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Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration
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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Priesthood Restoration 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]
- 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"