2 Nephi 28:3

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3 For it shall come to pass in that day that the churches which are built up, and not unto the Lord, when the one shall say unto the other: Behold, I, I am the Lord’s; and the others shall say: I, I am the Lord’s; and thus shall every one say that hath built up churches, and not unto the Lord—

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“I am the Lord’s”

The Church, we may say, is his, only if he [Jesus Christ] is the founder of it. No painter, no matter how much of an artist he is, can make a genuine Rembrandt.

George Reynolds and Janne M. Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 1:403