Mormons believe that we have a living prophet, who holds the keys and communicates with God, receiving current revelation and directing us. We believe that the Gospel of Jesus Christ was lost from the earth with the deaths of Jesus's original apostles. Other churches have tried to preserve what was left, and did preserve the Bible and a lot of good things, but there were changes and some things were lost. The authority that Jesus gave to his apostles and that the Old Testament prophets had was lost. We believe that that authority was restored to a modern prophet, and that the same church that existed from the time of Adam and through the Old and New Testaments was restored.

We believe in the Bible, but have other scripture also, such as the Book of Mormon, which tells about the people in the Americas (descendants of a group that was led out of Jerusalem around 600 B.C.), as well as modern scripture. We believe that God continues to speak to His children on earth, as He did in Biblical times.