Joseph Smith Biography

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LDS Priesthood Unveiled Appendix 1

(^112) DHC, 1:36.
(^113) BOM, 3 Nephi 15:2.
(^114) BOM, 3 Nephi 17:14.
(^115) D&C, sections 6 and 11.
(^116) D&C, 6:10 and D&C, 11:10, respectively.
(^117) D&C, 6:12.
(^118) D&C, 11:26.
(^119) DHC, 1:39–42. See also JSH 1:68–73.
(^120) DHC, 1:44–5.
(^121) Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate 1 (Oct. 1834) 14.
(^122) BOM, Alma 40:20.
(^123) BOM, Alma 40:5.
(^124) See Appendix 2, “Mormon Polygamy—The Truth Revealed!”
(^125) Ephesians 1:17–18 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your
understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the
riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.
(^126) JSH, n. () (Oliver Cowdery’s footnote).
(^127) Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate 1 (Oct. 1834) 13–16. Exact spelling and
punctuation from original retained.
(^128) D&C, 76:20–23; DHC, 1:245–52.
(^129) D&C, 76:12 & 19.
(^130) BOM, Jacob 4:14.
(^131) See n. 127 above.
(^132) BOM, 3 Nephi 11:25.
(^133) DHC, 1:40, n. (
): “...there is no definite account of the event [of the restoration of the
Melchizedek Priesthood] in the history of the Prophet Joseph, or, for matter of that, in any of our annals.” See
also Eric Davis, “Melchizedek Restoration Is Entirely Missing,” The Mormon Curtain, 26 Oct 2009, 10 Jan. 2012
http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_melchizedek_aaronic_priesthood.html#pub_-1554535960.
(^134) D&C, 107:18–19.
(^135) D&C, 107:18.
(^136) BOM, 3 Nephi 28:13.
(^137) BOM, 3 Nephi 28:14.
(^138) One needs only to compare the verses of the current D&C with the 1835 edition. For
instance, compare current D&C, 78: heading, 1, 9 with 1835 D&C, LXXV:1–2. Also compare D&C,
82:11; 104:26, 43, 45–6 to the 1835 D&C.
For further study, see “Scanned Images of the Entire 1833 Book of Commandments and 1835
Doctrine and Covenants,” IRR.org, Mormons in Transition, 2010, Institute for Religious Research, 7
Jul. 2010 http://www.irr.org/mit/boc/.
(^139) D&C, 27:12.
(^140) See BOM, 3 Nephi 19:4.
(^141) JSH 1:54.
(^142) BOM, 1 Nephi 14:7.
(^143) “The Importance of the LDS Religion—Parallels Between the LDS and the Ancient Jews,”
Marvelous Work and a Wonder®, Marvelous Work and a Wonder Purpose Trust, 7 July 2010
http://www.marvelousworkandawonder.org/q_a/contents/3lds/q01/1lds010.htm.
(^144) Boyd K. Packer, “The Only True Church,” Ensign Nov. 1985: 80. “It is our firm conviction
that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is, as the revelations state, ‘the only true and
living church upon the face of the whole earth.’” See also D&C, 1:30.
(^145) Whitmer, 64.

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