FootnoteAlexander Campbell did not use the term “Holy Ghost” in his version of the New Testament. He justified his omission on the ground that the English word “ghost” has come to signify a disembodied spirit of a dead person, and, consequently, ought never to be used...
Footnotehttp://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/VA/harb1844.htm In 1844, Alexander Campbell realized that fellow preachers Scott and Bentley were wrong to think that the Book of Mormon did not contain the Scott conversion sequence: “Brethren Scott and Bentley are both...
FootnotePrior to 1828, Rigdon apparently believed in the “Arminian” conversion process. This process involved three steps: (1) faith, (2) repentance, and (3) spiritual rebirth. This sequence appears in those sections of The Book of Mormon that were likely written...