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- ...ay to effect the ruin of those who believe in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who have submitted to its ordinances, as at any previous time in the histo ...xpect to be numbered among the happy throng who are to live and reign with Jesus. When we shall have done all they have done, passed through and experienced15 KB (2,787 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- ...effect that whereas each of them take in but a part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as declared in the Scriptures, in their creeds, the Latter-day Saints embod ...tion; they were in communication with the great unseen Head of the Church, Jesus, who was crucified, and had departed from their midst.20 KB (3,830 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...he has expressed—the desire to proclaim the truth, and to win souls unto Christ, and to help establish that Zion of which God has laid the foundation. It i ...g witness whose testimony has come down to us authenticated respecting its divinity, and in fact it is so open to attack that there are thousands who deem them26 KB (4,848 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...e have received it. If this be imposture where is the truth? The Gospel of Christ was to produce union, its mission was to produce love, to destroy strife, t ...dolent and neglects his duties, needs more religion, the religion of Jesus Christ, to make him more industrious. An indolent man cannot have much of the Spir30 KB (5,639 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...with this latter-day work that one of the most remarkable features of the divinity of the work is to be found in the gathering together of the people called L ...hurches laying claim to being divine, and to being the authentic church of Christ, was the true church. He, if he could not obtain knowledge from God, or som37 KB (6,895 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...and establish it upon the foundation of Apostles and Prophets with Christ Jesus as the chief corner stone. There is no man who believes in the Revelations ...o a single passage of scripture from the time of father Adam down to Jesus Christ, showing that any man had power to administer in any of the ordinances of t23 KB (4,323 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...s uttered, as I have said there was no organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; there was no gathering place; no person had ever witn ...n's wisdom, not in their own strength, but calling upon God in the name of Jesus to bestow His Holy Spirit upon the people and to carry their words by that43 KB (8,146 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...IENT PROPHECY—RISE OF JOSEPH THE PROPHET—ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—PERSECUTION OF THE SAINTS—THERE UNDYING FAITH IN GOD—THE WORLD PROVIN ...IENT PROPHECY—RISE OF JOSEPH THE PROPHET—ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—PERSECUTION OF THE SAINTS—THERE UNDYING FAITH IN GOD—THE WORLD PROVIN32 KB (5,876 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...may receive the truth and be prepared for the great day of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord, in relation to sending this mission forth among the inhabitants ...omise in the last chapter of Mark. Not only were these signs promised, but Jesus said: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believ21 KB (3,827 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...OR ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY—ITS GROWTH AND PROGRESS DESPITE OF OPPOSITION—CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT—SIMILARITY OF ANCIENT, TO MODERN OPPOSITION TO THE ...OR ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY—ITS GROWTH AND PROGRESS DESPITE OF OPPOSITION—CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT—SIMILARITY OF ANCIENT, TO MODERN OPPOSITION TO THE24 KB (4,297 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../29|The Gospel of Christ or Ancient Christianity, etc.]] ...nts were chosen on the same principle. There was any amount of teachers of divinity, any amount of professors of theology, any amount of reverend, and right re46 KB (8,267 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...ht concerning our duties as Latter-day Saints, as members of the Church of Christ, and it is of the utmost importance that when we thus meet, that we should ...ing in any manner to establish the claims of what is called "Mormonism" to divinity, or that the Commissioners themselves, in coming here, have once thought th39 KB (7,344 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...etween the sects of Christendom and of heathendom, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The people of this peculiar Church worship a Being wh ...rone to walk in the ways of darkness rather than in the light, because, as Jesus explained it, "their deeds are evil." This is the reason why there is so mu46 KB (8,705 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...said to him, "I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?" Jesus said to him, "Suffer it to be so now; for thus it becometh us to fulfill al You know that Jesus said to His Apostles in ancient days, that they should "sit upon twelve thr37 KB (6,788 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...t that has ever lived of whom we have any knowledge, save and except Jesus Christ Himself. The world would say that he was an impostor; and the Lord said tha ...ieved His testimony. The great majority of mankind then living who knew of Christ, deemed Him an impostor, and considered him worthy to be put to death; prec26 KB (4,695 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../11|The Church of Christ, etc.]] ...of the most striking evidences that this people offer to the world of the divinity of this work, which the world opprobriously call "Mormonism," is the fact t35 KB (6,566 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...THE PEOPLE-INTEREST MANIFESTED BY THE WORLD IN THE "MORMONS"-EVIDENCES OF DIVINITY IN THE WORK-SAME EFFECTS FOLLOW THE GOSPEL IN DIFFERENT AGES-AUTHORITY REST ...THE PEOPLE-INTEREST MANIFESTED BY THE WORLD IN THE "MORMONS"-EVIDENCES OF DIVINITY IN THE WORK-SAME EFFECTS FOLLOW THE GOSPEL IN DIFFERENT AGES-AUTHORITY REST36 KB (6,687 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...clared in that dispensation God would gather together in one all things in Christ; not only the things in the earth, but also the things in the heavens—the ..."When darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people." When Jesus was upon the earth He told His disciples that the time would come when fals47 KB (8,759 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...n within its lids, but what agrees in sentiment and veracity with those of Christ and His Apostles, as contained in the Bible. Neither is there a word of cou ...f faith, and strengthen us to do the labors required of us, in the name of Jesus. Amen.15 KB (2,690 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- |H=PREDICTIONS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON—EVIDENCE OF ITS DIVINITY—PROOF THAT JOSEPH SMITH WAS INSPIRED—PREDICTIONS CONCERNING THE INDIANS ...rnal of Discourses 25: PREDICTIONS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON—EVIDENCE OF ITS DIVINITY—PROOF THAT JOSEPH SMITH WAS INSPIRED—PREDICTIONS CONCERNING THE INDIANS33 KB (6,107 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- We who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, believe in God; not a God who lived a few thousand ye ...we have become familiar with it. And so, if we understood the law by which Jesus operated when He fed the multitude, it would be as simple to us as the law40 KB (7,544 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...power to retard the work of God. By the revelation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the two forces which have been arrayed against each other since the beginn ...igham Young, nor any other man who has been identified with this Church of Christ.33 KB (6,131 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...is labors—I had heard every man say: "I know this is the Gospel of Jesus Christ." And I felt within myself, if I can acquire a knowledge of the truth of th ...that they could not be denied, that the same Gospel was preached by Jesus Christ and His Apostles—but I have found among those hundreds very few who were53 KB (9,777 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...y him through the Spirit of God, which rested down upon him. Men doubt the divinity of this work. Men question the spirit of prophecy, or the divine mission of ...d unto us as a people. There is no doubt of it. I say in the name of Jesus Christ, that it will be so. I promise it in His name, and in the authority which I36 KB (6,731 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../Chapter 2|Chapter 2: Jesus]] ...1) Yet at the same time they ignored the clear evidence in the prayer that Jesus was on earth, at that time, speaking to a Being elsewhere; and the equally22 KB (3,638 words) - 14:13, 13 April 2024
- ...nstream Christians and Latter-day Christians "both accept the atonement of Christ" ...e President Ezra Taft Benson to the effect that "it was in Gethsemane that Jesus took on Himself the sins of the world"29 KB (4,781 words) - 14:13, 13 April 2024
- ...istians; their worship is the pure, unadulterated Christianity authored by Christ and accepted by Peter, James and John and all the ancient saints.<ref>Bill ...y which they practice "is the pure, unadulterated Christianity authored by Christ." If they do not believe this, then perhaps they had better choose another48 KB (8,193 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: How is the atonement of Jesus Christ portrayed in Latter-day Saint hymns== ...that this book is, in effect, a little body of experimental and practical divinity." Quoted in Ken Bible, "The Wesley's Hymns on Full Redemption and Pentecost16 KB (2,724 words) - 15:23, 13 April 2024
- ...ke Him whom they call the Son to be God all but the name, or they deny the divinity of the Son, giving Him a separate existence of His own, and making His sphe ===If the Father and the Son were numerically one, where would Jesus go?===14 KB (2,439 words) - 15:35, 13 April 2024
- How could the Jesus of the New Testament be the God of the Old Testament? The same man that sai ...the Canaanites depicted in Deuteronomy and Joshua with the God revealed in Jesus in the New Testament.<ref>Kenton Sparks, ''Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblic51 KB (8,337 words) - 21:51, 12 April 2024
- ...5}}; {{Harvtxt|Smith|1830|p=544}} (story from the [[Book of Ether]] of [[Jesus]] revealing "the body of my spirit" to an especially faithful man, saying ...33}} (arguing that Smith's original view was [[Sabellianism|modalism]], [[Jesus]] being the embodied manifestation the spirit Father, and that by 1834 Smit37 KB (4,789 words) - 22:59, 9 May 2024
- ...ch has "exaggerated the ignorance" of Joseph Smith in order to bolster the divinity of the Book of Mormon |L2=Response to claim: 70 - The Book of Mormon claims that Jesus was born in Jerusalem15 KB (2,397 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...usands are preaching in precept, that "they that will live Godly in Christ Jesus, must suffer persecution." ...ok like the Millen[n]ium, the peaceable reign of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Yours in gospel bonds,86 KB (15,726 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...are not among the gifts of the spirit, I would observe that Paul speaks of Christ ascending to heaven, and gave gifts to men, and he gave some apostles, &c. ...hers-the ''opinion'' of Commentators-the ''opinion'' of Divines, bodies of divinity-and cart loads of Theology!-all the ''opinions of men'', and those opinions69 KB (12,359 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...mposition of Mosaic observances, and to teach them to rely on the grace of Christ alone for salvation. But self-righteousness is a weed of too quick a growth ...ocetæ: Nor can I understand his laying so grhat [great] a stress on Jesus Christ's coming in the flesh in any other manner.66 KB (11,536 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...he dust to bear witness of the divinity of Thy Beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.<ref>Dieter F. Uchdorf, dedicatory prayer of Quetzaltenango Guatemala Templ3 KB (567 words) - 14:05, 13 April 2024
- ...e old paths, nor did search out the everlasting gospel; when the church of Christ, and the gifts which he left in it, could not be found; when men built up c ...t the things of God, that ye may be found spotless at the judgment seat of Christ;90 KB (16,997 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...rpetrators of such crimes! No ambitious, hypocritical pretended doctors of divinity, would ride over the ruins of men in gilded coaches, to lord it over God's ...of God! Such monsters betrayed, led to the cross, and slew the Lord Jesus Christ! Such infernal-influenced beings martyred the ancient saints, and marked th96 KB (17,771 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...notwithstanding all that I suffer, I rejoice. I will live godly in Christ Jesus, though I suffer persecution. A man has just told me, that in Palmyra, in f ...ing gospel of Jesus. I feel much weakness as a man, but in the strength of Christ, I am resolved to blow the trumpet of the gospel, until the people of God a76 KB (13,626 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...Book of Mormon, and the revelations and commandments of God through Jesus Christ, respectfully show:- There is a spirit in man, possessed of so much "divinity," that it will discover truth by its own light; no matter whether it is cov80 KB (14,317 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...nch of the church, which we call the Tooboui branch of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints; (take particular notice) consisting of eleven members A conference of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints was held at the house of P. Brunson, pursuant to previ78 KB (13,863 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- |L14=MINUTES OF A CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, HELD IN BURK'S GARDEN TAZWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA ON THE I am yours in Christ,77 KB (13,442 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...ophet. In speaking of him, he bears a positive and direct testimony to the divinity of his mission. He does this without hesitation; just as if he meant what h A special Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was convened on the platform of the Temple. There wer80 KB (14,469 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |L8=DISSERTATION UPON CHRIST'S PARABLE OF THE LABORERS AND THE VINEYARD ...all diligence, by perils, by sea and land; as was the case in the days of Jesus, which appears in the 6th chapter of St. John's Gospel he said, "verily, ve79 KB (14,213 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...day restoration]] of the [[Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)|Church of Christ]]. However, the faiths differ in their teachings about the vision's precis ...ra. With a sketch of the rise, faith, and doctrine of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. By O. Pratt.54 KB (8,212 words) - 16:49, 15 October 2017
- |L7=Response to claim: "35. When Christ died, did darkness cover the land for three days or for three hours?" |L19=Response to claim: "47. The Bible says, 'The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin'. Why did Brigham Young say that there are some sins51 KB (8,385 words) - 19:04, 8 May 2024
- ...hen showed them the plates: This was a much more powerful witnesses of the divinity of the translation effort. Did the angel retrieve the plates from the curre ...ommunity of Christ, and they have been photographed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The document referred to by the author is indeed the23 KB (3,867 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...n average of 1 reference to Christ every 1.7 verses. [{{Book:Black:Finding Christ|pages=16-18}}] ...rist was seen and touched by thousands of people in ancient America. Thus, Jesus really rose from the dead and the Atonement is real.13 KB (1,953 words) - 14:23, 13 April 2024
- ...witnesses would have said all objective statements testifying of the BOM's divinity. They would not have said things like "I did not see them as I do that pen ...ROBERTSON, AND PHILIP CATER, AND ELDER JOHN TAYLOR, OF THE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, AT BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, FRANCE.'', Liverpool: John Taylo45 KB (7,307 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...ll wrong; that they were following the precepts of men instead of the Lord Jesus; that He had a work for him to perform, inasmuch as he should prove faithfu ...ll wrong; that they were following the precepts of men instead of the Lord Jesus; that He had a work for him to perform, inasmuch as he should prove faithfu63 KB (10,994 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024