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Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 19. Revelation through Joseph Smith to Martin Harris, Manchester, New York, March 1830.

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This is a canonized Mormon revelation (Doctrine and Covenants Section 19), presented as direct speech from Jesus Christ to Martin Harris in 1830, recorded in early LDS Church history. Its central theological argument concerns the nature of eternal punishment: Christ explains that "endless torment" and "eternal damnation" do not describe infinite duration but rather punishment that belongs to God, whose name is Endless and Eternal — a reframing that softens the traditional doctrine of permanent hellfire. The text also contains a vivid first-person account of Christ's atoning suffering in Gethsemane, describing how he bled from every pore and trembled under pain so that humanity might avoid equivalent suffering through repentance. Practically, the revelation instructs Harris specifically to fund the printing of the Book of Mormon, relinquish property beyond family needs, pay his debt to the printer, and dedicate himself to missionary preaching. The distinctive claims are its authoritative first-person divine voice delivered through Joseph Smith's prophetic channel, and its doctrinal innovation reinterpreting "eternal" punishment as descriptive of the punisher rather than the punishment's duration.

Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 19. Revelation through Joseph Smith to Martin Harris, Manchester, New York, March 1830.

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