Denver Snuffer Jr.

Snuffer grew up in a devout Baptist household in Mountain Home, Idaho, and in 1973 converted to the LDS Church in New Hampshire during early adulthood. He received degrees from Daniel Webster Junior College and McMurry University and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School. Peggy Fletcher Stack, religion columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, has expressed Snuffer's thesis in Passing the Heavenly Gift, as "every Mormon prophet, starting with Brigham Young, caved to social, political and legal pressures to accommodate mainstream American society". Snuffer states in the book that he has seen and spoken with Jesus. Snuffer characterized this description of him as sensationalized. Snuffer's book, The Second Comforter: Conversing With the Lord Through the Veil, outlines a process for receiving a personal visitation from the resurrected Jesus. Snuffer's negotiations with his stake president resulted in an impasse—with Snuffer claiming that his stake president received instructions from LDS Church leaders in Salt Lake City to proceed In November 2013, Snuffer said his appeal to the First Presidency of the church to have the excommunication reversed was denied. ==Christian fellowships of "the remnants" movement==

Snuffer intended Passing the Heavenly Gift and his other works to promote loyalty to the LDS Church and did not expect to be instrumental in starting a new denomination. In 2014, Snuffer said that "the Lord terminated the priesthood authority" of all church leadership who were involved in his excommunication, including the First Presidency. Since then, Snuffer has been at the center of a loosely organized movement who see him as a prophet. As of 2017, approximately 50 fellowships worldwide have registered on an affiliated website. Fellowships adherents gathered in conferences in 2016 and 2017, the latter of which canonized Snuffer's teachings as scripture. The movement's canon consists of, among other texts, a reworking of scripture from the LDS Church, including the Book of Mormon, Snuffer's expanded translation of the Book of John, and several of Snuffer's own revelations. The movement de-emphasizes hierarchy and organization, with, for example, its Minnesota fellowship claiming to have no leadership. Movement fellowship appears to draw largely from members or former members of the LDS Church, which has led some LDS Church authorities to identify Snuffer and his teachings as a vehicle for leading people out of that church. In 2017, the website MormonLeaks published a PowerPoint presentation that was shown in 2015 to the LDS Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. In it, Snuffer was identified as one of 17 "Issues and Ideas Leading People Away" from mainstream LDS doctrine. In September 2017, Snuffer helped organize the Covenant of Christ Conference in Boise, Idaho, at the Egyptian Theater. The conference voted on the canonization of scripture, and discussed the building of a temple. ==Publications==

;Books • The Second Comforter: Conversing with the Lord Through the Veil (Mill Creek Press, 2006) • ''Nephi's Isaiah'' (Mill Creek Press, 2006) • Eighteen Verses: A Discussion of the Book of Mormon (Mill Creek Press, 2007) • Ten Parables (Mill Creek Press, 2008) • Beloved Enos (Mill Creek Pres, 2009) • Come, Let Us Adore Him (Mill Creek Press, 2009) • Removing the Condemnation (Mill Creek Press, 2011) • Discoveries in Chiasmus - A Pattern in All Things (co-authored, Digital Legend Press, 2011) ASIN B00PV6PB0M • Passing the Heavenly Gift (Mill Creek Press, 2011) • Remembering the Covenant (5 vols., Mill Creek Press, 2013) • Essays: Three Degrees (Mill Creek Press, 2014) • Preserving the Restoration (Mill Creek Press, 2015) • A Man Without Doubt (Mill Creek Press, 2016) • Religion of the Fathers: Context for the Book of Abraham (Independent, 2021) • The Testimony of Jesus: Past, Present and Promise (Restoration Archive, 2021) ;Selected articles • • ;Revelations and scriptural texts • • • ==See also==