Doctrines
Basic Restoration Branch beliefs reaffirm the original RLDS doctrines. The RLDS church holds that Joseph Smith Jr. was succeeded by Joseph Smith III and not by Brigham Young.
The "Epitome of Faith" by Joseph Smith Jr is often cited as a statement of faith and Restoration Branches missionaries typically use the "Go Ye and Teach" slide series.
The "six fundamental principles of the Restored gospel" are often cited as the foundation of traditional RLDS belief. They are found in the sixth chapter of Hebrews in the Bible. They are:
- Faith towards God.
- Repentance
- Baptism of water.
- Laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost. (analogous to confirmation)
- Resurrection of the dead.
- Eternal judgement.
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Famous quotes containing the word doctrines:
“Talent alone can not make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise; holding things because they are things.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The United States is the only great nation whose government is operated without a budget. The fact is to be the more striking when it is considered that budgets and budget procedures are the outgrowth of democratic doctrines and have an important part in developing the modern constitutional rights.... The constitutional purpose of a budget is to make government responsive to public opinion and responsible for its acts.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)