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  • GospeLink quick links
    * [http://gospelink.com/library/contents/854 Mormonism and Early Christianity]
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/Nicene creed
    ...opics: "Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity" |L8=Question: What were early Christian beliefs on the nature of God?
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  • Question: What does it mean to Mormons when Jesus is declared to be the "alpha and omega"?
    When early Christianity—a religion based in Hebrew theology—encountered the Greek philo
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  • The Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon authorship
    {{:Source:Plowman:Christianity Today:1977:Mormon archivists have assembled a large amount of evidence&mdas |subject=Early reactions to the Book of Mormon
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/Deification of man
    |L3=Question: What were the views of early Christians on the deification of man? {{:Question: What were the views of early Christians on the deification of man?}}
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Creation
    ...19; 24; 33; 68; 93; 104; Prov. 8:22-33; Hab. 3:8; Rev. 12:7-12). From the early Christian era until the end of the nineteenth century, traditional Christia ...it may be pointed out that various Christians and Christian groups in the early Christian centuries taught the same doctrine (cf. Origen, De principiis 1:7
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  • Question: How did early Christians view plural marriage?
    #REDIRECT [[Plural marriage in early Christianity]]
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  • Mormonism and temples/Baptism for the dead/Authentic Christian practice/CriticalSources
    #REDIRECT [[Template:Critical sources box:Baptism for the dead in early Christianity/CriticalSources]]
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  • Question: Why do Mormons follow the practice of most Christians by resting and worshiping on Sunday?
    Latter-day Saints do not base their worship practices on an analysis of early Christian history, or on the comments of scholars in Biblical commentaries, ...es Friday as a holy day, Judaism celebrates the Sabbath on Saturday, while Christianity generally adheres to a Sunday day of worship. These differences posed sign
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  • Temples after Christ
    #REDIRECT [[Temples in early Christianity]]
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  • Temples after Christ/CriticalSources
    #REDIRECT [[Temples in early Christianity/CriticalSources]]
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  • Mormonism and Christianity/Grace and works/Early Christian views on salvation/CriticalSources
    ...[[Template:Critical sources box:Mormonism and Christianity/Grace and works/Early Christian views on salvation/CriticalSources]]
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  • Evidences that support the Book of Abraham
    ...ehah" was found in Abraham 3:13, and the presence of Hebrew terminology in early manuscripts of the Book of Abraham which suggests that some revision was do ...Compared with Parallels in Published Sources Available to Joseph Smith in Early 19th Century America," <nowiki><http://mit.irr.org/extra-biblical-details-i
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Eternal Life
    *[[Born again translation|Being "born again": early Christian perspectives]] ...solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Claim: "In Christianity eternal life is a gift. It's the most radical understanding of how one goes
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Polygamy
    ...d polygamy and this was undoubtedly brought with them as they converted to Christianity ({{link|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/scrolls/life.html}}). Latter-day S Multiple early Christian writers also understood there to be no absolute prohibition again
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/The "Occult"
    ...y prominent individuals who saw no conflict between their Baptist brand of Christianity and Freemasonry. Since their participation in Masonry would presumably not ...elements of our society that we take for granted today have their roots in early American practices, and most have Masonic overtones. A quick examination of
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Witnessing to Mormons
    ...along 1800 years into the history of Christianity and totally revise what Christianity says and what the Bible says? And that's what we believe Joseph Smith did." ...o revise Christianity, or alter what the Bible says. He claimed to restore Christianity to its original state. LDS doctrine does not alter Biblical doctrines, but
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Credits
    :Robert Wise begins his critique of ''The Seduction of Christianity'' in what seems an obvious, if often overlooked, place: who are Dave Hunt a ...94:265-93); and the Ustaschi (Croat) massacres of Yugoslavian Serbs in the early 1940s (Hunt 1994: 297-307). For Hunt...the syllogism is simple: Because the
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  • Plural marriage and the Bible
    {{epigraph|With the authority of the Bible behind them, early Mormons argued for 'plural marriage,' and some Mormon fundamentalist sects ...ich favor monogamy, and argues that polygamy is inconsistent with biblical Christianity or (ironically) the Book of Mormon itself.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Reader Comments
    ...can feel unusual or unfamiliar to converts from Protestant or evangelical Christianity. But although Latter-day Saints discuss Joseph Smith, we also "talk of Chri ...orah of the Book of Mormon. I believe it is, and so did Joseph and all the early Church leaders. The fact is, we just don't know. And we just need to state
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Randy Gavin press release
    ...sus Christ of Latter-day Saints has insisted that it alone represents true Christianity and that all other churches professing the name of Christ are part of a "Gr Latter-day Saints see the apostasy as a very early event in Christian history (probably within the first one to two centuries
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Distorted quotes
    ...ics, many of them. They say we do not believe in the traditional Christ of Christianity. There is some substance to what they say. Our faith, our knowledge is not ...http://www.lds.org/ensign/1988/03/comparing-lds-beliefs-with-first-century-christianity?lang=eng}}
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  • Apostasy/Patristic evidence of
    |H=Evidence of an apostasy after Christ from early Christian history other than the Bible |S=Do the Early Church Fathers and other post-Biblical documents shed any light on the apos
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/The God Makers/Cartoon
    ...ng formal has been revealed to the Church and very little was explained by early leaders. Could it be so? Logically, yes, but we simply don't know very much ...rship different Jesus|Mormons worship a different Jesus]] than the rest of Christianity.}}
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  • MormonFAQ/Basic beliefs
    ...gians and was widely believed by some of the early church fathers in early Christianity.
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  • Theosis
    ...o many Church critics&mdash;who often come out of a late-19th, Latin-based Christianity that is unaware of some of the ancient currents in Christian thought&mdash; ...ll join in creating other worlds.<ref>In Brian E. Daley, ''The Hope of the Early Church'' (Oxford University Press 1991): 189-90, with note 65, page 260; al
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  • Mormonism and priesthood/Christians don't need a mediating priesthood
    ...of Early Christianity'', pp. 754-5 provides references to other second and early third century Christian sources mentioning Christian priests.)
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  • Question: Does the film "September Dawn" about the Mountain Meadows Massacre accurately portray the historical events?
    ...really happened...are advised to look elsewhere." - Peter T. Chattaway, ''Christianity Today'' (24 August 2007). {{link|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/movie :"The early reviews are in on September Dawn, the long-gestating drama set against the
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  • Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Afterlife/Deification
    ...day Saints believe that men and women can become gods?"] from ''Latter-day Christianity: 10 Basic Issues''. ...s.byu.edu/faq.php?id=20&table=questions "How do Latter-day Saints view the early Christian doctrine of theosis: becoming like God?"]
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  • Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Afterlife/Salvation
    |link=Mormonism and Christianity/Grace and works/Early Christian views on salvation |subject=What can the writings of early Christians tell us about how to receive salvation in Jesus Christ?
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  • Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Christians
    {{:Mormonism and Christianity}} ...apid=201 "Introduction: What Went Wrong for the Early Christians?"] from ''Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apos
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  • Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Deity/Jesus Christ/Conception
    ...ral. He was not miraculously begotten, for instance, by the Holy Ghost, as Christianity teaches."
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Who is Jesus
    # were not taught or believed by Jesus or the early Christians ...e=Ex Nihilo: The Development of the Doctrines of God and Creation in Early Christianity|vol=17|num=3|date=1977|start=291|end=318}} {{link|url=http://byustudies.byu
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  • Topical Guide/Ancient Christianity and Judaism
    |link=/Early Christianity |subject=Early Christianity
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  • Topical Guide/Ancient Christianity and Judaism/Early Christianity
    |link=Mormonism and Christianity/Grace and works/Early Christian views on salvation |subject=Early Christian views on salvation
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Origins of Nicene Trinitarianism
    ...short time period. LDS authors term this "the Great Apostasy." This very early fall from the fulness of Christ's gospel occurred because of the rejection ...rstood by the majority of Protestants and Catholics was not present in the Early Christian Church. Wrote the great scholar Emil Brunner more than half a ce
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
    Jesus here provides the solution to the dilemma which has gripped much of Christianity. The oneness of which Jesus speaks between the Father and the Son is the ' ...verbatim stenographic records, see Ramsay MacMullen, ''Voting About God in Early Church Councils'' (Yale University Press, 2006). ISBN 978-0300115963.</ref>
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  • Mormonism and Christianity/Did early LDS leaders denounce Christianity/CriticalSources
    ...ical sources box:Mormonism and Christianity/Did early LDS leaders denounce Christianity/CriticalSources]]
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  • Mormonism and Christianity/Did early LDS leaders denounce Christianity
    |L=Mormonism and Christianity/Did early LDS leaders denounce Christianity |H=The attitude of early Mormon leaders toward Christianity
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  • Topical Guide/Multimedia presentations/Videos/YouTube/SANE Syposium/2008
    {{Template:Video:Becerras:2008:Chrism in Early Christianity}} {{Template:Video:Snyder:2008:Early Christian Prayer Circles}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources
    ...of Mormonism claims that Dallin Oaks told Mormons in 1995 "that so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind of being." |summary=72, Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 5
    ...86, n24-25 - Does the Church teach that "Satan sits in the place of God in Christianity"? *Did the Church denounce Christianity as "satanic?"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 13
    ...hat He was not "miraculously begotten, for instance, by the Holy Ghost, as Christianity teaches"? {{:Question: Did early Mormon leaders believe that Jesus Christ was a polygamist?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 17
    |L3=Response to claim: 376 (PB) - Early LDS leaders took a "staunchly anti-Christian stance" ...uthor states that LDS leaders will have to "completely sever its ties with Christianity" in order not to be called a "cult" and gain "legitimacy"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 18
    |L4=Response to claim: 403 - Baptisms for the dead are incompatible with Christianity ...appeared on Larry King Live and said that only two to five percent of the early LDS practiced it
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 6
    ...526n91 - Did Joseph restore ceremonies found in ancient Judaism and early Christianity in order to "distance" the Church from "corrupt Christendom"? *Grant Underwood, ''The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism'', 44.
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith have a youthful struggle with unchastity?
    |L2=There is no evidence from Joseph's early writings that he struggled over much with immoral thoughts or behavior ===There is no evidence from Joseph's early writings that he struggled over much with immoral thoughts or behavior===
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  • Question: Was Brigham Young a "young earth creationist"?
    ...session; or, rejecting those truths, become enthusiasts in, what you call, Christianity." ...provides Brigham’s insistence that plural marriage had little to do with early persecution of Joseph and the church.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Absurd claims
    ...d resurrection of Jesus (1 Cor. 15:1-4). Compare this message with that of early LDS authority George Q. Cannon, who, after saying that the Saints believed ...ll have to at some point, once and for all, completely sever its ties with Christianity'''. Only by taking such an approach will Mormonism be able to forever dista
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index
    ...nse to claim: 212 - Joseph is claimed to have "declared theological war on Christianity" by branding "all Christian sects as all wrong"]] ...ch theologians from the earliest days of church history have affirmed that Christianity is monotheistic in the strictest sense of the term"]]
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  • Question: Do the Latter-day Saint "Three Degrees of Glory" have a basis in the Bible?
    |S=Seeing the post-mortal heavens as having multiple degrees was a common early Christian belief, lost over time. |L4=Biblical and early Christian use of sun, moon, and stars as types of the degrees of glory
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Christianity is satanic
    |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Christianity is satanic |H=Do Mormons believe that Christianity is "satanic"?
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Christianity corrupt and Satan replaces God
    |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Christianity corrupt and Satan replaces God |H=Satan sits in the place of God in Christianity?
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 4
    *George Peck, Early Methodism within the Bounds of the Old Genesee Conference from 1788 to 1828 ...erican Religions, 283-87; Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity,88.
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  • Topical Guide/Multimedia presentations/Videos/YouTube/FAIR Conference/2002
    ==Roger Cook - "Christ, The Firstfruits of Theosis: Early Christian Theosis"== ...ss the theosis found in Early Judeao/Christian thought, with New Testament Christianity believing that Christ was the firstfruits of theosis just as he was the fir
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Jesus and Joseph Smith
    ...makes Jesus himself the author and finisher of the faith, rather than the early communities, a supposition which has been fashionable for some time. The gr ...paradigm is better?” For example, anyone can try to explain the rise of Christianity as “a damage limitation exercise on the part of a traumatized group of di
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  • Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Abuse of a Bible test
    ...which Abanes interprets the Deuteronomy 13 test is that of later Orthodox Christianity, not of the ancient Israelites being addressed. In the thread, Abanes made ...n New Testament Studies: How was it possible that Jewish-Christians in the early church were able to acknowledge Jesus as divine? If, as many believe, the J
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  • Evangelical witnessing to Mormons/Craig Blomberg - Jesus to the Mormons
    ...Saints have misjudged the value of "true" [i.e., conservative Evangelical] Christianity based on the actions of others. This is not the case&mdash;Latter-day Sain It is not that Latter-day Saints have rejected Evangelical Christianity because of the actions of Evangelicals. Most members are probably unaware
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  • Behind the Mask/Index
    ==Index to claims made in ''Behind the Mask of Mormonism: From its Early Schemes to its Modern Deceptions''== *[[/Section 3|Claims made in "Section 3: Mormon Religion and Christianity"]]
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  • Question: Does the statement in 1 Corinthians 15:50 that flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of heaven mean that resurrected beings cannot enter heaven?
    ...into heaven discards the beliefs of several founding fathers of modern day Christianity=== ...into heaven discards the beliefs of several founding fathers of modern day Christianity. They correctly taught the true meaning of the word 'flesh' as not being li
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 9
    |L34=Response to claim: 249-251 - Early Church leaders taught that Jesus was married to more than one wife {{:Question: Did early Church leaders state that the Book of Mormon condemns polygamy?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 12
    |L3=Response to claim: 365 - Thomas Paine's book The Age of Reason influenced early Church leaders to criticize the Bible {{:Question: What did early Christians think about alterations to the scriptures?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 22
    |L1=Response to claim: 512 - Early Mormon leaders were "very confused" about baptism for the dead |L2=Response to claim: 514 - Baptism for the dead was not a doctrine in the early church
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  • Questions: Are Mormons Christians
    {{QandA|Question: You are presenting many different ideas or groups who claim Christianity, but all do not hold to the same truth. So, who is right? There can be only All Christian groups must grapple with this issue. Much of Christianity settled on the Nicene creed as a solution. The Latter-day Saints reject th
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/28
    ...cannot bring me any other standard that is a lawful one. You may teach me Christianity, as you call it; you may try to govern me by a republican government, as yo ...against that government. What is the fact, against all these prejudices of early life? It is, that government is tolerably good in both countries. The Unite
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/39
    ...ion under which all are placed. Though some may think it a decided mark of Christianity, that it is a proof of deep piety, and bespeaks the character of Saints, an ...e laws, principles, and powers of the eternal world; and the people of the early ages of this world understood them.
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/43
    ...o be the most enlightened, and that profess to be, "if Mormonism prevails, Christianity will come down." ...ther there is one item that is new, or that is in any way an innovation on Christianity.
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/6
    |>=[[../7|Mahometanism and Christianity]] In the early years of the Church, there was a great anxiety among the brethren to travel
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/7
    |H=MAHOMETANISM AND CHRISTIANITY |T=Journal of Discourses 3: MAHOMETANISM AND CHRISTIANITY
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Context and development of the vision story
    ...a series of visions and voices from God that resulted in his conversion to Christianity at the age of seventy-six. {{information|Lucy Mack Smith's 1853 history may be found in Vogel, ''Early Mormon Documents'' 1:254. Note also that this phrase was added to the 1853
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Recorded accounts of the vision
    ...incing evidence that at best it received only limited circulation in those early days. * This section also ignores that by the early 1830s, secular newspapers were reporting that Joseph claimed to have seen G
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/2
    ...ially overruled for their overthrow; that they may be wasted away like the early frosts, and be scattered about like chaff before the wind, until, as the ma ...enemies are trying to come here to teach this people civilization and pure Christianity by killing our men and sleeping with our women. It seems that we have been
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/4
    ...n the Old Testament and Christianity. Here, then, we have the testimony of early Christian writers that many of the prophetical books of the Old Testament w ...e five manuscripts in existence that were supposed to have been written as early as the sixth or seventh century after Christ. Three of these you will find
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/64
    ...he Religion of Jesus Christ As Enjoyed By the Saints and that of Professed Christianity]] ...proclamation, and said, to-morrow is a feast of the Lord. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings, an
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/24
    ...NIZATION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—"MORMONISM" IS A RESTORATION OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY—JOSEPH SMITH A TRUE PROPHET—PLURAL MARRIAGE PRACTICED BY MEN OF GOD IN ...NIZATION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—"MORMONISM" IS A RESTORATION OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY—JOSEPH SMITH A TRUE PROPHET—PLURAL MARRIAGE PRACTICED BY MEN OF GOD IN
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  • Journal of Discourses/21/20
    ...few among farmers that have the opportunity of informing their minds at so early a period—at the age of twenty-one—in regard to the doctrines and prophe ...or; and to do away with these gifts destroys the fundamental principles of Christianity.
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  • Journal of Discourses/21/34
    ...dience to the same, and entering into the Church and kingdom of God, in my early youth, certainly is a blessing that is worthy of all thanks and praise to m ...the presbytery." And when we speak of missions, in those early periods of Christianity no person assumed to go on a mission among the inhabitants of the earth, un
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  • Journal of Discourses/11/19
    ...ds. We have been told a great many times that polygamy is not according to Christianity. The Protestant reformers believed the doctrine of polygamy. Philip, Landgr ...ay for yourselves, that your minds may be divested of false traditions and early impressions that are untrue. Those who are acquainted with the history {{pa
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  • Journal of Discourses/11/31
    ...ughfare the victims of corruption and vicious passion, and the devotees of Christianity jostle against each other. In the same locality edifices, whose lofty tower ...es, but it is decidedly too small. This is unquestionably the fault with a Christianity that does not extend the mantle of salvation to all who should be the recip
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  • Journal of Discourses/11/35
    ...ith, in his narrative of the trials through which the Church passed in its early days, alluded to the great number of persons who have apos-{{page break|226 If we converse with the votaries of modern Christianity about the persecutions which the Apostles and Prophets endured, and which a
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  • Journal of Discourses/12/17
    ...investigated and had been raised according to orthodox notions, and in my early youth I believed in the "Trinity." I investigated the principles of the Uni ..., how few of them believe, or even profess to believe in the principles of Christianity. There are a few sects, but a great number of people do not join themselves
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  • Journal of Discourses/12/19
    In that early day the prophet Joseph said to me that the Lord had revealed that twelve me ...by the ancient church. Now come down from the days of the introduction of Christianity into Palestine to the present period and place your finger, if you can, on
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  • Journal of Discourses/12/52
    |H=NECESSITY OF AN INSPIRED LEADER IN THE CHURCH—CHRISTIANITY AND PAGANISM—AUTHORITY |T=Journal of Discourses 12: NECESSITY OF AN INSPIRED LEADER IN THE CHURCH—CHRISTIANITY AND PAGANISM—AUTHORITY
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  • Journal of Discourses/13/14
    ...t oneness which characterized the followers of Christ in the early days of Christianity. It required the Lord our God to stretch forth His arm to bring this to pas
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  • Journal of Discourses/13/22
    ...the order God instituted on our globe; as early as the Garden of Eden; as early as the day when our first parents were placed in the garden to keep it and ...od That was the divine institution which was revealed and practiced in the early period of our globe. How has it been since that day? Mankind have strayed f
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  • Journal of Discourses/13/23
    Who was this Abraham? I have heard the saying frequently advanced, that in early life, being an idolater, it was an idolatrous, heathenish principle which h .... She was a monogamic nation, and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her. The strong
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  • Journal of Discourses/13/47
    ...do particularly with temporal matters. It is a tradition almost as old as Christianity. It has come down to us for generations and centuries, and is fully interwo ...s in former days; and even when compared with our own circumstances in the early history of the Church, what blessed privileges God has given us in this glo
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  • Journal of Discourses/14/15
    |H=GOOD AND EVIL—THE TESTIMONY OF THE SPIRIT—THIS EARLY RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE ...urnal of Discourses 14: GOOD AND EVIL—THE TESTIMONY OF THE SPIRIT—THIS EARLY RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
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  • Journal of Discourses/14/16
    |<=[[../15|Good and Evil—The Testimony of the Spirit—This Early Religious Experience]] ...session; or, rejecting those truths, become enthusiasts in, what you call, Christianity."
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  • Journal of Discourses/14/33
    ...xistence, for look at the meek who lived on the earth in the first ages of Christianity. Did they inherit the earth? No. What was their destiny? To wander about in I did not, at that early period of my life, see the inconsistency of this, and being very much charm
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  • Journal of Discourses/14/36
    |H=THE GATHERING—THE RISE OF THE CHURCH—THE BOOK OF MORMON—TRUE CHRISTIANITY ...ses 14: THE GATHERING—THE RISE OF THE CHURCH—THE BOOK OF MORMON—TRUE CHRISTIANITY
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  • Journal of Discourses/14/47
    ...ble, we shall find that in the various ages of the world, until soon after Christianity was introduced, there was a feeling among men to call upon God and to have ...ve we? Yes. Who made that Bible? Did the Christians? No, they did not. The early Christians had something to do with making the New Testament Scriptures, bu
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/15
    |H=SACRAMENT—SELF-EXAMINATION—RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY LIFE—REFLECTIONS ON SCENES OF CHILDHOOD, AFTER AN ABSENCE OF FORTY YEARS |T=Journal of Discourses 15: SACRAMENT—SELF-EXAMINATION—RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY LIFE—REFLECTIONS ON SCENES OF CHILDHOOD, AFTER AN ABSENCE OF FORTY YEARS
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/25
    ...o "truth springing out of the earth," was fulfilled. Forty-five years ago, early this morning, plates resembling {{page break|179|top}} gold were taken from ...he world at large with few exceptions; and he must have been so, at a very early age, if this work be not true, for he could not be deceived, himself, in re
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/33
    ...ere are those in the Christian world, so called, who profess to believe in Christianity and yet deny the efficacy of the atoning blood that was shed by our Lord an ...of their years? I do not know of any better method than going back to the early Spanish historians who lived contemporary with Columbus, the discoverer of
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  • Journal of Discourses/16/40
    ...es of Divine Worship—Ancient Christianity Compared With Modern So-Called Christianity—the Principles of the Gospel]] ...l persons who come to them professing to have been baptized before. In the early days of this Church there were certain persons, belonging to the Baptist de
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  • Journal of Discourses/16/41
    ...ES OF DIVINE WORSHIP—ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY COMPARED WITH MODERN SO-CALLED CHRISTIANITY—THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL ...ES OF DIVINE WORSHIP—ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY COMPARED WITH MODERN SO-CALLED CHRISTIANITY—THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL
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  • Journal of Discourses/16/44
    ...f things. There were no doubt many who were very zealous and who professed Christianity, and claimed to be the church of God, but where were their Apostles? Nowher ...ces administered by persons without authority. We read in the works of the early Christian fathers, so called, when they found themselves destitute of all p
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  • Journal of Discourses/16/46
    ...and teachers were placed in the Church, for what? For the establishing of Christianity? No, it does not read in that way. For the benefit of the Apostles and thos ...e Gospel which Jesus taught? Not one. Leaving Calvin, Knox, Luther and the early reformers we come down to later times, and we find that in the Church of En
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/40
    ...Deity leads to this infidelity, as much as anything else. The advocates of Christianity are in a great measure to blame. When we begin to scan the teachings and en ...to Mary, near the tomb where he was raised. When Mary came to the tomb at early dawn, she saw two angels by the tomb, and they said unto her, "whom seek ye
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