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• Journal of Discourses/21/34
  ...to sit in the presidential chair of the United States, because we have the history that Washington once sat in that chair. Would that authorize any person, am ...s, etc.?" It was because of the apostasy of the people; and then after the apostasy commenced, near the close of the first century, they killed off the apostle
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• Journal of Discourses/13/44
  ...per time to introduce its principles, and chose that period in the world's history in which it would be received by, at least, a portion of His children. I ap ...the counsel of his mind becomes darkened, and soon he is on the highway to apostasy, and, in fact, he has been there from the beginning, if he had only known i
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• Journal of Discourses/22/3
  We claim this book is a record or history of the ancient inhabitants of America, the remnants of whom are now scatter ...t work on this continent, among the people of whom the Book of Mormon is a history or record. What is the fold of Christ? It is the Church of Christ. What is
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• Journal of Discourses/22/49
  ...hering together into one place. As I have said, we fail to see anything in history that corresponds with it. In the days of the Apostles, such a doctrine was ...eligion; they could not be driven—that is, they could not be driven into apostasy; no, they would have died before they would have yielded. If there is one c
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• Journal of Discourses/25/3
  ...UND WITH THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS?—THE WORLD’S OBJECTION TO "MORMONISM"—HISTORY OF THE APOSTLES—AUTHORITY TO PREACH THE GOSPEL RESTORED—TEMPLES—BAPTI ...UND WITH THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS?—THE WORLD’S OBJECTION TO "MORMONISM"—HISTORY OF THE APOSTLES—AUTHORITY TO PREACH THE GOSPEL RESTORED—TEMPLES—BAPTI
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• Journal of Discourses/25/13
  ...eaking by the gift and power of God, at that remote period of the Church's history, when our numbers were few, when we had no influence, name or standing in t ...igent man called to go to the Islands, and it was one of the causes of his apostasy. "What," said he, "send me, a linguist, a man well read, an educated man, a
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• Journal of Discourses/25/18
  |H=JOSEPH SMITH'S MISSION—NECESSITY FOR SUCH A MISSION—EVIDENCES OF APOSTASY—RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD—HATRE ...s 25: JOSEPH SMITH'S MISSION—NECESSITY FOR SUCH A MISSION—EVIDENCES OF APOSTASY—RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD—HATRE
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 3
  '''The early Christian Church, on its way to apostasy, departed from this truth.''' Several church councils, in which men fought ...ification have-according to Vajda-proven the LDS teaching about the "Great Apostasy." Further, the above proves that either McKeever and Johnson are ignorant o
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 6
  |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 6: Apostasy" |H=Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 6: Apostasy"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Introduction
  ...too many have not taken the time to do an in-depth investigation into the history and doctrines of their faith.<ref>McKeever and Johnson, Mormonism 101, 9-10 ...prophet was a prophet only when he was acting as such."<ref>Joseph Smith, History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Vol. 1 (Salt Lake City:
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• Question: What is the Mormon concept of Hell?
  ...rible a future for any one of God's children is a striking evidence of the apostasy from the simple loving gospel of Jesus Christ...the breaking of any law bri *{{Restoringancientchurch |title=Salvation History and Requirements|chapter=4}}
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• Plan of salvation/Sons of Perdition
  ...t the Holy Ghost, and proving a traitor to the brethren <ref>Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 3:385</ref></blockquote> ...the Church&mdash;warned against becoming a "daughter of perdition" through apostasy.<ref>H. Michael Marquardt, comp., ''Early Patriarchal Blessings of The Chur
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Distinctive views and teachings
  ...intelligence necessary to occupy thrones, principalities and powers.” (''History of the Church,'' volume 4, page 556.) Children will rise from the resurrect ...ty|early Christian]] ideals that had been lost in a [[Great Apostasy|great apostasy]].
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 10
  |L8=Response to claim: 268 - The Bible does not mention a total apostasy *Joseph Smith, ''History of the Church'' 5:218.
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• Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (2004-Present)
  '''2009''' Matthew B. Brown. A Pillar of Light: The History and Message of the First Vision (American Fork, Utah, Covenant Communicatio ...748-9, and later included in the Pearl of Great Price and published in the History of the Church, vol. 1, pp. 1-8. The Prophet Joseph Smith prepared this acc
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• Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1990-1997)
  '''1996''' Kent P. Jackson, From Apostasy to Restoration (Deseret Book 1996): 66-79; cf. 80-9. “In the earliest days of the history of the Church, Joseph Smith apparently spoke less frequently about the Firs
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• Question: Why do Mormon's believe that ongoing divine revelation is necessary?
  ...it also tells of many instances of apostasy. To end each period of general apostasy, God has shown His love for His children by calling another prophet and giv
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/3
  ...y cannot restore! and that for this reason, because they are in a state of apostasy: and God has devoted them to destruction, unless they will learn the things ...rise and progress of the church of the Latter Day Saints;" but, that said "history would necessarily embrace my life and character," I have been induced to gi
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/4
  ...e prophet, and every other evil epithet that could be heaped upon him. The apostasy of the Gentiles is so great, that they know not the doctrine of Christ when ...e respecting this commission is, that no one of the four that recorded the history of our Savior has it entire, but each one has a part, and the whole put tog
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/7
  ...: One was, "that the true church and ministry, had been lost in the Romish apostasy, and could be again restored, only by a special Apostle raised up for that ...tention too far, or too much, from the great object lying before me,—the history of this church;—but one expression, or quotation contained in your last s
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/8
  ...o come; favored with the light of heaven by which they can contemplate the history of the world in its true light, understanding the situation of all who have Having before them the history of nearly six thousand years, where is written the names, the mighty works,
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/10
  ...The apostle whose words we are contemplating, was well acquainted with the history of man, having been brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, a Doctor of the Law ...er they rejected the counsel of God, is entirely without a parallel in the history of the world. The wretched few that escaped destruction at that time, only
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• The Mentinah Papers
  {{Navigation Latter-day Saint history}} The Mentinah Papers claim to be a history of a people called the Nemenhah. They claim to be translations of papers f
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/16
  ...y be because of the corruption of the human heart, and the great apostacy [apostasy] from the example and faith of the primitive saints.-So that the scoffers a ...any respect to the outrage in Missouri, committed upon our friends, with a history of the first settling of the church in that county, and the general conduct
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/17
  ...the night! These are facts which will stand recorded upon the pages of the history of the inhabitants of the nineteenth century! A century proud of its libera ...of the most shocking persecutions against the saints which are recorded in history. When the professors of christianity have obtained the ascendancy of power,
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/21
  ...religion of heaven to be so neglected, as to leave the world in a state of apostasy, is pretty generally acknowledged by all who profess much confidence in the William Jones, in his history of the Waldenses, (which were doubtless the remains of the apostolic church
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/22
  This same apostle, in his 2 epistle to Timothy, has set forth this same apostasy in words so plain as not to be easily misunderstood. 3 chapter, commencing ...nsequence of the great corruptions of the last days, their exceeding great apostasy, the apostle declares in the 2 chapter of 2 Thessalonians, and 11 verse tha
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/23
  ...the Savior, of the prophets and apostles, let us compare the people of the apostasy, with the pure saints of God, and the societies of the last days, with the ...h belong to none other: this was the case with the Jews before their great apostasy: they were distinguished from all other people. When the Jews were first or
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/24
  ...ormer ages can any person draw such a conclusion-but the very reverse. The history of the divine proceedings in relation to his creatures, both saints and sin Every person in any degree acquainted with the Jewish history, as written in the scriptures, knows, that God, previous to the days of the
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• Times and Seasons/4/21
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/3/15
  |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Mormonism and Church discipline/Scholars/D. Michael Quinn
  ...anted historical evidence and to intimidate me from further work in Mormon history."<ref>D. Michael Quinn, Letter to Paul A. Hanks, 7 February 1993; cited in Despite Quinn's belief that his Church discipline was all about his history, his stake president wrote back on 11 May 1993, saying "There are other mat
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• Times and Seasons/6/12
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/6/15
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/6/16
  |L5=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ...aid God bless you my dear mother! She gave notice that she had written her history, and wished it printed before we leave this place. She then mentioned a dis
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• Times and Seasons/6/19
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/4/4
  |L3=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ...prophets that they were raised up at a period of the world when, apostacy [apostasy] and corruption rendered their efforts indispensible [indispensable]: altho
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• Times and Seasons/4/22
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/5/4
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Four
  ...of the great and abominable church, the colonization of the Americas, the Apostasy, and the Restoration of the gospel (1 Nephi 13)== ...es here play a major role in Nephi's understanding of God's involvement in history.
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• FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Thirteen
  ...lied to any period in history, Jacob clearly meant to use it as a sweeping history of the gathering and scattering of Israel. The following is a basic outline **Fourth Period: The Great Apostasy, Jacob 5:29–49
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• Reference templates/Critical sources boxes
  ...alSources ||[[Template:Critical sources box:Alleged whitewashing of Church history/CriticalSources|edit]] ...ut Apostasy/Not complete/CriticalSources ||[[Template:Critical sources box:Apostasy/Not complete/CriticalSources|edit]]
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The First Vision
  |L3=Response to claim: Issues related to Oliver Cowdery's 1834-1835 Church history published in the Messenger and Advocate ==Response to claim: Issues related to Oliver Cowdery's 1834-1835 Church history published in the Messenger and Advocate==
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Temple
  ...said, "We have the true Masonry. The Masonry of today is received from the apostasy which took place in the days of Solomon, and David. They have now and then ...mer 1975): 458. See also David John Buerger, The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship, Smith Research Associates, San Francisco, 1994, 5
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Source quotes without commentary
  #Martin Harris, quoted by B.H. Roberts, ''Comprehensive History of the Church'' 1:129 #Martin Harris, quoted by B.H. Roberts, ''Comprehensive History of the Church'' 1:29
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Lying for the Lord
  ...e to claim: "The LDS Church permits members and others to believe that the History of the Church was written by Joseph Smith" ...ous Rocky Mountain Prophecy....was a later addition to the official church history and not predicted by Joseph Smith"
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• Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest
  ===Textual History of the English Translation of the Book of Mormon=== *Royal Skousen, "History of the Critical Text Project of the Book of Mormon" [http://maxwellinstitut
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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
  ===Textual History of the English Translation of the Book of Mormon=== *Royal Skousen, "History of the Critical Text Project of the Book of Mormon" [http://maxwellinstitut
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• Primary sources/Eugene England/Why the Church Is As True As the Gospel
  ...r mortal life of this fundamental, eternal truth about reality. Throughout history, the most important and productive ideas have been paradoxical; the energiz ...ef>[https://byustudies.byu.edu/further-study-lesson/volume-6-chapter-20/ ''History of the Church''], 6:428.</ref> By “prove” he meant not only to demonstr
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• Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon
  ...mon-History/dp/1589586654 Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History] and [https://www.amazon.com/Second-Witness-Analytical-Contextual-Commentar ...s not its task to do that. This is just completely wrong, and Ferguson’s apostasy, whatever it was, his family disputes it. I don’t know exactly what the t
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• Detailed response to CES Letter, Temples & Freemasonry
  *[["Masonry," Church History Topics: "There are different ways of understanding the relationship between ...nt: “We have the true Masonry. The Masonry of today is received from the apostasy which took place in the days of Solomon, and David. They have now and then
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Understanding Mormon Disbelief
  ...d. They may be “leavetakers,” <ref>When this analysis uses the term “apostasy” or “apostate” in this paper, it intends the neutral, sociological se ...lishers, 1998), 76–83; David G. Bromley, “Sociological Perspectives on Apostasy: An Overview,” in the same volume, 7); Payne, “Purposeful Strangers,”
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 3
  ...oseph “mentioned that he had already concluded that all churches were in apostasy before he went into the woods to pray |L12=Response to claim: 30 - the “earliest publication to print a ‘full history’ of the rise of Mormonism, the ‘’Messenger and Advocate’’, failed
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• Events after the First Vision
  ...our faith comes in contact with this principle.<ref>Lucy Mack Smith, ''The History of Joseph Smith By His Mother Lucy Mack Smith,'' ed. Preston Nibley, (Salt ...n, the Saints." {{ea}} <ref>F. Mark McKiernan, ''An Early Latter-day Saint History: The Book of John Whitmer'' (Independence, MO.: Herald Publishing House 198
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• Mormonism and Christianity/Criticisms of the Mormon view of Jesus Christ
  ...eaders claim that Christians were no longer present on the earth after the apostasy? |link=Mormonism and Christianity/Martyrdom in Christian history
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• Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde
  ==Orson was involved briefly with apostasy at Far West in the fall of 1838, but had returned to the Church by March 18 ...ture apostle Orson Hyde on 4 September 1834. He was involved briefly with apostasy at Far West in the fall of 1838, but had returned to the Church by March 18
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• The Church of Jesus Christ and plural marriage today
  ==B.H. Roberts, ''History of the Church'' (1909)== Joseph Smith, History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. 5, edited by B. H.
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• History scholars and Church discipline
  {{Navigation Latter-day Saint history}} ...anted historical evidence and to intimidate me from further work in Mormon history." <ref>D. Michael Quinn, Letter to Paul A. Hanks, 7 February 1993; cited in
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• MormonFAQ/Church Discipline FAQ
  |summary=Learn something of the history of this now-dated expression, and its use in anti-Mormon polemic. * Apostasy<br><Br>
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• Response to Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith/The Justin Wise Dialogues
  ...his depth. He has no training in criminology, none in psychology, none in history, none in religion. He is just not the man for the job. .... That and the fact that he also spends half of his book writing about the history of the LDS church.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Historicity of the Book of Mormon
  ...t the Book of Mormon is a 19th century work of fiction, and not an ancient history of the Native Americans. This includes the Book of Mormon’s mention of ma ...suddenly "discovered" this fact while doing intensive research into Church history. He claims to have been a seminary president and "scripture mastery" champi
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• Creation of the Kirtland Safety Society
  <small>Video published by the Church History Department.</small>
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Claims about priesthood ordination
  ...NAUVOO; March 20th 1842," Times and Seasons 3/12 (15 April 1842): 752; see History of the Church 4:555.</ref> ...the kingdom of God was set up on the earth, even in the days of John.<ref>History of the Church 5:237–238; this entry is based on Wilford Woodruff’s diar
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Necessary authority could only be transmitted in a completed temple
  ...resumed there on 21 November [Joseph Fielding Smith, Essentials in Church History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co., 1922), 256–257].</ref> ...be revealed to the Elders till the Temple is completed.”<ref>Manuscript History of the Church, discourse of 1 May 1842, cited in WJS, 119–120. See Ehat t
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Conclusion
  |L1=High road to apostasy |L3=Snuffer announces his excommunication for apostasy
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• Question: What happens when a Mormon criticizes Church leaders?
  ...e council determined that you should be excommunicated from the Church for apostasy.<ref name="notice of excom">Truman Hunt, letter to Denver Snuffer (18 Septe * “If [my] new view of history is more correct than the narrative offered by the proud descendants of Nauv
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Excommunication/Unrighteous dominion
  ...high council of exercising "dominion" over him by excommunicating him for apostasy.<ref>Snuffer to First Presidency, Letter (13 September 2013), reproduced in ===Examples from Church history===
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• KJV translation errors in the Book of Mormon
  ...iblical manuscripts ''don't'' accurately reproduce the original text.<ref>"History of Joseph Smith by his Mother Lucy," 592; [https://www.churchofjesuschrist. ....<ref>The implications of this change represent a more complicated textual history than previously thought. See discussion in Dana M. Pike and David R. Seely,
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato
  .... Mormonism is like an alternative reality come to life—a counterfactual history of post-Nicene developments of pre-Nicene theology, the ultimate “what if [[Category:History/Apostasy/Creeds/Nicene|Nicene creed]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds
  ...turn toward a metaphysics of immaterialism. Far from ignoring early church history, then, Mormons are committed to an interrogation of the relationship of the [[Category:History/Apostasy/Philosophy/Neo-Platonism|Neo-Platonism]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo
  [[Category:History/Apostasy/Philosophy/Neo-Platonism|Neo-Platonism]] [[Category:History/Apostasy/Doctrinal change/Creatio ex nihilo|''Creatio ex nihilo'' (creation out of n
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:8:Revelation vs historical guesswork about Jesus
  [[Category:History/Apostasy/Doctrinal change/On-going revelation|On-going revelation]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians
  [[Category:History/Apostasy|Apostasy]] [[Category:History/Apostasy/Creeds|Creeds]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin
  [[Category:History/Apostasy/Philosophy/Augustine|Augustine]] [[Category:History/Apostasy/Philosophy/Neo-Platonism|Neo-Platonism]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:14:Joseph Smith could hold his own in early Christian debates
  ...version of the restoration of the Church requires a strong reading of the history of metaphysics. Joseph Smith spoke plainly, but that should not disguise th [[Category:History/Apostasy/Philosophy/Neo-Platonism|Neo-Platonism]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:15:Christian beliefs do not need to have Neo-Platonic influence to be true
  [[Category:History/Apostasy/Philosophy/Neo-Platonism|Neo-Platonism]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine
  [[Category:History/Apostasy/Philosophy/Augustine|Augustine]]
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• Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from?
  ...Levi Richards, published in Joseph Grant Stevenson, ed., ''Richards Family History'' (Provo, UT: Stevenson’s Genealogical Center, 1991), 3:90.</ref> ...Kimball (9 November 1858)''': “The Masonry of today is received from the apostasy. . . . They have now and then a thing that is correct, but we have the real
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• Question: Does the practice of baptism for the dead have ancient roots?
  ...uncils. Latter-day Saints would see this as an excellent example of the [[apostasy]]&mdash;church councils altering doctrine and practice that was accepted at ...ice of baptism for the dead, and did Paul approve of it? An account of the history of the interpretation of this passage is given by M. Rissi, 'Die Taufe für
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• Question: Was the establishment of the Kirtland Safety Society "anti-bank" illegal?
  ...s it was the bank affair probably did little to alter the course of Mormon history.<ref>Adams, 480.</ref> [[Category:No Man Knows My History]]
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• Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services?
  ...51–52] (cf. [http://byustudies.byu.edu/content/volume-1-chapter-11#106 ''History of the Church'' 1:106–07]). The shorter version of this revelation—now ...r the sacrament. (Leonard J. Arrington, ''Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900'' [Salt Lake City: University of Utah
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• Question: Why does the Church teach that marriage is essential for full exaltation, when Paul says in 1 Corinthians 7:1 that it is good for a man not to marry?
  ...ential part of the gospel framework, and asserted that one of the signs of apostasy in the last days would be teachings against marriage. (See {{s|1|Timothy|4| [[Category:No Man Knows My History]]
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• Question: What are the common objections to a belief in God's corporeality?
  ...by these alone, as the later controversies prove.<ref>Adolf von Harnack, ''History of Dogma'', tr. Neil Buchanan (New York: Dover, 1961), 1:180 n.1.</ref> ...even Tertullian 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>
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• Question: Do we have any record of Joseph Smith performing healings or other miracles by the power of Christ's priesthood?
  The following account of a miraculous healing is to be found in Hayden' History of the Disciples (Campbellites); and is the statement of witnesses hostile ...; see also Wilford Woodruff, ''Leaves from My Journal'', 75&ndash;79 and ''History of Wilford Woodruff'', 326.</ref>
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• Question: What was John C. Bennett's role in the events leading up to the death of Joseph Smith?
  ===The apostasy of John C. Bennett=== Bennett’s apostasy caused particular problems because he claimed that the doctrines he was usi
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• Question: Did the concept of "blood atonement" include a long list of crimes that were considered "worthy of death"?
  ...n sins of ''apostasy'' that may not be covered by Christ's atonement. Such apostasy would involve church members who had already been endowed and made covenant |Stealing||Times and Seasons, vol. 4, pp.183-84; History of the Church 7:597; {{JDmini|vol=1|pages=108-9}}; {{JDmini|vol=1|pages=73}
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• Question: Why was Nicean Trinitarianism introduced at all?
  ...g adopted by God, or as a man filled with God's power.<ref>Kurt Aland, ''A History of Christianity'' (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1985), 1:190.</ref> ...S view, this is because the loss of revelation to the Apostles (due to the apostasy) meant that Christianity was divided about key issues. No one had a good w
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• Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy
  ...d Joseph Smith make "forged predictions" and add them retroactively to the history of the Church that a "mighty people" that would dwell "in the midst of the ...hese things and treasure them up. Amen." <ref>Tullidge's Histories, Vol I. History of Northern Utah, and Southern Idaho.--Biographical Supplement, p. 271. See
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• Question: What did William McLellin say about Joseph Smith and Fanny Alger's relationship?
  ...ese authors fail to inform the reader that McLellin was excommunicated for apostasy and immoral behavior and had not been an apostle for more than thirty years ...ned herself? To begin to answer this, we must briefly revisit McLellin’s history in and out of the church. McLellin was baptized 20 August 1831 and was orda
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith copy Masonic material in order to create the Mormon temple rites?
  ...a primordial revealed religion that has passed through alternate phases of apostasy and restoration which have left the world littered with the scattered fragm *"an extensive reading of Masonic and Mormon teachings and history should make it clear to any reader that the former is the shadow, the latte
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• Question: Are theories that do not agree with the Heartland model "apostate?"
  [[Image:Meldrum-apostasy-Mesoamerica.png|alt=I am so thankful that BYU has purged apostate theories *"This is a major turning point in LDS and Book of Mormon history. It's hard to express the importance of these discoveries."
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• Question: Is there any evidence of the apostasy from materials from early Christian history besides the Bible?
  ...Is there any evidence of the apostasy from materials from early Christian history besides the Bible?== ...k once the apostles were gone. (Some changes were noted and bemoaned by [[Apostasy/Members_didn't_notice|some]] early Christian authors, however.)
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• Question: Was the apostasy after Christ complete?
  ==Question: Was the apostasy after Christ complete?== ...the apostasy|predicted]] in scripture, that this would not be a universal apostasy. They insist that a band of faithful Christian believers who kept the "true
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• Question: Why did God allow the Apostasy to occur?
  ==Question: Why did God allow the Apostasy to occur?== ...form-has been essentially unheard of in vast areas of the earth throughout history. Were there no Australian aborigines in the second century who would have a
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• Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Miscellaneous, General Questions
  ..., does that mean that the 3 living Nephites and the Apostle John went into apostasy also?"]] ..., does that mean that the 3 living Nephites and the Apostle John went into apostasy also?"==
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• Question: What was Brigham Young's position on punishing theft without due process?
  ===Harsh rhetoric against apostasy and rumors of Danites searching out fleeing apostates created an atmosphere ...ugh voluntary tithing and consecration of property. Harsh rhetoric against apostasy and rumors of Danites searching out fleeing apostates created an atmosphere
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• Question: Where is Zion located since the Mormons were driven out of Missouri?
  ...therefore, the threatened judgment was poured out to the uttermost, as the history of the five following years shows.<ref>{{Book:Pratt:Autobiography|pages=77} ...e that Elder Phelps should collect all the information, and give us a true history of the beginning and rise of Zion, and her calamities.
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• Question: What was unique about the city of Nauvoo's charter and why did it anger some non-Mormons?
  To understand the Nauvoo charter, we must first review the history which preceded it. We will start with Joseph Smith's incarceration in Libe ===Apostasy of John C. Bennett===
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• Introduction in the CES Letter
  ...it's no secret which side I'm on at the moment." Anyone approaching Church history and doctrine from this perspective will certainly have trouble accepting an ...Russell M. Nelson exhorted Latter-day Saints to approach issues of Church history and doctrine with a belief in Jesus Christ and His restored Church:
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• Polyandry and Joseph Smith: sealings to women with living husbands
  ...rical awareness, while many remain unaware of polyandry's existence in LDS history. This variant of plural marriage does not seem to have been a feature of U Later in Church history, this was accomplished by adoption, where faithful members would serve as s
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• Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church?
  ==Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church?== ..._info_tab_contents Brigham Young's Garden Cosmology]," ''Journal of Mormon History'' 47, no. 1 (January 2021): 85.</ref> He also brought up the subject in pri
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• Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society
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• Times and Seasons/2/11
  ...attention too far, or too much, from the great object lying before me,-the history of this church;-but one expression, or quotation contained in your last str When the Jewish church were in a state of apostacy [apostasy], and were about to be broken off because of their unbelief; (as is the con
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• Times and Seasons/2/14
  ...us nations which have flourished on the stage of life, there is none whose history is more interesting, or which ought to occupy the saints more, than that of Whether we trace their history while surrounded with the blessing and privileges enjoyed in the land of Ca
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• Times and Seasons/3/1
  ...church, proves that there has been an apostacy [apostasy]. This apostacy [apostasy] was foretold by the prophets, and apostles, (See Isa. xxiv, 5; 2d Thes. ii We believe that in consequence of the apostacy [apostasy], men have lost the necessary authority to administer ordinances; hence the
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• Times and Seasons/3/24
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. |L2=EXTRACTS OF HISTORY.
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• Times and Seasons/3/3
  ...tion of the same, we not only discover the wisdom of God in disclosing the history of future ages; but his willingness to uphold his people in time of trouble ...rticular in describing these kingdoms, not even to enter into the field of history to particularize the times and dates of their foundation; but only throw ou
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• Times and Seasons/3/4
  ...the much plainness and simplicity which we use in describing the apostacy [apostasy] of the church, we are often accused of not having charity for all people w ..., when we are so particular in describing the awful condition of apostacy [apostasy], that so many of the human family are in; and also when we contend that th
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• Times and Seasons/3/16
  |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. |L3=Traits of the Mosaic History, Found Among the Aztaeca Nations.
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• Times and Seasons/3/19
  |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ...Isaiah, 5th verse, to prove that the christian world because of apostacy [apostasy] have broken the Gospel covenant, transgressed its laws, changed its ordina
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• Times and Seasons/4/5
  |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ...ew the acts of an Executive Functionary; all who are familiar with English history must know that it was extorted from an arbitary [arbitrary] monarch and tha
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• Times and Seasons/4/8
  |L3=History of Joseph Smith ===History of Joseph Smith===
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• Times and Seasons/5/10
  ...understands the political history of his country, as well as the religious history of the world, as perfect as any politician or religionist I have ever met w ...harles Ivans, and Austin Cowles, be cut off from this church for apostacy [apostasy].
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• Times and Seasons/5/14
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/5/17
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/5/21
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/5/22
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/4/2
  |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ...ciples, that they were taken away? This I think is abundantly shown by the history of the church, the writings of the apostles, and God's dealing with men.
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• Times and Seasons/4/1
  |L7=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ...you look at it, all claims to a church and priesthood since the apostacy [apostasy] of the Church of Rome are futile and without foundation.
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• Times and Seasons/4/20
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH===
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• Times and Seasons/4/23
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Question: What scriptures might challenge the view of a limited geography and the Nephites not being alone on the continent or other issues regarding DNA?
  ====JS History 1:34==== ...t the Book of Mormon is not giving the “full account” or “the entire history” of the inhabitants. “[T]he former” implies that these inhabitants (a
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• Question: How can one view contradictions in Scripture in a faithful way?
  ..., 2013); Brant Gardner, ''Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History'' (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2015); ''Second Witness: Analytical ...he general populace apostatizes or rebels against God. After the period of apostasy, God has called prophets anew.
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• Question: What is sexism?
  ...or non-member) to assert that many things about its practice, belief, and history are sexist. In order to adequately respond to this criticism, it will be ne ...hat's using a morally negative and accurate motif to describe idolatry and apostasy. This definition of misogyny and its application in modern religious and po
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• Question: Is an evangelist really a patriarch?
  ...t in the context of correcting and guiding the Saints who are in danger of apostasy, not of preaching to outsiders who do not have the truth ([https://www.chur ...e gospel to the world[.]<ref>Taylor Drake, ''Joseph in the Gap: The Hidden History That Explains Mormonism's Past, Present, and Future'' (n.p.: s.p., 2021), 2
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• Question: How does official teaching of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints view those that receive revelation that contradicts that of the Prophet?
  The history of the Church records many pretended revelations claimed by imposters or ze ...take advantage of him, and he would soon become imbued with the spirit of apostasy and be found fighting against God and the authority which He had placed her
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• Question: Did Christ establish a Church while on the earth?
  ...of Zion elucidated by texts translated/revealed early in Latter-day Saint history by founder [https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/node/451 Joseph Smith]. ...to the prophet Nephi, he saw that people in the last days during the Great Apostasy had all gone astray except for a few:
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• Question: Can the Spirit confirm to me that I'm okay to leave the Church?
  ...f>See Brant A. Gardner, ''Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History'' (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2015); ''Second Witness: Analytical [[Question: Can someone feel the spirit when listening to stories of apostasy?|In another article]], we talked about the possibility of recognizing that
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• Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1998-2003)
  '''1999''' John Gee, "A History of the Joseph Smith Papyri and Book of Abraham," FARMS Book of Abraham Lect ...ph Smith Papyri," in ''The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson'', eds. Stephen D. Ricks, D
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• Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (2004-Present)
  ...e Discovery of the Book of Abraham," in ''Prelude to the Restoration: From Apostasy to the Restored Church'', The 33rd Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt ...or and the Ghostwriter: Joseph Smith and W.W. Phelps," ''Journal of Mormon History'' 34, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 26&ndash;62.
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith use Paul as a template for the character Alma in the Book of Mormon?
  ...sh51. Similar arguments are presented in Fawn M. Brodie, ''No Man Knows My History: the Life of Joseph Smith'', 2nd ed. (New York: Vintage, 1995), 62&ndash;63 ...hom one might persecute as in the New Testament example. Alma's version of apostasy was almost certainly like that of Noah and his priests in which he accepted
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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?
  ...Revolution] about 32,000 years ago. Yuval Noah Harari, ''Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind'' (New York: Harper Perrennial, 2018), 23&ndash;24. Hinduism, ...covenant people was the central and most important one lost. If the great apostasy is true and the true priesthood authority was taken away from the earth (in
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• Differences in First Vision accounts
  <small>Video published by the Church History Department.</small> ...ffected by it" [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1/5#5 Joseph Smith&mdash;History 1:5] Joseph Smith talked of observing, as a 14-year-old, "an unusual excite
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• Reference templates/Interpreter/Volume 1
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