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"Now This Caused Us to Marvel" : The Breadth of God's Heaven and the Depth of His Mercy
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Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration : The 34th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
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Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, BYU and Deseret Book,
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144-156
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"The dawning of this dispensation had as its catalyst Joseph Smith's yearnings to know where he stood in the sight of God. His desires came from both his family heritage and the religious environment of his youth. As with most of us, no doctrine had a more powerful pull upon him than the understanding of how to get to heaven, or at least how to improve one's standing with God. There is ample evidence that the Restoration instilled in Joseph an understanding of the Atonement and its reach, which caused him to marvel not only for himself and his family but for all mankind. These new insights reversed the sectarian notions of his day and substantiated many of the ideas that he and his forefathers had about the eternal heavens. As we come to understand the fertile soil in which the doctrines of the Restoration were planted, none of the doctrines blossom more beautifully than those of the Atonement and the salvation offered to all people." [Author's introduction]