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There are additional replicas of this statue in several other LDS Visitors' Centers, including those at the Mesa Arizona, [7] Los Angeles California, [8] the Washington D.C., [9] and Laie Hawaii temples. [10] The LDS Church commonly uses images of the statue in official church media, such as the Internet site churchofjesuschrist.org.
The D&C teaches that "all things must be done in order, and by common consent in the church". [11] This applies to adding new scripture. LDS Church president Harold B. Lee taught "The only one authorized to bring forth any new doctrine is the President of the Church, who, when he does, will declare it as revelation from God, and it will be so accepted by the Council of the Twelve and sustained ...
The first building to have ordinance rooms, designed to conduct the Endowment, was Joseph Smith's store in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842.Using canvas, Smith divided the store's large, second-floor room into "departments," which represented "the interior of a temple as much as circumstances would permit" (Anderson & Bergera, Quorum of Anointed, 2).
God the Father and Jehovah together created the physical bodies of Adam and Eve, which were patterned after the physical body possessed by God. Michael's spirit was placed in the male body (Adam), and a spirit daughter of God was placed in the female body (Eve). Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden.
"The angels do not reside on a planet like this Earth; but they reside in the presence of God, on a globe like a sea of glass and fire, where all things for their glory are manifest, past, present, and future, and are continually before the Lord. The place where God resides is a great Urim and Thummim.
The LDS edition of the Bible is a version of the Bible published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The text of the LDS Church's English-language Bible is the King James Version, its Spanish-language Bible is a revised Reina-Valera translation, and its Portuguese-language edition is based on the Almeida translation.
In the LDS Church it is also called the fulness of the priesthood, and is a rare, but currently practiced ordinance for live participants, [28] [29] [30] and (less commonly) vicariously for deceased individuals, [31] though, it is usually only given in absolute secrecy to a small number of members after a lifetime of service. [32]
The publication states that it was "designed to provide teachers and students with a concise collection of definitions and explanations of items that are mentioned in or are otherwise associated with the Bible." [2] The LDS Bible Dictionary was created in the 1970s by the Scriptures Publications Committee of the LDS Church. [3]