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• Question: Why does the Church continue to use the KJV instead of the JST as its official bible?
  ==Question: Why does the Church continue to use the KJV instead of the JST as its official bible?== #There is no revelation that has directed the Church to replace the KJV with the JST. Such a change would require both prophetic
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• MormonFAQ/Other groups
  ...ngs of Joseph Smith, Jr. While FAIR consists mainly of members of the LDS Church, we provide these links and explanations as a public service. ==The Community of Christ (RLDS)==
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• MormonFAQ/Terms
  Like all religions, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has terms or expressions which may not ...ree offices Deacon, Teacher and Priest each with increasing duties. In the Church it is generally given to young men starting at age 12. In the Community of
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 3
  ...cord, it would have been impossible for him to have organized the restored Church." #''History of the Church'' 3:29
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing" before practicing plural marriage?
  ...no contemporary account of witnesses accusing Joseph of unchastity in the Church's early years, save a single, second-or-third hand charge that was neither ...ganization, though no such charges appeared before the organization of the Church.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 2
  |L1=Response to claim: 39 - the church has encouraged a 'thorough and impartial examination' of the Book of Mormon ==Response to claim: 39 - the church has encouraged a 'thorough and impartial examination' of the Book of Mormon
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 3
  ...uinn said that Joseph "failed to clarify for the highest leadership of the church the precise method of succession God intended" ...and other Smith relatives returned to Far West and founded the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 12
  |L1=Response to claim: 365 - The Bible has secondary status in the Mormon Church ...nse to claim: 365 - Thomas Paine's book The Age of Reason influenced early Church leaders to criticize the Bible
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1838
  |previous=[[../1827 to 1830|Founding a Church (1827 to 1830)]] ...002|p=95}} ("Joseph quickly settled in and assumed control of the Kirtland Church.").
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Story
  |L3=Response to claim: "The LDS Church has canonized part of this 1838 account" ...und in an account told by Smith in 1838 and incorporated into the official church histories of some [[Latter Day Saint movement]] denominations.
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1834: Kirtland/051909
  ...ious=[[../1827 to 1830: Organizing the Church|1827 to 1830: Organizing the Church]] ...ming millennium. Members were required to consecrate their property to the church so that "every man may receive according as he stands in need."
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1838/051909
  ...ious=[[../1827 to 1830: Organizing the Church|1827 to 1830: Organizing the Church]] ...ming millennium. Members were required to consecrate their property to the church so that "every man may receive according as he stands in need."
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death/051909
  ...." Law was also convinced that Smith was misappropriating money donated by church members to complete the Nauvoo House hotel in order to buy land and sell it ...e and Richard Collin Mangrum, ''Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900'' (Urbana: University of Il
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy/051909
  After Joseph Smith's death, schisms threatened to rend the early Mormon church. *The church had published a revelation in 1841 stating, "I say unto my servant Joseph,
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• Question: Were there any benefits of plural marriage among Mormons in the 19th century?
  ...that was inherently distasteful to the vast majority of the members of the Church allowed members to draw close to the Lord. ...to experience a moderate amount of tension with its host society. The RLDS Church rejected plural marriage, and perhaps not coincidentally are now small in n
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Interpretations and responses to the vision
  ...ts)|latter day restoration]] of the [[Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)|Church of Christ]]. However, the faiths differ in their teachings about the visio ...sion is the manuscript account in Joseph Smith, "Manuscript History of the Church" (1839); the first published account is Orson Pratt, ''An Interesting Accou
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• Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's plural marriage to Joseph Smith consummated?
  ...wn cultural biases and assumptions, rather than upon the actual motives of Church members who participated in the practice. ...p. They claimed that the Independence, Missouri temple site was rightfully RLDS property, since they were the direct heirs of Joseph Smith's original relig
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Polygamy
  |L1=Response to claim: "one of the reasons most commonly given in church to justify polygamy is: There were more women than men in the 1800s" ...aim: "The reasons most commonly given by members (even if not published in church lesson manuals) to justify polygamy are:...Polygamy was not practiced until
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon
  ...usly capable of reading the Bible, which led to the First Vision. What the Church claims, and what Joseph himself claimed in his 1832 history that was writte {{:Question: Does the Church teach or believe that Joseph Smith was "illiterate"?}}
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Sources and links
  ...rsonal interview Emma Smith-Bidamon gave to a committee of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1879, cited in Robert N. Hullinger, ...ven to ''Kansas City Journal'', June 5, 1881, reprinted in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ''Journal of History'', vol. 8, (1910)
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Source quotes without commentary
  #Martin Harris, quoted by B.H. Roberts, ''Comprehensive History of the Church'' 1:129 #Martin Harris, quoted by B.H. Roberts, ''Comprehensive History of the Church'' 1:29
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Blacks and the Priesthood
  |L1=Response to claim: "The leaders of the church up through the 1970s made it very clear why blacks were denied the priestho ...nder President Jimmy Carter, Brigham Young University and possibly the LDS Church itself was in danger of losing their tax exempt status if they continued to
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Kinderhook Plates/Source quotes without commentary
  #''History of the Church'', 5:372-79, Salt Lake City: ''Deseret News''. {{link|url=http://archive.or #History of the Church by Joseph Smith, Vol. 5, pp. 372-79
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith offer to trade Jane Law for Emma Smith in a wife swap with William Law?
  However, Jackson appears on no Church membership records, and Joseph's early opinion was that he was "rotten hear ...Law and his wife (Minutes of meeting, 18 April 1844, Brigham Young Papers, Church Archives).<ref name="cook">{{BYUS|author=Lyndon W. Cook|article=[https://by
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• John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo/Nancy Rigdon
  ...story under the date of August 27, 1842, by Thomas Bullock, a clerk in the Church Historian's Office. A manuscript copy of the letter in the Joseph Smith Pap ...achings. He spoke of delivering the keys to [both] this society and to the Church&mdash;that according to his prayers God had appointed him elsewhere.
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• Plural marriage/Lorenzo Snow's statements about polygamy during the Temple Lot case
  ...hrist) and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Christ_(Temple_Lot) Church of Christ (Temple Lot)], two groups who did not follow the leadership of Br ...hurch up to the time of the purported revelation and its acceptance by the church; yes, sir, that is true.
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• Question: In what manner was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored?
  ...to the office of Elder via the higher priesthood could not occur until the church had been established=== ...iesthood could not occur until the church had been established. After the church was officially established we have the following evidences that Joseph Smit
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• Question: Are the original Temple Lot Case transcripts available online?
  ...browse MS 1160: United States testimony 1892,] Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...ll [and Others] ... as Members of and Doing Business Under the Name of the Church of Christ, at Independence, Missouri, Respondents. In Equity. Complainant's
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• Question: I've seen Temple Lot court transcripts online. Are these not accurate?
  ...ity, Missouri, with a carbon copy at the Community of Christ Archives. The Church History Library offers both microfilm and digital photographs of the microf ...nnells is from one of the edited versions and I’m not surprised that the RLDS editor added some commentary that has been mistaken as in the original.
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• Question: Did Lorenzo Snow state that polygamy was actually adultery prior to 1843?
  ...ff from the church. '''''It would have been adultery under the laws of the church and under the laws of the state, too.''''' – Temple Lot Case, p.320–322 ...have been cut off from the Church as it was adultery under the laws of the Church and under the laws of the State. Joseph’s marriage to Fanny Alger in 1833
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young steal Henry Jacobs' family?
  ...at church history museum small.jpg|frame|right|This plaque located in the Church History Museum mentions Zina's sealing to Joseph Smith and marriage to Brig When interrogated by a member of the RLDS Church, Zina refused to be drawn into specifics. She made her motivations clear,
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• Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball
  ...rch took the official position that since it was the true successor of the church originally founded by Joseph Smith, it owned the property outright.<ref>S. ...e R. Jean Addams, “The Church of Christ (Temple Lot) and the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints: 130 Years of Crossroads and Controversies,” ''Journ
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• Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
  Critics of the Church provide a supposed "confession" from Helen, in which she reportedly said: ...ar Whitney, A Woman’s View: Helen Mar Whitney’s Reminiscences of Early Church History, ed. Jeni Broberg Holzapfel and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel (Provo, U
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• Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time?
  ...s were unknown until the 1930’s, when the letter was donated to the RLDS Church’s archives as part of a larger collection of McLellin materials.<ref>Ibid ...</ref> He had no first hand knowledge of the event, as he did not join the Church until 1831. He apparently got the description of the event from Martin Harr
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• Question: What is the history of name changes of the Church?
  ==Question: What is the history of name changes of the Church?== ===The original name of the Church when it was organized in 1830 was the "Church of Christ"===
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• Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger?
  ...ry Bond, 24 April 1876 and 4 May 1876, Myron H. Bond collection, P21, f11, RLDS Archives cited by Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 34 and commentary in Todd ...Joseph’s first-hand account into a third-hand account to be used in the Church history then being composed.
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• Question: Why is the French word "adieu" in the Book of Mormon?
  ...Index page from the 1835 book of hymns chosen by Emma Smith for use in the Church. Original from BYU library.{{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin ...penned by a non-LDS author) was collected by Emma Smith for the use of the Church. In this hymn, ''adieu'' is used twice in the first line:
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• Question: Was a pregnant Eliza R. Snow pushed down the stairs by a furious Emma, resulting in a miscarriage?
  |L4=RLDS perspective ===RLDS perspective===
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• Question: Did William McLellin ever mention drinking in association with the Kirtland Temple?
  * the food and drink was provided by the women of the Church&mdash;unlikely candidates for trying to get the religious community drunk. ...named them, the better to shock his audience and prove the falsity of the Church's claims.
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• Question: Did Aaron DeWitt, an ex-Mormon in Utah, receive threats to his life from the Church?
  ...d Aaron DeWitt, an ex-Mormon in Utah, receive threats to his life from the Church?== ===Avoiding material helpful to the Church===
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• Question: What is the Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon authorship?
  ...hed by the RLDS Church in 1885 under the title "Manuscript Found." The LDS Church also published the text. (See "Further Reading," link, for links to online
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• Question: What did William McLellin say about Joseph Smith and Fanny Alger's relationship?
  ...etter to Joseph Smith III arrived soon after he assumed the duties of RLDS Church president on 6 April 1860. Joseph Smith III began his tenure as president ...nswer this, we must briefly revisit McLellin’s history in and out of the church. McLellin was baptized 20 August 1831 and was ordained an elder four days l
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• Question: Why was Joseph Smith sealed to young women?
  *One critic of the church notes, "Joseph Smith married over 30 women, some as young as 14 years old.. ...wn cultural biases and assumptions, rather than upon the actual motives of Church members who participated in the practice.
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• Question: Were there sexual relations in Joseph's marriages to women with living husbands?
  ...a and Eliza and the Stairs|vol=22|num=1|date=Fall 1982|start=86|end=96}}. RLDS author Richard Price also argues that the physical layout of the Mansion Ho ...ophet at the time that her husband Mr. Lyon was out of fellowship with the Church." For many years, it was not known whether Sylvia was referring to her daug
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise/Chapter 1
  ...ed as a theocratic policymaking body “shadow government” (Flanders – RLDS historian) that functioned sporadically in Utah into the 1870’s. {{:Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith?}}
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• Question: Were women "locked in a room" in order to convince them to accept plural marriage?
  RLDS authors Richard and Pamela Price, who firmly believed that Joseph did ''not ...food to footwear. The store building also housed the headquarters for the Church and the city. There, the people paid their tithing and taxes, and conducted
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• Question: Did the "Cochranites" influence Joseph Smith or other Mormons to introduce plural marriage into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
  ...luence Joseph Smith or other Mormons to introduce plural marriage into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?== ...s. Only the denials which they have distilled from longer lists of things Church leaders then denied are mentioned.<ref>Brian Hales, "[http://rationalfaiths
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children
  ...tence that Joseph Smith had practiced plural marriage led some of the RLDS Church :to ask why no children by these wives existed. Lucy Walker reported [the RLDS] seem surprised that there was no issue from asserted plural marriages with
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• Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" sealings or plural marriages?
  |L16=Would polyandrous testimony have been harmful to the Church, and so avoided? ==Nothing in plural marriage mystifies—or troubles—members of the Church more than Joseph's polyandrous sealings==
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• Question: Is belief in the Book of Mormon’s historicity essential to Latter-day Saint theology?
  ...as possible for the sake of understanding and discussion. Members of [The] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should confess in faith that the Book ...f in the historicity of other scripture that is a part of the canon of the Church. This article can then serve as a response to anyone who makes this type of
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• Question: Is Jacob 2:30 actually not saying that polygamy is an occasional exception to monogamy?
  A splinter group of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints known as the "Doctrine of Christ" have ...William D. Russell, “Richard Price: Leading Publicist of the Reorganized Church’s Schismatics,” in ''Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History'',
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• Reference templates/To learn more boxes/Church history
  |<nowiki>{{To learn more box:Church history}}</nowiki>||To learn more about Church history || [[Template:To_learn_more_box:Church_history|edit]] ...rn more box:art and Church history}}</nowiki>||To learn more about art and Church history || [[Template:To_learn_more_box:art_and_Church_history|edit]]
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