Founded:
May 3, 1994
Founder:
James Harmston
Website:
http://tlcfaith.org/
Formerly at http://tlcmanti.net (archived here and a full version (from Feb. 22, 2003) here)
Discussion Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mormon-TLC
Email:
admin@tlcfaith.org
Phone:
(435) 835-7667
Address:
37 South Main Street
Manti, Utah 84642
(Registered Nonprofit Address)
c/o Daniel Simmons
81 North 300 East
Manti, Utah 84642 (source)
Scriptures:
Photos:
Assembly Hall (Harmston with his 8 wives)
Consecrated Property
About:
- "Prior to the fall of 1992, some members of the LDS Church in Manti and surrounding areas occasionally met together in study groups and informal gatherings to discuss their interpretations of the gospel. Some of these individuals already had Mormon Fundamentalist leanings.... Harmston, as well as other men and women, began to teach what they knew of the 'original, pure' doctrines of Joseph Smith in their study groups as well as to interested individuals. This teaching began as informal discussions, evolving into a two-day, organized seminar referred to as the Models.
"Frustrated with the 'dilution' of the 'pure' doctrines taught by Joseph Smith, Harmston and his wife, Elaine, say they sought a closer relationship with God and answers to their questions about the modern-day practices of the LDS church. They decided to seek those answers at home, in a prayer circle, using the 'true order of prayer,' as taught in LDS temples" (Johns, p. 32).
- Jim and Elaine Harmston "donned their Mormon temple robes at home and created a makeshift altar from a pillow and piano bench topped by a white bed sheet. They knelt to utilize the 'true order of prayer,' a ritual said to facilitate otherworldly communication.... They say God gave them the same answer He gave Smith (in the grove when asking what church to join) only this time He said the current Mormon church was among the 'wrong' churches and they should start their own" (Campbell, p. 9).
- Manti, Utah is seen as the gathering place for the elect.
- Fundamental beliefs:
"1. Gathering - a literal collecting of 'elect' saints;
2. Law of Celestial Plural Marriage - 'to provide bodies for the spirits of the elect and in raising up a righteous posterity fit for the building of God's Kingdom.'
3. Law of Consecration - 'to prove our willingness to sacrifice all to the buildinig of the Kingdom of God';
4. Adam-God Doctrine;
5. Priesthood belongs solely to the House of Israel - 'the seed of Cain will have to wait until all of Adam's posterity have come forward to receive their blessings through the end of the Millennium';
6. Original temple endowments - 'Ordinances must be kept in the very way God has appointed and cannot be changed';
7. Personal revelation - 'counsel from ecclesiastical leaders must be verified by personal revelation to each individual';
8. Preparation - both spiritual and temporal preparation for the last days;
9. Anti-government - 'we cannot... support wicked government and inter-connected secret combinations';
10. Abortion - 'is murder.'"
(from TLC pamphlet And Upon My House Shall It Begin, quoted in Johns, pp. 34-35)
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