Official source
Pearl of Great Price
Official Latter-day Saint scripture containing Joseph Smith’s history and additional texts.
- Publisher
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Tradition
- Latter-day Saint movement
- Accessed
- 2026-06-16
Citation
Pearl of Great Price, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, accessed June 16, 2026.
Where this source is used
- God was once a manThe Bible and the Book of Mormon both describe God as God from all eternity. The Bible promises likeness to God, not a God who was once a man.
- Priesthood authority was restoredHebrews says Christ holds his Melchizedek priesthood forever, without successors, and the Aaronic priesthood was set aside, so access to God rests on him.
- The Bible lost plain and precious truthsThe manuscripts show small, documented copying changes, not an early removal of doctrine, and the Bible already teaches what the Book of Mormon calls plain and precious.
- The apostolic gospel is finalPaul and Jude describe the apostles' message as a trust to guard. So any later revelation can be tested by one question: does it preach the same gospel?
- The reliability of the BibleVariants in the manuscripts are real and openly catalogued. They show a text copied many times in many places, which is why its earliest wording can be recovered.