Why the Restored Church?

Restored Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter Day Saints

PERHAPS the question should be why not RESTORED? First of all, it is well known that the Reoriganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints began to enter a period of rapid change around fifty years ago and that change continues to do this very day. Thus, it proved necessary for the Seventy to act.

Thus, a group of about fifty seventy began meeting in 1992 and they then called themselves the Restored Seventy and was under the direction of Benjamin O. Larson who later would become the first prophet/president of the Restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

I guess it first of all should be noted that many people believe that we are "Mormon" and they also assume that because of our name, we have broken from the Mormon Church. Neither of these assumptions are true. First, we are not "Mormon" and second, we are not nor ever have been of the Mormon Church. We have left the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day as is explained further on this website.

President Larson and others felt that it was time for the Seventy to act in their official role as the Doctrine and Covenants reveal to lead the Church back on course and to call the Church back to order. But because the Church had already by then become so far removed from the way it had been created, it was clear that the only solution would to become the Church that Jesus Christ wanted for us to become.

Later, the second prophet/president, David Olsen had said that "our commission should always be to declare that this Church is satisfactory only when it is based upon all that has been revealed and those things never are to be changed or tampored with."

Yet this is what the RLDS did do. They began changing doctrines and many other areas which totally brought the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints into complete apostasy. Some of those things include:

--Redefining Zion, repudiating God's unchangeability, revising scriptures, refusing latter day scripture, re-examining the role of the Church, rejecting the apostasy, reinterpreting prophecy, readjusting moral and Christian ethical values, revising priesthood, regulating priesthood, rejecting closed communion, and rewording the communion prayers.

All of these things we viewed constituted the beginning of apostasy. Thus, it became needful that the Seventy begin to take appropriate action.

Christ himself had warned that there would be those who would seek to change the gospel as He had originally taught and he so he said that they would be "ravening wolves" (Matt. 7:24) and that some would be teaching the "doctrines and commandments of men"(Matt. 15:8), instead of what he had personally taught. The apostles further also repeated those warnings with Peter telling that "There shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in abominable heresies" (2 Peter 2:1). Jude had said that some men who, after creeping in unawares, would turn "the grace of our God into lasiviousness"(Jude 1:4). Paul also had warned that "some that trouble you, and would pervert he gospel of Christ"(Gal. 1:7) and adominished us that "If any many preach any other gospel unto than that ye have received, let him be accursed."(Gal. 1:9)

Thus, just as those early Christians were entering apostasy, we also have seen the same things again in our day. It is often said that history repeats itself. Clearly here, we have seen history again repeating itself.

Tertullian had written about 210 A.D. that any tent or practice which was not rooted upon what Jesus had taught is clearly false and thus he wrote that "All doctrine must be prejudged as false which savours of cf contrrariety to the truth of the churches and apostles of Christ and of God"(Chapter 23). He further then concluded that the Rule of Faith had helped combat the spread of heresies which would creep in.

So then, if Jesus is indeed God's divine Son, then it is obvious that he was the perfect instructor and that we would do well to heed to all that Christ had instituted into the very Church of which bears the name of Christ.

In like manner, if Joseph Smith has indeed restored the very gospel of Jesus Christ as was taught by him and the first apostles, and if his divinely appointed successor, Joseph Smith III had further instituted those very doctrines within the Reorganized Church, then it means that any changes to those teachings and constitution of the church as was restored and reorganized is a clear departure from the very faith. Joseph III had thus stated that "If in the history of any church, anything out of harmony with or antagonistic to that constitution is introduced, or a change is sought to be made in the creed and government, which his opposed and rested, or denied by any of the members of the church, that portion of the membership that remains in adherence to the faith as it was before the change was attempted or made is the church."(The Rejection of the Church), 5-6).

Thus, today, there was the need to bring the membership that wanted to be adherent to the truths as they were before the changes began into one fold and to help them to become the "Church of Jesus Christ" that they once where.

Thus, President Larson, who's ancestory is on his father's side back to Joseph Smith, Jr., and further, President Larson's grandson, David Olsen where truly commanded to make sure that this work was to be carried forth in its truthfulness and true light.

When I had received my calling to be the next prophet/president from Brother Olsen's hand when he named me the successor, it was because of my lineage.

Truly the Church has again been Reauthorized by the hand of Jesus Christ through the Seventy who sought to bring the Church back into order. While there are many others who have also sought the same, they have failed in the completeness because they have not the authority and some of them are doing just the same as was done in the RLDS.

It is our sincere prayer that after reading this, you desire more, then continue to check back at this website as we will continue to add more to this information for you to learn the truths of which are found within the Reauthorization.

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