Most contemporary accounts of the massacre maintain that the Mormons warned Gunnison that his party might be in danger from local bands of Pahvant Utes.

One such group refers to itself as the New Order Mormons, a name patterned on the term New Order Amish ( Amish who maintain cultural ties to their religion while not accepting some of its core tenets ).

Mormons hold that the New Testament prophesied both the apostasy from the teachings of Christ and his apostles as well as the restoration of all things prior to the second coming of Christ.

Within Mormonism, the priesthood authority to act in God's name was said by Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith Junior, to have been removed from the primitive Christian church through apostasy ( also known as a " falling away "), which Mormons believe occurred due to the deaths of the original apostles.

This was reflected in several chapters contributed to the multi-volume work released in 1915 The Fundamentals, where apologists criticised the teachings of Charles Taze Russell, Mary Baker Eddy ( Christian Science ), the Mormons and Spiritualists.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

The department's research facility, the Family History Library, which has developed the most extensive genealogical record-gathering program in the world, was established to assist in tracing family lineages for special religious ceremonies that Mormons believe will seal family units together for eternity.

The word Mormon is often associated with polygamy ( or plural marriage ), which was a distinguishing practice of many early Mormons ; however it was renounced by the LDS Church in 1890,

In 1878 the Supreme Court ruled in Reynolds v. United States that religious duty was not a suitable defense for practicing polygamy, and many Mormons went into hiding ; later, Congress began seizing church assets.

During the latter half of the century, there was a retrenchment movement in Mormonism in which Mormons became more conservative, attempting to regain their status as a " peculiar people ".

Based on the name of that book, early followers of founder Joseph Smith, Jr. were called Mormons, and their faith was called Mormonism.

The term was initially considered pejorative, but is no longer considered so by Mormons ( although other terms such as Latter-day Saint, or LDS, are generally preferred ).

However tensions between Mormons and non-Mormons again escalated to the point that in 1844, Smith was killed by a mob, precipitating a succession crisis.

Mormons thus believe that their Church is the " only true and living church " because divine authority was restored to it through Smith.

Mormons believe the people of the Book of Mormon lived in the western hemisphere, that Christ appeared in the western hemisphere after his death and resurrection, that the true faith was restored in upstate New York by Joseph Smith, that the Garden of Eden was located in North America, and that the New Jerusalem would be built in Missouri.

According to LDS Church general authority Monte J. Brough, " Mormons who baptized 380, 000 Holocaust victims posthumously were motivated by love and compassion and did not understand their gesture might offend Jews ... they did not realize that what they intended as a ' Christian act of service ' was ' misguided and insensitive .'".

When the Mormons arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847, the Great Basin was still a part of Mexico and had no secular government.

This was to be the first skirmish in the Mormon War, in which Missouri evicted the Mormons after arresting Joseph Smith and other leaders of the church.

The county was organized December 29, 1836 as a haven for the Mormons, who had been previously driven from Jackson County in November 1833 and had been refugees in adjacent Clay County ever since.

After the Missouri militia was routed in the Battle of Crooked Creek, Governor Lilburn Boggs issued Missouri Executive Order 44 to evict the Mormons from the state.

The area was originally settled by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ).

To irrigate " Eagar ", even though it was not called that at the time, he had no dynamite, so the Mormons in the area had to heat basalt volcanic rocks with fires, bring cold water from the river to pour over the hot rocks to break them, then drag the smaller rocks to the river to dam the river and create the Greer Lakes.

Tuba City was founded by the Mormons in 1872.

Heber was founded in 1876 or 1877, by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ), and the town is named after Heber J.

Paris was settled by a group of dedicated Mormons led by Charles C Rich.

Many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the Mormons ) believe themselves to be descended from Manasseh and Ephraim ( in a " grafted in " sense of ancestry ), believing that the lost tribes are being restored in the latter days ( meaning now ) as prophesied by Isaiah ; some believe that this would be the fulfillment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall with the interpretation that the wall is the ocean.

Mormons also have a strict law of chastity, requiring abstention from sexual relations outside of marriage and strict fidelity within marriage.

Having failed to build Zion within the confines of American society, the Mormons began to construct a society in isolation, based on their beliefs and values.

Mormons also emphasize standards they believe were taught by Jesus Christ, including personal honesty, integrity, obedience to law, chastity outside of marriage and fidelity within marriage.

Mormons have a strict law of chastity, requiring abstention from sexual relations outside of marriage and strict fidelity within marriage.

Although Mormons do not claim to be part of Judaism, Mormon theology claims to situate Mormonism within the context of Judaism to an extent that goes beyond what most other Christian denominations claim.

Later, he taught that Mormons were Israelites, and that they may learn of their tribal affiliation within the twelve Israelite tribes through prophecy.

They include within that category Unitarians, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ), Jehovah's Witnesses, and some of the more radical forms of Liberal Christianity.

" A number of historical movements within Christianity may be described as " restoration movements ," including the Glasites in Scotland and England, the independent church led by James Haldane and Robert Haldane in Scotland, the American Restoration Movement, the Landmark Baptists and the Mormons.

Boggs, who was from Independence, moved to a house within the City of Zion plot in Independence after the Mormons were evicted from Missouri and after he left office.

" According to CCM's diagnosis, Mormons, Roman Catholics, the Unification Church, United Churches, and hundreds of other new religious groups would also fall within the CCM's definition of being a " cult ".

Mormons believe in the Bible, as well as other books of scripture, such as the Book of Mormon.

Mormons have a scriptural canon consisting of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and a collection of revelations and writings by Joseph Smith known as the Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price.

Mormons believe in the Old and New Testaments, and the LDS Church uses the King James Bible as its official scriptural text of the Bible.

While Mormons believe in the general accuracy of the modern day text of the Bible, they also believe that it is incomplete and contains errors.

In Mormon theology, many of these lost truths are restored in the Book of Mormon, which Mormons hold to be divine scripture and equal in authority to the Bible.

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( or Mormons ) " revere the Bible both Old and New Testaments as the word of God.

He persuades Bambino and Bambino's henchmen to help train the pacifistic Mormons to fight, and in the final battle, the Mormon leader finds in the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible that " there is a time for fighting ," and the Mormons are unleashed against Major Harriman's goons, using the dirty fighting tricks they learned.

Mormons quickly adopted the book as a work of scripture of similar importance to the Bible.

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* In September 2009 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ) published their first official Spanish edition of the Bible based on the 1909 Reina-Valera edition, with " a very conservative update of outdated grammar and vocabulary ".

Humanistic Mormonism is a movement of Free Thinkers, Cultural Mormons, Disfellowshipped or Independents people related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Latter Day Saint groups that emphasize Mormon culture and history, but do not demand belief in a supernatural god, or the historicity of the Bible or the Book of Mormon.