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  • Main Page
    * [[Doctrine and Covenants]] ===Doctrine===
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  • Question: Who was James Strang?
    ...that he was ordained by an angel to be successor to Joseph Smith. But the Doctrine and Covenants does not, contrary to Strang's claim, state that one must be
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  • Logical fallacies/Page 1
    ...care anything about that, for I never embrace any man in my faith. But the doctrine he has produced will save you and me, and the whole world; and if you can f ...hority is miscited or misunderstood - e.g. LDS prophets are experts on LDS doctrine, but the critic may have misrepresented their position. See [[Quote mining
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  • GospeLink quick links
    ** [http://gospelink.com/library/contents/125 Gospel Doctrine: Selections from Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith] * [http://gospelink.com/library/contents/569 Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed]
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  • Fallibility of prophets
    |L=Mormonism and doctrine/Prophets are not infallible ...herefore insist that any statement by any LDS Church leader represents LDS doctrine and is thus something that is secretly believed, or that should be believed
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  • Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries
    ...to avoid being “tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to
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  • Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement
    |L=Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement
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  • Mark Hofmann
    —Doctrine and Covenants 10:37}}
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  • Multiple accounts of the First Vision
    {{:Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 84 say that one cannot see God without holding the priesthood
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  • Joseph Smith and money digging
    ..., "Joseph Smith and Money Digging" in ''A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine and Church History'' ed. Laura Harris Hales (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book C ...Alma 1:32; 3 Nephi 21:16; Mormon 1:19; 2:10; Doctrine and Covenants 63:17; Doctrine and Covenants 76:103)
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  • Journal of Discourses/As doctrine and one of the "standard works" of the Church
    |L=Journal of Discourses/As doctrine and one of the "standard works" of the Church ...us Christ of Latter-day Saints supposedly "really believes" to be official doctrine on subjects that have been considered to be either controversial or touchy
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  • Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes
    |L=Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes |H=Textual changes in the Doctrine and Covenants
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  • Question: Why did Emma Smith and Brigham Young dislike one another?
    ...liar because she continued to insist that her husband had never taught the doctrine of plural marriage=== ...liar because she continued to insist that her husband had never taught the doctrine of plural marriage. So adamant was Emma on this point that the Reorganized
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  • Alleged false prophecies of Joseph Smith
    ...Is the prophecy concerning OIiver Granger contained in section 117 of the Doctrine and Covenants an example of a false prophecy? *Question: Is the prophecy contained in Doctrine and Covenants 84:114 an example of a false prophecy?
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  • Question: Did Bruce R. McConkie claim that our heavenly parents created our spirits "through some kind of sexual union"?
    #REDIRECT [[Question: Did Bruce R. McConkie claim in Mormon Doctrine that our heavenly parents created our spirits "through some kind of sexual
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  • Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Adam-God theory
    |L=Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Adam-God theory ...t LDS doctrine is in the presentation of anomalies as though they were the doctrine of the Church"
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  • Joseph Smith's campaign for President of the United States
    {{:Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:18:Joseph Smith's doctrine and character demand our amazement}}
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  • 1844 Succession to Joseph Smith
    ...chofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/43?lang=eng&id=3-4#p3 Doctrine and Covenants 43:3–4]). Before he died, Joseph Smith appointed his succes
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  • Eleven official witnesses to the Book of Mormon
    {{:Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 5 stipulate that there be only three witnesses to the gold pl
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  • Times and Seasons/2/5
    You can use your own pleasure respecting the printing the Doctrine and Covenants: if there is a great demand for them I have no objections, bu
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  • Source:LDS Newsroom:Approaching Mormon Doctrine:May 2007:Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine
    ...tatement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine"]]
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  • Primary sources/Nauvoo Expositor Full Text
    ...our country declare to be pernicious and diabolical. We hope many items of doctrine, as now taught, some of which, however, are taught secretly, and denied ope ...all his creatures, will be cast down as was Lucifer: thus holding forth a doctrine which is effectually calculated to sap the very foundation of our faith, an
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  • Question: Does Jesus already know who will be returning to God's presence?
    ..., accountability and judgment, are meaningless unless humans are free. Any doctrine of foreknowledge that undercuts this principle violates the spirit and lett ...view of most Christians since the post-New Testament period, and it is one doctrine that Joseph Smith didn't seem to question, as there are no revelations that
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/Nicene creed
    |L14=LDS doctrine rejects Neo-Plantonic accretions, but this does not make them automatically
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  • Mormonism and Christianity/Grace and works/Neglect grace
    |L1=Question: Do Mormons ignore the doctrine of grace at the expense of "works"? {{:Question: Do Mormons ignore the doctrine of grace at the expense of "works"?}}
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  • Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon
    ...not impressive since examples of chiastic patterns have been found in the Doctrine and Covenants or other 19th century writing. {{:Question: Does chiasmus exist in the Doctrine and Covenants?}}
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  • Mormon view of the creation/Creatio ex nihilo
    |L3=Question: How was the doctrine of creation altered to "creatio ex nihilo"? |L6=LDS doctrine rejects Neo-Plantonic accretions, but this does not make them automatically
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  • Question: Is the Mormon doctrine of "agency" or "free will" false, since all human choices are predetermined by the laws of physics?
    ==Question: Is the Mormon doctrine of "agency" or "free will" false, since all human choices are predetermined ...ould be able to exactly predict any future event. Does this mean that the doctrine of "agency" or "free will" is false, since all human choices are predetermi
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  • Question: What does it mean to Mormons when Jesus is declared to be the "alpha and omega"?
    ...ormon once ([http://scriptures.lds.org/3_ne/9/18#18 3 Nephi 9:18]) and the Doctrine and Covenants thirteen times ([http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/19/1#1 19:1]; [
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  • Mormonism and prophets/Revelation after Joseph Smith
    ...evelator, why have so few revelations after Joseph Smith been added to the Doctrine and Covenants? Revelations used to be printed in Church periodicals such as
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  • Adam-God theory
    #REDIRECT [[Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Adam-God theory]]
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/God is a Spirit/Lecture of Faith 5 teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"
    |S=Lectures on Faith, which used to be part of the Doctrine and Covenants, teach that God is a spirit. Joseph Smith's later teachings c |L6=Question: Is the Father embodied or a spirit in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants?
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  • Question: Should Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") reject "wayward" family members or those who leave the Church?
    ===There is no Church doctrine which teaches that sincere parents are condemned for their childrens' choic There is no Church doctrine which teaches that sincere parents are condemned for their childrens' choic
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  • Plan of salvation/Pre-mortal existence
    |H=The Mormon doctrine of "premortal existence"
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/Deification of man
    |L5=Question: What Biblical scriptures discuss the doctrine of the deification of man? {{:Question: What Biblical scriptures discuss the doctrine of the deification of man?}}
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/King Follett Discourse
    |summary=Since that sermon, known as the King Follett discourse, the doctrine that humans can progress to exaltation and godliness has been taught within
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  • Plural marriage in the Book of Mormon
    {{:Question: Why does Doctrine and Covenants 132 speak favorably about some Old Testament practitioners of {{SeeAlso|Doctrine and Covenants/Contradiction between Section 132 and Jacob 2|l1=D&C 132 vers
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  • Possible contradictions in the Doctrine and Covenants
    {{Navigation the Doctrine and Covenants}} |L=Possible contradictions in the Doctrine and Covenants
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  • Primary sources/Evolution
    *[[/Mormon_Doctrine | Mormon Doctrine]]
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/Mormon Doctrine
    ...an appropriate body, the body of a man, and so became a `living soul.' The doctrine of the pre-existence, revealed so plainly, particularly in latter-days, pou Obviously, the whole doctrine of the fall, and all that pertains to it, is diametrically opposed to the e
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Evolution
    ...statements on this subject, which are the only definitive source of Church doctrine. The resulting entry in the Encyclopedia is only 258 words long...." This is from the chapter entitled "LDS Doctrine and the Theory of Evolution" in the book ''Can Science Be Faith-Promoting?'
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/McKay Letter 1959
    ..."Man, His Origin and Destiny" by Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, nor "Mormon Doctrine" by Elder Bruce R. McConkie, is an official publication of the Church. <br>
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/Ensign 1987
    ...you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of G
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Creation
    ...Related authoritative information also appears in the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the LDS temple ceremony. Drawing on this wealth of creat ..., p. 379). It is so rendered throughout Abraham's account. In light of the doctrine of the eternal nature of matter, the word traditionally translated as "crea
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Origin of Man
    While the current state of revealed truth on the LDS doctrine of man's origin may permit some differences of opinion concerning the relat
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Earth
    ...this is not a unique concept among the religions of the world, but the LDS doctrine is distinctive (Crowe, pp. 241-46). ...illing its useful role the earth will become uninhabited, or be destroyed. Doctrine and Covenants 130:9 teaches that finally the earth will become sanctified a
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  • Primary sources/Bruce R. McConkie/Seven deadly heresies
    * There is no salvation in believing a false doctrine. * There is no salvation in believing a false doctrine.
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  • Question: Do Mormons believe that there is there progression between the three degrees of glory?
    A major scriptural argument against this idea comes from the Doctrine and Covenants, speaking of the telestial kingdom: ...he opposite view. But as stated, the Church has never announced a definite doctrine on this point.
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  • Plural marriage as a requirement for exaltation
    {{:Source:Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Seminary Teacher Manual:LESSON 140:Do not
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  • Plural marriage/1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy/CriticalSources
    #REDIRECT [[1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy/CriticalSources]]
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  • Plural marriage/1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy/Further Reading
    #REDIRECT [[1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy/Further Reading]]
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  • Question: What do we know about the chronology of the Book of Mormon translation and publication?
    ...istory'' (Provo: Brigham Young University Department of Church History and Doctrine, 1992), 71&ndash;91, cited in {{FR-6-1-9}}</ref>
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  • Plan of salvation/Original sin
    |S=Why don't Latter-day Saints believe the doctrine of "original sin" like the rest of Christianity? Do Mormons believe that th |L2=Question: Is original sin a biblical doctrine?
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  • Book of Mormon/Stick of Ephraim/Erastus Snow statement
    ...y, and whose history is given us in the Book of Mormon. Yet we find in the Doctrine and Covenants the declaration concerning the first Elders of this Church, t
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  • The Flood
    ...S scriptures require Mormons to believe in a global flood, and that if LDS doctrine or leaders are fallible in their statements concerning the flood, then they Doctrine and Covenants 88: 78-79
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1909
    ...y taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith ([http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/77/2#2 Doctrine and Covenants, 77:2]). ...an appropriate body, the body of a man, and so became a "living soul." The doctrine of the pre-existence, &mdash;revealed so plainly, particularly in latter da
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1925
    ...an appropriate body, the body of a man, and so became a "living soul." The doctrine of pre-existence pours wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterio
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  • Jesus Christ/Was Jesus married
    ...2006): "The belief that Christ was married has never been official church doctrine" ...man:2006:The belief that Christ was married has never been official church doctrine}}
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  • Question: Is it true that Utah has the highest personal bankruptcy rate in the United States?
    ...roof over the heads of my wife and children. I was reared on that kind of doctrine. I urge you as members of this Church to get free of debt where possible an
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  • Question: Was Brigham Young a racist?
    ...agraph of one talk. True principles are taught frequently and by many. Our doctrine is not difficult to find.<br><br>The leaders of the Church are honest but i {{SeeAlso|Fallibility_of_prophets|l1=Official Church doctrine and statements by Church leaders|Blacks and the priesthood/Understanding pr
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  • Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon
    ...not impressive since examples of chiastic patterns have been found in the Doctrine and Covenants or other 19th century writing.
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  • Mormonism and science/Death before the Fall
    ...ion: Is the concept of no death before the fall on the entire earth Church doctrine? ...Is the concept of no death before the fall on the ''entire earth'' Church doctrine?}}
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  • Question: Is the doctrine that God the Father and Jesus Christ have physical bodies not Biblical?
    ==Question: Is the doctrine that God the Father and Jesus Christ have physical bodies not Biblical?==
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  • Question: Why are there different versions of the Articles of Faith?
    ...Articles and Covenants" of the soon-to-be-organized Church. Later known as Doctrine and Covenants Section 20, this text enumerates a number of basic beliefs, i Orson Pratt offers an expansive and eloquent "sketch of the faith and doctrine" of the Church in his ''Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions''
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  • Question: Can a person receive a spiritual witness about any book?
    Additionally, Doctrine and Covenants 50:31 states the following:
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  • Times and Seasons/2/9
    ...d together at the place of my meeting for the purpose of investigating our doctrine and to receive it if true. By this time doors were open upon every hand, ma ...ng and premoting [promoting] this vile and abomable [abominable] dictrine [doctrine].
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/God is a Spirit
    |L1=Question: Does the Mormon doctrine that God has a physical body contradict the Bible's statement in John 4:24 |L3=Question: Is the doctrine that God the Father and Jesus Christ have physical bodies not Biblical?
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/No man has seen God
    |L2=Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 84 say that one cannot see God without holding the priesthood {{:Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 84 say that one cannot see God without holding the priesthood
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  • Question: Did procreation exist on the earth before the Fall of Adam?
    ...procreation and death before the fall is not an issue on which the Church doctrine provides any official stance=== ...procreation and death before the fall is not an issue on which the Church doctrine provides any official stance.
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/Corporeality of God
    |L3=Question: Does the doctrine that God has a physical body contradict the Bible? |L6=Question: Is the doctrine that God the Father and Jesus Christ have physical bodies not Biblical?
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  • Doctrine and Covenants/Geography/Locations
    #REDIRECT [[The Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Mormon geography/Locations]]
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  • Works critical of the Church of Jesus Christ
    ...e hath deceived you—and thus he flattereth them away to do iniquity.<ref>Doctrine and Covenants 10:10–12, 24–25, 27, 29.</ref> ...from heaven—these should then be attended to with great earnestness.<ref>Doctrine and Covenants 123:11–14.</ref>
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  • Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple
    ...n, there is also an Elias of the Restoration, meaning that there is also a doctrine of Elias that pertains not to preparation alone, but to restoration. Christ ...t appear to Joseph Smith at the Kirtland Temple and that the record now in Doctrine and Covenants 110 was created after Joseph Smith's death. This theory is pr
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  • Source:Christofferson:BYU-Idaho Devotional:Recording mistakes, for example, have sometimes been seized on as evidence of misrepresentations or bumbling by the Prophet
    ...ther than “First Elder” and “Second Elder” as found in the text of Doctrine and Covenants Section 20. The 1833 Book of Commandments suggested that the
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  • Evidences that support the Book of Abraham
    ...of 1835. While he was gone, W.W. Phelps published the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants using the term "Shinehah." taken from Abraham 3:13, as a code ====Abraham became like God (Doctrine and Covenants 132: 29, 37, 49)====
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  • Primary sources/Unwritten Order of Things
    The fundamental doctrine and instructions on the organization of the Church are likewise found in th ...s an assistant stake clerk. My bishop did not want to release me as Gospel Doctrine teacher. He told me that I had much more to offer as a teacher than in the
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  • Question: What is the Mormon understanding of the nature of angels?
    ===LDS doctrine on angels is consistent with Biblical passages which portray at least some LDS doctrine on angels is consistent with Biblical passages which portray at least some
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  • Question: Why doesn't Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision account mention a "new dispensation"?
    *In the Book of Commandments/Doctrine and Covenants introduction&mdash;provided on 1 November 1831&mdash;the Lord ...no sense at all for the Lord to only allow one mortal to possess "the true doctrine"; it would need to be spread by someone.
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  • Question: What criticisms are associated with Doctrine and Covenants Section 132?
    ==Question: What criticisms are associated with Doctrine and Covenants Section 132?==
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  • Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/Understanding pre-1978 statements
    ...s by Church leaders|l1=Racist statements by Church leaders|Official Church doctrine and statements by Church leaders|l2=Prophets are not infallible|Blacks_and_
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Eternal Life
    *[[Plain and Precious Book of Mormon doctrines#Prayer|Book of Mormon doctrine on prayer]] ...n and Precious Book of Mormon doctrines#The purpose of life|Book of Mormon doctrine on the purpose of life]]
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Prophecy and Revelation
    ...ssage, the Lord confirms his word (e.g., prophecies and promises) in the ''Doctrine and Covenants'' shall all be fulfilled. By "search[ing] these commandments" .... When the instructions are viewed as a commandment, the wisdom found in ''Doctrine and Covenants'' as outlined above can help us gain an understanding how the
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Polygamy
    ...-weight:normal;text-align:center;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Misrepresenting LDS Doctrine</h1> Doctrine and Covenants 132 teaches of "the new and everlasting covenant," which incl
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/The Translator
    ...quote clarifies, by "most correct" he meant ''in principle, teaching, and doctrine.''
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/DNA
    ...the days of the Jaredites and the Nephites, and we don't have any official doctrine about who the descendants of the Nephites and the Jaredites are. Many Mormo
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Witnessing to Mormons
    ...Bible says. He claimed to restore Christianity to its original state. LDS doctrine does not alter Biblical doctrines, but it does offer a different interpreta ...have argued, often passionately, over every conceivable point of Christian doctrine from the filioque to the immaculate conception. There is scarcely an issue
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Summary
    ...ept that Joseph was imperfect&mdash;all men have weaknesses. But it is the doctrine of Christ which Joseph taught, and the influence of the Holy Spirit which J ...Prophet. I have never seen him, and do not know his private character. The doctrine he teaches is all I know about the matter, bring anything against that if y
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Credits
    ...ctrines, mysteries, and occultism. On its most secret levels, a Luciferian doctrine is unveiled as the background.... Mormonism is based on a secret for the si
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  • Question: Does Colossians 1:16 teach that Jesus created all things out of nothing?
    ===Creedal Christians believe in the post-Biblical doctrine of ''creatio ex nihilo'' (creation out of nothing)=== Creedal Christians believe in the post-Biblical doctrine of ''creatio ex nihilo'' (creation out of nothing). Because this is how the
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  • Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy?
    {{:Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:18:Joseph Smith's doctrine and character demand our amazement}}
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  • Question: Did those who entered into plural marriage do so simply because Joseph Smith (or another Church leader) "told them to"?
    ...ities of the Church, and what they had suffered to establish this peculiar doctrine. It was a grand point in the Gospel, and had to be established in this gene ...would grant us some special manifestation concerning this new and strange doctrine. The Lord was very merciful to us; He revealed unto us His power and glory.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Letter (annotated)
    ...ould be sufficiently grounded in their testimonies and knowledge of Church doctrine and history that they can answer questions in a non-contentious and informa ::''Members should invite those with questions about Church doctrine and practices to read latter-day scriptures and to study the restored gospe
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Burning in the Bosom
    ...y referred to by some as a burning in the bosom, using the phrase from the Doctrine and Covenants ([http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/9/8 D&C 9:8]), and the same co ...hing to confirm its status as the Word of God. This fatally undercuts the doctrine of "don't believe anything except what you read in the Bible."
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/The Priesthood
    Mr. McElveen is here claiming that the doctrine of "priesthood of all believers" is Biblical. This Biblical interpretation Pastor Gallatin is determined to defend the doctrine of "priesthood of all believers," and so does not mention all the scripture
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  • D&C 84 says God not seen without priesthood
    #REDIRECT [[Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 84 say that one cannot see God without holding the priesthood
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  • Search for the Truth DVD/Call to Leaders/Individual witness
    ...r not, and when any other teacher among us speaks, we may know whether the doctrine he advances is from God or not; and so that, if necessary, we could go to t ...know and understand all these things. Suppose I were to teach you a false doctrine, how are you to know it if you do not possess the Spirit of God?
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  • Mormonism and culture/Attitude toward non-members/Statements
    ...esus Christ of Latter-day Saints gladly teaches and declares the Christian doctrine that all men and women are brothers and sisters, not only by blood relation ...el in wisdom, according to that which is just and true.' [Alma 29.8]. The doctrine unites in one splendid brotherhood all the Seekers after God, all those who
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    ...g," nor to "follow a prophet blindly." In fact, numerous scriptures in the Doctrine and Covenants speak of using our God-given intelligence to study and learn, ...n 5,727 times, compared to 5,109 from the New Testament and 4,291 from the Doctrine and Covenants. We spend one year out of ever four in our Sunday School less
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    ...me of Christ are part of a "Great Apostasy," that has incorporated corrupt doctrine and practices. (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith 2:19) * his group should allow Latter-day Saints to describe their own doctrine.
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    ...rch and kingdom, that it is in the hearts of many of them to wish that the doctrine of polygamy was not taught and practiced by us.... It is the word of the Lo ...all times are required to be actual polygamists, but that they accept the doctrine ["polygamists at least in your faith"] and be ready to practice it if so co
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  • Question: Why are "hot drinks" forbidden by the Word of Wisdom?
    ...re." Faithful members of the Church accept the revelations recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants as scripture, as sustained by a personal witness of the Holy ...influenced medical practice in the United States for over a century. This doctrine was firmly in place in Joseph Smith's day.<ref>{{Dialogue|author=Robert T.
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  • Question: In the 1950s, did Mormons teach that the only way a black man could get into heaven was as a slave?
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/Heavenly Mother
    Eliza R. Snow, a Church leader and poet, rejoiced over the doctrine that we are, in a full and absolute sense, children of God. “I had learne ...d almost inevitable. This is especially true given the LDS embrace of the doctrine of [[Deification_of_man|''theosis'']], or human deification. Thus, the Hea
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  • Question: How is Genesis 3:5 used by critics to attempt to show that the Mormon doctrine of deification is a teaching of Satan?
    ...ion: How is Genesis 3:5 used by critics to attempt to show that the Mormon doctrine of deification is a teaching of Satan?== ===The use of Genesis 3 to counter the doctrine of deification/theosis has two problems associated with it. The first is t
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    This verse is used by critics to attempt to show that the LDS doctrine of deification is a teaching of Satan. So the use of Genesis 3 to counter the doctrine of deification/theosis has two problems associated with it. The first is t
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  • Question: How is John 4:24 used as a proof-text by critics of Mormon doctrine of the corporeal nature of God?
    ==Question: How is John 4:24 used as a proof-text by critics of Mormon doctrine of the corporeal nature of God?== This verse is used as a proof-text by critics of the LDS doctrine of the corporeal nature of God. Critics argue that this passage proves that
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  • Question: Do Mormons believe in the "rapture"?
    ...ay have since been modified by other authors. FAIR attempts to reflect LDS doctrine to the best of our ability. Because different groups should have the right Doctrine and Covenants section 63 provides us with additional insight regarding thes
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  • Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/"Adieu"/Further examples
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/Polytheism
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  • Question: How can a person reaffirm their testimony when they learn disconcerting facts that may bring their testimony into doubt?
    ...ou received a spiritual witness to some extent about some aspect of church doctrine=== ...ou received a spiritual witness to some extent about some aspect of church doctrine. Building upon this you can have the desire to reconcile your conflict.
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  • Theosis Bibliography
    ...Latin Fathers,” in ''Dictionnaire de Spiritualite, ascetique et mystique doctrine et histoire'' (Paris 1957): 3, Columns 1389-1398. ...Theosis and Sanctification. John Wesley’s Reformulation of a Patristic Doctrine,” ''Wesleyan Theological Journal'' 31 (1996): 71-94.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/The God Makers/Cartoon
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  • MormonFAQ/LDS Org
    ...ors and Gospel Doctrine class for the general adult membership. The Gospel Doctrine course will rotate through the scriptures of the Church covering: * Doctrine & Covenants and Church History
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  • MormonFAQ/Basic beliefs
    ...e is no no expectation of "prophetic infallibility," and official acts and doctrine require the assent of fifteen Church leaders: the prophet, his two counselo ...ditional scripture. The Book of Mormon is considered scripture, as is the Doctrine and Covenants (called the Book of Commandments by some denominations) and t
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    ...y campaign against Mormon beliefs or practices. Merely disbelieving Mormon doctrine, leaving the Church, or disagreeing with Church policy does not make someon ...bership because of belief in doctrines that are not compatible with church doctrine. The term, however, should not be used to describe or label any church or
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  • Theosis
    ...er, ''The Patristic Doctrine of Redemption. A Study of the Development of Doctrine during the First Five Centuries'' (London 1952): 86; citing Methodius, '' ...e Latin Fathers,” in Dictionnaire de Spiritualite, ascetique et mystique doctrine et histoire (Paris 1957): 3, Columns 1389-1398.
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  • The temple endowment
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  • Paid and unpaid Church leaders
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  • Question: Does the film "September Dawn" about the Mountain Meadows Massacre accurately portray the historical events?
    ...e reviewers don't quite get it. Without a background in Mormon history and doctrine, and without a knowledge of the favorite themes of the anti-Mormon industry ...ef — that people must die to make up for their sins — has never been a doctrine of the Mormon Church, but is the essential premise of 'September Dawn.'" -
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  • Question: Why might someone not be able to see their spiritual impressions come to successful, obvious, and/or beautiful fruition?
    ...span style="color:lightblue">3. Continuing in light until the perfect day (Doctrine and Covenants 50:24)</span>==== ...veal something to us later when we are more mature and able to receive it? Doctrine and Covenants 50:24 tells us that "[t]hat which is of God is light; and he
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  • Joseph Smith's First Vision/Nature of God
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  • Evolution:Primary sources:Mormon Doctrine
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  • Times and Seasons/1/6
    ...[innocent] men, women and children! No wonder that men are driven into the doctrine of infidelity and skepticism: I have been well nigh driven into infidelity ...all blood shed, and the original stamina of all religions persecution: the doctrine of metaphysics is one of the first born heirs of superstition, and holds a
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  • Topical Guide/Pearl of Great Price/Book of Abraham/Kirtland Egyptian Papers
    ...ri" from ''The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson'']
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    ...the Holy Scriptures of the prophets and apostles, as being profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness, and that all mystic ...systems of error and delusion, and have endeavored to restore the ancient doctrine and faith which was once delivered to the saints, and to build society upon
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Who is Jesus
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Origins of Nicene Trinitarianism
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Jesus is God
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  • Question: Was Zarahemla located near present-day Nauvoo?
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  • Oliver Cowdery and the "rod of nature"
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  • Question: Is it true that Mormon missionaries are not allowed to swim because Satan has dominion over the waters?
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  • Specific works/In Sacred Loneliness/Index
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  • Question: Does what Joseph Smith taught about the creation of spirits contradict the scriptures?
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  • Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/The "curse of Cain" and "curse of Ham"
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  • The White Horse prophecy
    ...ot been substantiated by historical research and is not embraced as Church doctrine.<br>- Kim Farrah, representative from Church Public Affairs <ref>Kim Farrah
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  • Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Loaded and prejudicial language
    ...o beginnings of the practice remain in LDS scripture as Section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants and in the church's temple sealings.
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  • Question: Does FAIR provide "official" answers to questions?
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Overview
    ...t" and clarify many of the distortions and misrepresentations accorded our doctrine and beliefs by ''One Nation under Gods''. It is our desire to increase unde
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri
    Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1958; second edition, 1966), 855. During a Dece Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1958; second edition, 1966), 855. During a Dece
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Joseph Smith's Narcissism
    ...l leave my brethren to enlarge on this subject: it is my duty to teach the doctrine. I would teach it more fully—the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
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  • Question: Was the Mormons' use of the Nauvoo city charter to invalidate writs from other jurisdictions improper?
    Another doctrine added credibility to Smith's idea of Nauvoo as a city-state. Although the U
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 2
    #Brigham Young, "A few words of Doctrine," Oct 8, 1861, LDS Archives.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Preface
    ...er or not these grandparents believed this, such a belief has never been a doctrine of the Church.
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  • Times and Seasons/1/4
    that Mormonism is truth, in other words the doctrine of the Latter Day Saints is truth; for the name Mormon, and Mormonism, was ...the remission of sins as well as in the doctrine of repentance; and in the doctrine of the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, as well as baptism
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/LDS "Birth Machines"
    ...mment as orthodox Mormon doctrine, as if a BYU scholar says it, it must be doctrine. This is clearly not the intent of England.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Advertising for the Tanners
    ...ith the text of the 1835 re-publication of these same revelations as the ''Doctrine and Covenants'' (Figure 18.1, 18.2, 18.3). Hundreds of changes were made to
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 3
    ...thor does not discuss the many differences between The Peace Maker and LDS doctrine. The author and his source also ignore the arguments which had been raised
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 8
    {{misinformation|The author grossly mischaracterizes the doctrine on this point. He omits key parts of Brigham's recorded discourse: "…if ...k of serious scholarship, however, this tells us little about official LDS doctrine, or even what most members believe. Non-members, however, might well be con
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Introduction
    #Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1958; second edition, 1966), 855. During a Dece
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 2
    ...translated, printed and sent before the world. I said, Joseph, you know my doctrine, that cursed is every one that putteth his trust in man, and maketh flesh h
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 3
    *Did Joseph teach the doctrine of "Caucasians advancing to godhood?" *We would like to see a reference to this doctrine of "Caucasians advancing to godhood."
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 4
    {{misinformation|Joseph was talking about the doctrine presented in the Book of Mormon when he declared it the "most correct book.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 5
    #Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'' (1958; second edition, 1966), p. 132. ...uestion: How was the wording of the "rod of nature" revelation that became Doctrine and Coveants 8:6–8 altered over time?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 9
    {{:Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:18:Joseph Smith's doctrine and character demand our amazement‎}} {{:Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 98:31 justify the murder of one's personal enemies?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 11
    *[[Church doctrine/Repudiated/Blood atonement]] ...n or against any principle taught us in the Bible, Book of Mormon, Book of Doctrine & Covenants, revelations given through Joseph Smith the prophet and the Pre
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 13
    *McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', 387, 750. {{misinformation|This is not a doctrine of the Church, even if some believe it.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 17
    ...Response to claim: 388 - Did Gordon B. Hinckely answer questions about LDS doctrine evasively? #Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', 764.
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  • Source:John S. Lewis:Interpreter 8:71:Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?
    #REDIRECT [[John S. Lewis: "Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand yea
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 18
    ...the LDS Church is most accurate, because it contains "revelation...in the Doctrine and Covenants, in the Book of Mormon" as well as other "revelation that com {{disinformation|LDS doctrine is very clear that prophets will ''not'' always know deception when they se
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 6
    ...and damned. Yet, he condemns Joseph and the Saints for teaching the same doctrine, with the same intention. {{:Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 98:4-11 instruct Latter-day Saints to disobey secular law?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 7
    ...to claim: 128-9, 528n10 (PB) - Were the revelations published in the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants "amended, added to, excised, and in some cases assigned diffe ...to claim: 128-9, 528n10 (PB) - Were the revelations published in the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants "amended, added to, excised, and in some cases assigned diffe
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 14
    {{misinformation|LDS doctrine endorses the civil law, but does not grant the civil law supremacy over con #Doctrine and Covenants-Manifesto
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 15
    ...(and his readers) the fact that he has misunderstood or misrepresented LDS doctrine and belief on this point. ...d the ushering in of the millennium." Citation given is McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'' (Salt Lake City:Bookcraft, 1958; second edition, 1966), 578.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 16
    ...ite supremacist teachings," and that these teaching all related to the LDS doctrine of pre-existence. Does Latter-day Saint doctrine teach that black is not an "honourable body?"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Loaded and prejudicial language
    ...r-up the Smith-Alger affair appeared in the church's 1835 edition of the ''Doctrine and Covenants''..."
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  • Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Essays/Early womanizer
    ...story," in The Disciple As Witness: Essays on Latter-Day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Richard Lloyd Anderson, Steph
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  • Emma Smith in Doctrine and Covenants 132
    Here are the verses of Doctrine and Covenants 132 in question: ...w.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/132.64?lang=eng Doctrine & Covenants 132:64]).
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  • Question: Was Emma was promised "annihilation" if she didn't accept plural marriage?
    #REDIRECT [[Emma Smith in Doctrine and Covenants 132]]
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 2a
    ...-118 - Orson Hyde "was reportedly 'furious'" with Joseph's plural marriage doctrine ...-118 - Orson Hyde "was reportedly 'furious'" with Joseph's plural marriage doctrine==
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith have a youthful struggle with unchastity?
    ...l actions. They claim that these are what eventually led him to teach the doctrine of plural marriage. <ref>{{CriticalWork:Smith:Nauvoo Polygamy|pages=15&ndas {{:Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:18:Joseph Smith's doctrine and character demand our amazement}}
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  • Question: Was Brigham Young a "young earth creationist"?
    {{main|Official Church doctrine and statements by Church leaders}}
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  • Question: Do Mormon histories have a long history of omitting mention of plural marriage as a cause for the Saints' troubles in Illinois?
    ...tt argues that one of the new doctrines that set the Saints apart was "the doctrine of plural marriage"=== ...lander outside the Church. . . . He was convinced that the practice of the doctrine would bring bitter persecution upon the Church and eventually cause him to
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  • Primary sources/Brigham Young/8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
    "...I will give you a few words of doctrine upon which there has been much inquiry and with regard to which considerabl ::[69] Footnote 69: "A Few Words on Doctrine," speech at Tabernacle by Brigham Young, 8 Oct. 1861, Brigham Young address
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  • Question: Did Brigham Young and Joseph Smith say that polygamists were allowed to go beyond normal bounds of social interaction?
    the spiritual wife doctrine came upon me while abroad, in such a manner that I never forget. . . . Jose
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  • Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
    ...d her during 1840–41. At the same time, Joseph Smith had taught Zina the doctrine of plural marriage, and thrice asked her to marry him. She declined each ti
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Absurd claims
    ...n or against any principle taught us in the Bible, Book of Mormon, Book of Doctrine & Covenants, revelations given through Joseph Smith the prophet and the Pre ...ham Young [[Deification_of_man/Gods_of_their_own_planets|taught]] that the doctrine of ''theosis'' did not imply any separateness or competition with others, i
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index
    ...God doctrine taught by Brigham Young|Response to claim: 220-221 - Adam-God doctrine taught by Brigham Young]] ...: 222 - The book claims that Latter-day Saints "attempt to veil their evil doctrine in semi-orthodox terminology"]]
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/Deification of man/Gods of their own planets
    ...tion: Joseph Smith does not teach polytheism or "supplanting God" with his doctrine of human divination ...ng on their own clouds and playing harps after death. Latter-day Saints’ doctrine of exaltation is often similarly reduced in media to a cartoonish image of
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  • Question: Do the Latter-day Saint "Three Degrees of Glory" have a basis in the Bible?
    It is claimed that the doctrine of three heavens has no basis in the Bible. ...able that the Christian world has for many centuries been content with the doctrine of one heaven and one hell.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources
    *{{Detail|Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes}} #Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', p. 750.
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/"God is a man"
    |H=The Mormon doctrine that God has a physical body and the Holy Bible |L1=Question: Does the doctrine that God has a physical body contradict the Bible?
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Christianity is satanic
    ...ke other Christian clergymen then and now&mdash;clearly disagreed with the doctrine of much of Christendom, but to say they regarded it as "satanic" is not sup
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Disobey secular law
    {{:Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 98:4-11 instruct Latter-day Saints to disobey secular law?}}
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  • Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Essays/Illegal marriages in Ohio
    {{More|Mormonism and polygamy/1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy|l1=D&C 1835 edition, Section CI denies polyga
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/D and C 98 justifies murder
    |H=Does Doctrine and Covenants 98:31 justify the murder of personal enemies? {{:Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 98:31 justify the murder of one's personal enemies?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Christianity corrupt and Satan replaces God
    *Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'' (1958; second edition, 1966), p. 132. ...ackson from the ''Ensign'', and the second is Bruce R. McConkie's ''Mormon Doctrine''. There is nothing in either of these articles which argues that "Satan s
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Postscript
    {{misinformation|The citations from Alexander deal with [[Church doctrine/Repudiated/Blood atonement|blood atonement]] and the [[Mormon Reformation]]
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  • Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
    ...doers was limited to the remedies specified in section 134 of the church's Doctrine and Covenants. Nothing required Brigham Young to hunt down the participants
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  • Question: Are the mysterious "Danites" in Utah a source of Mormon power, terror, and control?
    ...all upon whom the leaders of the church frowned." 205 Her proof of this is Doctrine and Covenants 132:26, which has nothing to do with the case. Brigham Young, ...owest margin of survival, as the Mormons were in the 1850s and 1860s, this doctrine seems singularly weak in survival value; what would such a policy do to any
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Sarcasm
    The author uses sarcasm to belittle what he claims to be LDS beliefs and doctrine.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Orson Pratt condemns the Bible
    ...[../Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine|Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine]] ...t He would give His Only Begotten Son to die for them, and then reveal His doctrine to them in a language altogether ambiguous and uncertain? Such questions, d
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Special relationship with Christ
    |<=[[../Mormon Doctrine and race issues|Mormon Doctrine and race issues]]
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Natural before spiritual
    ...doctrine is manifest. Both aspects of the doctrine are taught early in the Doctrine and Covenants:
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Most accurate history in all the world
    ...hand dealings of God direct to us through revelation as it has come in the Doctrine and Covenants, in the Book of Mormon, and in any revelation that comes to u ..." of the Church is most accurate, because it contains "revelation...in the Doctrine and Covenants, in the Book of Mormon" as well as other "revelation that com
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Church leaders will always know deception
    *Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', 197. ==Doctrine and Covenants==
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy
    ...[../Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine|Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine]]
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Demolish Endowment House
    ...about polygamy being practiced in Utah, without repudiating polygamy as a doctrine, or specifically promising to obey the U.S. laws forbidding plural marriage
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  • Times and Seasons/1/3
    ...and precepts of men, as far as they are contrary to the ancient faith and doctrine of the Saints; and we hereby bear our testimony against them. ...on resided on Ohio, several hundred miles distant. Mr. Rigdon embraced the doctrine through my instrumentality. I first presented the Book of Mormon to him. I
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Mormon Doctrine and race issues
    |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Mormon Doctrine and race issues |H=Misrepresentation of Bruce R. McConkie's ''Mormon Doctrine'' on racial issues
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Double standard on race
    |>=[[../Mormon Doctrine and race issues|McConkie's ''Mormon Doctrine'' and race issues]] ...thor of ''ONUG'' even goes so far as to quote Bruce R. McConkie's ''Mormon Doctrine'' without telling readers that this apostle published a revised version of
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy
    * Brother Hyde spoke of a revelation . . . in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. That revelation was reserved at that time; the compilation f ...Northern and Southern States. This revelation is published in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, a standard work of the Church, and also in many languages, m
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Conception of Christ
    ...would recognize as his or her beliefs. We have a right to declare our own doctrine and the interpretation of its implications, not hostile and ill-informed cr This misrepresents LDS sources and doctrine.
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  • Question: Should “the plains” of Moreh in the Book of Abraham actually be “the oak” of Moreh?
    ...hurchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/128.17-18?lang=eng Doctrine and Covenants 128:17&ndash;18]. You can read the full quote [[Joseph Smith:
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Changing Biblical text
    ...however, since he uses the practice of baptism for the dead to support the doctrine of the Resurrection. '''In essence, he says''', “Why are '''we''' perform
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Unity of faith
    ...be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about by every wind of doctrine. And by the slight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Consistent
    ...Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Teaching with authority
    ...ass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Learn the truth
    Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. <br> If any man do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. <br>
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example/Index
    ...is, (contrary to the author's claim) in fact, "the closest allusion to the doctrine of eternal marriage the Prophet had yet made in public discourse."
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism: Shadow or Reality
    ...us other works attacking various aspects of Mormon history, scripture, and doctrine.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism: Shadow or Reality/Index
    ...ever-ending hell provided by an angry, unforgiving God. Under such a cruel doctrine men would be frightened, so it was hoped, into a righteous manner of living
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 4
    {{:Question: Is original sin a biblical doctrine?}} {{:Question: What is the origin of the doctrine of original sin?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 6
    ...were all superstitious, unreliable men. Then, he takes scriptures such as Doctrine and Covenants 110:1 to support his odd assertion: ...ose received using the stone (referred to as the "Urim and Thummim" in the Doctrine and Covenants).
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 8
    ...lopment of the Mormon Doctrine of God," ''Line upon Line: Essays on Mormon Doctrine'', ed. Gary James Bergera, 35-52.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 1a
    ...o beginnings of the practice remain in LDS scripture as Section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants and in the church's temple sealings" {{misinformation|Joseph was teaching the doctrine of eternal marriage well before 1841.
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  • Question: Why did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?
    ...d one additional suspect classification (sex) to existing equal protection doctrine. How much more? I really don’t know. And that is the greatest problem.”
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Be interested
    ...May we know what this new doctrine is whereof thou speakest is? For thou speaketh strange things to our ears:
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Study
    If any man will do his will, he will know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
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  • Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Rapture
    |link=Mormonism and doctrine/Rapture and LDS theology ...y=What is the "Rapture"? Do Latter-day Saints believe in this or a similar doctrine?
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Use of sources
    ...be openly discussed compounded the problems. Those authorized to teach the doctrine stressed the strict covenants...those who heard only rumors...often envisio *The author completely ignores the fact that Joseph said that Matthias' "doctrine was of the devil" and that Joseph sent him on his way, instead implying tha
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Persist
    Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Precept must be upon precept; line upon line, line upon line…
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  • Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"
    ...dtsoe's statement, anti-Mormon writers have not been afraid to discuss the Doctrine and Covenants.
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Abuse of a Bible test
    ...e day, and to have committed the Church to this position as a principle of doctrine. That no scholar ever did... That Joseph should have articulated these idea
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Living with Differences and Uncertainty
    ...added “It does not prove that a man is not a good man because he errs in doctrine.” ...personal reminiscences, given at different times, the first section of the Doctrine and Covenants contains a formal revelation, declaring the Church of Jesus C
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Authors note
    ...material. Any Bible study can be improved. And the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants include additional tests for prophets. (For example, Alma 30-
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  • Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Hierarchy of doctrinal authority
    ==Is there a "hierarchical" criteria for how to perform research on LDS doctrine?== ...ebsite. They clarified what is meant by official Church "doctrine". Church doctrine is only something that is:
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  • Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/DNA and religious claims
    ...ist of Latter-day Saints by hundreds of years. The "curse of Ham" is not a doctrine of the Church. There was also ''never'' anything that required a supposed d
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/A Letter to an Apostle/The Letter
    ...that "failed prophecies" in the Book of Commandments were removed from the Doctrine and Covenants. {{:Question: Who made the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants?}}
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  • Question: Has the Church tried to hide the fact that Joseph fired a pepperbox pistol at the mob which murdered him?
    * Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual for 2005: “Doctrine and Covenants and Church History” lesson 32, page 184: the following ac ...http://www.lds.org/manual/doctrine-and-covenants-and-church-history-gospel-doctrine-teachers-manual/lesson-32-to-seal-the-testimony?lang=eng}}
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  • Evangelical witnessing to Mormons/Craig Blomberg - Jesus to the Mormons
    ...ered Jesus and come to know him through the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and the teachings of modern prophe :Thus the New Testament itself is far from any doctrine of the Trinity or of a triune God who is three co-equal Persons of One Natu
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  • Question: Are Mormon scriptures full of contradictions?
    ...o which the Column A scriptures refer is Jesus Christ, or Jehovah. In LDS doctrine, Jesus Christ was a premortal spirit that did not yet have a physical body ...point #1, LDS doctrine sees God as one, but not one in substance. In LDS doctrine, God may be properly spoken of as one ''and'' as consisting of more than on
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  • Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
    <small>Video published by Doctrine and Covenants Central.</small>
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    ...church of the latter-day Saints and to be instructed more perfectly in our doctrine &c I commenced and gave him a brief relation of my experience while in my j
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Letters to a Mormon Elder
    ...gth project on Mormonism is the evangelical answer to the claims of Mormon doctrine. In fact, Mr. White seems to have the answers to just about anything and ev
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
    ...evangelicals. More important, the teaching he presents as Latter-day Saint doctrine, although composed mostly of authentic Latter-day Saint elements, is virtua
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  • Specific works/New Mormon Challenge
    ** Blake Ostler, "The Doctrine Of Creation ''Ex Nihilo'' Was Created Out Of Nothing: A Response To Copan A ** Blake Ostler, "The Doctrine Of Creation ''Ex Nihilo'' Is A Big Fuss Over Nothing: A Response To Copan A
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  • Latter-day Saint scripture/Supposed contradictions
    |L2=Question: Do Doctrine and Covenants 20:37 and 2 Nephi 31:17 or 3 Nephi 12:2 contradict one anothe {{:Question: Do Doctrine and Covenants 20:37 and 2 Nephi 31:17 or 3 Nephi 12:2 contradict one anothe
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  • Response to Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
    ...age were revealed to Joseph Smith as early as 1831. The Prophet taught the doctrine of plural marriage, and a number of such marriages were performed during hi ...and for All Eternity”, Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual, 176 {{ea}}. {{link|url=https://www.lds.org/bc/content/s
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  • Logical fallacies/Page 2
    *'''Argument''': "Mormon doctrine is red, and therefore false." ...rines do not have color. One cannot confirm or deny the claim that Mormon doctrine is false, because the premise is meaningless.
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  • Logical fallacies/Page 4
    *'''Argument''': "If you accept the doctrine of personal revelation, then people will get revelations to do whatever the ...pects the critic to take his word for the spiritual witness. However, LDS doctrine teaches that spiritual witnesses are available to all seekers; the witness
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  • Behind the Mask/Index
    *[[/Section 4|Claims made in "Section 4: Mormon Theology and Its Doctrine of God"]]
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  • Question: What is the Book of Mormon?
    ...sus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the other three being the Holy Bible, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. These four books are referred
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  • Behind the Mask/Index/Section 7
    ...y displeased with the doctrines being taught in the churches....Any creed, doctrine, [etc.]...that deliberately or inadvertently leads people from the ''saving
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Use of sources
    {{misinformation|Even if this was a doctrine that was implemented (of which there is scant evidence), the Fancher party
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Omissions/Total submission to Brigham Young
    ...of the Lord is revealed to you. . . . Suppose I were to teach you a false doctrine, how are you to know it if you do not possess the Spirit of God? <ref>{{JDf ...now that I may not yet do wrong? How do you know but I will bring in false doctrine and teach the people lies that they may be damned? <ref>{{JDfairwiki|author
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 14
    {{propaganda|LDS doctrine has never regarded Joseph Smith as divine.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Front matter
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Chapter 3
    {{:Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement}} * [[Church doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement]]
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 1
    #''Mormon Doctrine'', p. 175. #''Mormon Doctrine'', p. 454.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 2
    #''Mormon Doctrine'' (1958) p. 523. ...Doctrine and Covenants and Church History:Seminary Teacher Resource Manual:Doctrine and Covenants 132:We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requi
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 3
    *John William Fitzgerald, "A Study of the Doctrine and Covenants," Master's thesis, BYU, 1940, p.329 ...in a Comparison of the Book of Commandments and Subsequent Editions of the Doctrine and Covenants," Master's thesis, BYU, 1955, typed copy, p.147
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 4
    #Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', 1966, p. 818
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 5
    *E. Cecil McGavin, ''The Historical Background for the Doctrine and Covenants'', p.23, as cited in an unpublished manuscript by LaMar Peter *McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', 1966, p.31
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 6
    {{:Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 84 say that one cannot see God without holding the priesthood
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 7
    |L8=Response to claim: 185 - The Lectures on Faith were removed from the Doctrine and Covenants ...ormon is not discussing Nicene trinitarianism, and does not contradict the doctrine that God or Jesus possess a physical body
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    |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 8: The Adam-God Doctrine" ...o claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 8: The Adam-God Doctrine"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 9
    |L1=Response to claim: 205 - The 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants had a section denouncing polygamy ==Response to claim: 205 - The 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants had a section denouncing polygamy==
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 10
    |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 10: Changing the Anti-Black Doctrine" ...e in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 10: Changing the Anti-Black Doctrine"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 14
    *Doctrine and Covenants 84:2-5, 31
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 15
    ...evelator, why have so few revelations after Joseph Smith been added to the Doctrine and Covenants?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 16
    {{:Question: Was the revelation comprising the current Doctrine and Covenants 27 altered to include mention of the priesthood restoration?}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 17
    {{:Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:18:Joseph Smith's doctrine and character demand our amazement}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 22
    |L2=Response to claim: 514 - Baptism for the dead was not a doctrine in the early church ==Response to claim: 514 - Baptism for the dead was not a doctrine in the early church==
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 21
    *Doctrine and Covenants 19:6 {{information|Brigham apparently believed this, but it is not doctrine.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 20
    You may think that I am not teaching you Bible doctrine, but what says the apostle Paul? I would ask how many covenant breakers the *''Mormon Doctrine'', 1958, p.314
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  • Specific works/Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon/Index/Chapter 2
    *The author claims that the Church "recently abrogated the Negro Doctrine."
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  • Dudes at the Door
    ...ens practical, easy-to-understand tips on how to spot cultic practices and doctrine, no matter how attractive and Christian the package when the cults come kno
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  • Question: Does the Book of Mormon contradict the Bible regarding when are children capable of sin?
    ...am sinned and brought the fall upon all humanity. The LDS agree with this doctrine&mdash;but deny that this means that infants and children are damned. Witho ...esence. The Latter-day Saints agree&mdash;the Book of Mormon teaches this doctrine clearly:
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Celestial sex
    ||Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', p. 750. "Our spirit bodies had their beginning in pre-existence when we
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  • Quote mining/Journal of Discourses/JoD 18:241:Analysis
    ...t may occur from time to time among the body of the church in procedure or doctrine.
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  • Quote mining/Doctrines of Salvation/DoS 1:136:Analysis
    ...authors omit the careful qualifier that the Church does not practice this doctrine&mdash;Pres. Smith is speaking in theoretical terms, which the author's disg
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  • Quote mining/Doctrines of Salvation/DoS 1:170:Analysis
    President Smith is not talking about editing or changing the text of the Doctrine and Covenants. He is denying the need to discard aspects of “the perfect
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink
    ...MormonThink, an online publication that critiques the Church's history and doctrine.<br>&mdash;Dennis Wagner, [http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/0 ...not been done.....It is obvious that this proposed prosecution attacks the doctrine and beliefs of the Mormon Church.... I am satisfied that the process of the
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  • Source:Last Testimony of Sister Emma
    ...e that if I had, that they were without foundation; that there was no such doctrine, and never should be with his knowledge or consent. I know that he had no o
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  • Mormonism and history/Boyd K. Packer's talk: "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect"
    ...great deal of time in academic research to begin to judge the Church, its doctrine, organization, and history, by the principles of their own profession. Oftt
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  • Alleged hiding of facts in Church history
    |L10=Changes to the Doctrine and Covenants ...ry.lds.org. (December 15, 2012) {{link|url=https://history.lds.org/article/doctrine-and-covenants-oliver-cowdery?lang=eng}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Chapter 2
    ...uestion: How was the wording of the "rod of nature" revelation that became Doctrine and Coveants 8:6–8 altered over time?}}
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  • Questions: Are Mormons Christians
    {{QandA|Question: A comment: I may not agree with your doctrine, but I think those who worship Christ should support one another. United we ...be shown is whether or not the LDS Church adheres to the Bible and if LDS doctrine is in sync with biblical teachings. Which book is superior?}}
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  • Question: Do the statements in the Book of Abraham regarding Kolob's revolution time make any sense?
    A critic asserts the following: "LDS doctrine regarding astronomy is permeated with references to time being measured, or LDS doctrine regarding astronomy is permeated with references to time being measured, or
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  • Thomas Dick’s The Philosophy of a Future State
    ...> reference to Moses "being gathered to his people" as an evidence for the doctrine of afterlife in the Old Testament,<ref>Ibid., 121.</ref> a reference to "ho ...ww.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/131.7?lang=eng Doctrine and Covenants 131:7].</ref> Finally, the Book of Abraham uses the words "in
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  • Journal of Discourses
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    ...gs that are unseen by the natural eye, they may then be corrected in their doctrine and belief, and in their manner of life, but not until then. ...y, and is as eternal, in its nature, as the elements, or as the Gods. Such doctrine by him would be considered vanity and foolishness, it would be entirely bey
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    ...died in ignorance of his ordinances, and had not clear conceptions of his doctrine, and of the resurrection. They expected to go to that place called heaven,
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    ...ine of Baptism, because their Bible is so plain upon that subject that the doctrine of sprinkling could not be maintained. Among the German people, we find a g
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/5
    |>=[[../6|Knowledge Knowledge of the Doctrine of Christ, etc.]]
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    |H=KNOWLEDGE OF THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST—THE RELIGIONS OF MEN, AND THE RELIGION OF GOD—JOSEPH SMITH— |T=Journal of Discourses 1: KNOWLEDGE OF THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST—THE RELIGIONS OF MEN, AND THE RELIGION OF GOD—JOSEPH SMITH—
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    |<=[[../6|Knowledge Knowledge of the Doctrine of Christ, etc.]]
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/8
    ...When a man is capable of correcting you, and of giving you light, and true doctrine do not get up an altercation, but submit to be taught like little children, ...ach your families how to control themselves; teach them good and wholesome doctrine, and practice the same in your own lives. This is the place for you to beco
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/9
    ...nts of Europe; a portion of them have not been in the habit of preaching a doctrine of this description; consequently, we shall have to break up new ground. ...ratify the carnal lusts and feelings of man; that is not the object of the doctrine.
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    ...refore called a miracle. You are already acquainted with my views upon the doctrine of miracles. In reality there can be no miracle, only to the ignorant. Ther
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/19
    ...OSTOR, MONEY DIGGER. OLD JOE SMITH SPIRITUAL WIFE DOCTRINE. IMPOSTURE. THE DOCTRINE IS FALSE. MONEY DIGGER. FALSE PROPHET. DELUSION. SPIRITUAL WIFE DOCTRlNE. O
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/21
    ...nhabiting a little world by ourselves. We know the world is opposed to our doctrine. Now if one of us were required to go abroad among the nations, a spirit of
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    ..., music, and above all of patriotic feeling, good sentiment, and wholesome doctrine, what is there left?
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/25
    ...all other isms, the advocates of which worship the same God, though their doctrine, precepts, and belief are not the same; they think differently, and worship ...s principle, I associated myself with the Latter-day Saints. I preach that doctrine which I verily believe with my whole soul. I believe in its principles, bec
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/28
    ...sufficient authority, something to which all can refer, as to a sample or doctrine, to decide a question or an uncertainty in the meaning of words. In point of principle or doctrine, a book that we might call a "standard," might be considered to contain tru
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/29
    ...Bible, is well qualified to instruct the learned priest, confound in Bible doctrine the greatest theologians upon the earth, and throw into confusion, and inte ...g to the end of it, and is capable of withstanding all creation upon Bible doctrine, and is as well skilled in theological researches as a man can be—imagine
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/32
    ...nly what he sanctions; you need not be afraid, for if I should teach wrong doctrine or principle, here is the authority to correct me, that this people may hav ...England. They could hear nothing there, except the first principles of the doctrine of Christ; but since they have come here it is all let out, that is, a grea
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/35
    ...it is given in the Old and New Testaments, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and in the experience of every true Christian who has lived I can appeal to the experience of thousands, as well as to my own, that the doctrine of the Saviour is true, that the history given in the New Testament is a tr
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/38
    ...fore he was born, or had done any good or evil. A more false and erroneous doctrine could hardly be conceived, or a worse charge sustained against Juggernaut,
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/39
    ...dy had a baptism. You who have read the Bible must know that that is Bible doctrine. What does it matter if it is not stated in the same words that I use, it i
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/43
    ...ow called "Mormonism"—a principle as common in the ancient Church as the doctrine of repentance. I will say more—it is a principle that has been common in ...hrist—where can we read in sacred history of a people of God by whom the doctrine of visions and ministering of angels would be discarded, or be considered e
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/44
    ...another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars. In the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, these glories are called telestial, terrestrial, and celesti
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/48
    ...yet only babes? Have they need to be taught what are the rudiments of the doctrine of Christ, or are they capable of teaching them to the human family, pointi ...ve not the spirit of Christ; if I had, I should judge no man. This is true doctrine, Now let the newcomers especially remember not to judge their brethren and
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/49
    ...to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers.
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/50
    ...h that which I never taught; you hear them preach people into hell. Such a doctrine never entered into my heart; but you hear others preach, that people will g One thing more. The beauty of our religion, that very erroneous doctrine, which the world call "Mormonism," we had set before us this morning by Eld
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/51
    ...ctuality that will save you. The Lord said, through Joseph, in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, that a covenant breaker never could be saved. You never can
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  • Question: What is the best way to define Latter-day Saint epistemology?
    77 And I give unto you a commandment that you shall teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom. ...you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of G
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/1
    ...aid—"Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precep
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/2
    ...erusing these revelations, I have always been specially impressed with the doctrine relating to the power of Satan, as well as with the doctrines relating to t If you read the Book of Mormon, the Bible, and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, you read about the power of Satan upon the earth—the manif
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/12
    ...ry spiritual manifestation, we are liable to be led about by every wind of doctrine, and by every kind of spirit which constitute the varieties of being and of
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/15
    ...o make the people one as the Father and the Son are one, or as the Book of Doctrine and Covenants says, to make them "equal in earthly things, that they may be ...on the earth, except on my last mission; on that, I was sent to preach the doctrine of plurality of wives. In all my preaching on other missions, I have endeav
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/17
    ...s of gathering Saints! we want it upon the wholesale principle. That's the doctrine. I tell you, a few more boys breaking the crust of nations, like brother Ca
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/18
    ...w that that was the all-convincing argument, and if that was the principal doctrine that alone influenced you to become a "Mormon," I should at once say, let m ...if you should be convinced by the arguments. I may adduce in favor of the doctrine of polygamy, as it is called, that that will prove a sufficient groundwork
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/19
    ...ords on this subject, and always have been since I have reflected upon the doctrine that the fathers teach us in the Holy Scriptures. I will venture to say the ...endants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all of whom taught and practised the doctrine of plurality of wives, and were revered by the whole Jewish nation, and it
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/21
    There were certain laws and revelations then given, in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, pertaining to the Lord's earth, and the righteous that He ha
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/22
    ...been on the earth, are the most ready to complain. This may appear strange doctrine to you, but you know it is true.
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/24
    ...nning are men and women who have paid attention to their faith, and to the doctrine of sound common sense; they have been good scholars, and by this time must The doctrine we have heard is good; we have listened to principles that pertain to life
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    ...n instrument of pointing out the way to others, let me not only preach the doctrine of salvation, but set the example in my conduct, and plead with them to fol
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/27
    ...he fulfilment of the revelations in the Book of Mormon, and in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and think of the events that we have been for twenty odd yea ...merican Continent—in the region of country where he first introduced the doctrine of the Son of God; so we may look for calamity in our own borders, in our o
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    We read in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants that when Peter and James desired to depart, John desired to
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    ...with me, so should it be with every department of the Government; for this doctrine is based upon the principles of virtue and integrity; with it the Governmen ...appointment of Joseph Smith the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, &c.; but this subject I leave for your consideration and inv
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/32
    ...doctrine, stepped up to a favorite ox, and said to himself, "I believe the doctrine of the Universalists, but, old Bright, as well as I love you, I would willi ...eirs. Our doctrine is a Bible doctrine, a patriarchal doctrine, and is the doctrine of the Gods of eternity, and of the heavens, and was revealed to our father
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    ...need no visitation of angels now, those things were given to establish the doctrine of Christ, and when it was once established they were no longer needed. ...old, in preference to the Gospel blaze of modern Christianity. The ancient doctrine and power will unlock the mysteries of heaven and pour forth that Gospel li
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    ...{{page break|208|top}} extent, it ill becomes them to object to their own doctrine when the tables are turned.
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    ...God that have come through him to the Church, as contained in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, fully agree with the Gospel contained in the New Testament.
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    ...you have lost the Spirit, go and read the Book of Mormon, and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and you will get it again, more or less. There are but few w
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/39
    ...the words that God has revealed—that are written in the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and in the various revelations that God has given in latter ...they may have been instructed for a long period, and been well informed in doctrine and principles. Sometimes the Lord does not see proper to impart any new id
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/40
    ...use it is based upon true principles, and because it is the only system of doctrine revealed to the children of men, that is built upon a sure foundation. They ...ld; thousands would professedly embrace the Book of Mormon and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants for political advantages, for a great name, and to obtain wha
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/42
    ..., and exhort the brethren. And if you have a word of counsel, or a word of doctrine, give it to the people, and do not be backward, but improve every opportuni
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/43
    ...accordance with the law of God, with the Book of Mormon, with the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and with the rules of right, I have a right to infer that yo ...er portion sprinkled, and another immersed, you introduce schism and false doctrine, and then different works follow. As quick as you have the Colossians immer
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/45
    ...ible for any individual who believes in its divine authenticity, to err in doctrine; it makes a people of one heart and of one mind, so far as their faith is c ...taining a history of Palestine and the adjacent nations, interspersed with doctrine. The Book of Mormon is the history of ancient America, interspersed with th
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/47
    ...ch, that is perfect in its fulness. The revelations of God contain correct doctrine and principle, so far as they go; but it is impossible for the poor, weak, ...roceed a little further with regard to the Kingdom of God. The principles, doctrine, germ, and, I may say, marrow of that Kingdom are actually planted on the e
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/48
    ...e applauded to the skies. They are not opposed to us in consequence of the doctrine of polygamy. ...d him in Carthage Jail, in the State of Illinois. It is not any particular doctrine or men and women that they are opposed to, but they are opposed to Christ a
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/49
    ...riginal platform, and had fallen back to principles of folly, teaching for doctrine the precepts of men. The Christian world, as we shall denominate it, being ...and that they might be no more children tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and the cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/50
    ...ection with another passage in the same revelation, clearly sets forth the doctrine I have presented before you; the passage says that; "light cleaveth to ligh ...ish to acknowledge their ignorance, and therefore they have given out this doctrine, which is diametrically opposed to every principle of science as well as of
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/53
    You know it as an old Methodist doctrine, that every tub has to stand upon its own bottom, and we will find that it
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/54
    ...my early education (as I was piously educated at the Sunday school in the doctrine and principles of Presbyterianism)—some of these principles which I recei ...r their lives; but when it comes to us, who have not been believers in the doctrine, let us take these things as we would calomel, opium, arsenic, lobelia, cor
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/1
    ...if I can make some of you apostatize; I will if I can, by teaching. sound doctrine and advocating correct principles; for I am tired of men who are eternally
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/2
    ...believed it, although some in our neighborhood were much troubled with the doctrine it contained, but it gave me great joy and satisfaction. ...ns will believe almost anything, and are not particular in relation to the doctrine they receive.
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    ...tress; all these are predicted, and laid before this people in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. The Lord says, unless His servants should hearken to the wor ...in Clay County, to strengthen them, and I proved to them from the Book of Doctrine and Covenants that it would be very many years before Zion should be redeem
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/6
    ...ch until he was driven from his home. After he had commenced preaching his doctrine extensively in different parts of Arabia, and many had believed it, his per
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/7
    Mahometanism included the doctrine that there was one God—that He was great, even the creator of all things, ...aculties would compel me to admit that the Mahometan history and Mahometan doctrine was a standard raised against the most corrupt and abominable idolatry that
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/9
    ...other one, will have to take you and teach you the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, and again try to lead you into the kingdom of God. He will not a ...r sneer, laugh, and scoff at, any portion of the law of God. Some items of doctrine are especially obnoxious to some men and some women who have peculiar feeli
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/10
    ...r sanctimoniousness was co-equal with what he considered the merits of our doctrine.
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/13
    ...or individual, taking to themselves portions of the Bible, portions of the doctrine of salvation, that are the most pleasing to them, rejecting all the rest, a ...ous task of undertaking to set before this congregation, every item of the doctrine of salvation, in all of their various significations, as they are presented
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/15
    ...licity. Had I preached almighty discourses with more words than good sound doctrine, instead of opening the doors, I should have added another lock. The Lord a
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/16
    ...ple must be chastened; we believe in this principle. We receive as correct doctrine what is said to have been written by one of the ancient Apostles, (why I ma ...sity of positive proof for the validity of the Book of Mormon, the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and that Joseph Smith was a true Prophet of God, and to prov
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/17
    ...ate a spirit of apostacy. If you oppose what is called the "spiritual wife doctrine," the Patriarchal Order, which is of God, that course will corrode you with
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/18
    ...edom of our Patriarch, Elder John Young, this afternoon, and I believe the doctrine which he has advanced to be correct; it is substantially this, all persons This is the doctrine that our Patriarch has been laboring to impress upon your minds this aftern
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/19
    We are not the only people that are troubled with that doctrine, and this is not the only, age that has had that kind of trouble to contend
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/20
    ...the case with thousands who {{page break|142|top}} have subscribed to the doctrine God, has revealed in the last days, even the Gospel as a system of truth an
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/23
    ...peculations we talk about a great many Lords and Gods, and you can get the doctrine made holy by applying the Scriptural language to it.
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/24
    ...ressing the Saints, says, "But ye have obeyed from the heart, that form of doctrine which was delivered to you: being then made free from sin, ye became the se ...ence to that form of doctrine delivered to them. Obedience to that form of doctrine made them free, but it did not prevent them from acting as men, in a tempor
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/28
    ...rother Morley says he never expects to be too old to learn; I believe that doctrine. That which is to be learned in the eternities of the Gods pertains to life ...ut having visions? Yes, but that person cannot be a special witness to the doctrine he believes in.
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/32
    As a people we are right in principle, in doctrine, and in precepts. But are we all perfectly right in practice? This is a que
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/34
    That is my doctrine, and it is the doctrine of Christ and of the Father. The Lord's servant is here to guide, dictate,
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/35
    ...to do with influencing our spirits, only through the flesh; that is a true doctrine. Inasmuch as our spirits are inseparably connected with the flesh, and, ina
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/39
    ...to themselves more than one wife. I frequently hear from others that this doctrine is laughed at and ridiculed; I heard yesterday of its being laughed out of I am not personally cognizant of any one jeering at and deriding this doctrine; still, I hear that there are some few who are opposed to it. Once in a whi
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/40
    ...e together. This is a lesson which must be learned, and when you learn the doctrine of obedience, you will have power to control the weaknesses of your nature,
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    ...ut cattle doing mischief, and they have become thoroughly converted to the doctrine I recommended. Experience had to teach them the lesson, though it was not s
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    ...mised to us, more than twenty-five years ago, which I will repeat from the Doctrine and Covenants, sec. 62, paragraph 2;— ...nd heavenly principles contained in the Book of Mormon, and in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants; you that have heard the sacred principles proclaimed from Sa
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    ...or a new doctrine that will in five, ten, or twenty years hence become the doctrine of this Church and kingdom, but which has not yet been revealed to this peo ...after such nonsense, and learn the principle and law of right. That is the doctrine, the tradition which this people have got to come to. Will they come to it?
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/48
    I will read a revelation printed in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and given in Zion in August, 1831. It was given in Independe The Book of Mormon, of Doctrine and Covenants, the Old and New Testaments all corroborate the fact that whe
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/49
    ...re Him, for you have to become sanctified; hence it is said in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, speaking of the Temple which shall be built in Jackson Count ...ld, hence it shows that it was dictated by a Spirit capable of revealing a doctrine unknown to the Christian world—the pre-existence of man.
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    It has been frequently stated to us, and is a doctrine we understand, that this people have got to become of one heart and one min ...y so far as she adorns the doctrine you profess; so far as she adorns that doctrine, just so far let your love extend to her. When will she be worthy of the fu
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/4
    ...onal and possessed of a disposition to scan the subject can believe such a doctrine? Doubtless Moses heard the thunder of the Almighty on Mount Sinai, and saw ...s doctrine be correct. No doubt the followers of Mr. Campbell consider the doctrine true, and his logic and reasoning correct.
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    Those who are in favor of an equality in property say that that is the doctrine taught in the New Testament. True, the Savior said to the young man, "Go an ...nd existence {{page break|32|top}} will eventually cease. "That is strange doctrine." No matter, they have not an object which they can place their hands or af
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    This people have been taught a great deal; they have had principle and doctrine fed to them till they are surfeited; and where is the man, the officer, or ...e Lord our God, or He will come out in judgment against us. I refer to the doctrine and the teachings that have been laid before this people; and I will say th
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    You may think that I am not teaching you Bible doctrine, but what {{page break|50|top}} says the apostle Paul? I would ask how many
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/10
    ...ng about cutting people off from the earth, that you consider it is strong doctrine; but it is to save them, not to destroy them. ...are sins committed, of such a nature that if the people did understand the doctrine of salvation, they would tremble because of their situation. And furthermor
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/11
    ...an ask God for His Spirit to reform and enlighten your spirits. This is my doctrine and philosophy; were it not, I would say, let those who steal, steal on; an
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    ...nd thereby virtually partake of their crimes? I believe it to be a correct doctrine that the sympathizer is more or less implicated. The President enjoined it ...they know to be right, many are all the time longing for some fantastical doctrine, for something to gratify their vain imaginations. If you wish to feast on
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/15
    ...of salvation, and it is no matter what the people do in Utah. Here is the doctrine of salvation, talk against that, prove that to be false, or find a flaw in ...d, and Jesus comes to reign with his Saints. The doctrine we preach is the doctrine of salvation, and it is that which the Elders of this Church take to the wo
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    ...atter whether they live or die, for their work here is finished. This is a doctrine I believe.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Recorded accounts of the vision
    ...'' were canonized as scripture by the Church and included as part of the [[Doctrine and Covenants]] until de-canonized after 1921. (Bushman, 283-84.) *{{Detail|Doctrine and Covenants/Lectures on Faith removed}}
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830
    *{{Detail|Doctrine and Covenants/Oliver Cowdery and the "rod of nature"}}
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1838
    ...eflect recent changes in theology and practice, publishing them as the ''[[Doctrine and Covenants]]''. *{{Detail|Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes}}
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844
    Smith kept the doctrine of plural marriage secret except for potential wives and a few of his close
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy
    a doctrine now taught by [[Mormon fundamentalism|Mormon fundamentalists]].
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/20
    ...nd the kingdom of God, is in the right way, but the moment that we teach a doctrine that we do not practise we show our weakness. The moment a man or a woman b
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/21
    ...ty was; and I presume that the people feel with regard to religion, to the doctrine of the Gospel, partially, if not altogether, as I did. They are very anxiou
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/26
    ...xpect the favor of God, favor His servants and sustain them. This is plain doctrine, and you will find it so, and I am not ashamed to teach it to you.
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    That is actually the idea of some people. Such doctrine as that, with me, is the height of nonsense. You have not their good graces ...e Bishop of some ward, or one of his Counsellors, is teaching an erroneous doctrine, it is the duty of Daniel Spencer to send for that Bishop, or that Counsell
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    ...day, I will not go to the Bible, to the Book of Mormon, nor to the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, for my text, for I will give you a text which comprehends th
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/35
    ...his enemies are in his hands, he will have mercy upon them. In the book of Doctrine and Covenants it is said, if thine enemy comes upon thee and falls into thi
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/36
    You remember, probably, a revelation in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants giving to Oliver Cowdery the privilege of translating certain
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/38
    ...not only that which is recorded in the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Book of Doctrine and Covenants, the Church History, but we have day by day, and night by nig
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/39
    I flattered myself years ago, that whoever embraced the doctrine of salvation would so live as to enter in at the straight gate, in this, ho ...watching to overcome every individual. You reply at once, "We believe this doctrine," and yet, from day to day, from week to week, from month to month, from ye
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    ...ther you consider them so or not. It is one of the first principles of the doctrine of salvation to become acquainted with our Father and our God. The Scriptur ...r no as the case might be, that is true. But I want to connect it with the doctrine you read in the Bible. When will we love our neighbour as ourselves? In the
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/44
    ...ers Richards and Wells. We have had good teachings, good counsel, and good doctrine taught us. And I presume I feel in a measure like the rest of my brethren w
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/49
    ...o say, "Our Father who art in heaven?" How much soever of holy horror this doctrine may excite in persons not impregnated with the blood of Christ, and whose m ...m silent. But the bone and sinew of "Mormonism," "Mormon" religion, faith, doctrine, and practice are true as God is true. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, with
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/50
    ...s all the knowledge, wisdom, and power of the Gods. If he believes his own doctrine pertaining to the celestial and other kingdoms, viz., that the devils in he
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    A great many have an experience that has proven to them the truth of this doctrine. Ask those individuals, those who at times have desponding feelings about t ...ive, and make it their constant companion, encouraging every good thought, doctrine and principle and doing every good work they can perform, until by and bye
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/54
    ...e influence of the Christian world extends? Wherever they preach their own doctrine they destroy every idea of God in the minds of every person they have influ ...by the power of the Spirit, it would be all right. When a man teaches that doctrine by the power of God in a congregation of sinners, it is one of the loudest
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/55
    ...a meeting house. They had heard of the "Mormons," but knew nothing of the doctrine. They wished him to tarry and preach, and the minister invited him into his ...he Twelve, or any of the Elders that understood the Gospel, teach any such doctrine, but had probably gathered the idea from reading the Bible. By the time he
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/60
    ...the alphabet of salvation with which to learn the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, and then, as I progress, I can read all the celestial law by the ...t of the celestial law; therefore, not leaving the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection. Let us be diligent in keeping the
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    ...hem so well that I have nothing to do; and they are so well learned in the doctrine of the devils, that they can almost get along without me. I am merely here
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/67
    We have heard, I will say, most excellent doctrine from brother Lorenzo Young. What can be better? It is truth, and truth is l
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/1
    ...ting upon them, and expecting to find Zion in its glory, whereas their own doctrine should teach them that they are coming here to make Zion. ...t man in the United States or in the world but what, if he could hear this doctrine taught without knowing that it was a "Mormon" who was teaching it, would dr
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/3
    ...was very pious, (he was a minister, by the bye,) and he intimated that the doctrine of plurality of wives was so at variance—so grossly at variance with all
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    ...e. I have noticed that a man who has but one wife, and is inclined to that doctrine, soon begins to wither and dry up, while a man who goes into plurality look
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    You may call that pretty snug doctrine and pretty rough; but I would not give a dime for anything that is not roug ...ir wives, and children, who may be worthy and needy. That is the Apostle's doctrine, you know. Am I in earnest, brethren? I am telling you the truth; I am tell
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/8
    ...reason that I rejoice continually is, that "Mormonism" is true —that the doctrine I have embraced and the religion that cheers me is not a phantom.
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/11
    ...t is said unto them, as it is required of the brethren who speak, to teach doctrine, principle, truth, and the revelations of Jesus Christ. When the minds of t
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  • Times and Seasons/2/4
    ...fellow men, in such as contained important information upon the subject of doctrine, and as would render it intelligibly plain; but as there are in a great hou ...rs in different parts of the world, will contribute from time to time upon doctrine, upon principle, and upon the spread of the work, which will make its colum
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/16
    ...d according to the wrongs you may have done them. Next, you were taught in doctrine and in principle—reproved, admonished, comforted, and guided in the path
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    ...the Lord more than ever before in my life. I never was satisfied with the doctrine taught by the sectarian world upon this subject in my life, and hence I fel
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/22
    ...sidence in company with a man named Wakefield, who is named in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. They came and preached and baptized for the remission of sin
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    The majority of the people think you are a most corrupt people, following a doctrine something like those Free Love societies in the East. Greeley, the editor o
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/24
    ...thousands of others. Will they be saved? They are saved. You know what my doctrine is with regard to this matter. Every man will be judged according to the de
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/33
    ...inciple; for this was the doctrine of Jesus, the Son of God, and it is the doctrine taught in these latter days. ...ll the authorities unite and say with one voice that they will oppose that doctrine, and the whole of them would be damned. What are you opposing {{page break|
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/34
    ...ho understood so much of the revelations of God as recorded in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, should fall away?" I told them not to feel too secure, but t ...ad the works of brother Orson Pratt; and now I see that it is heaven's own doctrine, and the Church of Jesus Christ can never be perfect without it. Had I know
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/36
    ...hat was the same Sabbath that brother Young was preaching the same kind of doctrine; and I am perfectly satisfied that all the districts in the southern countr
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/39
    ..., and I could not find any difference. I could easily controvert any other doctrine, but I could not overturn one principle of "Mormonism." ...Presbyterian; and we used to fall out about which was right—whether the doctrine of freewill or of fate was right; for we did not know which was right,—th
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/40
    I am teaching what you call strong doctrine; but I am teaching nothing but what is true. It was true to me, and it is e
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/42
    ...hority. There was no umpire—no standard of truth to go to, to decide any doctrine that you might have in your mind. But now we have "Thus saith the Lord God.
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/45
    ...l be some to whom they are applicable that will say, I do not believe that doctrine. To such I would say. You are the very one; you are the very character to r ...y to tyrannize over your families. If it just suits you, and if it is your doctrine, all right. But one thing let me tell you—Seek the spirit of your head; a
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/46
    ...em to be convinced that this people are governed by principle. This is the doctrine we have been preaching abroad, and it is the very thing the Gentiles will n
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/49
    ...poured out upon the ancient Saints—upon Christ's disciples. This was the doctrine that his servants declared to us. When we received their testimony, we went
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/54
    The Lord said unto his servants, "Ye are not to be taught, but to teach." (Doctrine and Covenants.) He also said, Be valiant and be diligent in laying up wisdo
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/55
    ...estify to the people, before I learned this one fact, that you might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but wo ...very man that has ever written the word of the Lord, have written the same doctrine upon the same subject; and you never can find that Prophets and Apostles cl
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/57
    ...Then came along the Presbyterians, and I would say, I know all about your doctrine. And I would have the Quakers and the Shakers; and when I talked to them, I ...ve you a truth? If you have, let us hear it: that is the Bible; that is my doctrine: I believe it. "I read in the Bible that the Saviour was crucified," say th
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/60
    ...od in our own hearts to guide us in the path of duty, of principle, and of doctrine, if we live our religion; but we have the Spirit of God also in our Preside
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/61
    "Well," said he, "it was built up upon his doctrine." ...s abroad, what will be the result? The people will see the light, the true doctrine, and they will quit coming to my meeting and paying me for preaching; and I
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  • Question: Does Oliver Cowdery's blessing and promise to Orson Hyde contain a false prophecy, which was then altered before being printed in History of the Church?
    ...be a mortal until the Second Coming. Unlike many Christian theologies, the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not place the abode
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  • Question: Was William Smith promised in a blessing that he would remain on the earth until Christ comes?
    Unlike many Christian theologies, the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not place the abode
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/1
    ...s not so. The very idea lessens man in my estimation. I do not believe the doctrine. I know better. Hear it, all ye ends of the world; for God has told me so; ...p}} prove that it must have an end; and if that doctrine is true, then the doctrine of annihilation would be true. But if I am right, I might with boldness pro
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/4
    Well, now, this is a kind of curious doctrine, but it is true doctrine; for I never knew much faith in exercise in a man, except that man had good ...agree with me? I merely bring that up that you may not find fault with my doctrine. Do you not see that is the principle that we must be actuated by? I care n
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/11
    ...anced as one of the strongest arguments that could be produced against the doctrine of salvation by the wise and learned of this world, though it is no argumen
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/16
    "What a strange doctrine," says one, "that we should be taught to be one!" I tell you there is no wa ...of Israel, and everything on the earth will be subject to us. This is the doctrine that has been taught us all the time.
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/19
    ...the words of Paul, where he tells us to leave the first principles of the doctrine of Christ and go on unto perfection. But if we do that we shall slide off t ...anguage all the time. Do I exhort you to leave the first principles of the doctrine of Christ? No: but I want you to learn them more thoroughly, that you may k
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/21
    ...bondage that has chained {{page break|140|top}} us down with error, false doctrine, and false teachers.
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/22
    ...the woman was found in the transgression, and not the man; and that plain doctrine has baffled all the learning of the priests.
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/23
    ...a Constitution. The Constitution written in the Bible? No. In the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, or Book of Mormon? No. What kind shall we have, then? The Co
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/24
    ...and no farther." For instance, we will take the Bible, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants, and say concerning them, They are true—the rule and guide
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/26
    ...heir works, as well as those who have had the privilege of it. That is our doctrine. That is what the Lord has told us, through his servants, from the beginnin ...od on the earth. The children of Abraham had wandered so far from the true doctrine, the Priesthood, the principles, and ordinances that the Lord had revealed,
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/27
    He then asked, "Why do you believe in that doctrine?"
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/37
    ...be the Saviour. The Catholics all acknowledge Jesus to be the Saviour. The doctrine has become popular in the world, so much so that nearly the whole world now
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