GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
CHURCH, NAME OF
See also Church of Jesus Christ; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The; Mormon(s)
In the Book of Mormon, when Jesus Christ visited the righteous Nephites shortly after his resurrection, he said that his church should bear his name (3 Ne. 27: 3-8). In modern times the Lord revealed the name of the Church to be “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” (D&C 115: 4).
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