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Peter Whitmer Sr. (April 14, 1773 – August 12, 1854) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement, and father of the movement's second founding family. Whitmer was born in Pennsylvania and married Mary Elsa Musselman. The Whitmers had eight children together: Christian, Jacob, John, David, Catherine, Peter Jr., Nancy
This chapter has the most controversial difference between the Book of Commandments and the Doctrine and Covenants. 29: 10: 29 30: 51: 28 31-33: 52: 30 Short revelations to David Whitmer, Peter Whitmer Jr. and John Whitmer combined into one chapter. It concerns missionary work to the "Lamanites" 34: 53: 31 35: 55: 33 36: 56: 34 37: 11: 35 38: ...
In 1835, the book was printed and published under the title Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God. A copy of the Doctrine and Covenants from NASA photographer M. Edward Thomas traveled to the moon and back in 1972 with astronaut John Young aboard Apollo 16. [5]
Marquardt argues that the event described by Whitmer in 1887 bears more resemblance to Fayette meetings such as the founding of the church's Fayette branch five days later on April 11, 1830. [30] The largest successor organization to the Church of Christ, the LDS Church, accepts Fayette as the official location of the organizing meeting. [31]
The Three Witnesses as depicted by Edward Hart, 1883: Oliver Cowdery (top), David Whitmer (left), and Martin Harris (right) The Three Witnesses is the collective name for three men connected with the early Latter Day Saint movement who stated that an angel had shown them the golden plates from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon; [1] they also stated that they had heard God's ...
Community of Christ's Doctrine and Covenants continues to contain documents that declare that the church is the one true church. [ 79 ] Today, Community of Christ generally refers to Joseph Smith's First Vision as the "grove experience" and takes a flexible view about its historicity, [ 80 ] emphasizing the healing presence of God and the ...
Cowdery and most of the Whitmer family in Fayette became alarmed, however, when they learned that Smith had added a phrase to the "Articles and Covenants of the Church of Christ", [169] requiring good works as a prerequisite for baptism, and Cowdery commanded Smith to retract the added phrase. [188]
Book of Doctrine and Covenants: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God and Given in the Order of their Dates, Herald Publishing House: Independence, MO, 2000. Scherer, Mark A. (2016). The Journey of a People: The Era of Worldwide Community, 1945 to 2015. Independence, Missouri: Community of Christ Seminary Press. ISBN 978-0-830-91656-6