https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/evidences/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Source%3AReexploring_the_Book_of_Mormon%3ACh%3A10%3A1%3AApostasy_from_covenants 2026-11-06T20:22:54Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.41.0 https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/evidences/index.php?title=Source:Reexploring_the_Book_of_Mormon:Ch:10:1:Apostasy_from_covenants&diff=2801&oldid=prev 2014-09-10T04:12:00Z

<p>Created page with &quot;{{FME-Source |title=Great Apostasy as seen in the Book of Mormon |category= |catname= }}&lt;onlyinclude&gt; ==Great Apostasy as seen in the Book of Mormon== &lt;blockquote&gt; Recent scho...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FME-Source<br /> |title=Great Apostasy as seen in the Book of Mormon<br /> |category=<br /> |catname=<br /> }}&lt;onlyinclude&gt;<br /> ==Great Apostasy as seen in the Book of Mormon==<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> Recent scholarly developments may help us understand further these three stages seen by Nephi. A volume of Gnostic writings from early Christianity, newly translated by Bentley Layton, was published in 1987 by Doubleday. It gives many texts analyzed several years ago by Hugh Nibley in &#039;&#039;The World and the Prophets&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Since Cumorah&#039;&#039;, showing ways in which early Christian doctrines changed under the influences of Hellenistic philosophy and mystic religion.1 Today there is considerable evidence that secret and sacred covenants of early Christianity were lost early. Baptism for the dead, the use of prayer circles, and the sacrament itself underwent transformation, if not elimination. Similarly, asceticism and celibacy entered Christianity at an early stage to distort the meaning of the covenant of marriage and many passages in the Bible.&lt;ref&gt;{{Book:Welch:Reexploring the Book of Mormon|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1110&amp;index=10 Chapter 10]|author=John W. Welch|article=The Plain and Precious Parts}} &lt;/ref&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/onlyinclude&gt;<br /> <br /> {{Endnotes sources}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Reexploring the Book of Mormon]]<br /> [[Category:History/Apostasy/Doctrinal change/Baptism for the dead|Baptism for the dead]]<br /> [[Category:History/Apostasy/Doctrinal change/Temple|Temple]]<br /> [[Category:History/Apostasy/Doctrinal change/Temple/Prayer circles|Prayer circles]]<br /> [[Category:History/Apostasy/Doctrinal change/Sacrament|Sacrament: doctrinal change with apostasy]]<br /> [[Category:Editors:Scripture verses to hotlink]]</div>

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