False Doctrine

• Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 21

The teaching of a specific false doctrine was made a bar to communion by a Bishop, which decision was sanctioned by the first presidency.

• Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 79

Joseph explains how overenthusiastic supporters of the gathering to Zion may have lead some to misapprehend the true nature of the gathering and how likewise these misapprehensions had led some to declare that children, wives, and slaves were being encouraged to gather even contrary to the wishes of their respective parents, husbands, and masters.

Joseph makes clear both that the Elders should show proper respect to authority in their efforts to encourage gathering, and that such a principle of encouraging such hasty and negligent gathering was not a true principle of our doctrine.

• Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 128-129

False doctrine regarding communal wives discussed.
One Dr. Avard is going about teaching false doctrine which he false claims come from the First Presidency.