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What is a Restoration?

Today I wanted to look into why we had a restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ rather than a reformation or even just a reorganization. Let's jump in!   As we know, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ came to this earth and established His church. With divinely inspired instruction He organized and called the 12 Apostles. (see Matthew 10) He called the 70. (see Luke 10:1-9) Christ founded the saints of the time in the only veritable and sound base: The doctrines of his masterful teachings.   Soon after his Death and Resurrection, he charged the Apostles to go abroad, preaching the gospel and building up His church and the kingdom of God on earth (see Matthew 28:18-20) We know the Apostles worked hard and had much success but as time rolled forward, persecution reared its tumultuous head and the church and it's saints began to fracture and dwindle even with the Apostles crying for them to return to the foundations of the gospel. (see Revelations 1-3)    Soon a...

Our Heavenly Father's Goal

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In our lifetime we will set goals and make plans to help us achieve our dreams. For example a high school student will want to college. Going to college is this student's goal and how he or she needs to get to college is by making specific plans to get to that goal. This student's plans could be studying everyday, getting good test scores, join a extracurricular program, etc.. This student will most likely make it to college if this student follows the plan that he or she has made. Just like a hard working student that wants to go to college, our Heavenly Father also set goals and makes plans. His goal is to make so that all of us can live with Him again in his presence! And He has made plans for us to come back to him! But unlike the plans of a student Heavenly Father's Plans are perfect! So what are the plans that He has made? Well one of His plans was for us to be able to learn and grow. So He created the earth! So that we can learn and grow from our experiences! While...