Gospel Topics
Restoration of the Church
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Every church with a creed thinks it is righter than the next one. We are simply blunt: keys, apostles, and the Book of Mormon. D&C 1 already says ‘collectively and not individually.’ Good people, real faith, and real light exist outside our membership records. What we will not do is pretend all baptisms, all priesthoods, and all canons are interchangeable. That is not arrogance. That is a specific historical claim you can test.
True and living is about keys. It is not a permission slip to despise other disciples of Jesus.
- 13th Article of Faith: we believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent — and in seeking after anything virtuous in anyone.
- Baptism for the dead is our theology of how God is fair to everyone else.
- If exclusivism is the sin, ask how many churches will take our baptism without a second dip.