Some Latter-day Saints ( LDS or Mormons ) believe it to be the language of God.

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

Though the Bible is part of the LDS canon and members believe it to be the word of God, they believe that omissions and mistranslations are present in even the earliest known manuscripts.

Although the Latter-day Saints believe that speaking in tongues and the interpretation of tongues are alive and well in the Church, modern Mormons are much more likely to point to the way in which LDS missionaries are trained and learn foreign languages quickly, and are able to communicate rapidly, on their missions, as evidence of the manifestation of this gift.

: Cultural Mormons are individuals who do not believe some ( or many ) of the doctrines of LDS Church, but who self-identify as Mormon.

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.

In distinction with the LDS Church, Mormon fundamentalists also often believe in a number of other doctrines taught and practiced by Brigham Young in the 19th century, which the LDS Church has either abandoned, repudiated, or put in abeyance.

Mormon fundamentalists believe that these principles were wrongly abandoned or changed by the LDS Church, in large part due to the desire of its leadership and members to assimilate into mainstream American society and avoid the persecutions and conflict that had characterized the church throughout its early years.

Some LDS scholars believe that the forebears of the Nephites settled somewhere in present-day Central America after departing Jerusalem.

LDS Church members believe that Joseph Smith, Jr. was called by God to restore the true teachings of Jesus Christ

The LDS believe that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to a 14-year old boy named Joseph Smith and called him to be a prophet.

Through Christ's Priesthood authority and divine direction from Christ, the LDS believe that Joseph Smith was called and ordained to re-establish Christ's church.

" The term " latter-day saints " refers to the fact that members of Christ's church were originally called " saints " and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Christ's restored church in these, what LDS and other Christian denominations believe, are the last days prior to prophesied second coming of Jesus.

The LGBT advocacy group Human Rights Campaign has cited the Proclamation as an indication that the church restricts those who believe themselves to be gay, lesbian, and bisexual from fully integrating into the LDS Church.

LDS members typically believe the book to be a literal historical record.

Members of the LDS Church believe that their church is the " only true and living church upon the face of the earth " because of the divine authority restored through Smith.

Adherents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ), commonly called Mormons, believe that founder Joseph Smith, Jr., was a prophet of God, chosen to restore the primitive, apostolic church established by Jesus, now " in its fullness ", rather than to reform the church or priesthood, which had ceased to exist in any substantial or authoritative sense shortly after the end of the apostolic age and before the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

In 1830, Smith published The Book of Mormon, which LDS members believe he translated through divine means from the Golden Plates that he obtained from the angel Moroni.

Rather, the LDS believe that to become as God means to overcome the world through the atonement of Jesus Christ ( see 1 John 5: 4 — 5 ; Revelation 2: 7, 11 ).

LDS commentators have stated that, therefore, the Mormon Christians believe they are received into the " church of the firstborn ," meaning they inherit as though they were the firstborn ( see Hebrews 12: 23 ).

Nonetheless, members of the LDS ( like other ancient and modern Christian faith groups who believe in a more literal form of deification ) claim to find support for their belief in the Bible, which ( along with other Christian faith groups ) the LDS believe to be the " word of God.

According to the LDS Church, the vision teaches that God the Father and Jesus Christ are separate beings with glorified bodies of flesh and bone ; that mankind was literally created in the image of God ; that Satan is real but God infinitely greater ; that God hears and answers prayer ; that no other contemporary church had the fullness of Christ's gospel ; and that revelation has not ceased.

The manuscripts of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible state that " the Song of Solomon is not inspired scripture ," and therefore it is not included in LDS canon and rarely studied by members of the LDS Church.

Some seek to reach a wide audience, such as a national or state museum, while some museums have specific audiences, like the LDS Church History Museum or local history organizations.

Smoot did not practice plural marriage, and the LDS Church had officially renounced the practice in an 1890 Manifesto before Utah became a state.

The hearings included exhaustive questioning into the continuation of plural marriage within the state of Utah and the LDS Church, and questions on church teachings, doctrines and history.

The LDS church eventually agreed to cap the number of missionary deferments it sought for members in any one state ; however, this generally did not stop LDS missionaries who lived outside Utah ( such as 2008 and 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney ) from receiving deferments with relative ease.

Others point out that LDS scripture does not actually state that the settlement “ Zarahemla ” was established on the same spot as the notable Book of Mormon city or land.

The first LDS official to enter Jerusalem was LDS Apostle Orson Hyde, who came in 1841 and dedicated the land for the gathering of the people of Israel, the creation of a Jewish state, and the building of an LDS temple at some future time.

As General Superintendent of the church's Sunday School organization from 1918 to 1934, McKay built LDS seminary buildings near public high schools throughout the state of Utah.

McKay also transferred three LDS colleges to the state of Utah in the 1920s: Snow College, Weber State University and Dixie College.

In 1917, an administration building was built on the block east of the temple, to be followed in 1972 by the twenty-eight story LDS Church Office Building, which was, for many years, the tallest building in the state of Utah.

The building itself and land were donated by the city and the LDS Church to the state of Utah.

The Mormon pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U. S. state of Utah.

While the Mormons went to great lengths to conceal any involvement in the massacre ( including dressing as Paiute Indians and painting their faces in similar fashion ), the only person successfully convicted in the affair was John D. Lee, a member of the LDS Church who was executed by the state in 1877 for his role in the crime.

The city became Utah's state capital on January 4, 1896, when Utah entered the union upon President Grover Cleveland's decree after the LDS Church agreed to ban polygamy in 1890.

Built in what was then the German Democratic Republic, the Freiberg Germany Temple was the first LDS temple in a then communist state.

The LDS Church could not favor either national party because the LDS majority in the state would make the preferred party into a new de facto People's Party.

Located in Vernal it is the tenth LDS temple in the state of Utah.

Located in the city of Mesa, Arizona, it is the first of five LDS temples built or planned in the state.

While state law does not allow for dry counties, similar laws designed to restrict the sale and consumption of alcohol also are common in the mostly LDS ( Mormon ) state of Utah.