Friday, April 15, 2022

Anthony W. Ivins on the Latter-day Saints as a Christian Community (April 1927)

 In his General Conference talk on April 3, 1927, Anthony W. Ivins affirmed that Latter-day Saints are truly “Christian,” showing again that the LDS claim to be “Christian” is not “modern” or an attempt to be more “ecumenical”:

 

THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

 

The inference that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not a Christian organization is too absurd to require any extended comment. The foundation upon which the Church rests is faith in God the eternal Father, his Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, which constitute the God-head. The Church teaches and its members testify that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that by him the worlds were created, and that through the redemption wrought out, because of the atonement which he made, all mankind are redeemed from death, the penalty which was pronounced upon our father Adam because of transgression, and that through obedience to the doctrines which he taught we may be redeemed from personal sin. We bear witness to the world that there is no other name under heaven, nor is there any other means by which man can attain to glory, exaltation and eternal life except through the medium of Christ our Lord. (Conference Report, April 1927, p. 20)