Why does the RLDS church reject the LDS doctrine of the nature of God?
A response to mattyg’s answer. The revelation about the nature of God came before they broke away for the LDS Church. The beginning of this understanding came when both the Father and the Son appeared to Joseph Smith in 1820. The specific nature of the members of the God head was given April 2, 1843 to Joseph Smith. This was during the Nauvoo period of the Church. The schism between the LDS and the eventual RLDS churches did not occur until after Joseph’s death. However, the Community of Christ, as it is now known, does not accept any of the doctrine or practices introduced during the Nauvoo period. If I understand correctly, they believe that Joseph lost his grip on reality during is imprisonment in Missouri. So, the only thing that they claim he did during this period that they accept as legitimate was to designate his oldest son, Joseph III, as his successor. We, of course, do not accept this claim and do accept the revelations of the Nauvoo period as legitimate. However, this leads
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