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Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration: Difference between revisions
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|claim=The author states, "Like the First Vision story, none of the members of the Church or Joseph Smith’s family had ever heard prior to 1834 about a priesthood restoration from John the Baptist or Peter, James, and John. Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834. Why did it take five years for Joseph or Oliver to tell members of the Church about the priesthood?" . . . . "Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery did not teach anyone or record anything prior to 1834 that men ordained to offices in the Church were receiving 'priesthood authority'" | |claim=The author states, "Like the First Vision story, none of the members of the Church or Joseph Smith’s family had ever heard prior to 1834 about a priesthood restoration from John the Baptist or Peter, James, and John. Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834. Why did it take five years for Joseph or Oliver to tell members of the Church about the priesthood?" . . . . "Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery did not teach anyone or record anything prior to 1834 that men ordained to offices in the Church were receiving 'priesthood authority'" | ||
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#Joseph made the claim in writing in 1832 in his first history of the church. | #Joseph made the claim in writing in 1832 in his first history of the church. | ||
#There is a reference to his ordination in the Articles and Covenants of the church of Christ, written in 1830. | #There is a reference to his ordination in the Articles and Covenants of the church of Christ, written in 1830. | ||
Revision as of 15:11, 2 October 2013
Response to "Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions"
| [[../Testimony & Spiritual Witness Concerns & Questions|Testimony & Spiritual Witness Concerns & Questions"]] | A FAIR Analysis of:
[[../|Letter to a CES Director]] |
[[../Witnesses Concerns & Questions|Witnesses Concerns & Questions]] |
I have been sensitive on this subject, I admit; but I ought to be so—you would be, under the circumstances, had you stood in the presence of John, with our departed Brother Joseph, to receive the Lesser Priesthood—and in the presence of Peter, to receive the Greater, and looked down through time, and witnessed the effects these two must produce...
—Oliver Cowdery, 23 March 1846 [1]
—Oliver Cowdery, 23 March 1846 [1]
- Response to section: "Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834."
- Response to section: "Why did it take five years for Joseph or Oliver to tell members of the Church about the priesthood?"
- Response to section: "Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery changed the wording of earlier revelations when they compiled the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants"
Response Section
"Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834."
"Why did it take five years for Joseph or Oliver to tell members of the Church about the priesthood?"
"Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery changed the wording of earlier revelations when they compiled the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants"
==Notes
- [note] Oliver Cowdery to Phineas Young, 23 March 1846, Oliver Cowdery Collection, "Scriptory Book of Joseph Smith Jr." (kept by George W. Robinson), 22, LDS Church Historical Department (published in Scott H. Faulring, ed, An American Prophet's Record.— The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), emphasis in original; cited in Scott H. Faulring. “The Return of Oliver Cowdery”, FARMS Featured Paper, no date.