D&C Section Seventy Four

Here is one of the first sections of the D&C that came about because of a question Joseph had concerning something he found in the New Testament. In the early church, evidently there was a movement among the members that when one spouse converted to the church, they left the marriage if the other spouse didn't also convert. Verse 1 is the scripture Joseph is asking the Lord about. The Lord's counsel is for the spouse to remain in the marriage because they will be a blessing to the non-member spouse. The other point of the revelation is that children are innocent and in the time of Paul it was no longer necessary to keep the law of Moses, especially circumcision, as it no longer was a sanctifying ordinance for the male child.