Word: propheteers
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...Finger Lakes region of New York, Spencer Kimball, 85, president of the Mormon Church, joined 400 worshipers in the tiny town of Fayette (pop. 250). There they dedicated an exact replica of the rude cabin where, 150 years ago last week, Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. and six followers founded a new church...
...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, based in Independence, Mo., which Smith designated his "Zion" in 1831. Fifteen years later, after Smith was murdered, many Mormons followed the dynamic Young on a famous trek to Utah, where they flourished. The Reorganized Church developed from those, including the prophet's widow Emma, who stayed behind, contending that Young was a usurper. The one true spiritual heir to Smith, they believed, was his diffident oldest son, Joseph...
Despite the common heritage, the Reorganized Saints say they are not Mormons. Wallace B. Smith, 51, the fifth direct descendant of the prophet to be president, says the Utah Mormons developed "a whole new theology, which is not orthodox Christianity." The basic disagreements are the Mormon beliefs that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are separate gods with the first two inhabiting human bodies, and that male church members may become gods themselves in the afterlife. The Reorganized Church believes in a spiritual Trinity and denies that men become gods. But the Missouri sect is far from Protestant. Among other things...
...Palestinian state. I am still a refugee, still homeless and stateless. When I have my independent state and live as a human being, I will give you the answer. Not before that. I am dealing with history, with civilization. Do you know that Palestine is a land of prophets? There hasn't been a prophet who wasn't born there or passed through it. This is something deep in history and deep in the conscience of my people...
BORN. To Jordan's American-born, Princeton-educated Queen Nur, 28, the former Lisa Halaby, and King Hussein, 44: a son, her first child, his eighth; in Amman. Name: Hamzah, after an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad...