Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days: The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846 (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
In 1820, a young farm boy in search of truth has a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Three years later, an angel guides him to an ancient record buried in a hill near his home. With God’s help, he translates the record and organizes the Savior’s church in the latter days. Soon others join him, accepting the invitation to become Saints through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
But opposition and violence follow those who defy old traditions to embrace restored truths. The women and men who join the church must choose whether or not they will stay true to their covenants, establish Zion, and proclaim the gospel to a troubled world.
The Standard of Truth is the first book in Saints, a new, four-volume narrative history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Fast-paced, meticulously researched, Saints recounts true stories of Latter-day Saints across the globe and answers the Lord’s call to write history “for the good of the church, and for the rising generations” (Doctrine and Covenants 69:8).
Customer Reviews
Incredible New Direction For a LDS Church Book
I am one of the rare lot who, before the rise of the internet, had read and studied many of the “warts” in the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I would sit quietly in Church meetings and bite my tongue as the “history” was taught. Or, more often now, tried to console a friend who had read the “CES Letter”.
This book, while still putting the best “IRI” shine on the darker moments, brings all of those once unmentionable scenes right to the front and treats them with honesty and clarity that I have not seen from the Church my entire life.
Too bad my father didn’t live to see this day. It was he, after a life of struggling with his own doubts brought about by the Church’s previous stance of silencing those who would question, who said “we cannot judge the acts of people who lived in the 19th Century with a 21st Century understanding”.
It is written at a 9th grade reading level, but nonetheless it is engrossing and informative. I am told you can go straight to the source documents in the online version.
I highly recommend this book for those going through a faith crisis who want better answers to the criticism and accusations. Are the answers perfect? No, and no character in the history of this organization or any other, save Jesus himself, was ever perfect. But in their imperfections I find solace and inspiration.
For those who just want to criticize, and stand at the door and throw a tantrum, don’t waste your time reading this book. Get to getting out the door. I love you, but I’m tired of your whining.
Hell, the book was so good, I may reconsider my self imposed exile from the flock.
- WyoBlackSheep
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