tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31320843.post2559141401095960099..comments2023-07-06T02:44:56.798-07:00Comments on Joel's Monastery: D&C Lesson 9: The Only True and Living Churchrameumptomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109035792711248691noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31320843.post-82353320844914516732013-03-17T07:46:13.387-07:002013-03-17T07:46:13.387-07:00Regarding what I noted on D&C 20:1, it came fr...Regarding what I noted on D&C 20:1, it came from some comments from Royal Skousen and a few others involved in the project, where we find that verse 1 was actually a heading written by the scribe.rameumptomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16109035792711248691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31320843.post-39725320435708206492013-03-16T19:10:09.548-07:002013-03-16T19:10:09.548-07:00With the new Joseph Smith Papers Project, we now s...<i> With the new Joseph Smith Papers Project, we now see that D&C 20: was not intended to be part of the revelation initially, but was an introduction to the section provided by John Whitmer, the scribe.</i><br /><br />I'm curious for some pointers to the basis of the above statement. I have the facsimile Manuscript Revelations book from the JSP, and it isn't clear to me that the first part of D&C 20 was a later addition.<br /><br />Where else should I be looking?Doxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11229489025173839494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31320843.post-33944182970765010492013-03-10T18:15:39.603-07:002013-03-10T18:15:39.603-07:00The Church is living only if it is producing the f...The Church is living only if it is producing the fruit of the Kingdom: redeemed souls, having been sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost through their faith in the <br />Savior and the repentance of all their sins.<br /><br />The Church is true only if it abides in Christ: "This is my gospel—repentance and baptism by water, and then cometh the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost, even the Comforter, which showeth all things, and teacheth the peaceable things of the kingdom (D&C 39:6)."<br /><br />If it should fail to be either of these, it will no longer be true and living.Jared Liveseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10309044282039536254noreply@blogger.com