Jeremy wrote:

durangout wrote: Jeremy wrote: LDS doctrine typically concerns itself with the prepratory gospel as the fulness and the "doctrine" was removed a long time ago. For example? For example?

D&C 84:27 wrote: And the lesser priesthood continued, which priesthood holdeth the key of the ministering of angels and the preparatory gospel ;

Which gospel is the gospel of repentance and of baptism, and the remission of sins, and the law of carnal commandments, which the Lord in his wrath caused to continue with the house of Aaron among the children of Israel until John, whom God raised up, being filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb.

Nice try, but no dice. The preparatory gospel is the Aaronic Priesthood. It is for preparing people for the coming of the Lord.



D&C 34:6

6 To lift up your voice as with the sound of a trump, both long and loud, and cry repentance unto a crooked and perverse generation, preparing the way of the Lord for his second coming .



Matt. 3:3 (1–3)

1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judæa,

2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord , make his paths straight.



D&C 84:28

28 For he was baptized while he was yet in his childhood, and was ordained by the angel of God at the time he was eight days old unto this power, to overthrow the kingdom of the Jews, and to make straight the way of the Lord before the face of his people, to prepare them for the coming of the Lord, in whose hand is given all power .



The Melchizedek was withheld from the Israelites, not us, when one read the full context in D&C 84. Like verses 24,25



24 But they (Isrealites) hardened their hearts and could not endure his ( the Lord's) presence; therefore, the Lord in his wrath, for his anger was kindled against them, swore that they should not enter into his rest while in the wilderness, which rest is the fulness of his glory.

25 Therefore, he took Moses out of their midst, and the Holy Priesthood also ;



The Holy Priesthood is the Melchizedek Priesthood.

This is correct...for that time.

D&C 124:28 wrote: For there is not a place found on earth that he may come to and restore again that which was lost unto you , or which he hath taken away, even the fulness of the priesthood .

Read the whole context and you will see that God instructed His Saints to build a house designed to use the Holy Priesthood so baptisms for the dead could be performed. This is the time in where the Fulness of the gospel/Priesthood was to be restored for that very purpose. Read closely:



D&C 124:28-37

28 For there is not a place found on earth that he may come to and restore again that which was lost unto you, or which he hath taken away, even the fulness of the priesthood.

29 For a baptismal font there is not upon the earth, that they, my saints, may be baptized for those who are dead—

30 For this ordinance belongeth to my house, and cannot be acceptable to me, only in the days of your poverty, wherein ye are not able to build a house unto me.

31 But I command you, all ye my saints, to build a house unto me; and I grant unto you a sufficient time to build a house unto me; and during this time your baptisms shall be acceptable unto me.

32 But behold, at the end of this appointment your baptisms for your dead shall not be acceptable unto me; and if you do not these things at the end of the appointment ye shall be rejected as a church, with your dead, saith the Lord your God.

33 For verily I say unto you, that after you have had sufficient time to build a house to me, wherein the ordinance of baptizing for the dead belongeth, and for which the same was instituted from before the foundation of the world, your baptisms for your dead cannot be acceptable unto me;

34 For therein are the keys of the holy priesthood ordained, that you may receive honor and glory.

35 And after this time, your baptisms for the dead, by those who are scattered abroad, are not acceptable unto me, saith the Lord.

36 For it is ordained that in Zion, and in her stakes, and in Jerusalem, those places which I have appointed for refuge, shall be the places for your baptisms for your dead.

37 And again, verily I say unto you, how shall your washings be acceptable unto me, except ye perform them in a house which you have built to my name?



Restored when it was bestowed upon Joseph Smith and a temple was built by the saints...even the Melchizedek, the higher Priesthood.

The fulness of the gospel is contained in the whole panoply of scripture. The Holy Priesthood, the higher, is the very same priesthood used today to perform baptisms for the dead and other ordinances unto exaltation. Does this sound like its lost or removed? Guess again!