Under the LDS Church's doctrine of continuing revelation, Latter-day Saints believe literally in the principle of revelation from God to his children.

In the LDS Church's Sunday School and Church Educational System classes, the standard works are studied and taught in a four-year rotation:

The 138 Sections in LDS Church's Doctrine and Covenants break down as follows:

Probably due to the LDS Church's change in attitude to polygamy in 1890, these sections were not included in future English editions of the Doctrine and Covenants.

Sections 137 and 138 were added to the LDS Church's 1981 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants, which is the edition currently in use by the church.

The LDS Church's 1981 edition also contains two " Official Declarations " at the book's conclusion, the first renouncing polygamy in 1890, and the second in 1978 announcing the opening of priesthood ordination to all worthy male members including previously restricted members of African descent.

The word Eucharist may refer not only to the rite but also to the consecrated bread ( leavened or unleavened ) and wine ( or unfermented grape juice in some Protestant denominations, water in the LDS Church's sacrament ), used in the rite.

" Despite the LDS Church's position, the term Mormon is widely used by journalists and non-journalists to refer to adherents of Mormon fundamentalism.

While the term " Mormon Church " has long been attached to the church as a nickname, it is an unauthorized title, and the Church's style guide says, " Please avoid the use of ' Mormon Church ', ' LDS Church ' or the ' Church of the Latter-day Saints.

In some countries, Mormon and some phrases including the term are registered trademarks owned by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. ( a holding company for the LDS Church's intellectual property ).

The church also may excommunicate or discipline those within the church who openly oppose the LDS Church's top leadership, which is viewed as a sign of apostasy.

Some felt that the dismissals were a result of the LDS Church's influence on the university, while others felt that they reflected a more general pattern of repressing religious and political expression that might be deemed offensive.

# Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, is about 200 miles northwest of Nauvoo, Illinois and sixty mies south of the Black River, which led to the LDS Church's 1840s lumber mills on the Mississippi river.

Over time, many of those who rejected the LDS Church's relinquishment of plural marriage formed small, close-knit communities in areas of the Rocky Mountains.

On the other hand, some believers in the Book of Mormon, such as Marvin Perkins, see these changes as better conforming the chapter headers and footnotes to the meaning of the text in light of the LDS Church's 1978 Revelation on Priesthood.

It was not published in the LDS Church's 1902 History of the Church because of then-Church President Joseph F. Smith's discomfort with some ideas in the sermon popularized by the editor of the project, B. H. Roberts of the First Council of the Seventy.

Although the discourse is considered by Mormons to be one of the most important given by Smith on the nature of God and exaltation, it is not part of the LDS Church's canonized scriptures.

The central component of the scheme was the LDS Church's purchase of the Eagle Emporium, a conglomerate of mercantile companies owned by William Jennings.

Bronze statue on the LDS Church | LDS Church's Temple Square ( Salt Lake City, Utah, USA ) depicting Peter, James, son of Zebedee | James, and John the Apostle | John conferring the Melchizedek priesthood ( Latter Day Saints ) | Melchizedek priesthood in A. D. 1829 to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery

In the 21st century, the vision features prominently in the LDS Church's program of proselytism.

He also worked with Gordon B. Hinckley, the LDS Church's representative on publications, with whom he later served in the First Presidency.

It is also asserted that the LDS leaders don't claim infallibility and that the Church's efforts to obtain and archive historically significant material extends to works even by anti-Mormon authors.

The next day a New York Times headline read, " Mormon Document Raises Doubts on Succession of Church's Leaders ," and the LDS Church was forced to confirm the discovery and publicly present the document to the RLDS Church.

In December 2010, the LDS Church made changes to the non-canonical chapter summaries and also to some of the footnotes in its online version of the Book of Mormon.

Sin is the cause of the estrangement, and therefore the purpose of the atonement is to correct or overcome the consequences of sin " (" Atonement " entry of the Bible Dictionary in the LDS version of the King James Bible ).

This amalgamation was done by church employee Jonathan Grimshaw roughly ten years after Smith's death and is generally regarded as the " official " LDS Church version because it was carefully reviewed, edited, and approved by LDS authorities including Brigham Young.

Prior to revisions in 1990, the LDS Church's version of the endowment also included a gesture called a " penalty.

Because LDS scholars had not yet had an opportunity to compare the corrected edition of the 1944 CoC edition of the Bible version to the original manuscripts, its initial acceptance by LDS Church members was limited.

Their version contains the margin notes made by the Elder B. H. Roberts, who compared this text with the Book of Mormon at the request of an LDS leader.

In fact, members of the LDS Church still sing a modified version of the Handcart Song.

In the 20th century, LDS Church leaders, including David O. McKay, Harold B. Lee, Ezra Taft Benson, Marion G. Romney, and J. Reuben Clark, claimed that Communism is a " counterfeit " version of the Law of Consecration.

The word " Zion " appears at least 45 times in the Book of Mormon, a key part of the Latter-day Saint canon, and nearly 200 times in the LDS version of the Doctrine and Covenants, a part of its canon consisting of what members believe to be modern-day revelation and written down by Smith mostly in the 19th century.

" ( Doctrine and Covenants 97: 21, LDS version )

According to LDS Doctrine, Michael the Archangel became the first man on earth, Adam, to experience his mortality.

* Mormon Times Studies and Doctrine of LDS Church History

Originally published in 1835 as Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God, editions of the book continue to be printed mainly by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) and the Community of Christ ( formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( RLDS Church )).

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stands alongside the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and The Pearl of Great Price as holy scripture.

The text of Official Declaration — 1 has been included in every LDS Church printing of the Doctrine and Covenants since 1908.

The following chart compares the current editions of the Doctrine and Covenants used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ed.

Further revelations claimed to have been given through Joseph Smith are published in the Doctrine and Covenants, one of four sacred LDS texts.

LDS scripture ( Doctrine & Covenants section 132 ) teaches that marital sealings ( only done in an LDS temple ), between two spouses will continue in force in the afterlife.

* LDS Differences in Doctrine ( Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 1, " Doctrine, LDS Differences ")

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) teaches that James has been resurrected and that in 1829 he — along with the resurrected Peter and the translated John — visited Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and restored the priesthood authority with Apostolic succession to earth .< Ref > Doctrine and Covenants 27: 12 .</ ref >

In a similar vein, the earliest sections of the Doctrine and Covenants contain statements such as " if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work " ( LDS D & C 4: 3 ) and " whosoever will thrust in his sickle and reap, the same is called of God " ( LDS D & C 6: 4 ).

Previous reluctance to involve them was probably due to the following verse from the LDS Doctrine and Covenants:

( Doctrine and Covenants 20: 58, LDS edition ) The term administer has since been interpreted as reading the sacrament prayer, which deacons and teachers still do not have the authority to do.

According to the LDS Church's Doctrine and Covenants, the President of the Church is the only man empowered to receive revelation for the entire church and to clarify doctrine.

Strangites reject Section 132 of the LDS Doctrine and Covenants, regarding it as a forgery from 1852 that was never received or approved by Joseph Smith.

About half of the revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants are in some way connected to this translation process, including background on the Apocrypha ( LDS D & C section 91 CoC D & C 88 ), the three degrees of glory ( LDS section 76 CoC Section 85 ), the eternal nature of marriage and plural marriage ( LDS section 132 ), teachings on baptism for the dead ( LDS section 124 CoC Section 107 ), various revelations on priesthood ( LDS sections 84, 88, 107 CoC Sections 83 104 ) and others.