The Kirtland Temple was the first Latter-day Saint temple, dedicated in 1836, where Christ, Moses, Elias and Elijah appeared. The Church bought it in 2024.
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No election, no campaign: when a prophet dies, the Twelve lead, and the senior apostle is set apart as President. How it works and why, from scripture.
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The Aaronic Priesthood administers outward ordinances like baptism; the Melchizedek holds the keys of all spiritual blessings. Offices, duties and scripture.
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What is a patriarchal blessing? A once-in-a-lifetime priesthood blessing that declares your lineage in the house of Israel and gives personal counsel from God, like Jacob blessing his sons.
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What is the priesthood to Latter-day Saints? The authority to act in God’s name, restored by John the Baptist and by Peter, James and John. Here are the offices, and what women hold.
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What happens in a Latter-day Saint temple? Baptisms for the dead, the endowment and eternal marriage sealings. Here’s what goes on inside, why we build temples, and the Bible behind it.
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Do LDS bishops get paid? No. Bishops are volunteers who keep their day jobs, serving 15–30 hours a week for about five years. Here’s why, from all four standard works.
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Critics quote Matthew 16:18, “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it,” as proof the church could never fall away. But “hell” there is hadēs, the realm of the dead, and gates hold people in. Christ went into Hades and came out with “the keys of hell and of death,” the gospel was preached to the dead, and Peter received the keys of the kingdom. Here is what the Greek, the keys, and the New Testament’s own apostasy warnings say.
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Critics call the Great Apostasy a Latter-day Saint invention, but Paul, Peter, John, and Jude wrote it down first. From the “falling away” of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and the wolves of Acts 20 to “doth already work,” “so soon removed,” and “even now are there many antichrists,” the New Testament records the apostles watching the falling away begin, and it promises a “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21).
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Korah was sincere, Saul had a good reason, Uzziah was a good king, and Simon offered to pay. The Bible’s verdict on all of them is the same: zeal doesn’t give anyone the right to act for God. From Numbers 16 to Hebrews 5:4 and Acts 19, authority comes by God’s call through the hands of those who hold it, which is why Latter-day Saints teach that the priesthood was restored by John the Baptist and by Peter, James, and John.
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