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When Sjödahl died in 1939, he had partially completed an extensive commentary on the Book of Mormon. In 1955, Sjödahl's material was taken by his son-in-law, Philip C. Reynolds, and combined with some materials by church general authority George Reynolds and published under their names the seven-volume Commentary on the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. [1] [2] The book is one of the earliest and most well-known unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement.
The Union is a member of both the Free Churches Council and the Evangelical Alliance, and most of its churches are members of local geographic associations of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. Its government structure is somewhat of a combination of congregational and presbyteral , involving in each church the appointment of elders.
The Book of Mormon spoke of a city of Zion to be built in the Americas, which would be the same as the biblical New Jerusalem. Smith elaborated in 1830 that the location for this Zion would be somewhere near the United States border among the Native American tribes, and the "elect" of the world would be gathered to this location during the ...
Biographer Robert V. Remini calls the Book of Mormon "a typically American story" that "radiates the revivalist passion of the Second Great Awakening". [226] Brodie suggested that Smith composed the Book of Mormon by drawing on sources of information available to him, such as the 1823 book View of the Hebrews. [227]
Smith said that the Book of Mormon revealed "plain and precious things that had been taken away" from the Bible. [28] Smith also completed an unpublished revision of the Bible in 1833, [29] which he said corrected many of these errors, [30] and added inspired commentary. [31] Smith endowed the Book of Mormon with status equal to the Bible. [32]
General Baptists and Particular Baptists work was united in the Baptist Union in 1891. [4] The Baptist Historical Society was founded in 1908. In 1922, Edith Gates became the first woman ordained pastor in the Convention. [5] In 2013 Lynn Green was elected, with no votes against, as the first female General Secretary of the Baptist Union of ...
On June 26, 1829, E.B. Grandin published in The Wayne Sentinel a copy of the Book of Mormon title page Smith had given him earlier, and offered it to his readers as a "curiosity", stating that "[m]ost people entertain an idea that the whole matter is the result of a gross imposition, and a grosser superstition". [105]