The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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... Nephi 14 . " Strait is the gate , and narrow is the way , which leadeth unto life , and few there be that find it . " ( Matt . 7:14 , also Book of Mormon , 3 Nephi 14:14 . ) The doors of the Church are open to all , rich and poor ...
... Nephi 14 . " Strait is the gate , and narrow is the way , which leadeth unto life , and few there be that find it . " ( Matt . 7:14 , also Book of Mormon , 3 Nephi 14:14 . ) The doors of the Church are open to all , rich and poor ...
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... Nephi 27. ) is The members of the Church aver that the distinguishing features of their religious system , in short , the essentials of the philosophy of " Mormonism " are epitomized in the name of their organization - The Church of ...
... Nephi 27. ) is The members of the Church aver that the distinguishing features of their religious system , in short , the essentials of the philosophy of " Mormonism " are epitomized in the name of their organization - The Church of ...
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... Nephi shall become extinct . Yea , and this because they shall dwindle in unbelief , and fall into the works of darkness , and las- civiousness , and all manner of iniquities . Yea , I say unto you , that because they shall sin against ...
... Nephi shall become extinct . Yea , and this because they shall dwindle in unbelief , and fall into the works of darkness , and las- civiousness , and all manner of iniquities . Yea , I say unto you , that because they shall sin against ...
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... Nephi 11 and later chapters . There is but one church on the earth today claiming authority in the Holy Priesthood by direct succession from the Primitive Church ; and surely none can consistently assert priestly powers by spontaneous ...
... Nephi 11 and later chapters . There is but one church on the earth today claiming authority in the Holy Priesthood by direct succession from the Primitive Church ; and surely none can consistently assert priestly powers by spontaneous ...
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... Nephi 27 . When the Church was reestablished upon earth through the instrumentality of Joseph Smith the prophet , in 1830 , it was provisionally called the Church of Jesus Christ , in harmony with the principle and practise established ...
... Nephi 27 . When the Church was reestablished upon earth through the instrumentality of Joseph Smith the prophet , in 1830 , it was provisionally called the Church of Jesus Christ , in harmony with the principle and practise established ...
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Page 195 - 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. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Page 161 - For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Page 361 - come from the presence of the Lord; And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Page 75 - For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 75 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth
Page 253 - BUT as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Page 168 - in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left. . . . And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Page 187 - But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Page 252 - The terms of salvation are equally binding upon the quick and the dead: "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 59 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.