By looking at past teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and comparing them to present-day teaching, we find countless contradictions, false prophecies, and back-and-forth doctrinal changes. As we shall see in later chapters, Church leaders prophesied that the United States government would be overthrown in the 1800s, that the Civil War would fail to end black slavery, and that Utah would not gain statehood by abandoning polygamy. They have also reversed their teaching on