Talk:Revelation in Mormonism

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I couldn't find an article focused on the LDS teachings concerning Revelation so I created this page. 74s181 19:51, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Why this article exists

There are many LDS / Mormonism articles on Wikipedia.

Many of these articles tend to reproduce the same explanations about various points of LDS doctrine or practice. As a result, nearly all of these articles are too large.

One of the things I am trying to do is to move detail material out of more general articles to specific articles on the detail subject, i.e., 'main' article tag.

Therefore, this is an article spinout or sub article, as described in the POV_fork article.

This is not a POV fork

This article does not assert or attempt to prove that LDS belief is THE truth. It is not the result of an argument in another article about what 'Christians' truly believe. It does not engage in a debate with mainstream Christians. It only asserts what LDS believe about this subject, and provides more detail than there is room for in other articles that make reference to LDS belief on this particular topic.

This article only covers one denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement. It doesn't cover the differences between that denomination and the original Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In the original church they had many revelations and added new scriptures to the canon. In the denomination mentioned it only covers what they are doing now. I do not see how this article provides any information on the movement and it is not clear as to which denomination it is referring to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.97.101.143 (talk) 17:06, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Balance is welcomed

If there are LDS who disagree that this article is a correct statement of LDS belief, they are welcome to contribute. If there are non-LDS who feel this way they are also welcome to contribute. This is Wikipedia, all are welcome. However, any assertions about LDS belief should be cited, referencing authorities of equal or greater standing in relation to the subject as those already cited, per WP:RS. The currently cited authorities include the LDS scriptures and conference talks by LDS General Authorities. Non-LDS authorities are fair game as long as those authorities have similar standing in the mainstream Christian community and are cited as to LDS belief and practice, and not as to whether LDS teachings are or are not correct, since that is NOT the subject of this article. If you want to explore differences between mainstream Christian and LDS belief, please edit Mormonism and Christianity, which references this article.

Once this page is firmly established it will be appropriate to start moving detail material from other LDS articles to this page, summarizing and deleting such material from other articles that is duplicated here, and inserting 'main' tags in such articles, referring readers to this page for more detailed information on this topic. 74s181 19:51, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Spirit of prohecy merge

I would agree that Spirit of prophecy (Latter Day Saints) should be mereged here. -SESmith 22:56, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Spirit of prophecy (Latter Day Saints) is not a concept that is distinct and different from Revelation; at most it is an element or facet of it, and it does not merit it's own separate article, so it should be merged into this article, possibly as it's own section. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 16:52, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

The merge has been completed, with Spirit of prophecy (Latter Day Saints) being converted to a redirect after the material that was formerly there was brought into this article. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 16:00, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Jgstokes reverting

@Jgstokes: I couldn't find the consensus here you referred to, could you please provide a link so I know you aren't mistaken? Malibu Sapphire (talk) 04:40, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Context: I added the word alleged to the lead

Malibu Sapphire (talk) 04:40, 5 October 2023 (UTC)