The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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... Priesthood during the apostolic period and for a season thereafter . 7. The general " falling away " from the Gospel of Jesus Christ , by which the world degenerated into a state of apos- tasy , and the Holy Priesthood ceased to be ...
... Priesthood during the apostolic period and for a season thereafter . 7. The general " falling away " from the Gospel of Jesus Christ , by which the world degenerated into a state of apos- tasy , and the Holy Priesthood ceased to be ...
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... Priesthood , with all its ancient authority and power , has been restored to earth . " Mormonism " affirms that such restoration was a neces- sity , inasmuch as mankind had fallen away from the Gospel of Christ during the dark ages of ...
... Priesthood , with all its ancient authority and power , has been restored to earth . " Mormonism " affirms that such restoration was a neces- sity , inasmuch as mankind had fallen away from the Gospel of Christ during the dark ages of ...
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... Priesthood has been renewed to man . Thus , in 1823 , an angelic personage ministered to Joseph Smith , and later delivered to the mortal prophet the ancient record from which the Book of Mormon has been translated . This record ...
... Priesthood has been renewed to man . Thus , in 1823 , an angelic personage ministered to Joseph Smith , and later delivered to the mortal prophet the ancient record from which the Book of Mormon has been translated . This record ...
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... Priesthood with its expressly defined authority and appointment to organize and build up the Church , were made through Joseph Smith , who at the time of the first visitation was a lad in his fifteenth year . To the earnest student of ...
... Priesthood with its expressly defined authority and appointment to organize and build up the Church , were made through Joseph Smith , who at the time of the first visitation was a lad in his fifteenth year . To the earnest student of ...
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... Priesthood might be preserved among men . The tares of idolatry and its inseparable abominations grew apace . Even the harrowing experiences of Egyptian bond- age failed to extirpate the weeds from Israel , though the fertilizing effect ...
... Priesthood might be preserved among men . The tares of idolatry and its inseparable abominations grew apace . Even the harrowing experiences of Egyptian bond- age failed to extirpate the weeds from Israel , though the fertilizing effect ...
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Page 175 - Wherefore if they shall say unto you. Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 166 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them : for I am the LORD their God.
Page 237 - Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Page 70 - For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Page 124 - For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Page 166 - Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt ; but, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them ; and they shall dwell in their own land.
Page 111 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD...
Page 346 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own ; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Page 112 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 193 - If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.