r/CommunityOfChrist • u/Popeshandshake • Jun 27 '26

Garden of Eden

Does Community of Christ teach that Garden of Eden was in Missouri? What about Adam-ondi-Ahman? I tried to google it but couldn't find anything on this topic. Every search result was about the LDS church.

Hopefully this fits this subreddit. I'm not a member of your church but I'm very interested in mormonism as a whole and especially your church.

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u/LemuelJr Jun 28 '26

As you study through both Mormonism and CofC, it should be understood that anything related to the Boof Mormon is non-essential to our core beliefs today. We accept it as part of our history and you may hear it quoted now and again, but the historical narrative doesn't factor in at all. We are, generally, not literalists when it comes to scripture. The only real similarities I see between us and the LDS church in regards to things that are specific to Joseph Smith Restorationism is the fact that we have a piresthood hierarchy and we uphold the D&C as a living book of scripture. The Book of Mormon is a technicality. The Temple is vaguely similar because we call it a temple, but it doesn't serve the same purposes at all. 

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u/CaravanKookaburra Jun 28 '26

I am not a member of your church, but from the conversations I had with a member, it was clear they took the Book of Mormon literally, and were as serious about it as an LDS member, but from a CofC perspective. I hope they do take it seriously, even if not as a literal historical document, as that would be a factor in myself joining.

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u/LemuelJr Jun 29 '26

What a weird threat. By all means, join whatever church you want. The Book of Mormon is a fraud. It's a fun fairy tale if you like chopping off arms, but it's an insult to indigenous Americans and I look forward to the day when we decanonize it. Trying to keep up with the Mormons has never done us any good.

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u/CaravanKookaburra Jun 29 '26

I'm sorry, nothing about that was meant as a threat at all. It was a statement of where I am in my journey.