FAIR
Blood atonement
FAIR Latter-day Saints
Brigham’s Reformation rhetoric was real, hot, and aimed at covenant apostasy in a theocratic frontier. Later Church leaders have said the idea is not doctrine. We do not teach that adultery or apostasy requires a knife because Calvary was weak. We teach Moroni 8 and Hebrews 10: Christ’s offering is once for all. Quote the sermons honestly. Then quote what the Church actually binds on members.
The Atonement of Jesus Christ is infinite and eternal. No sermon on a Utah sabbath changed that.
- Journal of Discourses is a 19th-century report of sermons, not the Standard Works.
- Capital punishment for murder existed in territorial law and in Genesis 9. That is not ‘Christ’s blood failed.’
- Mountain Meadows was a war crime. It is not a proof-text that blood atonement is secret canon.
- Ask what is taught in General Conference and the temple today. The answer is the blood of the Lamb.