An explanation is needed in describing our wrong pedigree: It should be noted that the Mormon reason for being is that the death of the original apostles of Jesus Christ ended Apostolic succession, being there were no more Apostles annointed.

It is not hard to see we are in the last days. Yesterday's news was that sources unknown had been planning to nuke 7 major U.S. cities the same day, some time in the near future. Then there is all sorts of supporting evidence with news that the harvestable fishes of the oceans will be fished out within a few more decades....not to be the bearer of bad news....because there is hope.

We believe the so-called historical Christian church no longer possesses the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the Mormon doctrine of the Great Apostasy, a doctrine taught by Paul in the New Testament. in 2 Thes. 2 1-5 and Acts 20:29-31 Paul expressed his concern about an inevitable coming apostasy; he spent a great deal of energy warning the Church about it.

For this reason the LDS Church does not recognize the so-called binding authority of subsequent developments in historical Christianity.



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For all the criticism we recieve over this restoration, I chuckle that the Protestants essentially did the same thing in the fifteenth century in rejecting the historical pedigree of Catholicism.

In spite of Protestants and Catholics rejecting each other historically, each demanding they possess the true gospel, they still consider each other Christian.

Perhaps the left hand doesn't remember what the right hand was doing when their very inconsistant charges come in our direction.