“Who’s correct? Joe Smith & the D&C? Or you?”
Technically it did take several revelations and stages to get to the point of having the Book of Mormon. Moroni came to Joseph several times that first night, then again the next day, then when Joseph first went to see the plates and every year after that for the next 4 years and also various revelations he received about translating it etc. etc. But that isn’t what I was referring to.
I should have said it took several stages and a lot of revelation to fully restore the church, and in truth that is what I intended to communicate. There were many revelations needed to establish the order of the church, how it should operate, to reveal the other parts of the plan of salvation etc. etc. I am sorry for the poor choice of words and I thank you for catching it and giving me the chance to clarify.
“Wanna explain, then, when LDS “prophet” Wilford Woodruff introduced the Sept. 25 1890 “manifesto” which publicly slowed down the number of LDS polygamous marriages why only Woodruff’s name was attached to that document?”
I said they had to give their consent, and they did so:
From OD1:
““I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been read in our hearing, and which is dated September 24th, 1890, and that as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding.”
The vote to sustain the foregoing motion was unanimous.
Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1890. “
He took a lot of convincing??