Urim and Thummim or rock/stone?Eight section headings (3,6,7,11, 14-17) in the Doctrine and Covenants report that the Urim & Thummim was used for the receiving of the revelation. The average LDS member would likely assume that the Urim & Thummim mentioned is the spectacle version that ...
The Word of Wisdom is a dietary code with many head-scratching restrictions, squishy provisos, and openly flouted prohibitions. Don’t take my word for it; read the original passed on to the world via Joseph Smith in 1833 in Doctrine and Covenants section 89, available at http://www.lds...
This article presents pedagogic principles prescribed in the text of theDoctrine and Covenants, a foundational book of scripture from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Following a qualitative, thematic analysis of the text, we organized the data into seven themes: character of God ...