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What historical Mormon-related texts are non canonized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

I know that they have canonized some of Joseph Smith's personal history that he wrote, but not all of it. They have also canonized parts of Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible (from Genesis and Matthew) but not all of it. Is there anything else? Any declarations, that sort of thing?

Update:

@La Tuc: I know what has been canonized. I want to know what's NOT canonized. The Lectures on Faith, for instance, or the Documentary History of the Church.

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  • 9 years ago
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    The history of the LDS/Mormon cannon of scriptures took an interesting route. It's a road paved with redirection.

    For example, Joseph Smith was told by God to "pretend no more gift" referring to his translation ability of the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon came, but then came the Book of Commandments that turned into the Doctrine and Covanents, then the papyrus translated to become Book of Abraham, then the Book of Moses that came out of the Bible translation project.

    You mentioned Lectures on Faith. This was cannonized, then de-cannonized. It was added officially in 1835, then was yanked in 1921. It taught clearly that God was a spirit. This of course was abandoned in favor of the embodied God the Father who was once a human. http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/changech7.htm

    Brigham Young once said that, “I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call scripture.” (Journal of Discourses, 13:95.) Yet no LDS apologists in his right mind will call the Journal of Discources official LDS doctrine. Why? It's a joke. It's contradictory, heretical, misaligned with current church teachings, and show former leaders to be false prophets. So are Mormons supposed to believe what their leaders teach except when it's latter proven wrong? Why not take accountability for what leaders have said? And when would we know that an LDS leader is speaking truth versus speaking something else?

    The Book of Abraham is next to be ejected from the cannon. Even the lead LDS apologist now concedes that it doesn't matter if it's true or not since it's not a very important book to LDS theology. Right. http://www.mormonthink.com/book-of-abraham-issues....

    I find it difficult to trust anything that an LDS leader does or says given the number of revisions to revelations they claim come from God.

  • 9 years ago

    The official doctrinal books of the LDS Church are the KJV, The Book of Mormon, the Doctrine & Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. The Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible is not canonized, but can be used to see where some of the errors are found in the KJV. Any other books are considered non-canonized. They are just opinion books, and treated as such by the Church. Some are interesting reads, some are not.

    Edit: @Dan, the Journal of Discourses is not canonized. That is what detractors want people to believe. But much of it was written after the life of the prophet it is about and more from memories than records.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The Journal of Discourses. It's an interesting read; full of very weird stuff.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

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