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If you're asking why the LDS church is making the move to dig into its past now, the answer is fairly simple. Bottom line, the internet has changed the world as a whole and that includes the LDS church and how its members study their faith and its beginnings.

A new generation of Mormons is going online to find answers to historical questions long avoided in Sunday school classes. The new statements slowly being released by the church are the official answer to those searches. If you talk to Historians that have spent their lives studying the LDS faith you will hear different ideas. In the end there is one consensus, some members of the LDS faith are "becoming convinced that they have been betrayed, or they believe they have been lied to.

"It causes a crisis of faith, and some of them are leaving," said Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah Paul Reeve, who can understand why the church is making a move now. "For a church that puts so much emphasis on missionary work and growth --- losing those already in the flock is not a good thing."

Philip Barlow, Ph.D. is a Professor of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University and he says that, "The church feels it has a responsibility to foster faith." While solely fostering faith in Jesus Christ may have worked in the past, the LDS church admits they must change.

In a new video released this afternoon Elder Steven Snow from the first quorum of the 70 or the upper levels of church seniority states it is in a similar manner. "We have understandably in the past not spent a lot of time worrying about these issues because our mission is to promote faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. But-- as the information age is now upon us we feel with all this information out there we owe it to the rising generation to provide good reliable information."

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Elder Steven Snow without realizing the irony of such a statemnt wrote:
"We have understandably in the past not spent a lot of time worrying about these issues because our mission is to promote faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. But-- as the information age is now upon us we feel with all this information out there we owe it to the rising generation to provide good reliable information."

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Elder Steven Snow without realizing the irony of such a statemnt wrote:
"We have understandably in the past not spent a lot of time worrying about these issues because our mission is to promote faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. But-- as the information age is now upon us we feel with all this information out there we owe it to the rising generation to provide good reliable information."

As opposed the the good unreliable information they were providing before?

Does he realize how bad such statements make him and his predecessors look?

Someone tell the church they need to hire a real historian again.

ZelphtheGreat wrote:Luke 8:17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

Can it be this verse is referring to the Internet? All this hidden L-d$,inc dirty laundry is coming out thanks to online information sites. It appears little scares 'the brethren' like the full Truth.