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Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and prophet (1805–1844)
Yes: a number of prominent historical figures and movements bridged formal Freemasonry and organizations of the Western esoteric or “occult” revival, and that crossover reshaped rituals, public image,...
The Mormon Church enacted and enforced a formal policy that , a change announced by President Spencer W. Kimball and published as Official Declaration 2 . The ban’s origins, later disavowals of racist...
The core finding is that Latter-day Saints (LDS) support a doctrine of a — three separate personages, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost — using a mix of Bible verses, nineteenth‑century propheti...
The core difference is clear: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) teaches a —Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost—where the Father and the Son possess glorified, tangibl...
Brigham Young and other early LDS leaders offered a mix of scriptural, social, and administrative explanations for barring men of African descent from priesthood and temple ordinances; these rationale...
Deuteronomy 18 sets two practical tests for prophecy—speaking in the name of the LORD and prophetic words coming to pass—and those criteria have been read, stretched, and contested across Jewish, Chri...
Modern Christian prophecy today spans from online “prophets” who issue political and cultural forecasts to denominational figures who claim visions that tie current events to biblical end-times, and t...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has a documented and continuing mission presence connected to Russia: mission calls to Russia date to the 1840s, the first recorded baptisms in th...
The early Mormon church’s history in Utah included that shaped territorial laws and ecclesiastical practice; recent primary-source work shows leaders like Brigham Young and Orson Pratt publicly clashe...