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	EVOLUTION: IS IT COMPATIBLE WITH MORMONISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Most Mormons, in fact, are visibly uncomfortable when questioned about evolution or a possible relationship between uniformitarianism and Mormonism.
		We do not know exact details of the creation of man. Suffice it to say, Mormons should be content to realize that Adam was the literal offspring of God, the first true man endowed with a human spirit capable of eternal promise, and that upon the return of the Lord, these things will be revealed.
		Mormon scientists concur that evidence for evolution is overwhelming.
	emp.byui.edu /DavisR/202/evolution.htm (1648 words)

	10 Points for Disbelief in Mormonism - SHIELDS
		Mormon archaeologists from BYU and elsewhere are quoted as saying that there is NO validity to the topography/geography of the Book of Mormon, and NO evidence of the existence of the Nephites, Lamanites, or any other group mentioned in the BoM.
		The Mormon Church based in Utah is the largest of several factions organized after Joseph Smith revealed the restoration of a gospel no one knew was missing.
		The Utah Mormons were formerly known as the "Brighamite Branch." After Smith's death, many pretenders vied for Smith's place of power and wealth, each claiming to have the correct priesthood authority, although no one obviously had enough authority.
	www.shields-research.org /Critics/10Points_for_Disbelief.htm (2476 words)

	Davis H. Bays' 1897 book, part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The line of argument usually employed by writers and speakers to refute the Mormon dogma is of such a character as to render success almost impossible.
		Success of the efforts put forth in this section of Ohio was doubtless the prime cause of the settlement at Kirtland a short time afterwards, and which in its turl;led to the building of the Kirtland temple.
		But if it is false, then Mormonism may justly be branded as the most stupendous fraud of the ages, and its advocates are left without even the shadow of truth upon which to base their claim to divine authority.
	www.olivercowdery.com /smithhome/1880s-1890s/1897Bay1.htm (11594 words)

	Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Succession Crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement occurred after the violent death of the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr.
		Following the principle of lineal succession, Smith's younger brother Samuel was the next potential candidate in line.
		Strang was an elder in the church, charged with establishing a stake in Wisconsin, should the Latter Day Saints be forced to abandon their headquarters in Nauvoo, Illinois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Succession_crisis_(Mormonism) (4185 words)

	MORMON CENTRAL - JOSEPH SMITH - LDS TEMPLES - BOOK OF MORMON - MORMONISM
		Mormon historian Klaus Hansen observed that "Mormonism appeared on the American religious scene at precisely that moment when external religious authority, both intellectually and institutionally, was in headlong retreat."
		Because the earliest Mormon concept of apostasy held that the ancient church lost God's authority when his spirit withdrew because of unbelief, the earliest Mormons conceived of restoration as a return of God's spirit.
		Baptism and ordination are first mentioned in the Book of Mormon when Alma establishes "the church of Christ" in the wilderness near the "waters of Mormon." Alma, one of the "priests" of the wicked king Noah, had heard Book of Mormon prophet Abinadi's last sermon before his martyrdom and was converted.
	www.xmission.com /~research/central/respri5.htm (10228 words)

	PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH (MORMONISM) FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In Mormonism, the President of the Church is the head of a Latter Day Saint denomination or church.
		Prior to 1995 these successors have been chosen according to the principle of lineal succession.
		In 1995, Wallace B. Smith broke with the precedent of lineal succession by naming W.
	www.loadboston.com /President_of_the_Church_(Mormonism) (1543 words)

	LDS Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		For this Mormon group, revelation is not to be regarded as confined to the Bible or to the Book of Mormon; it continues today in the living apostles and prophets of the Latter-day Saints church.
		Mormons who are married only by civil authority still remain in good standing in the church, but marriage for time and eternity in one of the Church's temples is regarded as a prerequisite for the high reward in eternity.
		Mormons believe in the doctrine of "eternal progression" in that those who remain faithful to the gospel (the church) will have the opportunity to achieve further rewards in the afterlife.
	www.thehensonhome.org /LDS_Church.htm (9959 words)

	Community of Christ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The largest group of Mormons followed Brigham Young, who led them to the Great Basin area (in what is now Utah) as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
		In 1880, an Ohio court ruled that the Reorganized Church was the legal successor to the original Mormon church, but title of the Temple was gained by means of adverse possession.
		In contrast to the Mormons in the LDS tradition whose cosmology includes a Godhead of three "distinct personages" progressing according to a "Plan of Salvation," Latter Day Saints of the Reorganization accept the doctrine of the Trinity.
	community-of-christ.iqnaut.net (3034 words)

	Charles W. Lamb's 1879 "Exposition of Mormonism"
		Their efforts as a body have been signally successful, when surrounding circumstances are taken into consideration, having organized branches in many places throughout the United States, Great Britain, and Canada, the chief hindrance to their progress being the prevailing idea that they are one in faith and practice with the Utah Church.
		The Book of Mormon, in the power, beauty, and simplicity of its language, and in the clearness, plainness and purity, height, depth, fulness and scope of its doctrines and teachings, and their agreement with that of the Bible, is altogether unequaled by any merely human production in the known world.
		While the Book of Mormon, the body of it, that claims to be the work of inspiration, or at least to have been translated by the gift and power of God, has never been altered in the least; aside from typographical blunders which escaped the notice of the proof-readers.
	www.solomonspalding.com /docs/lamb1878.htm (13044 words)

	Cultural Intolerance and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
		When Strang was killed in 1856, the movement was supplanted by the RLDS Church, organized in 1860 on an alternative mode of succession by lineal descent, with Joseph Smith III as its president.
		The standard of ethical, moral, and dietary conduct among Mormons, though, is so high that their faith is usually more conspicuous than others, and is often the subject of public scrutiny.
		In the circumstance of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), the fear is descended from reasonable competition and debate between Brigham Young and James Strang from 1844 to 1856, and the position of the LDS that they are right because they are larger, and all others are diabolic.
	www.mormonism.com /out-2.htm (3115 words)

	Merged: Is the gospel of Judas inspired?
		Your dilemma is that you do and yet you both believe in apostolic succession and both claim ties to the original church.
		So what you mean to say is that, regardless of the differences, not to mention the antipopes that flood the line, this "apostolic succession" proves that Rome is teaching orthodoxy.
		It doesn't prove that their "apostolic succession" is wrong because they will tell you that it was THEN when Rome separated from the true Church, thus your's would be wrong and not theirs.
	thebereans.net /forum/index.php?topic=7238.60 (5241 words)

	Reply to Jason Engwer's <Catholic But Not Roman Catholic> Series on the Church Fathers: Sola Scriptura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep, down to the present episcopate.
		Equally inseparable from her is the predicate of apostolicity, that is, the historical continuity or unbroken succession, which reaches back through the bishops to the apostles, from the apostles to Christ, and from Christ to God.
		No heresy can reach the conception of the church, or rightly claim any one of her predicates; it forms at best a sect or party, and consequently falls within the province and the fate of human and perishing things, while the church is divine and indestructible.
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ122.HTM (13308 words)

	Jerrystokessolascriptura2
		The early Church Fathers, who were links in that chain of succession, recognized the necessity of the traditions that had been handed down from the apostles and guarded them scrupulously, as the following quotations show.
		The result of this line of reasoning is that we must conclude that Jesus indeed rose from the dead.
		The missionary (unless he is a Mormon, of course, in which case his authority is the Book of Mormon) will always claim to fall back on the authority of Scripture.
	churches.net /churches/utmiss/Solascriptura/Solascriptura2.html (19999 words)

	The Wilcox Family Blog » Meeting with 2 Mormon Missionaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The missionaries are trained in the MTC where basics of Mormon doctrine are learned, however their stay there is brief (3 weeks if they are going to speak their native tongue).
		Mormons seem to misunderstand the meaning of the term “son of” when used in reference to Jesus.
		Here we see that the Book of Mormon does not say that it was written in a special language called Reformed Egyptian, but that it was written in Egyptian characters that the people had reformed, altered through the centuries in their new land.
	blog.wilcoxusa.net /?p=349 (17324 words)

	Letter to RLDS on Authority & Succession - SHIELDS
		Sanders' evaluation of and challenge to the RLDS church on the succession of authority issue.
		He joined the Mormon Church; after the Prophet Joseph's death, he apostatized; he joined Rigdon's church, but apostatized from that - confessed he was wrong, and solemnly declared the twelve Apostles were the proper ones to lead the Church, and rejoined the Mormons.
		But you say in "True Succession" page 179, "So far as that particular act was concerned the authority was restored." Please inform me by whom, to whom, when, and when was there a restoration of authority.
	www.shields-research.org /Critics/RLDS/RLDSltr.htm (2662 words)

	The Restoration
		The boy is now living with his parents, who have submitted to the laws of the church." Smith found that these independent revelations were calculated "to cause the spirit of God to be withdrawn; and to uproot and destroy those glorious principles which had been developed for the salvation of the human family."
		George A. Smith reported that one "Black Pete" claimed to receive heavenly messages written on objects floating across the sky, and that Wycom Clark "got a revelation that he was to be the prophet," persuading five others to start the "Pure Church of Christ." John Noah also "assumed to be a prophet" and was excommunicated.
		of the Book of Mormon, one would expect baptism to be "unto repentance." Instead, this section consistently states that baptism was in Christ's name.
	www.signaturebookslibrary.org /seekers/chapter5.htm (10255 words)

	B. Winchester's 1843 "History of the Priesthood"
		In the preservation of Noah from destruction by the flood, the regular succession of presiding priests was continued after it.
		He is a very prominent man, in the history of these early times, and the bible gives him the character of a prophet, and it also records the circumstance of his administering at the alter, which certainly gives him the character of a priest.
		That there was a regular lineal succession of priests, who nominally held this authority, I do not pretend to deny: but the idea is, they corrupted it to such an extent, that God would not bless them; or in other words, it in a great degree, lost its efficacy.
	olivercowdery.com /texts/1843WinA.htm (10982 words)

	Succession Crisis (Mormonism) Encyclopedia Article @ MajorSuccesses.com (Major Successes) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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	www.majorsuccesses.com /encyclopedia/Succession_crisis_(Mormonism) (85 words)

	MERGED: INC membership/Requirements for salvation.
		Following your line of thought, if the RCC is the only visible church at that time, does it follow that the RCC is the universal church during Augustine's time?
		Yes there is only one true Church, in these days, you cannot brand a particula visible Church as that one true Church.
		This is the most common line of Petrine oppositionists regarding Augustine's stand on the papacy.
	thebereans.net /forum/index.php?topic=2290.15 (2471 words)

	Sunstone Magazine - Mormon issues, history, and art
		To our friends uninitiated to the present dogma of Mormonism, this is clearly an endorsement of beer, which is defined as a mild drink made of barley.
		It is books such as Cheesman's that have virtually crippled Book of Mormon studies in the past.
		While such amateurs as Cheesman, West, and Priddis are hailed as the Church's "Book of Mormon the real pros, such as scholars," Jakeman, Sorenson, Norman, and many others, are virtually unheard of by the average Latter-day Saint.
	www.sunstoneonline.com /magazine/searchable/Issue27.asp (2931 words)

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