Apostasy

Question 1

“This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now”

Answer 1

Orson Pratt,

Journal of Discourses,

Vol. 18: P. 44

Question 2

“But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be …But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance”

Answer 2

Journal of Discourses,

Vol. 18: P. 172

Question 3

A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ”.

Answer 3

James Talmage,

A Study of the Articles of Faith

P. 182

Question 4

“Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness.”

Answer 4

President Joseph Fielding Smith

Doctrines of Salvation

P. 266

Question 5

“For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation …Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the ‘Christian’ churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men”

Answer 5

Doctrines of Salvation

Vol. 3: P. 282

Question 6

“Apostasy was universal…And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel”

Answer 6

Bruce R. McConkie,

Doctrines of Salvation

Vol 3: P. 265

Question 7

Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. .

How could there glory in the Church - throughout all ages if the Church ceased to exist and needed to be restored?

Answer 7

Ephesians 3:21

Question 8

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Answer 8

Matthew 28:18, 19, 20

Question 9

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

I find it odd that Jesus could over come the world but he couldn’t keep his church together.

Answer 9

John 16:33