Core tenet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The heavens are open — revelation continues.
A living prophet leads the church and the canon is not closed: restoration means the line to God carries a signal again.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Continuing revelation is the Latter-day Saint distinctive: the canon is open, and the church's president is sustained as a prophet who can receive binding revelation. The consequence is a religion that can change substantively — polygamy was ended in 1890, the priesthood was extended to Black members in 1978 — and a permanent internal question about how such changes relate to earlier teaching. Members are also taught to seek personal revelation for their own lives, which puts a form of authority in every household.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
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Emanuel Swedenborg — the mining assessor who took notes in the afterlife.
The New Church (Swedenborgianism) · figure
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Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han — the True Parents.
The Unification Church (Family Federation) · figure
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13 December 1973, at the crater.
Raëlism · story
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The masters dictate, and someone writes it down.
Church Universal and Triumphant
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The letters carried the authority.
The Family International
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One man holds the keys.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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