Comments on: The Great Apostasy and the Restoration

By: rachel

rachel — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:59:50 +0000

In reply to Warren Hunt. In Deuteronomy 4:2 it says, "Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it" Just as in Revelations. And yet, Revelations was written after Deuteronomy, as was over half of the Bible. Taken out of context one could get confused, but when he says this book he literally just means the book of Revelations. Just as in Deuteronomy it just means the Book of Deuteronomy.

By: Warren Hunt

Warren Hunt — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 01:54:24 +0000

I thought it all ended with Revelation Capter 22:

[18] For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
[19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Doesn’t this warning from the WORD, make the LDS paradigm false?

By: SR

SR — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:52:53 +0000

Lou,
The apostasy is evidenced in the New Testament as the apostles are rejected and slain and Christ’s church slowly disintegrates. You can’t think about it as if it were WWII–it doesn’t have a date of initiation. The evidence is that the New Testament books and revelations ceased. Had Christ’s church continued to exist and function under the leadership and structure that He established during his ministry, then we woudl almost certainly have more biblical records after the New Testament. By apostasy, it means that, instead, many of Christ’s and His apostles’ teachings were taken and interpreted in different ways without the authority and foundation that Christ had bestowed before his final departure. It wasn’t even until the 4th century that church leaders congregated in an open forum (Nicea) to discuss what Christianity actually was. Do you think something like that would have been at all necessary if Christ was still leading the church through His apostles/prophets? In short, no. Sadly, the church Christ had established had long since passed–beginning with the murdering of its apostles.

By: Steven Leaird

Steven Leaird — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:30:06 +0000

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By: Gale

Gale — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:33:35 +0000

Christ, Paul and others predicted the great apostasy. The apostasy was occurring even while the apostles were traveling around the seven churches, as recorded in the epistles. Philosophies of the Gnostics, Nicolaitians, etc., were already creeping into doctrine, and the apostles were constantly trying to correct the congregations. When the apostles were martyred or died, more of Greek philosophy and other human thought began to corrupt the pure gospel of Christ. For more on the “great apostasy,” you can go to the following site. http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/basic/gospel/restoration/smith_apostasy.htm

By: Lou Sanchez

Lou Sanchez — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:49:14 +0000

When did the “Great Apostasy” occur? I would like to know the date. Christ established a Church and I would like to know the year in which it fell into apostasy and who the people were that caused it to fall into apostasy. Was this in the 1st century? 2nd century? or 3rd etc? Please give me the year when this occured. Who was involved (names) in this “Great Apostasy”? Are any of the poeple mentioned in the New Testament Bible apostate Christians. This is a very important part that is missing from your apostacy teaching. God bless you. Lou

By: Gale

Gale — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:51:43 +0000

Thanks for this question, Steve. All the apostles knew there would be a “falling away” before Christ would come again. But Christ was not referring to the earthly church as it stood, but to the eternal gospel — God’s plan of salvation for His children. The eternal gospel was established before this earth was created and will go on eternally. Nothing can prevail against it. How we on earth accept or reject it does not affect that truth. The Church Christ founded upon the rock of revelation and the eternal gospel will always exist, but the early Christian church on earth foundered when it lost its apostles and prophets (who got their information and authority directly from the Lord). Men began to counsel with themselves to legislate doctrine. The result is thousands of Christian churches, all with differing beliefs and organizations. We believe the Lord has restored the original authority and reveals truths through direct revelation. There is no doctrine in the Mormon Church that has not been known and taught by all the prophets and apostles anciently.