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Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration: Difference between revisions
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*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions#"Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834."|Response to section: "Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834."]] | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions#"Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834."|Response to section: "Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834."]] | ||
*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions#"Joseph | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions#"Why did it take five years for Joseph or Oliver to tell members of the Church about the priesthood?"|Response to section: "Why did it take five years for Joseph or Oliver to tell members of the Church about the priesthood?"]] | ||
*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions#"Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery changed the wording of earlier revelations when they compiled the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants"|Response to section: "Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery changed the wording of earlier revelations when they compiled the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants"]] {{InProgress}} | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions#"Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery changed the wording of earlier revelations when they compiled the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants"|Response to section: "Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery changed the wording of earlier revelations when they compiled the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants"]] {{InProgress}} | ||
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*The author assumes that Joseph and Oliver told no members of the church for five years. All we know is that it did not appear in ''writing'' for three years (the author assumes five years), based upon known documents. Since this section of Joseph's history is in the writing of Frederick G. Williams, it is a given that it ''was'' being discussed with members of the Church at that time. | *The author assumes that Joseph and Oliver told no members of the church for five years. All we know is that it did not appear in ''writing'' for three years (the author assumes five years), based upon known documents. Since this section of Joseph's history is in the writing of Frederick G. Williams, it is a given that it ''was'' being discussed with members of the Church at that time. | ||
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===="Why did it take five years for Joseph or Oliver to tell members of the Church about the priesthood?"==== | |||
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*If Oliver was covering up a fraud on the part of Joseph Smith when he talked of receiving the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods, then why didn't he expose the fraud after he fell into disagreement with Joseph Smith and was excommunicated from the Church? | *If Oliver was covering up a fraud on the part of Joseph Smith when he talked of receiving the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods, then why didn't he expose the fraud after he fell into disagreement with Joseph Smith and was excommunicated from the Church? | ||
*Why, in fact, did Oliver continue to insist that the events related to the restoration of the Priesthood actually happened? | *Why, in fact, did Oliver continue to insist that the events related to the restoration of the Priesthood actually happened? | ||
Revision as of 18:09, 13 July 2013
| [[../Testimony & Spiritual Witness Concerns & Questions|Testimony & Spiritual Witness Concerns & Questions"]] | A FAIR Analysis of:
[[../|Letter to a CES Director]] |
[[../Witnesses Concerns & Questions|Witnesses Concerns & Questions]] |
A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions"
- Response to section: "Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834."
- Response to section: "Why did it take five years for Joseph or Oliver to tell members of the Church about the priesthood?"
- Response to section: "Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery changed the wording of earlier revelations when they compiled the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants" [Work in Progress]