Talk:Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)

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[edit] Authorship of documents

This article reads more like doctrine article by an LDS church than an encyclopaedia entry. Maybe a more knowledgeable reader than myself could attempt to clean up the use of terms with obvious religious meaning like "revelation" or the historically suspect like "dictated" or "translated". There seems to be a not so subtle intent of never citing Smith as the author of any LDS document. What could be theologically correct from a Mormon point of view ends up sounding ridiculous in a historical account. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.17.80.149 (talk • contribs)

It's the same reason we say Muhammad wrote the Koran as dictated by the angel Gabriel instead of just saying he "wrote it" or "made it up". WP reports religious claims as presented by those making the claims, and doesn't inject POV by changing the supposed source. –SESmith 01:32, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge

I have proposed merging Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints into this artcle. This was simply a spelling variant of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which redirects to this article. Since Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Church of the Latter Day Saints do not have their own articles, its difficult to justify having one for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. –SESmith 01:35, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

I feel they should not be merged, as this church is what sprouted many branches, including the current Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This page shows the distinct history of this original name, and what it became and is not only referring to the aforementioned current church. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Carterdriggs (talk • contribs) 08:50, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted links

I have deleted lds.org as an external link. Another editor restored it and wrote in the edit summary "are you dense? have you read this article? There is a difference between Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".

I'm not sure I follow. This page is about the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". So why should lds.org, which is an official website of "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", be in the external links? Your argument would seem to suggest that me that you would agree with deleting it, not with keeping it. I just don't see why the LDS Church's website should appear here but not the 100s of other churches that also claim to be the true successor of the Church of Christ, which is what this article is about. Ubi Terrarum 04:21, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

The link appeared to satisfy a request for a citation. The fact that lds.org hosts the source document is irrelevant.Jkolak (talk) 06:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I think the above comment referred to lds.org as an external link at the bottom of the page in the"External links" section. It's nothing to do with a citation link. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 08:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)