Preserving the Restoration, by Denver C. Snuffer Jr.
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There is currently a groundswell of change taking place in Mormonism. Various denominations, including the largest sect, the LDS Church headquartered in Salt Lake City, are confronting serious questions about the truthfulness of their claims to be the "one true" religion. This book deals with many important events and teachings of the restoration through Joseph Smith. Any who either believe or dispute that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and any who are interested in or are participating in the various denominations of Mormonism will benefit from this book. Joseph Smith founded a religion intended to revolutionize the world. He was restoring ancient truths that were lost through apostasy and endeavoring to guide its adherents in establishing a New Jerusalem in the Americas. None of the various Mormon denominations, from the largest to the smallest, have been faithful to Joseph Smith or his revelations, and therefore have little chance of accomplishing the prophesied promises. This book discusses the earliest roots of Mormonism. It relies extensively on early Mormon documents, diaries, journals, contemporary correspondence and contemporary news sources to trace back to the beginning of the Mormon faith. It examines the social, legal and political influences that have reshaped key doctrines in Mormonism. It is an expansion of many of the subjects Denver Snuffer has already written or spoken about in his other materials.
Preserving the Restoration, by Denver C. Snuffer Jr.- Amazon Sales Rank: #284607 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-02
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.29" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 572 pages
About the Author This is the 15th book written by Denver C. Snuffer, Jr. on the subject of Mormonism. A graduate of Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School, he has been a lawyer for 35 years and is presently practicing in Sandy, Utah. He has been a student of LDS Mormonism for more than 40 years. He was a gospel doctrine teacher for 30 years, served in bishoprics, elder's quorum presidencies, and served on a high council. He has taught at BYU Church Education Week, taught graduate Institute classes at the University of Utah, and has presented papers at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City. He was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for writing Passing the Heavenly Gift. He remains loyal to Mormonism and continues to practice it as his private faith independent of an institution. Some wrongly regard him as an LDS critic. Instead he is interested in discovering the best information and truest accounts of Mormon origins. When this conflicts or contradicts modern practice, he truthfully tries to understand past events even when painful. Although his work has been criticized by LDS Mormons, it has not been used by Mormon critics to attack the LDS Church. He writes to promote faith in the truth about Mormonism. Faith cannot be grounded in a lie. Denver Snuffer explains how the growing trend of practicing independent Mormonism will be the means of fulfilling the faith's original destiny.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful. The Lord has set His hand the second time... By Chad S. Clark This book might best be summed up as, how to prepare for Zion, and how to survive the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is the finest record I have ever read on the subject. Any believer in Christ will benefit from this book, whether they be Mormon, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, or Catholic, etc… Even non-Christians should consider this book to understand Christ and His gospel.This book has stirred in me two things. The desire to repent, and the desire to seek Christ. I would encourage all to read this book with an open heart and consider the words carefully. Ask God for the truth. He will answer. (James 1:5)The ideas that this book presents will challenge you. It forces your mind to consider actually attempting to live the teachings of Christ. It challenges you to live the sermon on the Mount. What a challenge. How inspiring.Snuffer clarifies many teachings that Mormonism has not fully understood since the death of Joseph Smith. If you want to better understand: Faith, and how to obtain salvific faith. The Holy Ghost, what it is, and how it relates to you and your connection to God. Repentance, and what is actually required for you to repent. Covenants, and how you can obtain a covenant from God. Salvation, what it truly means to become a son or daughter of God. Priesthood, finally an understanding on what priesthood is about! Zion, what it is, what is required, and what it will take to achieve Zion. Zion will come.Snuffers discourse on Christ is the finest chapter in the whole book. It sheds light on the teachings that Joseph Smith was just beginning to expound months before his death in 1844. Joseph taught in “Lectures on Faith,” "[F]or salvation consists in the glory, authority, majesty, power and dominion which Jehovah possesses, and in nothing else; and no being can possess it but himself or one like him:" Also, Joseph taught, "The scriptures inform us that Jesus said, as the Father hath power in himself, even so hath the Son power—to do what? Why, what the Father did. The answer is obvious—in a manner to lay down his body and take it up again… you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation" This chapter alone is worth the price of the book. Eternal progression is explained, and now I understand the challenge before me. Christ truly is the prototype of the saved man.More clarification comes regarding what is required to come unto Christ. Snuffers way of expounding the scriptures is unmatched. It will challenge your paradigm and your traditions. If you let it, it will stir a desire for repentance, and give you hope to seek Christ.Perhaps the most immediate chapter that benefited me was the 10th about marriage and family. I learned so much about Adam and Eve and how it relates to me and my family. I have already seen a difference in my actions regarding my wife and my children. Indeed it inspires good.Finally, Snuffer lays out the groundwork for Mormonisms future destiny. This religion (not church) was intended to sweep the earth and be revolutionary. This book will revolutionize the world because of how beautifully it remembers the restoration through Joseph Smith and so strongly points to Christ and none else. The religion that Joseph Smith restored to the earth does not belong to an institutional church. It belongs to the whole world. By reading this book you will understand what Joseph Smith was actually trying to accomplish. He has been so misunderstood, even by his successors, and Snuffers work now stands alone as the definitive work on the subject.This book is a call to all who will hear. A light has broken forth among those who sit in darkness. A shoot has sprung up from the stock of Jesse and a branch from its graft bears fruit. Praise the Lord.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A Critically Important Work By Litigator I waited several weeks after finishing this book before posting a review. The subject matter is of such deep importance and the topics are so wide-ranging that I felt I should take some additional time considering the book's message before offering my review.This book deserves to be widely read by all who are interested in the restoration of the Gospel begun through the Lord's servant, Joseph Smith. Preserving the Restoration is an expansion on a series of lectures given by Denver in 2013 and 2014 at various venues within the so-called "Mormon corridor" in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and western Colorado. The chapter titles are deceptively simple: Faith, Repentance, Covenants, Priesthood, Zion, etc. However, the contents of each of the chapters, while not claiming to exhaustively treat any of the subjects, provide detailed and in-depth discussions which even well-informed students of LDS scripture and the teachings of Joseph Smith are bound to encounter something new or which will shed new light and insights into important yet less considered truths found within the Gospel of Jesus Christ.An example of this is evident in Denver's treatment of Joseph Smith's largely ignored and decanonized series of lectures on the subject of faith (The Lectures on Faith). Denver has provided a valuable service in examining how these vital lectures were carefully prepared and vouched for by Joseph Smith and were then canonized as scripture by the body of the church, comprising the "Doctrine" section of the 1835 edition of the Doctrine & Covenants. Denver also chronicles how in 1921 the Lectures on Faith were removed from the Doctrine & Covenants without a vote before the general body of the church by a committee of church leaders who assumed that Joseph Smith - the prophet they accepted as having stood in God's presence - had an incorrect understanding of God's character, perfections and attributes. The irony of this action taken by the 1921 church committee is that Joseph Smith taught in his third lecture on faith that a correct idea of God's character, perfections and attributes are necessary in order to "exercise faith in God unto life and salvation."Denver's purpose in publishing this book is, at least in part, an effort to get believers in the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ to look backward and remember what God has already revealed through Joseph Smith, even though much of what was revealed has been forgotten by "the saints" today. Until we remember and live according to what God has already chosen to reveal, there is no reason for more to be given.Personally, I found Denver's treatment of the subject of Covenants to be fascinating and light-filled. It is generally unappreciated what a significant role Joseph Smith played in restoring to us a knowledge of the covenants God has made with "the fathers" (Biblical patriarchs) and how those covenants are of great significance to those who seek to be a part of the family of God. In my estimation, Denver convincingly argues that Joseph Smith was the prophesied "choice seer" referenced in 2 Nephi 3:7 and in the Joseph Smith Translation of Genesis 50.This book can be viewed as a mercy from the Lord, offering those who value the scriptures brought to light through Joseph Smith an opportunity to awake to our present-day apostasy, to repent of our idolatry, and to rise up and make our own individual connection with the Lord Jesus Christ. This book is also a testimony from the author that Jesus is the Lord and Savior of the world and that He is no respecter of persons, but instead invites all to come unto Him. The history of the LDS church's disregard, neglect, and perversion of Gospel truths and Gospel ordinances is not the point of the book. However, I could not help but notice again and again the stark contrasts between the Gospel set forth in the scriptures and in the teachings of Joseph Smith, and the current state of affairs in the LDS church.The final chapter of Preserving the Restoration will be challenging for most readers, especially LDS readers who have been raised in a hierarchy-saturated religious culture. For many readers, the idea that the LDS church could fall into apostasy is unthinkable. However, despite protestations from subsequent church leaders from Wilford Woodruff down to the present time claiming that they cannot lead the membership astray, there is no such scriptural assurance. Instead, if we actually believe Christ, we accept His warning of Gentile pride and apostasy (3 Nephi 16:10) and He foretold that He would bring the fullness of His Gospel from among the Gentiles. Denver's treatment of God's house as a house of order is worth serious consideration: "God's house is a house of order, but that does not mean what many of us think it means. God follows patterns. He establishes and ordains things according to one pattern, and then takes them down again according to another. He does not vary. There is no guarantee that when He establishes a house at a certain point in time, that the house will not rebel, reject Him, and then be rejected by Him at another time. Just because God undertakes a work does not mean it will remain forever. Just because He ordains it does not mean that, when He deems necessary, He cannot abandon it to begin something more. He follows a pattern and that is the house of order." (Pgs. 481-82).Readers of this work will have to prayerfully consider for themselves whether God has in fact set forth His hand again to bring to pass His covenants and purposes, and has begun something more.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Christ is open for anyone to come to Him. Its not too late. By Brian T Bowler Pure truth. Heaven is open for anyone to access. Christ doesn't employ anyone eles at the gate. I am grateful for this message and testify its true.
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