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Beliefs

Beliefs

The church’s declarations of faith, how it lives them out in community, and how it relates faith to science and history. Each document is a plain-language summary of the church’s own published writing.

Suggested reading order

  1. Statement of belief · 3 min read

    Declarations and Beliefs, Part One

    The first half of the church's foundational declarations: personal equality before God, a commitment to truth and to exposing fraud, the church's understanding of Christ and salvation, family and marriage, work and non-profit commerce, opposition to usury, and its view of the right to travel.

  2. Statement of belief · 2 min read

    Beliefs, Part Two: Practice and Community

    The second half of the church's foundational beliefs: stewardship of the earth's resources, the church's view of constitutional government, expectations about military and legal careers, reporting wrongdoing, study of world religions, sacramental practice, personal revelation, and equal spiritual standing guided by a Ward Guide rather than a single prophet.

  3. Faith interpretation · 3 min read

    Faith and Scientific Perspectives

    How the church connects four fields — physics, quantum physics, medical science and psychology — to its beliefs about heaven, God as observer, the resurrected body, and self-love. Each section separates what the church believes from what is established scientific consensus.

  4. Questions and answers · 2 min read

    Establishing Questions

    Short answers to the five questions the church uses to explain why it exists: what it means by ethnobotanicals, what a free church is, why it chose not to incorporate, what to know about donations and tax, and why it was formed in 2018.

  5. Faith interpretation · 3 min read

    Historical Foundations

    The church's account of its sacramental theology and religious foundations: its interpretation of early Christian ceremony and devotional art, the works it treats as scripture, its reading of Doctrine and Covenants 59 and 98, and the blessings and relationships it describes. Includes a separate organizational timeline and bibliography.