Category: LDS Membership
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LDS Church Ordains Two New Apostles
By Sandra Tanner With the death of two apostles this year the LDS Church was faced with the need to find two replacements. In spite of the fact that at least one third of the LDS Church membership is Latin American, the church turned to a North American and a German, both of whom are…
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Facts on the Mormon Church
By Sandra Tanner In 1830 six men met to organize the Church of Christ, later renamed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (see Doctrine and Covenants 115:3-5). At the end of 2003 the LDS Church claimed 11,985,254 members with 56,237 missionaries. The LDS Church operates 116 temples throughout the world. Even though there…
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10,000,000 Mormons?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1967 the LDS Church glowingly predicted reaching 10,000,000 members by the year 2000. But serious problems underlying their faith claims have remained to this day, such as evidence that Joseph Smith plagiarized material for the Book of Mormon that was supposedly received by revelation. The Mormon Church leaders now…
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A Testing Time?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The following statement appeared in an article in Time Magazine: Outwardly secure and successful, the unique religion created by Joseph Smith and carried to Utah by Brigham Young is none the less at a testing time. Much as in the churches of mainstream Christianity, Mormonism is being prodded out of…