The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in 1830. In 1820 14-year-old Joseph Smith declared that in search of the truth about God, he prayed in a secluded grove. He testified in an article describing his experience in 1832 that God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in answer to that prayer. Since that day additional claims of visitations from angels, including one that showed him where an ancient record was stored and that he would translate. The Book of Mormon came forth as another testament of Jesus Christ. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established in 1830. For the next fourteen years until 1844, he revealed doctrines that had been lost to Christendom after the death of Jesus and his apostles. He was God's prophet to restore authority to act in God's name and reestablish the Savior's church in preparation for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. On April 7, 1844, a few months before he was murdered he spoke in conjunct
The morality of the sixties and seventies inspired a generation of disdain for the morals of previous generations. Or so it seems. History documents to some degree the moral shortcomings of all ages. We can, however, see the trends of modern culture and weigh their effects. Somewhere in the mix, the slogan "God is Dead" came about. It was as if people could do whatever they wanted and somehow there were no negative consequences, at least not right away. And that is what these trendsetters wanted others to think as well. Christian apologists have battled backed through the ages with countermeasures, and in recent decades with slogans of their own. One we've heard in modern times is that "God is not Dead". The scholarly thinkers, and Biblical apologists, keep busy creating a palatable narrative that would help keep the contradictions found in classical theology from becoming subjects of discussion among believers. Their principal approach is to remind bel