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left4good
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Date: January 01, 2014 12:42PM
Most who study our history well understand the context of these matters, and, as far as time and place. Uh, but some members of the church many really are surprised by some of the things they learn in our history and we want them to be able to go to a place where they can read accurate information and be able to, uh, seek to understand those historical chapters in the context of time and place, and understand that those answers have been approved by the presiding brethren of the church. I think that will give many of our members, uh, confidence that they can rely on these answers.
We have actually retained, uh, outside the church history department, we’ve retained scholars, for the most part outside the church history department, uh, known, uh, LDS scholars to, to, do some very extensive research and this is been groundbreaking in a way. These issues, uh, have not always had academic attention. They haven't really been researched carefully. So we, we’re very pleased that these scholars would, uh, agree, uh, and, uh, to do this research. They've then submitted a draft of their, uh, paper to a committee of, uh, historians here in the church history department as well as general authorities who have reviewed their work, suggested some edits. Those edits, uh, are made with the permission of the original writer and that's then submitted to the presiding quorums of the church, the Twelve and the First Presidency for approval and then it's published in Gospel Topics under lds.org.
Much of what's written now, these arguments and these issues have been around for decades, hundred and fifty years and it's the same maternal repackaged, and, uh, we understandably have not spent a lot of time in the past worrying about these issues because our mission is to promote faith and belief in the Lord Jesus Christ. But as the information age is now upon us we feel with all of this information out there, we owe it, particularly to the rising generation to provide, uh, uh, good reliable information, uh, about these matters.
Those stories, I feel is they’re interwoven together provide a beautiful background or history of the church, or tapestry if you will, uh, uh, that really is remarkable to look at. Uh, if you stand back and view that in its entirety it's very faith promoting and inspiring. Now if you look at a very close closely you may find some, threads that you'll have a question about. But if you focus just on the threads that may seem a bit different to you you're going to miss the beauty of the, the tapestry, the beauty of all of these stories woven together which is our history.