Mary was more blessed in accepting the faith of Christ than in conceiving the flesh of Christ. To someone who said, 'Blessed is the womb that bore you,' [Jesus] replied, 'Rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.' Finally, for His brothers, His relatives according to the flesh who did not believe in Him, of what advantage was that relationship? Even her maternal relationship would have done Mary no good unless she had borne Christ more happily in her heart than in her flesh.
Augustine

Mormonism: History

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Mormonism: History

  • 1830 – expand into Jackson County, Missouri 1836 (Joseph Smith claims this as location of Eden) (Reorganized Church has turned down $5 million offer by the Utah Church) (Zion identified as Independence, MS)
  • 1831 – Joseph Smith has over 135 direct revelations 1844 including their moves to Kirtland, Nauvoo, practice of polygamy.
  • 1833 – expelled from Jackson County
  • 1844 – Joseph Smith orders destruction of ‘Nauvoo Expositor’
  • June 27, 1844 – Joseph Smith murdered in jail while awaiting trial for destruction of the ‘Expositor’
  • 1844 – 1846 – Brigham Young assumes control
  • 1846 – Brigham Young leads move to Utah, small group remains loyal to Joseph Smith’s descendants as stays to establish the Reorganized Church
  • 1847 – arrival in Salt Lake, Utah
  • 1857 – Bishop John D. Lee attacks a wagon train at Mountain Meadows
  • 1877 – Bishop John D. Lee is tried and executed for murder
  • 1890 – President Wilford Woodruf abolishes polygamy under threat of property confiscation by federal government.

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