Policy
How Content Is Presented
How this website labels beliefs, interpretations, positions and verified information, and how changes are recorded.
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Kinds of content
The church’s website brings together different kinds of material. To help you understand what you’re reading, documents are labelled by type:
- Statement of belief — the church’s religious convictions, in summary.
- Faith interpretation — the church’s interpretation of science, history, or scripture. These are presented as interpretations, not as established findings.
- Position document — the church’s statements on legal or organizational questions. These are the church’s positions, not government determinations or legal advice.
- Reference index — lists of the scriptures, laws and books the church cites, with links to the original texts.
Original wording and additions
Every word published on the church’s previous website has been carried over word for word, including its original spelling, capitalisation, emphasis and struck-through text (shown with a line through it). That wording appears inside framed sections marked Verbatim · previous website, each naming the page it came from.
Everything written for this website — summaries, abstracts, navigation help, notices about forms and this page — is marked Added for this website or shown in a separate, clearly styled box. Summaries aim to represent the church’s views in plain language; where a summary and the original wording differ, the original wording is the church’s own text.
Statements in the original wording about legal, tax or government standing are the church’s own and have not been verified for this website.
Dates
Where the original documents carried no date, they are labelled Undated in source, and the date they were summarized for this website is shown separately. Dates are never estimated.
Changes
When the substance of a document changes, a revision note is added to the bottom of the page explaining what changed and when.
What this website won’t do
This website does not offer legal, tax, medical or mental-health advice; does not describe how to obtain or use any controlled substance; and does not present relationships with other organizations as endorsements unless those organizations have confirmed them.