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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Index/Chapter 1
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 2: Change, Censorship and Suppression" (28–37)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 29 - John Taylor said that we are not ashamed of polygamy
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 29 - Brigham Young said that the only men who become gods are those who enter into polygamy
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 29 - Bruce R. McConkie said that plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 31 - Joseph Smith drank beer despite having received the Word of Wisdom
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 33 - Joseph encouraged others to break the Word of Wisdom by drinking whiskey
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 33 - Joseph asked for a pipe and tobacco to settle Willard Richards' stomach
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 34 - Brigham Young ordered the destruction of Lucy Mack Smith's history Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith published by Orson Pratt in 1853
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 3: Changes in Revelations" (38-63)
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Index/Chapter 4
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Joseph Smith and Money-Digging" (64–89)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 67-70 - Joseph Smith was convicted of "glass looking" in 1826
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 72 - Hugh Nibley is claimed to have said that "...if this court record is authentic it is the most damning evidence in existence against Joseph Smith"
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 75 - Joseph Smith was "deeply involved in money-digging"
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 79 - Joseph said that the angel told him to "quit the company of the money-diggers"
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 80 - The author proposed that Joseph fastened two of his seer stones together to make his "Urim and Thummim"
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 80 - Joseph's father-in-law Isaac Hale claimed that Joseph's occupation was "pretending to see by means of a stone placed in his hat"
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 82 - Joseph Fielding Smith "admitted" that the "seer stone" was sometimes called the Urim and Thummim
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 83 - Mormon apologists have difficulty explaining Joseph's use of seer stones
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 84 - The plates didn't even have to be present while Joseph was translating
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 84 - Joseph Smith originally wanted to obtain the plates in order to get rich, and he was rebuked by the angel
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 85 - The authors say that Brigham Young claimed that a chest of money "moved by itself" into the bank
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 86 - Joseph is claimed to have attempted to "cover up" Oliver Cowdery's alleged work with a divining rod by changing a revelation
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 87 - Joseph went to Salem, Massachusetts to look for money hidden in a cellar
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 89 - Joseph Smith is claimed to have had a "Jupiter Talisman" in his possession at the time of his death
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Index/Chapter 5
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 5: The Book of Mormon" (90–144)
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Index/Chapter 6
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 6: The First Vision" (145–171)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 149 - Oliver Cowdery's 1834 attempt at writing a history of the Church ignored the First Vision
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 149-150 - In 1832, 12 years after the First Vision, Joseph had a revelation that said that a man could not see God without the priesthood
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 150 - There were no references to the First Vision in the 1830s
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 152 - Joseph's 1832 account mentions that he was in the 16th year of his age rather than the 15th
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 154 - The 1832 account only mentions one personage
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 156 - The personages in the 1835 version are not explicitly identified as God the Father and Jesus Christ
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 157 - The 1835 account talks about a visitation of angels instead of the Father and Son
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 159 - Joseph's claim of seeing the Father and the Son was not unique
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 160 - Oliver Cowdery's 1834 history in the Messenger and Advocate did not mention the First Vision
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 162 - "Mormon apologists are beginning to retreat from the idea that God the Father appeared to Joseph Smith"
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 162-163 - The Book of Mormon teaches that there is only one God
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 164 - Brigham Young denied that the Lord came to Joseph Smith in the First Vision
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 164 - John Taylor claimed that an angel appeared during the First Vision
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 164 - George A. Smith claimed that an angel appeared during the First Vision
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| − | |sublink15=Response to claim: 166-171 - There was no revival in the area where Joseph Smith lived in 1820
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Index/Chapter 7
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 7: The Godhead" (172-191)
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 8: Adam-God Doctrine" (192–204)
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Index/Chapter 9
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 9: Plural marriage" (205-290)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 205 - The 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants had a section denouncing polygamy
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 207 - Section 101 was replaced with Section 132 in 1876
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 207 - A revelation on plural marriage given in 1831 was "suppressed" which said that the Indians would become "white and delightsome"
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 208-209 - Spencer Kimball believed that the Indians were becoming a "white and delightsome" people
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 212 - Brigham Young believed that the Indians skin would become white through intermarriage
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 214 - Church leaders did not approve of interracial marriage
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 215 - Oliver Cowdery believed that Joseph had an improper relationship with Fanny Alger
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 219 - Lorenzo Snow said that anyone who had a plural marriage prior to the date of the revelation (July 12, 1843) was living in adultery
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 219 - It is claimed that Mormon leaders say that the 1843 revelation was actually received earlier
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 220 - Brigham Young said that he lived "above the law"
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 220 - Polygamy is forbidden by the Book of Mormon
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 220-221 - Joseph F. Smith and Orson Pratt said that the Book of Mormon forbid polygamy
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 222 - Joseph took wives without his first wife's consent
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| − | |sublink15=Response to claim: 225 - It is claimed that LDS leaders were worried that the missionaries would "take the best women"
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| − | |sublink16=Response to claim: 226 - Heber C. Kimball remarked on the "great sorrow" of plural marriage
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| − | |sublink17=Response to claim: 226 - Brigham Young spoke of the "problems" of plural marriage
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| − | |sublink18=Response to claim: 228 - Brigham Young offered to let any wife go who wanted to
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| − | |sublink19=Response to claim: 230-231 - Joseph and Emma fought about plural marriage
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| − | |sublink20=Response to claim: 231 - Joseph had between 27 to "sixty or more" wives
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| − | |sublink21=Response to claim: 231 - There is a rumor that Emma beat Eliza Snow with a broomstick and caused her to fall down the stairs, preventing her from having Joseph's child
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| − | |sublink22=Response to claim: 233 - Brigham Young had "fifty or sixty" wives, and boasted of his ability to obtain more
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| − | |sublink23=Response to claim: 234 - Mormon men believed that they "could have all the wives they wanted." Heber C. Kimball said that in the resurrection, he could have "thousands" of wives
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| − | |sublink24=Response to claim: 236 - Joseph asked for other men's wives, such as the wife of Heber C. Kimball
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| − | |sublink25=Response to claim: 237 - Joseph married Heber C. Kimball's daughter, Helen
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| − | |sublink26=Response to claim: 239 - Joseph married Zina, the wife of Henry Jacobs
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| − | |sublink27=Response to claim: 239 - Brigham Young publicly told Henry Jacobs to find another wife
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| − | |sublink28=Response to claim: 239-240 - Some women who were associated with Joseph claimed that they did not know who the father of their children were
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| − | |sublink29=Response to claim: 243 - Joseph performed a "pretended" marriage for time for Sarah Ann Whitney to Joseph Kingsbury
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| − | |sublink30=Response to claim: 245-246 - The Bible prohibited a man from marrying sisters or mothers and daughters, therefore Mormon polygamy was not Biblical
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| − | |sublink31=Response to claim: 246-247 - Joseph sealed brothers and sisters together
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| − | |sublink32=Response to claim: 248 - Brigham said that monogamy was a "fruitful source of prostitution and whoredom"
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| − | |sublink33=Response to claim: 249 - Some Mormons believed that Joseph taught that Adam had two wives
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| − | |sublink34=Response to claim: 249-251 - Early Church leaders taught that Jesus was married to more than one wife
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| − | |sublink35=Response to claim: 258 - Brigham Young said that the "only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy"
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| − | |sublink36=Response to claim: 258-259 - Polygamy was practiced in secret and denied publicly
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| − | |sublink37=Response to claim: 262-263 - John Taylor stated that he believed in keeping every law except the law against polygamy
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| − | |sublink38=Response to claim: 263 - Brigham Young said the polygamy would never go away
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| − | |sublink39=Response to claim: 270-281 - Polygamy was practiced after the Manifesto was issued
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Index/Chapter 10
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 10: Changing the Anti-Black Doctrine" (291–328)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 291-293 - It was taught that the denial of priesthoods to blacks was due to some behavior in the pre-existence
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 294 - Blacks were said to be the descendants of Cain
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 302 - Joseph Smith is said to have endorsed slavery
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 303 - Slavery was accepted in Utah
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 306 - Church leaders defended segregation
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 312-314 - Brigham Young said that blacks would not received the priesthood until all of Adam's other children received it
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Index/Chapter 11
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 11: Fall of the Book of Abraham" (329–364)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 329-330 - Joseph claimed that the papyrus was written by Abraham himself
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 330-331 - Hugh Nibley said that the papyri does not prove the Book of Abraham to be true and the LDS scholars were unprepared
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 335 - Since the translation of the papyri was turned over to Hugh Nibley, this proves that the prophet does not have the ability to translate ancient records
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 336 - Facsimile 1 does not show Abraham fastened to an altar being sacrificed, but instead shows Hor being prepared for burial
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 337 - LDS leaders were unable to detect the Hofmann forgeries
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 339 - "Mormon elder" Dee Jay Nelson, who claimed to be an Egyptologist, translated the papyri but was unable to find any mention of Abraham
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 342 - Joseph Smith translated a "large number of English words" from each Egyptian character
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 343 - Joseph used four lines from the papyrus to generate 49 verses in the Book of Abraham
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 351 - The papyri have been dated to a much later time than Abraham, therefore they could not have been written by Abraham's "own hand on papyrus"
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 358-361 - In Facsimile #1, the penciled-in restoration is incorrect
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Index/Chapter 12
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 12: Mormon Scriptures and the Bible" (365–397)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 365 - The Bible has secondary status in the Mormon Church
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 365 - Joseph Smith taught that the Bible contains errors
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 365 - Thomas Paine's book The Age of Reason influenced early Church leaders to criticize the Bible
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 366-367 - Orson Pratt attacked the accuracy of the Bible
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 368 - A phrase concerning baptism was later added to the Book of Mormon quotation of Isaiah 48:1, quoted in 1 Nephi 20:1
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 371-373 - The authors suggest that the Dead Sea Scrolls "present serious problems" for the Book of Mormon and the Joseph Smith "Inspired Version" of the Bible
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 378-379 - LDS leaders claimed that "Catholics conspired to alter the Bible," but this is proven wrong by the Dead Sea Scrolls
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 383 - The "Inspired Version" of the Bible has been a "source of much embarrassment" for leaders of the Church
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 383 - The Church would never allow the Inspired Version of the Bible to be printed
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 385 - The contents of the "Inspired Version" of the Bible contradict doctrines taught by the Mormon church
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 385-386 - Joseph Fielding Smith said that the "Inspired Version" was never completed, yet Joseph Smith stated that he completed the translation of the Bible
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 393 - Joseph's "Inspired Version" of the Bible does not restore any of the "lost books" of the Bible
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| − | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 13: Changes in Joseph Smith's History" (398–415)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 398 - Mormon leaders claim that "Joseph Smith's" 'History of the Church' is the "most accurate history in all the world"
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 400-401 - The History of the Church was not written by Joseph Smith himself
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 403-404 - Much of the History of the Church was completed after Joseph Smith's death. This means that Joseph Smith's history is not "authentic"
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 405 - The "Rocky Mountain prophecy" was added to the history of the Church sometime after the original was written
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 408 - The angel that gave Joseph Smith the plates was originally identified as "Nephi" rather than "Moroni." History of the Church changed it to "Moroni"
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 415 - Most of Joseph Smith's history was written by his scribes and modified to read as if it were written in the first person, therefore this history must be a forgery
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