Without Disclosing My True Identity
(^40) Matthew 23:15.
(^41) Matthew 24:7.
(^42) The regional newspaper published in Salt Lake City by the LDS/Mormon Church.
(^43) Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Changing World of Mormonism (Salt Lake City: Utah
Lighthouse™ Ministry, 1967) 157–9.
(^44) DHC, 2:312.
(^45) See ch. 25, n. 51; ch 39, n. 31.
(^46) “Baptism for the Dead,” Times and Seasons 3 (15 Apr. 1842): 759–6; 1 Corinthians 15:29.
(^47) 1 Corinthians 15:29; Hebrews 11:40; D&C, 128:15–18; 124:29, 33; 127:6.
(^48) Can Baptism for the Dead be symbolic of dead works? RLDS Doctrine & Covenants,
SECTION 20 “Revelation given through Joseph Smith, Jr., prophet and seer to the church, April 1830,
at Manchester, New York. This instruction came in answer to Joseph Smith’s inquiry concerning the
status of those who desired to unite with the church and who had already been baptized.
[Sec 20:1a] Behold, I say unto you, that all old covenants have I caused to be done away in
this thing, and this is a new and everlasting covenant; even that which was from the beginning.
[Sec 20:1b] Wherefore, although a man should be baptized an hundred times, it availeth him
nothing; for you can not enter in at the strait gate by the Law of Moses, neither by your dead works;
[Sec 20:1c] for it is because of your dead works, that I have caused this last covenant, and this
church to be built up unto me; even as in days of old.
[Sec 20:1d] Wherefore, enter ye in at the gate, as I have commanded, and seek not to counsel
your God. Amen. (“Section 20” CenterPlace.org, 12 Apr. 2011
http://www.centerplace.org/hs/dc/rdc-020.htm, emphasis added.)
See also D&C, 22:2; TSP, 22:78–83. LDS Church Archives reveal that Brigham Young was
baptized 6 times and received 5 Patriarchal Blessings.
(^49) Joseph most frequently used the word “angel” (Biblical) to refer to what this author prefers
to refer to as, “advanced human being” (in variations), etc.—terminology that is non-religious or
scientific in implication.
(^50) Brodie, 24–5.
(^51) 1 Samuel 8:7; BOM, Jacob 6:8; Jeremiah 8:9.