Original sentence: Although the steady growth of the Church during the late twentieth century seems to have justified the use of faith-promoting history, some church leaders have recently encouraged Latter-day Saints to study the history of the Church more freely,  even while they continue to discourage members from reading explicitly anti-Mormon literature.Faith-promoting history is a term commonly used by critics of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  to describe  historical works that tend to ignore some controversial aspects of the history of Church.Roberts, the LDS Church Historian from 1901 until his death in 1933, asserted that the authenticity of the Restoration must stand or fall on the truth of Joseph Smith’s claims for the Book of Mormon, and Roberts predicted that if church leaders did not address the historical difficulties of church origins  --which he found troubling--  the problems would eventually undermine the faith of the Youth of the Church.The LDS faith is subject to historical questioning because, unlike other nineteenth-century religious movements such as Bahai, Shakerism, and Christian Science, Mormonism is a religious belief predicated on both the historicity of a prophet’s testimony and a sacred book that describes a detailed pre-Columbian history of North America
Edited sentence: Although the steady growth of the Church during the late twentieth century seems to have justified the use of faith-promoting history, some church leaders have recently encouraged Latter-day Saints to study the history of the Church more freely, even while they continue to discourage members from reading explicitly anti-Mormon literature.Faith-promoting history is a term commonly used to describe history that tends to ignore more controversial aspects of the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Roberts, the LDS Church Historian from 1901 until his death in 1933, asserted that the authenticity of the Restoration must stand or fall on the truth of Joseph Smith’s claims for the Book of Mormon, and Roberts predicted that if church leaders did not address the historical difficulties of church origins--which he found troubling--the problems would eventually undermine the faith of the Youth of the Church.The LDS faith is especially vulnerable to historical questioning because, unlike other nineteenth-century religious movements such as Bahai, Shakerism, and Christian Science, Mormonism is a religious belief predicated on both the historicity of a prophet’s testimony and a sacred book that describes a detailed pre-Columbian history of North America