Polygamy's origins are unclear. What is known is that in 1843, Joseph Smith dictated the revelation authorizing polygamy, claiming God had commanded his people to live in plural marriages and ...

In the last eighteen months of his life, Joseph Smith introduced the Mormon faithful to the Old Testament doctrine of polygamy. Everyone, including Brigham Young and Joseph's wife Emma, hated ...

Baptism follows the biblical example of immersion and is for the remission of one's sins. Since young children are incapable of sin, ... (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 255).

Joseph Smith said that it was "our privilege to act as an agent and be baptised for the remission of sins for and in behalf of our dead kindred who have not heard the gospel of the fulness of it ...

Latter-day Saints trace posthumous baptism to the Apostle Paul, who wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:29, ... Mormons believe that Joseph Smith, their faith’s founding prophet, ...

The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was formed in 1860 by followers who “dissented against the Nauvoo theology” of founder Joseph Smith, says a Community of Christ ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...

New research provides new evidence that a recently discovered daguerreotype really does depict Mormon founder Joseph Smith. Forensic images: ...

Joseph Smith was arrested on several occasions, and in 1844 a jail where he and his brother was being held was attacked by an armed mob, and both men were shot and killed. Top.

Joseph Smith said that it was "our privilege to act as an agent and be baptised for the remission of sins for and in behalf of our dead kindred who have not heard the gospel of the fulness of it ...