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Response to claims made in Becoming Gods
Response to claims made in Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism by Richard Abanes
Summary: This book could best be described as an Evangelical apologetic work against Mormonism. The book spends much time refuting LDS interpretation of scriptural passages in the Bible, often claiming that Mormons have misinterpreted the scriptures and that they require "deeper study." In fact, it is claimed that LDS scholars have only a superficial knowledge of the scriptures, at one time stating that "[p]roperly interpreting them is not as simple as reading today's newspaper"
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- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Preface: Can't We All Just Get Along?"
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Chapter 1: God's Latter-Day Prophet"
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Chapter 2: And it Came to Pass"
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Chapter 3: Thus Saith Joseph"
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Chapter 4: One God Versus Many Gods"
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Chapter 5: Heavenly Father is a Man"
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Chapter 6: Siblings from Eternity Past"
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Chapter 7: After All We Can Do"
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Chapter 8: Ye Are Gods"
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Chapter 9: More Than One Wife"
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods, "Chapter 10: The 'Christian' Question"
Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Response to claims made in "Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows" by Will Bagley
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- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Front matter"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 2: The Battle-Ax of the Lord"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 3: Political Hacks, Robbers, and Whoremongers"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 4: The Arkansas Travelers"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 5: I Will Fight Them and I Will Fight All Hell"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 6: We Are American Citizens and Shall Not Move"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 7: The Knife and Tomahawk"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 8: The Work of Death"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 9: The Scene of Blood and Carnage"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 10: Plunder"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 11: All Hell Is in Commotion"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 12: I Have Slain My Children"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 13: Vengeance Is Mine"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 14: A Hideous Lethargic Dream"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 15: Lonely Dell"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 16: As False as the Hinges of Hell: The Trials of John D. Lee"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 17: He Died Game: The Execution of John D. Lee"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 18: The Mountain Meadow Dogs"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 19: Nothing but the Truth Is Good Enough"
- Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Epilogue: The Ghosts of Mountain Valley"
- Responses to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Appendix"
Response to claims made in By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri
Response to claims made in "By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri" by Charles Larson