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| − | |claim=Names of the Church | + | |claim=Names of the Church. The author states, "After deciding “Church of Jesus Christ” on April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith made the decision on May 3, 1834 to change the name of the Church to, “The Church of the Latter Day Saints”. Why did Joseph take the name of “Jesus Christ” out of the very name of His restored Church? The one and only true Church on the face of the earth in which Christ is the Head?" |
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*The only name for the Church established by revelation was the one mentioned in DC 115:3. | *The only name for the Church established by revelation was the one mentioned in DC 115:3. | ||
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...for thus it shall be called, and unto all the elders and people of my Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, scattered abroad in all the world. | ...for thus it shall be called, and unto all the elders and people of my Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, scattered abroad in all the world. | ||
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| − | *None of the other names (The Church of Christ; Church of Jesus Christ; The Church of God; The Church of Latter Day Saints) were established by revelation. | + | *None of the other names (The Church of Christ; Church of Jesus Christ; Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints; The Church of God; The Church of Latter Day Saints) were established by revelation. |
| + | *David Whitmer, however insisted that the original name of the Church was the only proper one, and that it had been given by revelation. There is no known revelation to support this claim however, and Whitmer appears to be using the Book of Mormon to support this claim (the Book of Mormon uses "Church of Christ".) Whitmer alsso claimed that it was Sidney Rigdon who pushed to change the name to "Church of the Latter Day Saints." | ||
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| + | In June, 1829, the Lord gave us the name by which we must call the church, being the same as He gave the Nephites. We obeyed His commandment, and called it THE CHURCH OF CHRIST until 1834, when, through the influence of Sydney Rigdon, the name of the church was changed to "The Church of the Latter Day Saints," dropping out the name of Christ entirely, that name which we were strictly commanded to call the church by, and which Christ by His own lips makes so plain. ({{AddressBelievers1| start=72}}) | ||
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*B.H. Roberts, in a note on pages 23 and 24 of the ''History of the Church'', Volume III, stated: | *B.H. Roberts, in a note on pages 23 and 24 of the ''History of the Church'', Volume III, stated: | ||
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