One True Church

The doctrine of one true church is as offensive to much of the Christian world today as was the testimony of Christ anciently that he was "the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6).  Yet some reason as did the youthful Joseph Smith:  "If God had a Church it would not be split up into factions, and that if He taught one society to worship one way, and administer in one set of ordinances, He would not teach another, principles which were diametrically opposed." (HC 4:536).  "There is no more self-evident truth in this world, there is nothing in all eternity more obvious than that there is and can be only one true Church.  A true Church does not create itself any more than man creates God, or resurrects himself, or establishes for himself a celestial heaven.  All churches may be false, but only one can be true, simply because religion comes from God, and God is not the author of confusion."  (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary 2:506-7)

I took the above from Volume 1 of Doctrinal Book of Mormon Commentary, page 109.  I was looking for something uplifting after some disturbing articles on the Foxnews website today that brought home to me the wickedness of people in the last days.  I was saddened by one story in particular, too disturbing to re-tell here, and so decided to publish something simple but true to make myself feel better.