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Joseph Smith And His Apostasy And Restoration Culture, Trevan Hatch
Joseph Smith And His Apostasy And Restoration Culture, Trevan Hatch
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Jesus Christ told Joseph Smith Jr. in the spring of 1820 that he must not join any church because they were all wrong: "all their creeds are an abomination in my sight .... Their hearts are far from me [and] they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of Godliness but they deny the power thereo£" This commandment prohibiting Joseph from joining a church due to corruption will be discussed at length in this chapter.