... the Book Of Mormon) have wanted to be called Christians. Historically speaking, members preferred not to be included with any other Christian denomination. In fact, Joseph Smith, the church's founder prophesized against all other religions stating "all wrong ... all their creeds were an admonition in his sight, and that those professors ... of man in the Garden of Gethsemane. It was here that he paid for all of our wrong doings not when he was placed on the cross. At the age of 14 I attended a Christmas fireside, (an evening get together/class for the youth ages 14-18) with the topic of...

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... prophesy called "The Doctrine and Covenants- which prophesies the future of the Church of Latter Day Saints. "The Pearl of Great Price- is another book they deem sacred written by Joseph Smith. It was supposedly revealed to him in visions from above. There are three parts to this book: "The Book of Abraham-; "The Book of Moses-; and "some of the ... Inspired Writings of Joseph Smith-. The book of Moses is accepted to be the lost doctrines of the Bible with added information about Creation. Joseph Smith is said to have translated the Book of Abraham from a papyrus scroll taken from the C...

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... come of existence. He bled from every pore and suffered "both body and spirit" (D&C 26:39). The following day, the day of the savior's crucifixion, he was whipped, nailed to a cross, tormented, degraded, and tortured. Then, after almost nine hours of suffering, he chose to give up his mortal body and died. He gave his life so that I might be saved ... our world entered a period known as the "Dark Ages." But our Heavenly Father loves us and knew this would happen, so he chose a new line of prophets, the first being Joseph Smith. In 1830, about 1800 years after the death of Christ, the re...

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... father of the girl, when they were very small children. A bill of divorcement could only break the betrothal. As you will recall, Joseph and Mary were betrothed when Mary was told she was to conceive Christ. At this point, Joseph had one of two choices. Either he could have accused her before the judges and had her stoned for being unfaithful, or ... his bride away. If we based our marriage to Christ on our works only, no one would be acceptable to marry Christ. But the work that Christ did on the cross will have perfected us, that Christ will be perfectly satisfied with us, the church....

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