Significance of April 6 in Latter-day Saint History
Discover the importance of April 6 in Latter-day Saint history, including the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and significant events tied to this date. Explore the prophecies and revelations found in Doctrine and Covenants 20:5-8 and delve into the unique historical context surrounding this day.
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WHY APRIL 6? Today is April 6. We know by revelation that today is the actual and accurate date of the Savior s birth. April 6 also is the day on which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized. On this special and sacred Sabbath day, I declare my witness that Jesus the Christ is our Redeemer. He lives and will cleanse, heal, guide, protect, and strengthen us. David A. Bednar, April 2014 Gen. Conf.
A FEW OTHER APRIL 6 EVENTS Birth of Jesus Christ Savior Begins Ministry Resurrection of Savior 1st Vision??? Organization of Church D&C 21 received Cornerstone for Nauvoo Temple laid Cornerstone for Salt Lake Temple laid St. George Temple Dedicated Angel Moroni put on Salt Lake Temple 1892 Salt Lake Temple Dedicated Conference Center Announced Palmyra Temple Dedicated 1BC 30 AD 33 1820 1830 1830 1841 1853 1877 1893 1996 2000
WHERE? 20 revelations of the the Doctrine and Covenants were received here. The testimony of the Three witnesses was signed here. They needed 3-9 people to meet New York s legal requirement for incorporating a religious society. They chose to have six: Joseph Smith (24) Hyrum Smith (30) Samuel Smith (22) Oliver Cowdery (23) Peter Whitmer Jr. (20) David Whitmer (25) Peter Whitmer Home in Fayette, New York.
Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:5-8 looking for prophecies Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 (two prophecies) Doctrine and Covenants 20:6-7 Doctrine and Covenants 20:8
Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:5-8 looking for prophecies Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 After it was truly manifested unto this first elder [Joseph Smith] that he had received a remission of his sins
Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:5-8 looking for prophecies Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 After it was truly manifested unto this first elder [Joseph Smith] that he had received a remission of his sins The First Vision
Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:5-8 looking for prophecies Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 After it was truly manifested unto this first elder [Joseph Smith] that he had received a remission of his sins The First Vision Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 Joseph Smith was entangled again in the vanities of the world
Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:5-8 looking for prophecies Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 After it was truly manifested unto this first elder [Joseph Smith] that he had received a remission of his sins The First Vision 1820 1823: I was left to all kinds of temptations; and I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature (JS H 1:28). Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 Joseph Smith was entangled again in the vanities of the world
Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:5-8 looking for prophecies Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 After it was truly manifested unto this first elder [Joseph Smith] that he had received a remission of his sins The First Vision 1820 1823: I was left to all kinds of temptations; and I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature (JS H 1:28). Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 Joseph Smith was entangled again in the vanities of the world Doctrine and Covenants 20:6-7 God ministered unto him by an holy angel
Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:5-8 looking for prophecies Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 After it was truly manifested unto this first elder [Joseph Smith] that he had received a remission of his sins The First Vision 1820 1823: I was left to all kinds of temptations; and I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature (JS H 1:28). Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 Joseph Smith was entangled again in the vanities of the world Doctrine and Covenants 20:6-7 God ministered unto him by an holy angel The angel Moroni
Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:5-8 looking for prophecies Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 After it was truly manifested unto this first elder [Joseph Smith] that he had received a remission of his sins The First Vision 1820 1823: I was left to all kinds of temptations; and I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature (JS H 1:28). Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 Joseph Smith was entangled again in the vanities of the world Doctrine and Covenants 20:6-7 God ministered unto him by an holy angel Doctrine and Covenants 20:8 And gave him power from on high, by the means which were before prepared, to translate the Book of Mormon The angel Moroni
Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:5-8 looking for prophecies Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 After it was truly manifested unto this first elder [Joseph Smith] that he had received a remission of his sins The First Vision 1820 1823: I was left to all kinds of temptations; and I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature (JS H 1:28). Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 Joseph Smith was entangled again in the vanities of the world Doctrine and Covenants 20:6-7 God ministered unto him by an holy angel Doctrine and Covenants 20:8 And gave him power from on high, by the means which were before prepared, to translate the Book of Mormon The angel Moroni The Urim and Thummim
Doctrine and Covenants 20:8-36 several verses to summarizing the vital truths which the Book of Mormon teaches. (See vs. 17 36.) It speaks of God, the creation of man, the Fall, the Atonement, the ascension of Christ into heaven, prophets, faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, endurance, prayer, justification and sanctification through grace, and loving and serving God (President Benson, A New Witness for Christ, Ensign, Nov. 1984, 7). In (D&C 20), the Lord devotes
Find a great verse in the Book of Mormon that teaches God The Creation The Fall The Atonement Prophets Faith Repentance Baptism The Holy Ghost Enduring to the End Prayer Grace The Love of God
ITS 1830 YOU ARE NEWLY BAPTIZED FIND SOME DOCTRINE EVERY MEMBER SHOULD KNOW D&C 20:17-28 D&C 20:29-36
On February 4, 1879 Joseph Smith III, the President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, paid a visit to his mother, Emma Smith Bidamon, at her home in Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph was troubled. There were questions that he had to ask his mother about his murdered father while he still had time. Accordingly he wrote down a series of questions to ask her. These are some of those questions, and her response. In regards to the Book of Mormon Joseph asked:
Question: Had he not a book or manuscript from which he read, or dictated to you? Answer: He had neither manuscript nor book to read from. Question: Could he not have had, and you not know it? Answer: If he had had anything of the kind he could not have concealed it from me. Question: Are you sure that he had the plates at the time you were writing for him? Answer: The plates often lay on the table without any attempt at concealment, wrapped in a small linen tablecloth, which I had given him to fold them in. I once felt of the plates, as they thus lay on the table, tracing their outline and shape. They seemed to be pliable like thick paper, and would rustle with a metallic sound when the edges were moved by the thumb, as one does sometimes thumb the edges of a book.
Question: Could not father have dictated the Book of Mormon to you, Oliver Cowdery and the others who wrote for him, after having first written it, or having first read it out of some book? Answer: Joseph Smith could neither write nor dictate a coherent and well-worded letter, let alone dictate a book like the Book of Mormon. And, though I was an active participant in the scenes that transpired, and was present during the translation of the plates, and had cognizance of things as they transpired, it is marvelous to me, "a marvel and a wonder," as much so as to anyone else.
Question: Mother, what is your belief about the authenticity, or origin, of the Book of Mormon? Answer: My belief is that the Book of Mormon is of divine authenticity - I have not the slightest doubt of it. I am satisfied that no man could have dictated the writing of the manuscripts unless he was inspired; for, when acting as his scribe, your father would dictate to me hour after hour; and when returning after meals, or after interruptions, he could at once begin where he had left off, without either seeing the manuscript or having any portion of it read to him. This was a usual thing for him to do. It would have been improbable that a learned man could do this; and, for one so ignorant and unlearned as he was, it was simply impossible.
Question: What of the truth of Mormonism? Answer: I know Mormonism to be the truth; and believe the Church to have been established by divine direction. I have complete faith in it.
Emma Smith Bidamon passed away just two months later. This testimony was subsequently published by the Reorganized Church October 1, 1879 in the Saints Herald, in Plano, Illinois. Not only does this stand on record as her final witness, but it is a compelling testimony from that very one who knew Joseph Smith better than any other.
Doctrine and Covenants 20:8-36 Scan Doctrine and Covenants 20:17, 29, 30, 31, 35 and mark the phrase we know that Do YOU know that . God lives (verse 17). We are created in the image and likeness of God (verse 18). God gave His Only Begotten Son (verses 21 25). All who believe, are baptized, and endure in faith may be saved (verses 21 25). The Holy Ghost testifies of the Father and the Son (verse 27). The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost work together to prepare us for eternal life (verses 17 28).
THE BOOK OF MORMON CHALLENGE Write a history of ancient Tibet covering a period from 600 B.C. to 450 A.D. (Why ancient Tibet? Because you know no more about Tibet than Joseph Smith knew about ancient America). Your history must be written on the basis of what you now know (there was no library that held information for Joseph Smith). Your history must be 531 pages Your history must be over 300,000 words.
THE BOOK OF MORMON CHALLENGE Other than a few grammatical corrections, you must have no changes in the text. You must describe the history of two cultures, including their religious, economic, political, and social cultures and institutions even the names of their coins. Change your style of writing many times (Many ancient authors contributed to the Book of Mormon, each with his own writing voice).
THE BOOK OF MORMON CHALLENGE You must write fifty-four chapters dealing with wars, twenty-one chapters about history, fifty-five chapters on visions and prophecies, twenty-one chapters on the ministry of Christ. Your record must agree meticulously with the Bible.
THE BOOK OF MORMON CHALLENGE Include authentic modes of travel; description of clothing, crops, mourning customs, and types of government. You must invent 280 new names that will stand up under scrutiny. You will have to properly use similes, metaphors, narrations, exposition, descriptions, oratories and parables. You must invite the ablest scholars and experts to examine the text and try to expose every flaw in it and fail.
THE BOOK OF MORMON CHALLENGE The book must not contain any absurd or contradictory statements. Many theories and ideas as to its origin must arise and they must all fail. You must claim that your knowledge came from divine origin, and this claim must increase to the point where it becomes the only logical explanation.
THE BOOK OF MORMON CHALLENGE For the next 20 years you must watch those that follow you be persecuted, driven, beaten, tortured, starved, frozen and killed. Tens of thousands must undergo the most extreme hardships just because they believe your claims concerning ancient Tibet. You must gain no wealth from your work, but many times lose all that you have. After 20 years of this, give your own life in a very savage and brutal manner, for your testimony concerning your history book.
THE BOOK OF MORMON CHALLENGE Over the next 200 years, over 1 mission competent salesman must be so sold on your book that they gladly give up two or more years of their lives and use their own money to take it to all parts of the world.
THE BOOK OF MORMON CHALLENGE Start right now and produce this record which covers 1,000 years of history, doing it, not in the peaceful atmosphere of your community, but under the most trying of circumstances. Please have your book completed (and talk a friend into mortgaging $60,000 on his home and farm to raise money to have it printed) You have 80 days to finish your work.
THE BOOK OF MORMON Maybe it s not true maybe Joseph Just wrote it???
BOOK OF MORMON EVIDENCES Joseph Smith s Education
BOOK OF MORMON EVIDENCES His mother recalled that, even into his late teens, he seemed much less inclined to the perusal of books than any of the rest of our children. His wife Emma reports that Joseph could neither write nor dictate a coherent and well worded letter, let alone dictate a book like the Book of Mormon. During no part of it did Joseph Smith have any [manuscripts] or book of any kind from which to read or dictate except the metallic plates which I knew he had.
BOOK OF MORMON EVIDENCES I am satisfied that no man could have dictated the writing of the manuscripts unless he was inspired; for, when acting as his scribe, he would dictate to me hour after hour; and when returning after meals, or after interruptions, he would at once begin where he had left off, without either seeing the manuscript or having any portion of it read back to him. For one so ignorant and unlearned as he was, it was simply impossible.
BOOK OF MORMON EVIDENCES Word Print Analysis
BOOK OF MORMON EVIDENCES Researcher John Hilton and non-LDS colleagues at Berkeley first used a variety of control tests with non-disputed authors (e.g. works by Mark Twain) in an effort to demonstrate the persistence of wordprints and to demonstrate that wordprints were not obliterated by translation. Hilton concluded that, if wordprinting is a valid technique, then this analysis suggests that it is "statistically indefensible" to claim that Joseph, Oliver, or Solomon Spaulding wrote the 30,000 words in the Book of Mormon attributed to Nephi and Alma. There is a roughly 1 in 15 trillion chance of Nephi and Alma having the same author.
Doctrine and Covenants 20:8-36 will fortify you against the evils of our day. It will bring a spirituality into your life that no other book will. It will be the most important book you will read in preparation for a mission and for life. A young (person) who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has a abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord (Pres. Benson, C.R., April 1986, 56). The Book of Mormon will change your life. It
