We believe that priesthood authority was no longer with the early church following the death of the apostles — and it took revelation from God to restore that authority to the earth.
Joseph Smith received that priesthood authority under the hands of John the Baptist and Peter, James and John who acted under the direction of Jesus Christ.
“We believe that priesthood authority was no longer with the early church following the death of the apostles “
Every believer is a priest and together a kingdom of priests. The church never needed “restoring”.
You claim it did.
Please prove your claims. You have lots of provin’ to do!
1. That priesthood authority was vested in the Apostles.
2. That the death of the Apostles happened before authority was passed on to others.
3. That every believer- man and woman- is not a priest as Scripture claims.
4. That the scammer Smith actually saw anything he claimed.
Well... Let’s see something to back up your claims... Where’s the beef?!
(Yeah, we know, you think the gates of hell DID prevail against Jesus' church...making him out to be an outright liar...and that God didn't receive glory in the church thruout all generations...making the apostle Paul out to be a false prophet (Eph. 3:21)...
So Jesus could sustain the world but not His church, eh?
So Joseph Smith could sustain his Lds church, but Jesus could sustain his, eh?
So the Lds general authorities all have gone on the prophetic record saying God would never allow his current Lds prophets & the church to go astray, but that same God would allow past apostles & Jesus' church to go astray?
Outright double standard hypocrisy.