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The LDS Church published its first edition of the Bible in English in 1979. [1] [2] The text of the Bible is that of the Authorized King James Version. [1] [3] Both the Old and New Testaments are included, but the Apocrypha is not. Each chapter includes a succinct heading, typically a descriptive summary, though some serve as commentaries. [4]
Latter-day Saints believe the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is a God of covenants. [161] In return for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob's faith and obedience, God promised them (1) a numberless posterity, (2) a chosen land, and (3) the blessing of all nations through their posterity and the priesthood of their posterity, the "blessings of heaven ...
Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) have gone from historically condemning the use of any birth control as sinful, to allowing it in the present day. LDS leaders regularly spoke out against birth control into the 1970s, and gradually in the 1980s and 1990s, leaders stopped overtly teaching against it.
Pope Gregory I – (c. 540 – 12 March 604), better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death. Christendom – In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or nations in which Christianity is the ...
In the Latter Day Saint movement, an ordinance is a sacred rite or ceremony that has spiritual and symbolic meanings and act as a means of conveying divine grace.Ordinances are physical acts which signify or symbolize an underlying spiritual act; for some ordinances, the spiritual act is the finalization of a covenant between the ordinance recipient and God.
Members of the LDS Church are encouraged to prepare to be celestially married in a temple. [18] It is believed, therefore, that all humans are spirit children of "heavenly parents" [1] who as mortals were celestially married and went on to become exalted. This married couple is known to Latter-day Saints as God the Father and Heavenly Mother.
Sealings are typically performed as marriages or as sealing of children to parents. They were performed prior to the death of Joseph Smith (the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement), and are currently performed in the largest of the faiths that came from the movement, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). LDS Church ...
The term derives from the Authorized King James Version, referring to the spiritual gifts given the disciples of Jesus on the day of Pentecost, in which they were "endowed with power from on high," [12] Christians generally understand this endowment to refer to the gift of the Holy Spirit, which the Latter Day Saints believe is given at the ...