Vaughn J. Featherstone (left) takes in a 2009 Young Men’s address by LdS President Thomas S. Monson. Add to this the fact that there are yet other “first vision” accounts dictated by Joseph between 1831-32 and 1838, once again supposedly detailing this keystone Mormon event, each of which tells a story different in critical details to the others, and what do you have? Since when is one who seeks to make others aware of the truth called an “enemy”? And I wept in anguish of soul as I saw myself for what I am, a sinner separated from God. Is your life free from transgression? During the summer of 1982 my wife and I received the following unsolicited letter from Vaughn J. Featherstone, a member of the LDS First Quorum of the Seventy in Salt Lake City. Could it be their confidence is just a bit shaken in the face of such a proof positive way of testing their “prophet”? etc. If we look to Mormon scripture alone we find that there remained on earth throughout the centuries at least four men who can surely be said to hold the same level of authority that an Elder in the Mormon Church claims to hold. The letter is addressed to twenty-first century members of the Church and is written with the expectation that these future Saints will have been alive for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. He said Joseph Smith could have produced the book on his own given his demonstrated native intelligence, his knack for storytelling, the access he had to the wealth of “common knowledge” surrounding the native inhabitants of these lands, and the doubtless access he had to Ethan Smith’s “View of the Hebrews,” the earlier volume that so closely parallels, in ways not attributable to mere chance, the Book of Mormon. Photo by Ravell Call, Deseret News. Where does the Nazarene Church pastor receive his authority? 29:38-44 & Heb. In fact, some of these verses do not even refer to the church. Roberts. “As long as one Elder remains on earth today, he would have the priesthood and could organize the church even though all of the apostles and first presidency, etc., were killed off” (Latter Day Prophets Speak, p. 213). Strange when you think about it. Until some time after discovering grandfather’s old D.&.C., we maintained a rather ordinary family profile in the church. Vaughn J. Featherstone 47 East South Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150. Also, all the other officers including evangelists (patriarchs). Salt Lake City, UT 84150. Once each year He went into the “Most Holy Place” to offer blood sacrifice for himself and for the sins of the people (Ex. Your normal thoroughness would dictate this. 3:11). On the other hand true followers of Christ “enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh” (Heb. In this essay, I examine this document to understand its limitations for the argument Montemayor makes. Mormon scripture itself denies the very concept of “total apostasy.” In 3 Nephi 28, and D&C Section 7, we find the stories of John the Apostle and the three Nephites. Why had my grandfather, a Seventy and a well-respected missionary for the local church, been taught that “God is a Spirit,” if in fact Joseph Smith had learned that God is not a Spirit being but a “glorified man” many years before the Mormon church was founded? Persons who have claimed far less elevated gifts of prophecy than Joseph Smith have compiled much better records of fulfillment in their predictions than he did. If as Mormons claim the Book of Mormon contains “the fullness” of the everlasting gospel (D&C 20:9; 27:5; 42:12; and P. of G.P. I want to spend a few minutes with you Brother Featherstone, exploring an issue you raised early on in your letter. And the commission of these men is said to be that of bringing souls to Christ until He returns (adding these souls to the true Church). It seems that if people can be kept busy enough in an organization to insure that they have neither the time nor the inclination to seek to inform themselves in more depth than is “authorized” as to the true nature of the system, then control is rather easy. Isaiah 2:2-3 You know where the mountain of the Lord’s house is. Opening my heart to the saving Truth of God’s word, I ask Christ into my life as Savior and Lord. Following is our response to Vaughn J. Featherstone’s letter (which comprised Part 1 of this 2-Part series) Tempe, Arizona where the author lives. I praise the Lord Jesus with all my heart and soul for His ongoing work in and through me. Do not fail. Jesus never gave this Priesthood to anyone.

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