Source Report Card
Conclusion: Where I've Landed
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D&C 1:38 ("by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants") | The Lord, through Joseph Smith | 1 Nov 1831 | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| New Testament Seminary Teacher Manual, Revelation 6-7 ("likely includes the time in which we now live"); New Testament Student Manual ch. 54 (sixth seal "About A.D. 1000 to 2000... will continue until just before Jesus Christ returns") | Church Educational System / Seminaries and Institutes | 2023; 2014 | 1st-hand | 2: Official Church | A |
| Isaiah 2:2 ("the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains") | Isaiah | 8th century BC | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ (verse); Salt Lake Temple as its fulfillment is the Church's reading (President Gordon B. Hinckley, Oct 2003: "we have interpreted that scripture... as applying to this sacred house"): A |
| Conference Report, Oct 1918, pp. 57-58 (rejects the White Horse Prophecy; denies being the source of the vision pinned on him; see Chapters 36-37) | President Joseph F. Smith, then Church President | Oct 1918 | 1st-hand | 3: Prophet, official | A |
| Deseret Evening News letter (denies the vision circulating under his name; see Chapter 36) | Joseph F. Smith, then Second Counselor in the First Presidency | 17 Nov 1880 | 1st-hand | 4: Apostle, unofficial | B |
| S&I "Spurious Materials in Circulation," Publication Caution on Julie Rowe's A Greater Tomorrow | Seminaries and Institutes (internal, for teachers) | 31 Aug 2015 | 1st-hand | 2: Official Church | B (internal memo) |
| Newsroom, "Church Responds to Inquiries About Preparedness" ("writings and speculations of individual Church members... do not reflect Church doctrine") | The Church | 26 Sept 2015 | 1st-hand | 2: Official Church | A |
| D&C 57:1-3 (Missouri, "the place for the city of Zion"; Independence "the center place"; "a spot for the temple") | The Lord, through Joseph Smith | 20 Jul 1831 | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| Revelation 11:7-8 (killed; bodies lie in the street of the city "where also our Lord was crucified"); D&C 77:15 (two prophets "raised up to the Jewish nation") | John; the Lord, through Joseph Smith | 1st century; Mar 1832 | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| D&C 133:48 ("red in his apparel") | The Lord, through Joseph Smith | 3 Nov 1831 | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| D&C 45:48, 51-53 (the Lord sets His foot on "this mount"; "then shall the Jews look upon me" and see "these wounds in thine hands"; they weep) | The Lord, through Joseph Smith | 7 Mar 1831 | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| Zechariah 14:4 ("his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives"); tying it to D&C 45:48's "this mount" is the Church's footnote | Zechariah; footnote by the Church | 6th century BC; footnote in current edition | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture (verse); 2: Official Church (the link) | A+ (verse); A (the link) |
| D&C 38:30 | The Lord, through Joseph Smith | 2 Jan 1831 | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| 1 Thessalonians 5:21 | Paul | 1st century | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |