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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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    |<=[[../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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    |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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  • Journal of Discourses/20/9
    ...od, also giving us much information of the Gospel that was taught in those early ages, and giving us some very important prophecies, reaching down to the pr ...ef and testimony in this respect have been similar to those entertained by Christianity of to-day. Now, I ask again, which is the more Godlike, which is the more i
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/16
    |<=[[../15|General Doniphan’s Connection with the Early History of the Church—Persecutions of the Saints—Mormon Battalion—Har ...gain to the old principles of Mormonism, to that which God revealed in the early rise of this Church.
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/37
    ...this rule, I am sorry to say that the influx of so-called civilization and Christianity in our midst has shown its effects upon some portions of our community, and ...to the education of their children, and provide for their welfare. In the early days of the Territory the first house built in every settlement, as a gener
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/39
    ...to the great Mother Church, the oldest in existence among those professing Christianity, and make the enquiry of her members, and they will make the same declarati ...centuries; but we have the testimony of many learned men, men who profess Christianity and to believe the Bible, that, in gathering together the most original man
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/40
    ...he nevertheless went to work with his father in the field, at their usual early hour. But the visions of the night wrought upon his mind to that degree, th ...ity with the truth, they have taken this Babel of confusion, called modern Christianity, and have asked if that could be from heaven? And they do not believe in it
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/42
    ...ere is no union?" Some two hundred millions of the human family professing Christianity, and yet contending one with another about their doctrines and principles, Now, ancient Christianity, or, in other words, the kingdom which God set up eighteen hundred years ag
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/44
    ...then; or, in other words, that we have discarded everything connected with Christianity. Others have no definite ideas in regard to our belief, their minds being f ...his sight. How many of you who are here to-day have seen the time in your early life when, if you could have known that God would bestow upon you the gifts
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/33
    ...ful to present them to the people. Passages which I had merely read, in my early school days, came as vividly to my mind as though I had committed them to m ...ds who have also tested, in like manner, the truth of this promise. In the early rise of this Church, I sometimes had to sleep out in the open air, the same
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/39
    ...ed Mohammedans, and they have their peculiar ideas of heaven. Then we have Christianity in all its phases, with all its ideas, theories, opinions, plans and calcul ...few of us, have had our share of these things. I have seen people, in the early days, who had to pass through a good deal,—stripped, robbed, pillaged, be
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/6
    ...Some of the Latter-day Saints who were associated with this Church in its early history, and suffered the persecutions in Ohio, in Missouri and Illinois, t ...stion. But God has said, "I love them that love me, and those that seek me early shall find me;" therefore He will be inquired of by His people, and He requ
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/20
    ...ell me what is to become of the heathen that have died, who never heard of Christianity in any shape? for there is but one name given under heaven by which men can ...y are they then baptized for the dead? From this it would seem that in the early Christian church, the living were baptized for the dead. From this we can u
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/34
    ...ies may be, however different our views from the views of many who profess Christianity, we at least share in those views with others who were called the people of ...but a child when my parents joined the Church, but I learned to read very early. Among the first questions I remember asking my father was in relation to t
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/50
    ...s. It is true that such wholesale persecution as attended the preaching of Christianity in the primitive days has not followed its preaching in our day, for the di
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/7
    ...us as a people, only by the force, the power and influence of this federal Christianity that has been introduced among us. Until these people came into our midst w ...has kept the books and records in most excellent condition. I will, at an early day, transmit a catalogue of this library, and schedules of the other publi
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/22
    ...r blood has permeated European society, and it coursed in the veins of the early colonists of America. And when the books shall be opened and the lineage of ...ngdom of God. They talk about religion, and they profess to be teachers of Christianity; so far as they honestly believe, and show by their works, that Christ was
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/29
    ...THE MOUNT—SIMILARITY OF ANCIENT, TO MODERN OPPOSITION TO THE TRUTH—THE EARLY APOSTACY AND THE GOSPEL'S LATTER-DAY RESTORATION—THE OBJECT OF ANTI-"MORM ...THE MOUNT—SIMILARITY OF ANCIENT, TO MODERN OPPOSITION TO THE TRUTH—THE EARLY APOSTACY AND THE GOSPEL'S LATTER-DAY RESTORATION—THE OBJECT OF ANTI-"MORM
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/30
    |<=[[../29|The Gospel of Christ or Ancient Christianity, etc.]] ...at are inherent in man, that belong to man, and that were enunciated in an early day, before the United States government was formed, and they are principle
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/34
    ...tianity in Europe, by the Roman empire, and became the form of marriage in early times when, as history alleges, men were more numerous in Rome than women.
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/2
    ...TED AND ACCOMPLISHED BY THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH—SKETCH OF THE PROPHET'S EARLY LIFE REFUTATION OF THE FALSE CHARGES MADE AGAINST HIM AND THE LATTER-DAY SA ...TED AND ACCOMPLISHED BY THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH—SKETCH OF THE PROPHET'S EARLY LIFE REFUTATION OF THE FALSE CHARGES MADE AGAINST HIM AND THE LATTER-DAY SA
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/22
    ...TENCE OF THE WORK A PROOF OF ITS DIVINITY—ITS COMPLETENESS—A POWERLESS CHRISTIANITY—SENTIMENTS OF THE SAINTS IN REGARD TO MORALITYITES ...TENCE OF THE WORK A PROOF OF ITS DIVINITY—ITS COMPLETENESS—A POWERLESS CHRISTIANITY—SENTIMENTS OF THE SAINTS IN REGARD TO MORALITYITES
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/11
    ...there is a redemption beyond the grave, he shakes the pillars of so called Christianity; he gives them a mightier blow than could be given by an Elder advocating t
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/41
    ...have been sub-rosa, genteel, fashionable, respectable, Christian-like, as Christianity goes in this generation. And if this did not succeed, the young man might h
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 1
    ...esponse to claim: 24 - LDS leaders have stated that "worship of the God of Christianity's creeds will not result in salvation" |L3=Response to claim: 25 - "To be sure, historical Christianity has never advocated the belief in a tangible deity"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 2
    ...">{{TPJS}}</ref>{{Rp|327}} Yet, Joseph Smith and other Prophets accept the Christianity of other denominations: It is to understand just how the LDS view can be "unchristian" when early Christian saints such as Lactantius held similar views?<ref>Lactantius, On
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 3
    |L10=Response to claim: 56 - "the Trinity was not an invention of the early church; rather, it was a definitive response designed to explain the biblic ...believe that the Trinity was "an invention of the apostate church," while Christianity believes it is "a doctrine that came from biblical origins"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 4
    ...esting to note that the authors presume to speak for the entire panoply of Christianity with all its myriad denominations and sects. Verbiage such as this also acc {{:Question: Did the early Christian fathers express a belief in a pre-mortal life?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 6
    ...Indeed, the doctrine that some would be thus "translated" was reported by early Christians such as Papias (ca. 100 AD) and the Jewish Christian writers of ...>Barry R. Bickmore, ''Restoring the Ancient Church: Joseph Smith and Early Christianity'' (Ben Lomond, California: Foundation for Apologetic Information and Resear
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 7
    |L2=Response to claim: 97 - "the connection between the Bible and Christianity is a reason why the LDS Church began an advertising campaign in the United |L7=Response to claim: 100 - "The early church gave a stamp of authority to the writings of the apostles"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 8
    |L14=Response to claim: 112-113 - Joseph Fielding Smith disagreed with the early proposals suggesting that Mesoamerica was the land of Book of Mormon activi {{information|A study of early Mormon sources reveals that the LDS Church has discussed this issue for yea
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 10
    ...ist. Philippians 2:5–11 in ''Recent Interpretation and in the Setting of Early Christian Worship'' (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1997), 49 ...bout the LDS attitude towards the blood shed by the Savior. In discussing "Christianity's definition of atonement" they quote from Leon Morris that "because Christ
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 11
    ...nkie said that salvation by grace alone was "the second greatest heresy of Christianity" {{:Question: What can the writings of early Christians tell us about how to receive salvation in Jesus Christ?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 15
    ...on. And, one would be hard pressed to come up with any other statements by early LDS leaders that would support such a statement. Comparatively, the first s ...ncidentally giving us another glimpse into the customary procedures of the early Christian fellowship as they illustrated the truth of the Resurrection.<ref
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 16
    ...s appeal to an audience that is ignorant of the abysmal history of most of Christianity's dealings on race issues. They are obviously hoping their target audience ...thodox Christian thinking."<ref>Forrest G. Wood, ''The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century'' (New Y
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 17
    ...y that polygamy is now abhorred in Western culture generally and in modern Christianity particularly. What I deny is that the source of that abhorrence is biblical
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 18
    |L7=Response to claim: 267-268 - If the leaders of the early church had claimed ultimate authority, then we could rightly conclude that ==Response to claim: 267-268 - If the leaders of the early church had claimed ultimate authority, then we could rightly conclude that
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Introduction
    ...he book would live up to my initial expectation. My wait was extended into early July, when the book was finally delivered to my doorstep. Was it worth the ...of Christianity has no greater claim to "historic," "orthodox," pre-Nicene Christianity than Mormonism. Once the historical data that I will present is honestly ex
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  • Question: Was the temple obsolete after Christ?
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  • Question: What did the Jews and early Christians really believe with regard to a three-part heaven?
    ==Question: What did the Jews and early Christians really believe with regard to a three-part heaven?== ...an "argument from absence". That is, if critics say, in effect, "Jews and early Christians never believed x" and we succeed in finding even one solitary re
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  • Question: What is the Mormon concept of Hell?
    ...but taught almost vehemently over centuries by the priests of an apostate Christianity...that sinners will be sent to hell, there to remain in torture throughout For a discussion on changes from the early Christian conception of sin, death, hell, and salvation, see:
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  • Question: What is the historic church's concept of the Trinity and why do Mormons reject it?
    ...fail to understand that deification, or theosis, was the main doctrine of Christianity during the first centuries, it is still firmly taught in Orthodoxy, and eve ...believing in the doctrine of exaltation actually agree with them that the early church experienced a "great apostasy" on fundamental doctrinal questions. A
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  • Question: How do Mormons view the historical position of the Christian church with regard to the atonement of Jesus Christ?
    ...n this paper: that the Latter-day Saints are more closely aligned with the early Church, than with the modern West. The Church of Jesus Christ has often been maligned for rejecting "historical Christianity" and therefore it is important that we determine exactly what the historica
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  • Question: How does one respond to the statement: "Churches don't save; Jesus saves"?
    ...ant Christians, probably because their claim to direct continuity with the early Christian church is tenuous, and they cannot easily claim to possess the pr ...n and John P. Meier, ''Antioch and Rome: New Testament Cradles of Catholic Christianity'' (Paulist Press, 1983). ISBN 0809125323.</ref> not a group of different de
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  • Question: Why does God act so violently in scripture and especially the Old Testament?
    ...), 125–27; Justo L. Gonzalez, ''The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation'' (New York: HarperOne, 2010), 73&nda
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Distinctive views and teachings
    ...a [[Restoration (Latter Day Saints)|restoration]] of [[early Christianity|early Christian]] ideals that had been lost in a [[Great Apostasy|great apostasy] an early revelation designated him as the only prophet allowed to issue commandments
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  • Times and Seasons/2/2
    One peculiarity of men I wish to notice in the early part of my narrative. So far as my acquaintance and knowledge of men and th ...igh heaven are they committing the most nefarious crimes, and the cause of Christianity is bleeding at every pore. Will you, then stand patient lookers on and see
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 10
    ...se to claim: 255, 434n15 - LDS leaders spent decades denouncing mainstream Christianity |L3=Response to claim: 257 - The "ongoing condemnation of Christianity" is "built into the very core of Mormonism as a central tenet"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 4
    |L3=Response to claim: 114 - Early biblical church quotes used by Mormons to support tritheism only superficia ==Response to claim: 114 - Early biblical church quotes used by Mormons to support tritheism only superficia
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 5
    ...to imply that God cannot be in human form, since a fundamental doctrine of Christianity is that Jesus is God, made flesh. {{:Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds}}
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  • Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1990-1997)
    ...searched the scriptures and concluded that no society taught New Testament Christianity (Backman, p. 156; Jessee, p. 5). In the 1838 account he notes that he often ...n.” (xvi, citing Paul Cheesman, An Analysis… (MA 1965); Jessee, “The Early Accounts…” (1969); Backman, Joseph Smith’s First Vision (1980 2nd edi
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  • Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 2
    ...er shall be called Mary" ({{s||Mosiah|3|8}}). Latter-day Saints, like the early Christians, reject the creedal doctrine of ''creatio ex nihilo'' (creation {{disinformation|Some early LDS believed Jesus may have been married; the Church has no doctrine on thi
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  • Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 5
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 23
    ...laws were never taught by Jesus Christ and did not apply to New Testament Christianity" ...laws were never taught by Jesus Christ and did not apply to New Testament Christianity"==
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/12
    ...than strange, that the persecutions of any age, since the establishment of christianity in America at least, have been believers in some creed, who have persecuted ...d brother was born in Killingsworth in the State of Connecticut, where the early part of his life was spent; he emigrated from thence to Rutland co., town o
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/1
    Early in the morning the waiter's bell awaked the passengers, to give room for ad ...esthood; and after various unsuccessful attempts to convert the nations to christianity, hesitated not to declare, that when they should be converted, God would en
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/7
    ...is wood clave for the altar and his ass saddled journeying to mount Moriah early in the morning to sacrifice his only begotten son, in whom the Lord had sai At an early hour on Thursday, the sixth, the official members assembled in the house of
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/10
    ...ot but think, that Dr. Lardner, who is no friend to the vital doctrines of Christianity, has betrayed, in his attempts to shew [show] that St. John in his gospel d ...invention, he may then with some plausibility compare those religions with Christianity: But, as the gospel stands unrivalled [unrivaled] in its manner of subduing
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/1/2
    ...least doubt that they now exceed 10,000, and as the number of cases in the early stages of the disease when its character was more virulent than it has sinc ...village, and destroying thousands of the inhabitants, it reached Calcutta early in September. It then spread into other parts of the country, taking differ
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/1/5
    ====COMPARISON BETWEEN THE HEATHENISM AND CHRISTIANITY.==== ...a pity, then that this important study should be so much neglected in the early education of children, that Orin [Orion] and his belt, Pleiades and Arcturu
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/2/17
    ...s against the saints which are recorded in history. When the professors of christianity have obtained the ascendancy of power, they too often, for the honor of tha ...this promise was given to all, it only meant a few in the earlier years of christianity. So that we can plainly see, that reformers and non-reformers are all of on
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/2/18
    Early in the morning we marched strongly guarded by the troops, to the seat of wa ...have been, and may be at this day a subject untouched by the professors of christianity, that does not lessen its value, neither does it diminish its power in judg
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/2/20
    ...nd yet, the dealings of God with them are as different as Mahometanism and christianity! There is something surely very strange about this matter, how two things c ...s fruits of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and the latter rain. Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the com
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  • Times and Seasons/6/1
    ...d pray may be ready for the service of God, in the course of this year, or early in the next;) and notwithstanding wicked men have martyred our Prophet and ...began to promulgate his religion which, partaking somewhat of Judaism and Christianity, has been called a 'Christian heresy.' In successive years, he published po
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    ...l be deducted from the amount for their lands. Our object is peace, and an early answer will be expected. Early on the morning of the 25th the camp was separated into small bands, and dis
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  • Times and Seasons/6/23
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  • Times and Seasons/4/22
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  • Question: Does Acts 17:24-25 teach that the idea of temple worship is foreign to Christianity?
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/The Bible vs Joseph Smith
    John Gee: The Corruption of Scripture in Early Christianity (http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=42&chapid=206)
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  • Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 1-28
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  • Facts Mormons Won't Tell You When They Call at Your Door
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  • Website reviews/Exmormon Foundation/Richard Packham's media questions for Mitt Romney
    ...est' approach to Christian truth, but does not deny that other branches of Christianity contain truths and things of value. (Almost all Christians, for example, s ...anding it is still in the Mormon Doctrine and Covenants, Section 132. Many early Mormons were polygamous and married ("sealed") to numerous wives "for etern
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    *Source text: ''Early Mormon Documents'' (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1996–2003), 5 vols, ...ing in Palmyra, Wayne Co., N.Y., make the following statement regarding my early acquaintence with Joseph Smith and the incidents about the production of th
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  • Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest
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  • 1 Nephi
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  • 2 Nephi
    ...icks, "Adam's Fall in the Book of Mormon, Second Temple Judaism, and Early Christianity" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=46&chapid=259 **Carl W. Griffin, “Early Christianity and the Question of Evil” [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/i
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  • FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest
    *Donald Q. Cannon, "In the Press: Early Newspaper Reports on the Initial Publication of the Book of Mormon" [http:/ *Matthew Roper, "Early Publications on the Book of Mormon" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/public
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    **John L. Sorenson, "Steel in Early Metallurgy" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=15&num= ...1 Nephi 13–14" [http://rsc.byu.edu/archived/book-mormon-treasury/8-early-christianity-and-1-nephi-13%E2%80%9314 (Religious Educator)]
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  • Times and Seasons/2/3
    ...s divine service, with his assistant Pient. Of 400 Jews, 100 have embraced Christianity. An institution for converts has been established by the English Missionary ...is district; and it may be safely recommended to such as wish to have them early in the summer. The Rev. Mr. W. Bostwick, in the 4th volume of the Gennesee
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  • The Bible/Scripture interpretation
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  • The Ang Aklatan
    This fascinates me a little bit because it impacts an early discussion in Mormon thought. Consider what Brigham Young said on this topi ..., but we don't see a need for a corresponding response to it either. Early Christianity had a somewhat fluid canon—and yet this notion never seems to come up. At
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Introduction
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  • Question: Is there anything wrong with early Church leaders using the term "angel" to refer to Jesus Christ?
    ==Question: Is there anything wrong with early Church leaders using the term "angel" to refer to Jesus Christ?== ...inster Press, 1963), 1:199.</ref> At least the use of the term "angel" in Christianity does not seem unknown.
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  • Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names?
    ...it would be very difficult if not impossible to reconstruct the history of Christianity using nothing but archaeological artifacts and imperial Roman inscriptions. ...e." According to Wikipedia, "The site's name is pre-Columbian, recorded by early Spanish missionaries, and documented over a millennium earlier in Maya insc
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  • Question: How do non-Mormon artists treat the Nativity?
    ...no monks at the Nativity, and the Dominican order was not formed until the early thirteenth century. But any serious claim that this work is merely an attem ...e future, without betraying the historical Christ, from whom all authentic Christianity arises. We must not restrict ourselves to the historical and cultural forms
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith decide that all churches were wrong before he received the First Vision?
    ...o occur to Joseph, nor would it have been likely to occur to anyone in the early 19th Century. Christ without a church in 1820? Who could imagine such heres ...ose three groups preached, importantly, distinct soteriological visions of Christianity. If, however, verse 10 is not seen as completely separate from verse 9, the
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  • Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception?
    ...l as physical phenomena which can include elements of peace or joy. In the early days of the Church, Oliver Cowdery received the following revelation throug ===Early Christians experienced similar feelings to a "burning in the bosom"===
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds
    ==Mormons have "picked up" discarded beliefs of early Christians== ...theological turn toward a metaphysics of immaterialism. Far from ignoring early church history, then, Mormons are committed to an interrogation of the rela
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  • Question: Do modern Mormon temple rituals have analogues in early Christian practice?
    ==Question: Do modern Mormon temple rituals have analogues in early Christian practice?== ...as, also seems to have selected precisely those elements with analogues in early Christian practice, suggesting that Joseph Smith was indeed inspired to res
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  • Why do the Latter-day Saints not wear or use the cross
    ...e late 19th century, the cross had become firmly entrenched as a symbol of Christianity generally, not just Catholicism.<ref>Ryan K. Smith, [https://www.jstor.org/ Because The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in the early- to mid-19th century, most converts came from religious traditions that did
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  • Question: Do Latter-day Saints diminish the importance of Jesus Christ and His atonement?
    ...ation of the President, 1976), 92. The statement was first published in an early LDS publication, the Elders' Journal I (1832): 28–9. The frequency of app
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  • Question: Does the practice of baptism for the dead have ancient roots?
    ===There is considerable evidence that some early Christians and some Jewish groups performed proxy ordinance work for the sa ...ct, we know that baptism for the dead was practiced for a long time in the early church. As John A. Tvedtnes has noted:
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  • Question: What is the origin of the doctrine of original sin?
    ...dea of ‘original sin’ has been so commonly identified with traditional Christianity that the rejection of the one has seemed to imply a rejection of the other. ...ely on Latin translations of both the scriptures and the writings of other early Christians.
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  • Question: How can Latter-day Saints reconcile having other people receive spiritual experiences that motivate them to believe in and become part of other religions?
    ...dge of truth and the way the Greeks thought of it. Whereas the Hebrews and early Christian writers of scripture constantly refer to the heart as an instrume ...r faith while also expressing the important differences between mainstream Christianity and the Restored Gospel. [[Question: Why would the true church of Jesus Chr
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  • Was Joseph Smith's participation in "money digging" as a youth a blot on his character
    ...f>David Whitmer Interview with Chicago Times, August 1875. In Dan Vogel, ''Early Mormon Documents'', 5 vols. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996-2003), 5 ...an influence on his outlook, but it was peripheral--not central. Biblical Christianity was the overwhelming influence in the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and C
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  • Question: Does the doctrine that God has a physical body contradict the Bible?
    ...on, Brittany E. ''The Embodied God: Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. ...to imply that God cannot be in human form, since a fundamental doctrine of Christianity is that Jesus is God, made flesh===
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  • Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will one day 'supplant' God?
    ===The doctrine of deification was present in the early Church=== ...ty Ernst Benz insisted that the doctrine of deification was present in the early Church, and pointed out a potential risk for those who do not understand it
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  • Question: Was the Latter-day Saint concept of deification derived from Greek philosophy?
    ...not anything like theosis (deification) in the sense that word was used by early Christians. When Latter-day Saints refer to the Hellenizing of Christianity, they are following the lead of Protestant authors who have used that expre
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  • Question: Did Elder Dallin Oaks say that "so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind of being"?
    ==Question: Did Elder Dallin Oaks say that "so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind of being"?== ...Under Gods'' claims that Dallin Oaks told Mormons in 1995 "that so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind of being." He cites Dallin H. Oaks,
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  • Plural marriage/Twentieth century LDS publications on plural marriage
    ...o very much pleased, to learn that he is a son of William Law, who, in the early days of the Church, was a counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith. ...the revelation making known this marriage law was given to the Prophet as early as 1831. In that year, and thence intermittently up to 1833, the Prophet wa
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  • Question: Did early Mormon leaders consider themselves Christians?
    ==Question: Did early Mormon leaders consider themselves Christians?== ===Early Latter-day Saint leaders clearly considered themselves Christians, but cond
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  • Question: Did Latter-day Saints wish to avoid being classified as Christians?
    ===Early Mormon leaders self-identified as Christians, but condemned Christians who ...ng Christian religions is that the early leaders of the Church "condemned" Christianity. The argument then follows that Latter-day Saints voluntarily separated the
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  • Question: What did early Mormon leaders think of Christians?
    ==Question: What did early Mormon leaders think of Christians?== ...A. Smith's comments indicate that there was not a general condemnation of Christianity:
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  • Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian?
    ...pture, practice, doctrine, and public statements of its leadership and its early critics. ...d several others . . . admitted [that the new faith] was an improvement in Christianity”. <ref>{{CriticalWork:Morning Courier:1 September 1831:Mormon Religion|pa
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  • Question: What is the difference between Joseph Smith's first vision and other reported visions of God at the time?
    Joseph eventually wrote the account of that early vision late in his life because rumors about it had circulated and caused h other early Saints offered that vision as a reason for others to become Latter-day Sain
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  • Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services?
    ...al authorization given in 1830, followed by an institutional change in the early 20th century. Early in the month of August [1830], Newel Knight and his wife paid us a visit, a
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  • Question: What are the common objections to a belief in God's corporeality?
    ...n believe that God had a material body.<ref>J.W.C.Wand, ''A History of the Early Church to A.D. 500'' (London: Methuen & Co., 1937), 140.</ref> Greek converts to Christianity wanted to make their faith more appealing to people in their own culture, a
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  • Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith?
    ...s towards Missouri . . . are decidedly at variance with the true spirit of Christianity, and should not be encouraged by any people, much less by those professing ...emon,” a power-mad tyrant, a seducer, and someone who contributed to the early death of young women.
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  • Question: Do Mormons believe that Mary was still a virgin when Jesus was born?
    Often used as evidence are a handful statements from early LDS leaders, such as Brigham Young, that directly or indirectly support thi ...n on is ''how'' the conception took place, despite speculations by various early Church leaders===
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  • Questions: What biblical evidence is there for a pre-mortal existence?
    ...t Origen had their roots in political posturing regarding doctrines of the early church. Regardless, many scholars regard the papal edict in AD 543 as the r
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  • Question: Was Nicean Trinitarianism always a key part of Christian belief?
    ...rstood by the majority of Protestants and Catholics was not present in the Early Christian Church=== ...in whether Peter and Paul are "Christians," since they lived and practiced Christianity at a time when there was no Nicene Creed, and no Trinitarianism in the curr
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  • Question: What were early Christian beliefs on the nature of God?
    ==Question: What were early Christian beliefs on the nature of God?== ...as pre-Nicean orthodoxy.<ref>Henry Bettenson, editor and translator, ''The Early Christian Fathers:A Selection from the Writings of the Fathers from St. Cle
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  • Question: Why was Nicean Trinitarian introduced at all?
    ===The early Christians never referred to these verses in their writings=== ...and the Spirit, and these three are one.'<ref>Paul Johnson, ''A History of Christianity'' (New York: Touchstone, 1976), 26&ndash;27. ISBN 684815036.</ref>
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  • Question: What does 1 John 5:7-8 have to do with Trinitariansim?
    ===The early Christians never referred to these verses in their writings=== ...and the Spirit, and these three are one.'<ref>Paul Johnson, ''A History of Christianity'' (New York: Touchstone, 1976), 26&ndash;27. ISBN 684815036.</ref>
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  • Question: Is modern Trinitarianism understood in the same sense by all who accept it?
    It is interesting that ideas that were once perfectly orthodox within early Christianity (like subordinationism) are now classed as “pre-Christian theology” whi
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  • Question: Does the Nicene Creed define who is Christian, and who is not?
    ...rian doctrine and no awareness of a trinitarian problem."<ref>JND Kelly, ''Early Christian Doctrines'', revised edition, (New York: Harper, 1978), 95.</ref ...ndon claims of scriptural or historical support for such a belief in early Christianity, including among the apostles and those they taught.
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  • Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian:Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity
    ...ics'': "Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity"== Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity.<br>
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  • Question: What were the early Christian beliefs about the creation?
    ==Question: What were the early Christian beliefs about the creation?== ...creatio ex nihilo'' was first advanced by a Gnostic (a heretical branch of Christianity), and did not appear until more than a century after the birth of Christ.
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  • Question: How did the mainstream Christian view that God created the universe out of nothing originate?
    ...God is therefore claimed to be "less powerful" than the God of mainstream Christianity, or "unbiblical." ...ian community by their revealed tradition, either in Biblical texts or the Early Jewish interpretation of them. As we will also see it was not a position at
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  • Old Question: Are Latter-day Saints are not true Christians because they do not use the cross and believe that the atonement occurred in the Garden of Gethsemane?
    ...ork translated in English as Apologetics; or the Scientific Vindication of Christianity. He was also the author of a Biblical Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebr ...l genius of St. Paul had little permanent influence on the theology of the early Church." [H.E.W. Turner, The Patristic Doctrine of Redemption. A Study of t
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  • Question: How quickly could one join the Methodists in the 1830s?
    ...those days," says Lord King, "were hastily advanced to the higher forms of Christianity, but according to their knowledge and merit, gradually [29] arrived thereto
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  • Question: Is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a "cult"?
    For example, when early Christians were unpopular, uncommon, and powerless they too were labeled as ...with reference to its rites and concepts deity and because it is a sect of Christianity devoted to such a system. The same conclusion can be drawn to any other Chr
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  • Question: Does the Book of Mormon support trinitarianism?
    ...s verse may be used to argue for an embodied Christ and God (and likely an early conceptualization of deification) in the Book of Mormon. Furthermore, the p ===As scholars have explored the origins of Christianity, it is becoming increasingly apparent that it is deeply rooted in the earli
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  • Source:Nibley:Church News:29 July 1961:How else does one quote scripture if not bodily?
    ...t[s] against the Book of Mormon was that it actually quoted the Bible. The early critics were simply staggered by the incredible stupidity of including larg ...[magazine],<ref>Nibley is responding to Wesley P. Walters, "Mormonism," ''Christianity Today'' 5/6 (19 December 1960): 8&ndash;10.</ref> "passages lifted bodily f
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  • Question: Is there a revealed Book of Mormon geography?
    ...ttings of obscurity are not unusual to the Lord's purposes. Meridian–day Christianity was initiated on a very small geographical scale and with comparatively few As early as 1909, B. H. Roberts doubted that the statement about Lehi’s travels ca
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  • Question: Is there any evidence of the apostasy from materials from early Christian history besides the Bible?
    ==Question: Is there any evidence of the apostasy from materials from early Christian history besides the Bible?== ===The testimony of the early Christian Fathers does not incline us to see a united group of Christian di
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  • Question: What is the reformation view of the apostasy?
    Early Anabaptist Thomas Muntzer believed that ...ard church of Christ was wasted immediately after the apostles because the early Fathers, whom he calls ‘wolves’ and ‘anti-christs’, justified war,
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  • Question: How does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints relate to other branches of Christianity?
    ...he Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints relate to other branches of Christianity?== ...ieve pure Christianity was lost from the earth, and that other branches of Christianity are corrupted. But in some cases, Evangelical critics of the Church appear
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  • Question: Do Mormon beliefs or practices exclude them from being considered Christian?
    * LDS have doctrines which differ from many forms of "traditional" Christianity: ...e+Stand+Up:+A+New+Look+at+Today's+Evangelical+Church+in+the+Light+of+Early+Christianity&hl=en&ei=VIYkTorbDOnmsQKtoYmvAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=
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  • Question: What can the writings of early Christians tell us about how to receive salvation in Jesus Christ?
    ==Question: What can the writings of early Christians tell us about how to receive salvation in Jesus Christ?== Here are a few examples of what the early Church fathers taught on salvation:
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  • Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Scripture (excluding the Bible)
    And, many early Christians didn't think polygamy was inherently evil: {{:Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds}}
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  • Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About the Bible
    ...t is a doctrine shared by many early Christians and much of modern Eastern Christianity (e.g., Eastern Orthodox). However, the question asked here represents a mis ...ay be that the Church sometimes emphasizes Gethsemane, because traditional Christianity has long focused on the cross in art, iconography, and ritual. Yet, Gethse
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  • Question: Do we do not need a mediating priesthood since it has been "fulfilled in Christ?"
    Early Christian authors insisted too that high priests, prophets, bishops, elders ...n with Catholicism)&mdash;leads them to ignore the clear evidence from the early Church.
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  • Temples in early Christianity
    ===There is no evidence that the early Christian apostles abandoned the use of the temple. Indeed, they embraced i There is no evidence that the early Christian apostles abandoned the use of the temple. Indeed, they embraced i
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  • The 8th Article of Faith
    ...Statistical Inquiry into Pauline Style," ''Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity'', No. 39 (Mellen, 1998), xiv, 203.</ref> The authors of the study were wor
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  • Question: Does the Bible predict an apostasy?
    ...converts had been made during this early period.<ref>John G. Davies, ''The Early Christian Church'' (New York: Anchor Books, 1965), 86.</ref> ...ay." ({{s|2|Peter|3|8}}) Could it be that the flooding of antichrists into Christianity signaled the end of the Church of that age? This interpretation is strongly
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  • Question: Does the definition of the Trinity predate the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds?
    ===In early Christian history, there is a clear definition of how the Son is God, and h ...vent.org/cathen/05008b.htm Chapter VII]. This beautiful little apology for Christianity is cited by no ancient or medieval writer, and came down to us in a single
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  • Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith make derogatory racial comments in the 22 October 1963 issue of Look magazine?
    ...s appeal to an audience that is ignorant of the abysmal history of most of Christianity's dealings on race issues=== ...s appeal to an audience that is ignorant of the abysmal history of most of Christianity's dealings on race issues. They are obviously hoping their target audience
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  • Question: Is Mormon insistence on baptism as an essential ordinance of salvation "unChristian" or "unbiblical"?
    ===Biblical data and early Christians are unanimous that baptism was regarded as an essential commandm ...salvation is "unChristian" or "unbiblical." However, the Biblical data and early Christians are unanimous that baptism was regarded as an essential commandm
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  • Question: Is Mormonism in error because Christianity requires a "closed canon" instead of the Church's "open canon"?
    ==Question: Is Mormonism in error because Christianity requires a "closed canon" instead of the Church's "open canon"?== ...m that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in error because Christianity requires a "closed canon" (no more authoritative revelation) instead of the
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  • Plural marriage in early Christianity
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  • Question: What does the Book of Mormon mean when it says that "plain and precious" things have been taken out of the bible?
    ...as<ref>{{ComparingLDSBeliefs}}; citing Clyde L. Manschreck, ''A History of Christianity in the World'', 2d. ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1985), 52.< The clear evidence of "lost scripture" from the Bible was a common early LDS argument. See, for example:
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  • Times and Seasons/2/19
    ...n that such a worship and priesthood did exist among the heathens in those early ages before Aaron, and as there can be no counterfeit without true coin, it ...may see at Nauvoo, who will visit there, why it is that so many professing christianity, and so many professing to reverence the sacred principles of our constitut
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  • Times and Seasons/2/24
    ...the present age, precisely as it was in the primitive or golden period of Christianity. ...neither Bhoodism [Buddhism] nor Mahometanism nor Judaism, nor Christiany [Christianity]-but it is a faith which they say encourages no vice, nor immorality, nor d
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  • Times and Seasons/3/8
    ...goted and ignorant subjects. An immoderate zeal for the external rights of Christianity was a distinguishing characteristic of the age, and persecution, or extermi Conference then adjourned till evening at early candle-lighting.
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  • Times and Seasons/3/12
    A large assembly of Saints gathered together at the place of meeting at an early hour, to hear a discourse delivered by President Joseph Smith, upon the sub ...wiser' if it is the case, the world grows more wicked and corrupt. In the early ages of the world, a righteous man, and a man of God, and of intelligence,
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  • Times and Seasons/3/16
    ...sprig or branch, of which the great tree of corrupt Christianity, or anti-christianity, is composed; but we forbear. Suffice it to say, that the same rule will ap Since the great apostacy [apostasy] from primitive Christianity, all the reformers of which we have any knowledge have fallen into this one
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  • Times and Seasons/3/21
    ...and that now their record had come forth, throwing a flood of light on the early history of this continent and would yet be hailed by every lover of truth, ...earned divines were to build up churches until they converted the world to christianity, and brought in the millennium.
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  • Times and Seasons/4/5
    ...e light of revelation has long since ceased to dawn upon the professors of Christianity; and as the followers of Jesus have had no other landmark but that of the w ...body of people (the Methodists) with whom he had been connected in earley [early] life, he was convinced were once a good people; but he now greatly rejoice
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  • Times and Seasons/4/8
    ...nhabitants, nearly all living in the most degraded manner. It is true that Christianity is professed in Abyssinia and Nubia, but in the most debased forms. Mohamme Early in the month of August, Newell Knight and his wife paid us a visit, at my p
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  • Times and Seasons/4/9
    ...h almost extirpated, and John banished to the Isle of Patmos. Even at this early age the most abominable doctrines were propagated, which called forth the t ...ed, and superstition reigned without control. The gentile converts to this christianity introduced a round of prayers and procession, by which they had been accust
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  • Times and Seasons/5/13
    things have been spoken by Elder Rigdon concerning the early history of this church. There is no individual who has searched the oracles ...ence met pursuant to the adjournment.-A large audience was assembled at an early hour, which was addressed by elder W. Woodruff, followed by elder Green, an
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  • Times and Seasons/5/16
    ...to hearken to the prophets and servants whom God has sent to you; 'Rising early and sending them.' The instructions have been given you all the day long, t ...ance of the milk of human kindness, and charity for the honor and glory of christianity, and the reason and wisdom of free-thinking, couched in the manly idea of '
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  • Times and Seasons/5/17
    ...for her doctrines, wage war not merely with her enemies, but covertly with christianity herself. These pseudo friends in the persons of ministers and church member ...ious that there has been a wide departure from the simplicity of primitive christianity. This apostasy has been foretold in the days of the apostles. I Tim. iv, Ti
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  • Times and Seasons/5/19
    ...ord and not "the receipts," we would advise all to bring their receipts as early as possible and have them duly recorded, that their names may be found amon ...and the British Minister, who were guests, and assurances were given of an early interference in favor of the repeal. It is a singular fact, and may be deem
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  • Times and Seasons/5/22
    ...hildren, the Lord's supper was administered, and conference adjourned till early candle-light. If Mormonism succeeds, christianity will receive a mortifying blow. The question, is what ought to be done? The
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  • Times and Seasons/4/11
    ...young man, whose countenance seems lit up with the sparkling brilliance of early manhood, and smooth and unruffled as the child who has never known the bitt ...ake merry, and send gifts one to another, when the bibles were burned, and christianity trampled under foot in France? or were the nations tormented with the old a
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  • Times and Seasons/4/2
    ...e of the world, even in the nineteenth century, to the purity of primitive christianity; embracing all the offices, powers and gifts, instituted by our Lord, and c ...iversally received opinion that prophecies, miracles, and the gifts of the early christians are no longer needed, and are, for this reason, done away. But I
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  • Times and Seasons/4/15
    ...sure arisen from the inconsistencies and perplexities of the professors of Christianity; indeed we cannot much blame a man for denying in toto what appears altoget ..., called Enon, and was among the earliest settlements of Massachusetts. As early as 1639 a few persons took up their residence here, and it was not long aft
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  • Times and Seasons/4/18
    ...nted all the testimony directed to certain points.-Being taken sick at the early stage of the trial, I had not the opportunity of hearing but a small part o ...lder Wight proceeded again to instruct the church, touching the subject of christianity, or what it requires to constitute a christian; observing:
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  • Question: Do the temple endowment's similarities to Masonic initiation rites have ancient roots?
    ...tthew B. Brown and Paul Thomas Smith, ''Symbols in Stone: Symbolism on the Early Temples of the Restoration'' (American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 1 ...offering on the altar of the Jerusalem Temple (see 2 Chronicles 31:5). The early Latter-day Saints were promised a land of inheritance in Jackson County, Mi
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  • Question: Do the temple endowment's similarities to Masonic rites have ancient roots?
    ...tthew B. Brown and Paul Thomas Smith, ''Symbols in Stone: Symbolism on the Early Temples of the Restoration'' (American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 1 ...offering on the altar of the Jerusalem Temple (see 2 Chronicles 31:5). The early Latter-day Saints were promised a land of inheritance in Jackson County, Mi
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  • Question: Is an evangelist really a patriarch?
    ...ry Robert Bickmore, ''Restoring the Ancient Church: Joseph Smith and Early Christianity'', 2nd ed. (Redding, CA: FairMormon, 2013), 192.</ref> As Richard Lloyd And
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  • Question: How do members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints view the concepts of spiritual experience and the obtainment of testimony?
    ...rit is considered the third member of the Godhead (referred to in mainline Christianity as the Trinity). The Father and the Son have a body of flesh and bone but t ...dge of truth and the way the Greeks thought of it. Whereas the Hebrews and early Christian writers of scripture constantly refer to the heart as an instrume
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  • Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah?
    Some have asked if Brigham Young instituted slavery in early Utah. The answer is yes. The Church’s ''Gospel Topics Essay'' entitled "R ...avid M. Goldenberg, ''The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), 178–182, 360n
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  • Question: Is flax anachronistic to the time of the Book of Mormon?
    ...].</ref> We know that "[f]lax was grown in the ancient Near East from very early times. Flax was most extensively grown in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eg ...ook of Mormon. Doesn't God never lie?<ref>Wikipedia, "Attributes of God in Christianity - Veracity," <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attributes_of_God_in_Christiani
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  • Question: Has The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints deceived its members regarding controversial issues about its origins, history, and/or scripture?
    ...from public access and stored in its archives are patriarchal blessings of early church members and other temple documents from Church history. The rest is ...mith, like many other religious figures, sought for a primitive version of Christianity and founded a church claiming to be a restoration of Christ's New Testament
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  • Question: What evidence can The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints give for their possession of God's priesthood?
    ...Islam, Catholic Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Protestant Christianity. Judaism, Catholic Christianity, and Eastern Orthodox Christianity do.
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  • Question: If gender is “enforced”, is it true that it can’t be immutable?
    ...21, 2020, progressive Latter-day Saint scholar of gender studies and early Christianity Taylor G. Petrey published an opinion piece in the ''Salt Lake Tribune'' en
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  • Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile alleged failed prophecies made by prophets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
    Critics from other sects of Christianity in particular cite Deuteronomy 18:20&ndash;22 as proof of a scriptural requ ...Young Woman’s Journal 3 (1892), 263-264, indicates that Joseph Smith, as early as 1837, had declared that there six-foot people living on the moon, who dr
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  • Question: Is Jesus the promised Messiah of the Old Testament?
    ...r not Jesus is the promised Jewish messiah is fundamental to the claims of Christianity, Judaism, and, by extension, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint ...that the expectations for his advent are at least mildly uncertain. Among early prospective converts, we also note that there were at least 11 people who h
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  • Mormonism and temples/Baptism for the dead/Authentic Christian practice
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