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.
Read more about this topic: Restoration Branches
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)
“To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
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—Frances Wright (1795–1852)