Denver Snuffer, the founder of the Remnant religion that is part of the Latter-day Saint movement, talked at a recent conference for three-and-a-half hours about a god called Heavenly Mother, he said “I can give this talk only because I have permission from the source,” believer Bryce Bartel told The Seer Stone.

And that’s not the only way that the movement is claiming doctrine. The movement has its own core books of doctrine.

Denver Snuffer’s Remnant religion that is part of the Latter-day Saint movement has adopted its own canon of scripture.

“People are trying to figure out how to communicate the differences between what they believe what the Restoration should be and what the Restoration is,” Bartel said. (“Restoration” is a term in Mormonism, the LDS movement, for a bringing back of a Christianity that was apparently complete and pure when Jesus was on earth.)

After “a secret group out of BYU,” Bartel said, helped change Mormon scripture to become closer to what it looked like in the administration of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, new scriptures were canonized at the immediate prior conference in September 2017 in Boise, Idaho — that one was distinctively named “Covenant of Christ.” (The BYU group also added records of theological comments from the time period that Joseph Smith was alive.) The new canon included alterations to key Mormon scriptures in the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants, Bartel said.

Snuffer gave a 10-page “revelation” that meant that “Christ gave a new section 110,” Bartel said, a reference to LDS Mormonism’s Doctrine & Covenants 110, which was canonized 44 years after the occurrences reported within it.

Also, D&C 132, which concerns the controversial practice of polygamy, has been replaced.

“In that 10-page revelation from Christ, there is a new section 132,” Bartel said.

Also, the movement put scripture called the Joseph Smith Translation into the Old Testament, calling it the Old Covenant together; “essentially the 1840 version” of the scripture The Book of Mormon and New Testament are together for what is called the New Covenant; and the D&C has with it the “full” Joseph Smith — History scripture and the Lectures on Faith. It is called Teachings and Commandments. It does not contain D&C 20 and also has as canon a document called the Wentworth Letter, which are apparent revelations from Smith found in the Joseph Smith Papers and other Snuffer revelations, Bartel said.

The “whole purpose” of the September conference, Bartel said, “was to get into a group covenant similar to … King Benjamin,” a reference to an event in The Book of Mormon.

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Even if you no longer affiliate with the LDS church but enjoy sociality with family and friends as before, you can still find social settings organized by the Utah Valley PostMormons. There, you can find your people. And of course, if you don’t enjoy those relationships like before, the many UVPM events that happen each week can be even life-saving.

Led by wonderful people like Kirsten Barksdale and Larissa Norman, UVPM is also for folks who just are struggling with it or are “never Mormons” seeking a break from the predominant culture. Find their events on Facebook and Meetup.

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