Revelation and the Mormon Church
November 10th, 2006 by Giuseppe | Filed under Mormon.If you're new here, read more about the More Good Foundation. We help members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon church) share their beliefs on the Internet. Learn more about what Mormons believe or talk with Mormons at LDS.net.
Revelation is an important subject in the doctrine of the Mormon Church. In fact, one of the main points of controversy with other Christian churches is that most of those churches teach that revelations are a thing of the past, forever lost after the death of the Apostles who lived on the earth at the time of Jesus.
Nothing could be more far from the truth. According to the Prophet Joseph Smith and his successors in the presidency and apostleship in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints revelation is what Jesus meant when said that on “this rock” He would build His Church. ( Read more )

The question is, however, whether any significant difference can be drawn between post-JS/BY Mormon revelation and that of post Peter/James/John Catholicism. It’s easy to claim other churches “obviously” lost revelation when PJ&J died, but what reasons do we have to accept this while rejecting the claim that revelation “obviously” ceased with the death of JS/BY?
Jeff,
That’s an interesting question I’ve pondered before. The following passage I came across in Richard Bushman’s Rough Stone Rolling provides an answer:
Reminds me of D&C 6:32: