Callister is an emeritus General Authority Seventy and former Sunday School general president. ![]() And what a blessing it will be to feast upon and treasure up its inspired words during the coming year. There will always be some seemingly intellectual crisis looming on the horizon as long as faith is required and our minds are finite, but likewise there will always be the sure and solid doctrines of the Restoration to cling to, which will provide the rock foundation upon which our testimonies may be built. This witness of all witnesses bears powerful testimony to the honest in heart that this book is not man-made but God-given. They exchange the absolute certainty of the Restoration for a doubt, and in that process they fall into the trap of losing faith in the many things they do know because of a few things they do not know. Yet sorrowfully, on occasion, some are willing to set aside the precious gospel truths restored by Joseph Smith because they get diverted on some historical issue or some scientific hypothesis not central to their exaltation, and in so doing they trade their spiritual birthright for a mess of pottage. “Yes, Joseph Smith did see angels and visions-because he was the instrument in God’s hands to restore the same Church of Jesus Christ as existed in primitive times-all of its powers as well as all of its doctrines. He and his wife, Kathryn Louise Saporiti, are the parents of six children.more He is the author of the best-selling books The Infinite Atonement, A Case for the Book of Mormon, The Inevitable Apostasy, and The Blueprint of Christ's Church. He spent most of his professional career practicing tax law. ![]() Brother Callister received a BS in accounting from Brigham Young University, a JD from the University of California-Los Angeles, and an MS in tax law from New York University Law School. He served in the Presidency of the Seventy from 2011 until 2014 when he was called as Sunday School General President. Callister is an emeritus General Authority Seventy and was the 21st Sunday School General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and his wife, Kathryn Louise Saporiti, are the parents of si Tad R. ![]()
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