This page is about the NAME of the Mormon church.  Officially, we like to call ourselves...
"Church of Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ" *

Our founder was an uneducated farmer.  He gave us the name...
"Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"
This is wrong!  - - LOOK:

The word of is directional.
Of  indicates possession or belonging.  Examples:   Jesus of Nazareth...  King of the Jews...  state of mind.

Of means that the first thing belongs to the second. It never means that the second thing belongs to the first.   Don't go to sleep now...

Of, as far as it has been translated correctly, has that meaning.  It's like so:

THIS	belongs-to	THAT
men	of	the north
Jesus	of	Nazareth
king	of	the Jews
state	of	mind
I am	of	the opinion

'Belongs-to' also can mean 'is part of', or 'is owned by'.  (You can think of the first  word to be a subset of the second.)

 

THIS	belongs-to	THAT
church first part	of	Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints second part
		THIS	belongs-to	THAT
The second part    has two parts:		Jesus Christ	of	Latter-day Saints

This means that Jesus Christ belongs to the Latter day Saints.
...But THIS IS COMPLETELY BACKWARDS!

The grammar is right, but the meaning is wrong:
Jesus Christ doesn't belong to the Latter-day Saints.
It's the Latter-day Saints that belong to Jesus Christ!

Thus, the name of the LDS church is wrong. Anyone with knowledge of English can see that the name of the church should be...

Church of Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ
 

Bonus Point: The Chosen People --
 What does the word saint  mean?  A saint is a chosen person who is better than everybody else.
 Definition at www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=saint

 AXIS of FAITH  - FAMILY VALUES

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Lets look at the proper use of the apostrophe' which let's us show possession to you and I.

* In 2001 The leaders of the Mormon church announced that they don't like the name Mormon.
  We believe that it is better than the current one.

The grammar is right, but the meaning is wrong...  In Mormonism, meaning is often a secondary concern. We're a peculiar people.  For example, we teach that the Bible is true, as far as it has been translated correctly.  But the false, not to be translated parts are not identified.  Joseph Smith, the inventor of Mormonism, spent much of his life bringing meaning to Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, and tried to rectify this Bible-problem by re-translating it, but he did not finish the work.  Bush's meaning...

LINKS
The Adamic Dictionary
[external] Mometic Lexicon
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