1651: Priesthood Restoration w/ LDS Discussions - 18
Mormon Stories Podcast
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Why Oliver Cowdery Left the Church
"If you admit that you lied to the world, your family's name is mud. You know, your reputation is just destroyed," he says. "So they have very good reason to not want to basically implicate themselves in a con." The mention of Melchizedek is from Hebrew seven, it's not from the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith wasn't thinking about it until after 1834 when Sidney Rigdon came into contact with him. And so to use the 1832 first vision as an addition to the priesthood is using what a late edition would teach later on.
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