Posted on 02/21/2009 3:01:07 PM PST by Colofornian
A rare 1841 copy of the Book of Mormon that likely belonged to Lucy Mack Smith, mother of the Prophet Joseph Smith, is now owned by the LDS Church, the gift of a church member who wishes to remain anonymous...
Her name imprinted on the base of the book's spine identifies it as Lucy's book, likely a "presentation copy" from the 1841 edition published in England. Because of superior and less-expensive printing and binding, the edition was made there, commissioned by LDS Church apostles on a mission in that land and acting at the behest of Joseph Smith.
It was the fourth edition of the Book of Mormon, the previous ones being the original, published in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1830, the 1837 edition published in Kirtland, Ohio, and the 1840 edition published in Nauvoo.
The book dealer from whom the donor acquired the copy wrote in documentation that the book was discovered in 2002 in Hamilton, Ill., 10 miles outside of Nauvoo, where Lucy died in 1855. It had been owned by descendants of Lucy Smith Milliken, daughter of Lucy Mack, who cared for her mother until Lucy Mack's death.
(Excerpt) Read more at mormontimes.com ...
Yes, although I do understand that a few Church of Christs allow musical instruments.
Campbell didn’t start any church or group, but he encouraged people to go back to what the Bible said and faithfully interpret straight from God’s Words. This, of course, meant that some things started similarly, but have wound up very different, than congregations had originally intended when following Campbell’s encouragement.
Does look like he’s using an air sickness hat in the picture, hayna?
***Alexander Campbell had reason to be mad at Sm,ith...
Campbell called his church the Church of Christ and Sidney Rigdon was one of his followers and preachers...
When Rigdon joined Smith, Smith started calling his own gang, the “Church of Christ” at first...***
And we have evidence that Rigdon wrote much of early LDS theology, not Smith.
The Alexanders pere et fils both were guilty of creating their own churches along with Barton Stone, but they did not rise to the creation of such as the LDS. So it was the scope of the project that separates them, although they both engaged in church creation. A mitigating factor might be that the Restoration movement merely created new theologies out of existing Scripture, and the LDS wrote new scripture.
Arrgh.
It should have read ‘the Campbells pere et fil’. Sorry for the mistype.
So, which church did Alexander Campbell found? It wasn’t the Church of Christ, the Christian church, or the Disciples of Christ, which were formed independently of him, but with the encouragement from his publications and such.
There has been quite a few wars with Campbellites here on FR in the past.
You Hateful bigots are at it aGAIN!!
Posting FACTS from the LDS’ history to make us look BAD!
And without even the COURTESY of pinginging fellow Christians!!
Shame...
—MormonDude(Whut Would Joseph Smith Do?)
***So, which church did Alexander Campbell found?***
To begin with, the Brush Run Church in Pennsylvania, and if it were not for the the Campbells and Stone, the Churches of Christ or the Disciples of Christ and all their splinters would not exist.
The Campbells left the Presbyterians and adopted some Baptist thinking before they went headlong into the Restorationist movement, which acted to jettison all liturgical theology and towards a personal theology created from whichever Scripture that one happened to read that day.
The more conservative Churches of Christ will often refer to themselves as Campbellian (versus the Stone Disciples of Christ churches).
So, that is the denomination you believe he started?
I haven't heard of that. If helping start one private church makes someone guilty of starting a church, then you must believe hundreds of thousands of people are guilty of such blasphemy.
Whada mad I’m not sharing my popcorn? Its not WOW certified
And, mormons now expect (actually, demand) Christians today to accept that "new" scripture as "Christianity", even though for more than 100 years mormons and mormon leaders boasted of NOT being part of Christianity.
Who fought the wars and who won? ;)
***Who fought the wars and who won? ;) ***
Well. I’m still here and they ain’t. One hasn’t posted in six months.
Do a search for Bremenboy.
Them arrogant fools also DEMAND that people who actually FOLLOW MORMON scripture (D&C 132) not be ALLOWED to call themselves MORMONS!!
What blatant hypocrits!
***“The Alexanders pere et fils both were guilty of creating their own churches... The Brush Run Church”
So, that is the denomination you believe he started?
I haven’t heard of that. If helping start one private church makes someone guilty of starting a church, then you must believe hundreds of thousands of people are guilty of such blasphemy.***
Creating new theologies apart from the Church is heresy by definition. Perhaps you may have heard of that.
***A mitigating factor might be that the Restoration movement merely created new theologies out of existing Scripture, and the LDS wrote new scripture.
And, mormons now expect (actually, demand) Christians today to accept that “new” scripture as “Christianity”, even though for more than 100 years mormons and mormon leaders boasted of NOT being part of Christianity.***
That’s the way it goes, doesn’t it? We have the Church. They pulled their theology out of a hat.
***Them arrogant fools also DEMAND that people who actually FOLLOW MORMON scripture (D&C 132) not be ALLOWED to call themselves MORMONS!!
What blatant hypocrits!***
I think that they are simply revising to the point where they can fit in better and not advertise points which Christians will take umbrage to.
Ah, so you must be a supporter of one of those centralized corrupt churches from the top, down. You also probably believe the Bible isn’t all you need to know and that other edicts of man are as important.
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