*** but it is too bad he is not familiar with this site http://www.traces-of-the-kingdom.org/
clearing indicates that the church was active prior to “the restoration movement”***
Don’t rest on your laurels. In the early 1800’s there was a man who wrote a book proving that the BAPTIST church could trace it’s existance back to the time of Christ.
The author...ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.
Another interesting fact:
A very influential individual in the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement and helped out significantly in the creation of the CoC was Sidney Rigdon, who became estranged from Campbell fils, and then moved over to the Mormons and, it is suspected, contributed more to the theology of the LDS than did Joseph Smith.