THE REAL STORY OF THE MORMON CHURCH: Everything You Need to Know About the Book of Mormon, Brief Theological Introductions, Its Commentary, Study Guide and Other Interesting Facts Made Easier

By kelly clifford

Joseph Smith—he's someone I know well. He's the author of a worldview that I held for most of my life.

I taught it to hundreds of people when I was a missionary. It's a religion and a gospel that I deeply believed in. One full of hope, meaning, community, and unique stories. Stories about where we came from and where we're going.

Let me show you what Joseph Smith built and how he did it. How a non-religious, uneducated kid in upstate New York created a global movement that would gather huge numbers of followers in a very short time... who were pushed out from town to town, often with violence.

I want to show you how these people held onto the vision and mission that Joseph Smith taught—the building of a new utopian society, one founded on celestial laws, one that was preparing for the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ.

So let me tell you the story of Joseph Smith, the Mormon church, and how that church and her mission still exist today.
  
  
See you inside.
Clifford M. Kelly.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clifford M. Kelly
• Release date: Jan 28, 2024
• ISBN: 9791223001103

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THE REAL STORY OF

THE MORMON CHURCH

Everything You Need to Know About the Book of Mormon, Brief Theological Introductions, Its Commentary, Study Guide and Other Interesting Facts Made Easier

By

Clifford M. Kelly

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2024 by Clifford M. Kelly

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Printed in the United States of America

TABLE OF CONTENT

Introduction

How It All Started

The Second Appearance

The Book of Mormon

The Rise of the Prophet

The Mormon Movement

The Discovery of Zion

The Zion Substitute

The End but Not the End

My Thoughts On Mormonism

Conclusion

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INTRODUCTION

Joseph Smith was born in the perfect place at the perfect time. It was the early 1800s and the U.S. had just thrown off England to become a new country, and it was going through some massive growing pains.

Most of these new Americans who had just left the old world, rejected a lot of old world things, namely religion. Only 10% of white Americans regularly attended church at this time. So to help revive God, you have all these super charismatic preachers who left the cities and went out to the countryside to preach. And this led to an explosion of religious thought, especially in upstate New York.

So you have all these like hyper reformist religions that were replacing old style, authoritarian type churches. All these new wild religious flavors that were more emotional, expressive and personal.

None of us were alive at this time, but you can imagine this brand new country, founded on these new ideals.