Hebrew Roots of Mormonism

Attorney David Thomas presents a sweeping thesis: early Christianity split into Hebrew, Hellenized (Greek), and Gnostic branches, and the Hebrew Christians—who believed in an embodied God, deification, premortal life, temple ordinances, and continuing revelation—were the true original church. Crushed at the Council of Nicaea and erased for 1,500 years, their doctrines re-emerged with Joseph Smith. Drawing on early Church Fathers, apocrypha, and LDS scripture, the book explains why other Christians reject Mormons and reframes the Restoration as a return, not a reformation.

• Answers the perennial question 'Are Mormons really Christian?' with a bold historical reframe
• Marshals early Church Fathers and Bart Ehrman scholarship to argue LDS doctrines are ancient, not invented
• Casts Nicaea as a political coup that erased the original faith—provocative narrative hook
• Connects Joseph Smith's Restoration to a 1,500-year-old 'lost' Christianity

“There came a time in Christianity where there was a divergence in the road—one road led to traditional Christianity and the other led to Mormon Christianity, and as the poet suggests, "that has made all the difference."”

Perfect for a doctrinally curious Latter-day Saint who wants historical and patristic ammunition to argue that the LDS Church restores authentic ancient Christianity.