion. God dictates all these matters, and will work out his designs in
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    ...nd Unchangeable—Charges of Exclusiveness, Etc., Against the Saints—The Christian World Deny Revelation and Repudiate Bible—Doctrine—The Gospel Restored
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    ...in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God." And the Apostle Paul, who makes this declaration, advised his brethren to have the same min ...yet there are not thee Lords, but one Lord. For while we are compelled by Christian verity to acknowledge each person by himself to be both God and Lord, so we
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    ...words, my brethren and sisters, embody to us to-day, though written by the Apostle Peter, 1800 years ago, the Gospel of life and salvation. They are exceeding ...lders when they travel and declare the same message, "Why has God left the Christian world for so long a time without these blessings and these powers and these
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    ...opposite condition of affairs to that which exists among the sects in the Christian world, and being contrary they imagine ought to be sigmatized {{page break| ...urch of Jesus Christ, or of any church, or of no church whatever—be they Christian, Mahommedan, heathen or Jew—by following the teachings which God has give
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE JOHN HENRY SMITH, Delivered at the Annual Conference, held in the Tabernacl ...ainst the "Mormons" is worked up right from our own homes, and largely by, Christian ministers. Letters are written to the ministers of the country; the ministe
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    |S=REMARKS BY APOSTLE MOSES THATCHER, Delivered in Logan Tabernacle, Sunday, April 13, 1885. REPO ...here are thousands and hundreds of thousands of people in the midst of the Christian world who, if left to their own agency, would be just, generous, and good m
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Provo, Sunday Morning, May 31st, ...ering of this first chapter of Genesis is sustained by the writings of the Apostle Paul, when he says: "For of Him"—speaking of the Only Begotten—"and thr
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    ...TLES—THEIR RECEPTION AND FATE—THE GREAT APOSTASY—PRESERVATION OF THE APOSTLE JOHN—HIS REVELATION—RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL—THE EARTH TO BE BAPTIZE ...TLES—THEIR RECEPTION AND FATE—THE GREAT APOSTASY—PRESERVATION OF THE APOSTLE JOHN—HIS REVELATION—RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL—THE EARTH TO BE BAPTIZE
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    |S=REMARKS BY APOSTLE J. H. SMITH, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Sunday, July 27th ...in the roles they so nobly played, not one of them nor any other orthodox Christian has been able to evolve a perfect system of Church government. Their produc
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    ...uoted and many more like unto them—what do they say? Oh, they tell their Christian friends that they lament the darkness, the moral blindness, the intellectua ...nd His apostles. I have already referred to the general recognition by the Christian world of the doctrines of Christ and His apostles as being the foundation o
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE MOSES THATCHER, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Logan, Sunday, Aug. 28, 1885. ...rehension of the testimony that rewards, in time and eternity, enabled the Apostle Peter to meet undismayed the death of crucifixion. It caused the disciples
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    ...PHYSICAL AND MORAL COURAGE—THE JUDGE OF THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT NOT A CHRISTIAN—A CONCUBINE WAS A WIFE AND IT SHOULD NOT BE A TERM OF REPROACH—THE CHAR ...PHYSICAL AND MORAL COURAGE—THE JUDGE OF THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT NOT A CHRISTIAN—A CONCUBINE WAS A WIFE AND IT SHOULD NOT BE A TERM OF REPROACH—THE CHAR
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE F. D. RICHARDS, Delivered at the General Conference, at Logan, held in Octo There is a portion of the writings of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians, that seems so appropriate to our condition, that I p
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE LORENZO SNOW, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City.(From Deseret New ...ther religious system could have achieved such things, nor dared any other Christian denomination venture to send out its missionaries "without purse or scrip,"
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    ...will be passed on every man. This is in accordance with the vision of the Apostle John the Revelator. ...eat mission to the earth, but merely to the agonies which he suffered. The Christian world I know say he alluded to the great work of redemption. This however,
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    ...f all the various Christian sects. You will find, go where you will in the Christian world and listen to any of the great preachers of the day, that this is the ...rought forth. This is the first resurrection. "Blessed and holy," says the Apostle John in his vision, "are they that hath part in the first resurrection; on
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    ...stream of time to our own period. All the rest of the denominations called Christian have sprung from that body directly or indirectly, and their organization w ...book called the Book of Mormon; and because we believe in that book, our "Christian" friends call us "Mormons." We might just as well call them Peters, because
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    ...ay? Yes. There is a great difference between the Book of Mormon and modern Christian religion; but there is no difference between that book and ancient Christia ...o man can discern the things of God, but by the Spirit of God; so says the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians. It is impossible for the natural man to know the t
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    ...great many different doctrines, each professing to be the true faith—the Christian religion. There is a spirit of doubt and division in the world. Men are eve ...aking use of these remarks I am speaking in relation to what is called the Christian world. The Latter-day Saints believe that God is the same yesterday, to-day
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    ...and with great sorrow? It was in consequence of transgression. Hence, the Apostle Paul, in speaking upon this subject, said, that by transgression sin entere ...spel in all its fulness and glory than what this world ever dreamt of. The Christian world, so called, have not looked forth unto the great future; they have no
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    ...possible, just the same as the Church of God, in the first century of the Christian era, delivered the authority to preach and administer ordinances from one t ...ion and prophecy, and set apart by the laying of the hands of a prophet or apostle, to be an especial minister to the nations of the earth, there would arise
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    ...is shape and dimensions and what his qualifications are they know not. The Apostle Paul found the city of the Athenians wholly given to idolatry; and they cal ...or in all the eternities, that is, that were, or that ever will be. As the Apostle Paul has expressed it, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being."
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    ...t time, is no more enlightened than other systems have been. What does the Christian world know about God? Nothing; yet these very men assume the right and powe ...opinions of men, let them look upon us as they may. We can say as the old Apostle said, "We are living epistles, known and read of all men." Judge us by our
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    ..., because their deeds are evil. This message has been proclaimed among the Christian nations of Europe and America, and in many other nations for the past forty ...nd undefiled religion than there is now. We have carried the Gospel to all Christian nations who would permit us, and they have rejected it, and they are under
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    ...t that they object to the most. In connection with this let us look at the Christian world, and I will refer to the ladies who compose a portion of this congreg ..., is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed. If the refined Christian society of the nineteenth century will tolerate such a crime, God will not;
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    ...-divided into numerous sects. The portion of the world who acknowledge the Christian religion probably embraces a population of two hundred and fifty millions, ...d Presbyterians theirs; and the scramble ended in a very unpleasant and un-Christian state of feeling.
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    ...nd stick to the faith and principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As the Apostle Paul says in his epistle to the Hebrews, "Therefore, (not) leaving the prin ...profession, I was taught this by my mother and teachers; for I came from a Christian country—from old Vermont—and they are all Christians there, of course.
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    ...the immediate disciples of Jesus. Men may belong to any of the so-called Christian sects of the day, and they may renounce their belief or dissolve their conn ...the shedding of the blood of righteous Abel down to the time that the last Apostle was slain. There have been feelings manifested, dispositions exhibited in c
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    ...statu[r]e of the fulness of Christ." What kind of ministers do the modern Christian churches acknowledge? Are they apostles? No; they tell us apostles are done
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    ...caves of the earth." We are still further informed by historians that the Apostle Peter was crucified, head downwards; and John, the beloved disciple, was th ...agreed in their political views and their financial operations? Why every Christian in the world says yes, and we say yes; and we cannot be one, in the sense J
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    |>=[[../16|How Divisions Were Introduced into the Christian World—The Gospel Perfect, but its Teachers Imperfect—The Priesthood and ...if there are any elders here who ever had a minister, deacon, or so-called Christian say to them, "If you will perform such and such miracles I will believe." I
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    |H=HOW DIVISIONS WERE INTRODUCED INTO THE CHRISTIAN WORLD—THE GOSPEL PERFECT, BUT ITS TEACHERS IMPERFECT—THE PRIESTHOOD AND |T=Journal of Discourses 12: HOW DIVISIONS WERE INTRODUCED INTO THE CHRISTIAN WORLD—THE GOSPEL PERFECT, BUT ITS TEACHERS IMPERFECT—THE PRIESTHOOD AND
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    |<=[[../16|How Divisions Were Introduced into the Christian World—The Gospel Perfect, but its Teachers Imperfect—The Priesthood and ...ationship that we, His children, bear to Him. That is the condition of the Christian world at the present day. They do not comprehend God, themselves, their pas
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    ..., or a little beyond; if any nook or corner among the icebergs contains an Apostle, I do not know it, but I suppose none have been able to find one. No people ...they are directed to go, not to Brothers Brigham, Heber, or Daniel, to any apostle or elder in Israel, but to the Father in the name of Jesus, and ask for the
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    ...hey cannot understand the difference between the Latter-day Saints and the Christian world. Say they: "There are a great many sectarian churches in the world, a ...ated. In this we are sustained by the testimony of the Scriptures, for the Apostle tells us that Jesus went to preach to the spirits in prison who were disobe
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    Here is the great question between the Latter-day Saints, and the whole Christian world. It is one of the great fundamental principles at issue between us an ...stles down to the present time, is that which is acknowledged by the whole Christian world, Catholic and Protestant, namely that the days of revelation have cea
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    ...accordance with the principles of the gospel that we have embraced. Let a Christian live his religion and he is honored and thought much of by his brethren and ...can you understand the things pertaining to the life to come? Just as the apostle says with regard to loving one another—"If you say you love God and hate
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    ...ne. We, the Latter-day Saints, take the liberty of believing more than our Christian brethren: we not only believe part of the Bible, but the whole of it, and t How am I to know whether I have passed from death unto life? The apostle says by loving the brethren. How shall I know the brethren? They are my bre
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    The devil operates in every conceivable form, and this is what the apostle meant when he said, "We do not merely wrestle against flesh and blood, but ...l to the human family. This notion was not peculiar to some few classes of Christian society, but it was almost universal throughout Christendom. Such a thing a
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    ...differ in their belief concerning these emblems. The Mother Church of the Christian world believes that the bread becomes the actual flesh of Jesus, and that t ...t, it satisfies me; and so far as this goes I might say that I am like the Christian world, in the belief that miracles are no longer needed. But I believe that
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    ...I always desired to live to see. I desired to live to see a prophet and an Apostle, or some man who was inspired of God who could teach me the way to be saved ...ophecy. The Elders of Israel are prophets. A prophet is not so great as an Apostle. Christ has set, in his Church, first, Apostles; they hold the keys of the
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    ...nd in no place is there a word of condemnation uttered concerning him. The Apostle Paul, in speaking of him says: ...rge extent, she is not debased and polluted, as she is among the so-called Christian nations. It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest-lived nations of whi
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    We preach faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Christian world say they have faith. Have they? If they have they will bow down and r ...heir sins; and consequently, although they had received the Holy Ghost, an Apostle had to be sent for to administer that ordinance. And we read further in rel
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    ...other. God is the author of all days; all days are His, and to show to the Christian world that we are free from their narrow, illiberal views, we labor on the ...at would be preached would deny every word of it. Ask the ministers of the Christian world if the Holy Ghost is given in this day, and they will tell you "no."
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    ...age in which they were born. Now, if any such event should take place in a Christian church in modern times there would be a very great excitement, the people w ...oor what church it was. He said it was the Church of Christ. Said I, "What Apostle built it up?" He said, "There are no Apostles in these days." "Well," I rem
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    ...uman family? What more responsible position can a man occupy than to be an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ? I do not know of any in this or any other generat ...eld on the face of the earth in this or any other generation is that of an Apostle.
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    ...hristian world to-day are in exactly the position described by the ancient Apostle—they have a "form of godliness, but deny the power thereof;" and "they ar ...ek shall find, and to them that knock the door shall be opened. James, the Apostle, says, "If any lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liber
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    ...at it may cease to groan under the wickedness and abomination in which the Christian world welters to-day. I can see the necessity for the Lord stretching forth ...of God, and his eyes are over it; the heavens behold it. Every prophet and Apostle who ever bore testimony to this work is watching us with the deepest intere
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    ...issed this clergyman said he had not the least idea that we had so large a Christian element in our faith until he heard that discourse from President Young. He ...at difficulty to-day; this is the cause of the diversity of beliefs in the Christian world. Instead of taking the word of the Lord as it is, they wish to place
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    ...y of this let me refer you to the eleventh chapter of Romans, in which the Apostle Paul has touched upon this subject very plainly. We will read a few passage "For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office.
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    ...variably preach from it. I hardly ever heard a man in my life, when in the Christian world, preach to his text, but directly from it. This makes confusion. Can you find a Christian denomination which would not make us bow down to their creeds if they had t
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    |<=[[../22|Political Parties and Christian Sects—The Sabbath—Marriage]] ...e pure Gospel lost because of the propagation, for centuries, by so-called Christian ministers, of the soul-destroying and damnable heresy that God cannot or wi
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    ...e day of the Lord shall come.'" Here, then, was a prophecy repeated by the Apostle Peter to prove what was the cause of the effects manifested on that occasio ...o be fulfilled. I would like to ask what are we going to do with the whole Christian world which declare that there are to be no more prophets, revelators or in
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    ...ssary to mention all the differences between this people and the religious Christian denominations of the age. I think those already named are sufficient to ren
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    ...od, his Spirit, his workings upon and among all classes of people, whether Christian or heathen, that his providences may be carried out, and that his designs, ...tes on the banks of the Red Sea. "I would not have you ignorant," says the apostle, in reference to this point, "how that our fathers all passed through the s
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    In the fourth chapter of this epistle the same subject is continued. The apostle says: ...ef, in this respect, of some of the most prominent sects that comprise the Christian world, so-called. I have conversed with ministers of various denominations
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    ...of England, the Methodists, the various order of Baptists, and the various Christian denominations that have arisen during the last three or four centuries. Go Let us stop right here and enquire. Have there been any Christian denominations for the last seventeen centuries that have enjoyed this spiri
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    ...ted upon all those who were finally impenitent. Those sermons divided, the Christian world into two classes, one was made celestial, inheriting all the blessing ...thful Latter-day Saints, the reserved seats; or to use the language of the Apostle Paul, I could believe that there was a glory of the sun, a glory of the moo
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    ...irely separate and distinct from matter. There are however, but few in the Christian world who have worked themselves so far into the depths of these mysteries, ...r and a literal mother, a personal father and a personal mother; hence the Apostle Paul, in speaking to the heathen at Ephesus, says, "We are his offspring."
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    ..., I have heard them preach, and they believe the Bible more than the whole Christian world do." Well, where and through whom does this influence come, which lea What does the Bible teach us with regard to the Christian religion, faith in God, and in his Son Jesus Christ, who was sent in the me
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    ...d the time has been when it was perfectly lawful in some nations for every Christian child who was disposed to do so to, stone a Jew while passing through the s ...sent to preach the Gospel to them; if they had been willing to receive an apostle of Jesus Christ, they would have received your humble servant. But this we
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    ...we do not believe in Apostles and Prophets now." Why not? Did not the same Apostle tell us in the same verse, that Apostles and Prophets, as well as evangelis ...ent an angel to them, never gave them a vision, never sent a Prophet or an Apostle to them,—he has nothing to do with them,—they are not his Church, never
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    ...man who might possess it? All these things are mysteries to the so-called Christian world, but God, in his mercy and condescension, has revealed them again, an ...reatness. If a man rule in heaven he will rule over his own posterity. The Apostle John, said that they sang a new song in heaven—"And hast made us unto our
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    ...ministry—ordaining a person to officiate in the office and calling of an Apostle, and in the offices and callings of Elders, Priests, Teachers, &c., without ...t, but each and all of the ceremonies of marriage in use among the various Christian churches, the Catholics as well as Protestants, from the days of the first
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    .... There are other Scriptures that are rather remarkable on this point. The Apostle tells us—"Now are we the sons of God, but it does not yet appear what we ...heathen through faith, preached before, the Gospel unto Abraham." The same Apostle tells us concerning Moses and the children of Israel having the Gospel. Say
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    ...on?" "Not at all." "When did God last speak to the human family?" Says the Christian minister, "He has said nothing for about eighteen hundred years; the last h ...the Bible that indicates any such thing. To the contrary, we find that the Apostle Paul, in speaking of angels, says—"Are they not all ministering spirits s
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    ...this great Republic, from one end thereof to the other, and among all the Christian denominations who deny new revelation, is there one house which God command ...after the redemption of our fathers, as well as of ourselves, for says the Apostle Paul, "they without us can not be made perfect, neither can we without them
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    ...in all other acts we are called upon to perform in the kingdom of God. The Apostle says there is no prophecy of the Scripture which is of any private interpre ...f God in the latter-days. And when we say this of them, we say it of every Apostle and Prophet who ever lived upon the earth. Their revelations and prophecies
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    ...daughters of the children of men may be saved. I believe that almost every Christian denomination has the same views in regard to the atonement of Christ, and t ...ese Old Testament Scriptures that related to him, which were quoted by the Apostle Peter on that occasion: and they were pricked in their hearts, If they had
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    ...y of these facts; men, generally, view these things alike,—I mean in the Christian world,—especially the nation in which we live, the British and French nat ...gh all the various phases, notions, theories and ideas that prevail in the Christian world? Is this the spirit that Jesus promised to impart unto his people, or
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    ...scattered Jews. But what are the results of all the labors of the various Christian sects in this direction? Have they succeeded in gathering the Jews from the ...here to be found among men. Where were the Prophets in what was called the Christian church towards the latter part of the second century? Nowhere upon the face
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    ...NGS OF A TEMPLE—NEED OF CHASTISEMENT—THE REDEMPTION OF THE EARTH—THE CHRISTIAN WORLD CONCERNED IF REGARD TO THE PRIESTHOOD—THOSE WHO PERSECUTE WILL BE V ...NGS OF A TEMPLE—NEED OF CHASTISEMENT—THE REDEMPTION OF THE EARTH—THE CHRISTIAN WORLD CONCERNED IF REGARD TO THE PRIESTHOOD—THOSE WHO PERSECUTE WILL BE V
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    ...men becoming skeptical in view of the ideas which prevail in the so-called Christian world. A man must, in some instances, throw away his feelings and reason, a
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    ...to evil, and accused these men of God of drunkenness. It was then that the Apostle Peter, in order to correct any false impression upon the minds of the congr ...e great events should take place. It is generally believed, by the various Christian churches, that there are to be no more revelations, or visions, or dreams,
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    ...and that they meant what they said and said what they meant, and that the Apostle Paul spoke truly when he said, "that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any
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    ...e their articles of faith and their discipline, the teachings of different Christian denominations on the subject of the Deity, we do not wonder that the reflec ...es. Yet in the absence of true religious teaching, and being taught by the Christian world that the Scriptures do not mean what they say, and must be taken in s
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    ...mission of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, believe also the words of the Apostle Paul, speaking of him in this wise: That he was in the likeness of his Fath ...and divines have attempted to describe Deity. We have it set forth in many Christian catechisms and articles of faith. God was a being without body, parts or pa
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    ...with comfortable dwellings. But the fact is, unbelief has overwhelmed the Christian world, and man has spiritualized the Scriptures until there is no faith in My testimony is that judgments await Babylon, judgments await the Christian world, and if people will read their Bible, they will see these declaration
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    ...ttereth abroad. And again, "he that is not for me, is against me." And the Apostle Paul says, "Know ye not, that, to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey
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    ...a new world, and creating a new heaven, and a new earth, wherein, says the Apostle Peter, shall dwell righteousness. This new earth, which is to be created, i ...be for an everlasting inheritance, for himself and his seed after him. The Apostle Paul, speaking of the same thing, says, that "they all died in faith, not h
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    ...ut {{page break|144|top}} the Lord did distinctly point out the duty of an apostle, telling us that that was one of the officers of the Church, that it is his ...ut no one upon the earth, no one that ever pretended to have it, among the Christian denominations. And the Jewish people, who pretend to have the Levitical pri
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    ...the Jews under the operation of the law of Moses, and subsequently in the Christian church for those who officiated in the lesser or Levitical priesthood; and ...mself, but he that is called of God as was Aaron." This declaration of the Apostle Paul is borne out by history both ancient and modern. And the same writer s
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    ...t such would be revengeful; and yet, neither they nor any of our professed Christian friends would for a moment find fault with the judge of an inferior earthly ...ion of the fulness of times; and that his successor, Brigham Young, was an apostle of the Lord Jesus, and a prophet, seer and revelator. And I feel to bear my
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    ...ge, down until the time that this angel should come to the earth. Says the Apostle: "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlastin ...e must believe the declaration to be divine, or not believe it at all. The Apostle John saw in the vision that at a certain time the angel was to come again t
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    ...em the words of eternal life. A congregation of that size elsewhere in the Christian world, to edify, to instruct them, would require considerable preparation u ...nd that those spirits, after having gone behind the vail, according to the Apostle {{page break|281|top}} Peter, had to be preached to: "For for this cause,"
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    ...which have been alluded to this afternoon by Brother Morgan, and which the Apostle Paul speaks of in the words which have been read in your hearing, are of th ...ee what they have accomplished! How much satisfaction these ladies, these "Christian" ladies and gentlemen must have in their labors! How much will this do to s
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    ...l; but then we must remember this difference, that the first of these is a Christian; the latter was a heathen. But outside of these things, I feel to proclaim ...fter all I do not suppose we could get any better treatment from any other Christian nation than we do from our own, but this is not saying much for them. It is
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    ...t, because their deeds are evil. This was true of the first century of the Christian era, when the Savior uttered it; it is true today. As the light shone in da ...e would be to say that the practices of the multitudes of families of this Christian land, who are destroying their own offspring and taking villainous compound
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    ...which is very natural—"Father, I hear you say that all the sects in the Christian world are wrong except the 'Mormons;' but yet I find, when I attend the Epi ...for salvation, and throw away something else; and thus you find the whole Christian world, although professing to believe in the same Savior and in the same Bi
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    ...acle that he has thrown off for a moment. It is sown in weakness, says the Apostle Paul, it is raised in power; it is laid down as a mortal body, it is raised ...in angels that are in the eternal worlds, and the question is asked by the Apostle Paul—"Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for th
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    ...f God—to do the will of God on earth as it is done in heaven; for as the Apostle John says—"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appea ...will enact, or which he has already enacted. I do not suppose there was a Christian that ever lived, I do not suppose there was a heathen that ever lived who e
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    ...o man was called of God to build up his kingdom on the earth. Whatever the Christian world may think, these things are true. When the Apostles were put to death
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    ...or ourselves, on various subjects which pertain to our every-day life. The Apostle James tells us that "faith without works is dead, being alone," and good wo ...ndation of the sciences of the world, and the basis of the laws of all the Christian nations; and although men in every direction have departed from it, we can
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    ...nts of the earth. It is very evident from what was declared by the ancient Apostle that another dispensation after his day was to be introduced among the inha ...ereof. This was clearly seen by the revelator on Patmos, as well as by the Apostle Paul. After having seen this, beholding all nations overcome, all people, k
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    ...to compile the revelations of those who lived in the first century of the Christian era. This, then, is a testimony and a very important one too, that the king ...ndarily Prophets." Who does not know that for seventeen centuries past the Christian world so-called has not believed in any prophecy, that is the foretelling o
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    |>=[[../6|Immediate Revelation—Spiritual Gifts Necessary in the Christian Church—Apostasy—The Restoration of the Gospel—All Things to Be Gather ...l, and to be prepared for glory and blessings when we receive them. As the Apostle argues very strongly in the Book of Mormon—"If we never taste the bitter
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    |H=IMMEDIATE REVELATION—SPIRITUAL GIFTS NECESSARY IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH—APOSTACY—THE RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL—ALL THINGS TO BE GATHER ...of Discourses 18: IMMEDIATE REVELATION—SPIRITUAL GIFTS NECESSARY IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH—APOSTACY—THE RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL—ALL THINGS TO BE GATHER
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    |<=[[../6|Immediate Revelation—Spiritual Gifts Necessary in the Christian Church—Apostasy—The Restoration of the Gospel—All Things to Be Gather ...vealed from the heavens. We also believe, and so do the inhabitants of the Christian world at large, that {{page break|58|top}} there will be an audible sound o
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    ...e of life and salvation, I do not care in what age of the world a Prophet, Apostle or inspired man has been raised up to declare the commands of God, he has h ...e in a great many ages and dispensations. And whenever the Lord has had an Apostle, Prophet, or inspired man on the earth, he has had power to administer in t
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    |>=[[../22|Infidelity of the Christian World—Duties and Responsibilities of the Saints—Necessity of a Temple, ...ntil the first Prophets got through prophesying. That was the order of the Christian Church when God ever had one upon the earth—Prophets were very numerous i
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    |H=INFIDELITY OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD—DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SAINTS—NECESSITY OF A TEMPLE, |T=Journal of Discourses 18: INFIDELITY OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD—DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SAINTS—NECESSITY OF A TEMPLE,
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    |<=[[../22|Infidelity of the Christian World—Duties and Responsibilities of the Saints—Necessity of a Temple, ...the commandments of God and fulfills his duties is more honorable than the Apostle who does not. You hurt any part of the body, for instance, cut your finger,
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    ...messengers to Joseph Smith, and commanded him to refrain from joining any Christian church, and to refrain from the wickedness he saw in the churches, and fina ...ad power to translate them.{{page break|240|top}} This did not make him an Apostle, it did not give to him the keys of the kingdom, nor make him an Elder in I
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    ...en is the time spoken of when man has sinned to that degree that, says the Apostle, "ye shall not pray for them, for they have sinned a sin unto death." Then ...saved condition. What is the sin of the ministry and people of the present Christian denominations? It is that light has come to them and they reject it. The co
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    ...ed. This is believed in and accepted as truth by the great majority of the Christian world. This being the case, I have often wondered why there were not more i ..., he would be as cautious as the Methodists, and the rest of the so-called Christian denominations, for they do not even profess a belief in them, much less to
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    ...ngs of the church which had by them been considered heretofore as the only Christian Church, and to protest against the acts of its Priesthood, and the doings o ...ight, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord." Jude the Apostle, referring to the same thing, says, "Likewise also these filthy dreamers de
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    ...ous world! I do not now refer to the heathen world, but to the enlightened Christian nations, the two hundred million of Christians now existing on the earth. I You may think I am misrepresenting our Christian friends. I will therefore say that for many years now I have been engaged,
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    ...the power of man to open it. Remember this, Latter-day Saints, and all the Christian world, the Pagan, Infidel and Jewish world, and everybody in the world; and ...m {{page break|361|top}} out; for they did so to his servants. Suppose the Apostle Paul, or Peter, in fact any of the Apostles were to get into their chapels,
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    ...ior unto him; and yet, notwithstanding this promise, it is believed by the Christian world that he died a natural death after wicked men had attempted several t ...hen as meekness is one of the requisite qualities of a Latter-day Saint, a Christian, a member of the Church of God upon the earth, except we are meek and lowly
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    ...h which go over and beyond and above all that which is comprehended in the Christian world, and all that which is contained within the lids of the Bible. And ye ...does not even profess to have that great gift which made Peter a veritable Apostle—that is, the gift of revelation. Peter received communication from on hig
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    ...vine illumination. This blessing is not confined to people who are called "Christian," it is not continued to any particular branch of the human family. All peo ...I believe it." Why? Because I{{page break|89|top}} have been brought up a Christian, and therefore I believe it. But do you know that Jesus is the Christ? No,
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    One of the ancient expounders of the Christian religion said, that the Gospel was the perfect law of liberty. I believe it ...wn, is far better than no government at all. And for this reason, says the Apostle Paul, "The powers are ordained of God," not that they are always the best f
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    ...od, division and contention will increase. When missionaries are sent from Christian nations to heathen nations, they do not establish any unity of faith among ...same belief as the converts of Peter and the converts of Paul. Indeed the Apostle Paul says, "For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether he
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    ...pensation of the Gospel is committed unto me." These were the words of the Apostle Paul. Again he said: "But though we or an angel from heaven preach any othe ...hat temperance and virtue which would sustain any Christian country or any Christian king. And even when he was sent in his youth to his grandfather Astyages, t
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    ...ost his apostleship. They laid their hands upon Matthias, and he became an Apostle. The council {{page break|267|top}} would not have been complete without th
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    ...n Son, the personage who should be, as he is termed in the Scriptures, the Apostle and great High Priest of our profession, who should take the lead in the ma ...being done in certain parts of the Southern States to-day? Mobs, led on by Christian ministers, co-religionists of these men, are seeking the lives of your own
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    ...iversity, a man with the Bible in his hand going forth in the midst of the Christian sects with an anxious desire to know which is of God, would be puzzled beyo ...ter-day Saints are distinct from all other denominations which claim to be Christian in this respect: That they {{page break|360|top}} claim that if they obey t
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/1
    ...re, according to the Scriptures, and the generally received notions of the Christian world. ...rding to the commandments which he had received of the Father. I think the Christian world will be willing to acknowledge that this faith in God was a principle
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    ...at least, to address myself to infidels, whether they go under the name of Christian or any other name. I am speaking of certain principles to a people who beli ...the dictum, to the notions, the theories and follies of men. There was no Apostle, no Prophet, no inspired men of God, holding His Holy Priesthood to say, Th
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    ..., and that is susceptible of proof. It was a very fair proposition for the Apostle to make, promising the people who would obey the requirements which the Gos ...ll feed them with knowledge and understanding. This is what we find in the Christian Bible, and there is certainly no harm in believing the Bible. The Christian
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/9
    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE WILFORD WOODRUFF, DELIVERED IN THE ASSEMBLY HALL, SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY AF ...od—Aaronic and Melchisedek. With regard to Priesthood we differ from the Christian world. We believe there is no man in heaven or upon earth that administers
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW, DELIVERED AT THE GENERAL CONFERENCE, SALT LAKE CITY, FRIDAY A Now it is quite a fine thing in the estimation of the Christian world to preach about Jesus and his doctrines; but when it comes to practic
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE WILFORD WOODRUFF, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Sunday, May ...y are redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ, and when they die, whether of Christian, Pagan or Jewish parentage, their spirits are taken home to God who gave th
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    ...nto him in the right way that they may obtain communications from him. The Apostle James declares, If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to ...s is the ground work of the opposition applied to us in what is called the Christian world. For if the fact be admitted that the Latter-day Saints are the peopl
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE ORSON PRATT, Delivered at the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Sunday Afternoon, ...is a very curious commission to be given in the nineteenth century of the Christian era to those that are called in our day; very curious. If Joseph Smith, thr
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    ...e expired upon the cross, and his last words on the cross, as given by the Apostle John—"it is finished," are frequently quoted as evidence of the fact; but ...ent from this as the sequel abundantly proved. If Peter, who was the chief Apostle, had received the gift of the Holy Ghost, and the power and testimony there
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE MOSES THATCHER, Delivered at the General Conference, Saturday, April 8th, 1 Ask the members of the so-called Christian sects if their ministers come to them offering such a test of their authori
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    ...THE EXAMPLE AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM—EXHORTATION TO JUSTICE AND EQUITY—CHRISTIAN CRIMES IN NEW ENGLAND—OPPRESSION WITH ITS REAL AND PRETENDED OBJECT—FRU ...THE EXAMPLE AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM—EXHORTATION TO JUSTICE AND EQUITY—CHRISTIAN CRIMES IN NEW ENGLAND—OPPRESSION WITH ITS REAL AND PRETENDED OBJECT—FRU
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    ...Christianity had to cope with in its growing influence in the day when the Apostle Paul averred that he was not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it was th ...principles, the same doctrines; and I need not say here, that there are no Christian ministers to-day that attempt from their pulpits to take up the subject of
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    ...TWIN RELICS," SLAVERY AND POLYGAMY—CONFOUNDING OF POLYGAMY WITH BIGAMY, "CHRISTIAN" STATESMANSHIP—JOSEPH SMITH'S PROPOSITION FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY— ...TWIN RELICS," SLAVERY AND POLYGAMY—CONFOUNDING OF POLYGAMY WITH BIGAMY, "CHRISTIAN" STATESMANSHIP—JOSEPH SMITH'S PROPOSITION FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY—
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    ...in general terms, is one of the principles which runs through the various "Christian" sects. They found their faith, or profess to, upon the Bible. While we do ...own, and scraps of them may be found among all nations and peoples. As the Apostle Paul says, "God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on a
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    ...s, our children, and our associations. Godliness, indeed, as stated by the Apostle Paul, "is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that n ...side? Who are the protectors of drunkenness and other vices? Our professed Christian reformers. These are their institutions; and their emissaries have been try
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE WILFORD WOODRUFF, Delivered at Nephi, Saturday Afternoon, January 27, 1883. ...and blessed us on every hand; and we are to-day a blessed people. Yet the Christian world is opposed to us, and the Christians generally hate us. The Savior hi
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    ...he Bible. At the present time there is a great controversy going on in the Christian world in regard to the manner in which this book should be read, and in reg ...re sure word of prophecy" than the things that were written aforetime. The Apostle Peter spoke of this in his day. He said that holy men of God wrote and spok
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    ...ispensation than that in which they labored, which is generally called the Christian dispensation, because it was introduced by Jesus who was the Christ. Paul c ...h and false prophets and false teachers would arise who would, (to use the Apostle Peter's own words) "bring in damnable heresies;" who would turn away the he
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    ...sign that they have some portion of the Holy Priesthood." And to this the Apostle John bears testimony when he says, "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth no ...y states, "until death do you part." This is the acme of perfection in the Christian world in relation to this matter! Nothing else can be found anywhere, among
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    ...that believed. These were the first principles of the Gospel. And Paul the Apostle, makes this declaration: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach an ...blance to the Gospel as taught by Jesus Christ and His Apostles. The whole Christian world to-day rises up against these Latter-day {{page break|241|top}} Saint
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    ...ecting God, that the idea of a personal Deity had faded from the so-called Christian mind. Though Jesus had appeared on the earth as a personage having a body, ...dition of ignorance that would prevail upon the earth. Why, this so-called Christian world is as far from God, as any heathens that, ever lived upon the face of
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    |S=REMARKS BY APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW, DELIVERED IN THE ASSEMBLY HALL, SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY AFTERN ...ple in all ages and times when people receive that Spirit. But most of the Christian sects of our time ignore those fruits of the Spirit, the spiritual gifts an
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    |S=REMARKS BY APOSTLE MOSES THATCHER, Delivered at the General Conference, Friday Afternoon, Apri ...them; and the very principle and tenet of our religion, against which the Christian feeling of the age appears to be so much shocked, will be the chief corners
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    ...faith. The idea has become very prevalent of late years, in the so-called Christian world, that God does not interfere by any special providence in behalf of a ...f His children. He has ministering spirits who minister unto those, as the Apostle tells us, who shall be heirs of salvation. Jesus conveys the idea very beau
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    |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW, Delivered in the Stake Meeting House, Ephraim, Saturday After ...he wicked perish. This is illustrated in another form of expression by the Apostle Paul, when he says that he was slain through the law. Says he:
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    ...rch, 1882. Early in the month the then President of the European Mission—Apostle Albert Carrington—notified me that I should proceed to the German Mission ...Revelator saw in his vision. And this has been the condition of the whole Christian world from the days of Jesus Christ and His Apostles until the Lord raised
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    ...NT OF GOD'S KINGDOM—LITERAL FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY—RESTORATION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH—AUTHORITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD—LACK OF DIVINE AUTHORITY—PROOFS OF ...NT OF GOD'S KINGDOM—LITERAL FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY—RESTORATION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH—AUTHORITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD—LACK OF DIVINE AUTHORITY—PROOFS OF
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    ...IND WILL PASS AWAY—ONLY THAT WHICH GOD SETS UP WILL ENDURE—THE ANCIENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH—THE APOSTATE CHURCH OF ROME—THE VARIOUS MAN-MADE CREEDS—LACK O ...IND WILL PASS AWAY—ONLY THAT WHICH GOD SETS UP WILL ENDURE—THE ANCIENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH—THE APOSTATE CHURCH OF ROME—THE VARIOUS MAN-MADE CREEDS—LACK O
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 2
    ...lief in the person of Jesus Christ has always been considered essential to Christian fellowship" #The President of the Church, not any one Apostle, determines official LDS theology.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 6
    |L4=Response to claim: 84-85 - Since John the Apostle and the three Nephites did not die, then there could not have been a "compl |L7=Response to claim: 87 - "In the strictest sense, apostle means 'one sent forth.' With this being the case, numerous people could hav
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    ...S Church attempts to lend itself legitimacy in the eyes of the rest of the Christian world by borrowing from the legitimacy of the Bible ...ant standard works of the Church, and the Church has always claimed to be "Christian."
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 13
    |L1=Response to claim: 191 - Claims made in The Seer by "Apostle Orson Pratt" |L4=Response to claim: 194 - "true Christian baptism" did not commence until the time of John the Baptist, and that bapt
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 15
    ...spiritual condition, their marital status, or any other consideration. As Apostle James E. Talmage wrote: ...of the Church in 1948 when these remarks were written. He was, however, an apostle, having been ordained to that calling in 1943, and would become the Preside
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 17
    ...riage, for plural marriages were common in the environment of the earliest Christian church.<br><br>I do not deny that polygamy is now abhorred in Western cultu ...ext of Joseph's statement, in which he was emulating something said by the Apostle Paul.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 18
    ...ority, then we could rightly conclude that Paul would never have become an apostle ...ority, then we could rightly conclude that Paul would never have become an apostle==
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Introduction
    ...he words of McConkie, Van Til, and Warfield in mind, should not all honest Christian's believe that the form of Christianity they practice is, in fact, the pure ...t?hearted, those who are living according to the best light they have. All Christian churches have it, those who seek truth and righteousness. The Baptists, if
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  • Question: What did the Jews and early Christians really believe with regard to a three-part heaven?
    ===Modern Christian Scholarly Commentary: The Anchor Bible=== ...four additional heavens, conforming the narrative to the common Jewish and Christian tradition about seven heavens, as in Apoc Mos [Apocalypse of Moses] 35:2; 2
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  • Question: What is the Mormon concept of Hell?
    The Apostle John A. Widtsoe seemed to be teaching the very thing that the Book of Mormo ...a heaven/hell split. This difference derives in part from changes made to Christian doctrine in the first centuries after the death of the apostles.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844/051909
    ...eligion. According to Richard Bushman, Smith now moved from "a traditional Christian belief in God as pure spirit to a belief in His corporeality." ..." David L. Paulsen, "The Doctrine of Divine Embodiment: Restoration, Judeo-Christian, and Philosophical Perspectives, ''BYU Studies'' 34, no. 4 (1995-96), 19-21
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Distinctive views and teachings
    ...(arguing that Smith's original view of a pure spirit God was traditionally Christian); {{Citation|last=Vogel|first=Dan|title=The Earliest Mormon Conception of G ...ings were rooted in [[dispensationalism|dispensational]] [[Restorationism (Christian primitivism)|restorationism]].
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 2
    #LDS apostle Stephen Burnett, letter to Lyman E. Johnson, April 15, 1838 reprinted in Vo {{:Question: Do Christian critics of the Book of Mormon have a double standard regarding DNA evidence
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  • Times and Seasons/1/11
    ...ks ought to have been a sufficient shield from their cruelty: But like the apostle Paul he could exclaim, (and his life and conduct have fully borne out the s ...lthough his confidence in his God was great, and his conduct was that of a christian and a saint; yet he felt like a man and a parent. At that time his constiut
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 1
    #Voice of Warning and Instruction to All People, published in 1837 by apostle Parley P. Pratt #The Christian Guide to a Right Understanding of the Sacred Scriptures, John S Thompson, 1
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/1
    ...ligion, is certainly from beneath, and not from above, I care not how much christian zeal such may pretend to have: I hesitate not to say, and I feel warranted ...ore fully exemplified than in the conduct of the majority of the professed christian world at the present day? When they are requested to listen to truth which
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/2
    ...unbelief. ''"Thou standest by faith, be not high-minded but fear." '' The apostle knew that the Gentiles were in great danger of falling after the same examp ...God; for the goodness of God could alone be enjoyed by faith. So that the apostle has made the subject exceedingly plain, that all may understand, who have t
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/7
    ...deeply interested, a subject which agitates the minds and feelings of the Christian community in which we live, more than any other now extant. I mean that of
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/8
    ...m of Heaven made up of such characters as the great mass of the professing christian world at the present day? To answer this question correctly it is only nece ...lost, and possessing that which had been previously enjoyed. And when the apostle Peter says that the heavens must receive the Savior until the times of the
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/11
    ...iberty; a community of law; a region of light; a people that profess to be christian, must maintain the dignity they have assumed and proclaimed to the world, b ...oing any good, and so the love of prayer might win a soul to God. Says the apostle, "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;" yea, brethr
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/12
    ...odern times, and has given rise to many parties and sects in the so called christian world; each one in their turn supposing that they had the ancient order of ...o have pursued a certain system, if we can credit the account given by the apostle Paul in his epistles to the Corinthians and Ephesians. In his first epistle
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/1
    ...unions, and printing establishments,—counting all the inhabitants of the christian governments, believers and unbelievers, the closest calculations al-{{page ...nother realm, yet we could with propriety adopt the words of the presiding apostle and say, "God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feare
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/2
    ...nd every person who acted under that commission, acted in the office of an apostle. Now to prepare men to act under this commission, required a great deal of ...re cast into prison. Here we have a very different account of this Gentile apostle's deliverance to that of Peter. The prison doors and the gates were not thr
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