The Option of an Independent Mormon (Blog Series)

 

• The "Independent-Mormon" Defined & Explained: A Case for the Option of Nondeminational or "Free-Range" Mormonism 

• Being an Independent Mormon (i.e. Non-Denominational Free-range Mormon)

• Big Tent Mormonism: Beyond "Mormon Demoninationalism" &  Toward "Unified Mormonism"

• The Metaphor of Farmhands vs. Zookeepers: The Farm-like "Ecclesia" versus Zoo-like Brethrenism as a Metaphor for Two Kinds of Mormon Leaders and Ways to be Mormon 

• 3 Bullets Point Summary On Scripture-focused Independent Mormonism that Is At Odds with Brethrenism

• The True Law of Common Consent by Patrick (link to the site Uncorrelated Mormonism)

•  Mormon Scripture through the Smith-Pratt Lens

• Is Revelation obtained Only through Brighamite (LDS) Church Presidents? Or is Revelation a Gift of the Spirit available to All Mormons?

• Comparing Jesus' Words in Mathew 15 & 23 in The Remedy to Brethrenism

• Mathew 23: Those Who Sit in Moses' Seat in The Joseph Smith Translation (JST)

• The Smith–Rigdon Movement: The freed spirit of expression among the various Book of Mormon "sects and movements"

• The Same Pattern of an Inevitable Tension between Philosophical Mystics & Controlling Dogmatists, Repeats Itself in both the Bible and in Mormonism

• Jesus and the Samaritans & The Restoration Branches

• The Restored Ecclesia & Organic Church

• Pure Mormonism blog-site posts on Brethrenism

• The Modern Nauvoo Mormon

•  The Case for "Scripture Focused Mormons" & What that Means?

• "Scripture Focused Mormon" Resources: Recommended Brighamite and Non-Brighamite Scriptures, Websites and other Restorationist Books, etc.

•  How the "Standard Works" (Mormon Canon) itself Teaches The Authority of Scripture over Fallible Leaders

•  Scripture as the Mode of Becoming "Vitally Alive" through the God-Breathed "Implanted Word" (Logos) to Salvation (Deliverance) and Empowerment (Exaltation)

•  Should Prophets Be Ordained through a Succession of Offices held in Seniority?

• Come in at the Gate of only Joseph Smith's Revelations (D&C 43: 2-7)

•  The Restored Ecclesia & The Utah-based Church as a Corporation and Social Club

•  The Authority of LDS Scripture (Standard Works) versus the Tradition of the Elders?

•   "Saving Knowledge" & Educative Ordinances As the Core of The Smith-Pratt Paradigm

• The "Divine" as the Good Operating Dimension (G.O.D.) that Produces The Garden of the Good (Ecclesia)

•  This is the Gospel!

•  The "Church" as the Zion-minded True Vine: A Loving People United as One in Genuine Friendships

• Solving the Puzzle of the LDS Godhead

• "Tithing Reform: What LDS Scripture Actually Teaches on Tithing"

• The Early Church & "Tithing"

• Converstation with a member of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot). We were founded April 6th, 1830 by Joseph Smith 

Some links to Mormon Groups, Movements, Denominations, and Sources, that Fit this more Independent Mormon paradigm:

• Uncorrelatedmormonism.com

• Youtube.com/@uncorrelatedmormonism

• Simply Scriptures (online Restoration Scriptures without the gloss of Brethrenism)

• Mormon Rescue YouTube Channel 

• Puremormonism.blogspot.com

• Restorationarchives.com

• Covenant of Christ: A Modern English Translation of the Book of Mormon 

• Nondenominational Edition of the Book of Mormon (see video here)

• The Church of Christ with the Elijah Message

• The Church of Christ Temple Lot

• The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)

• Community of Christ (RLDS)

• Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

• Indiemormon.com