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|sublink1=Response to claim: 239 - "The Book of Commandments...contains nothing on such important events as Joseph's first vision" | |||
|sublink2=Response to claim: 239 - The Book of Commandments states that it was the Book of Mormon that constituted Joseph's call to the work | |||
|sublink3=Response to claim: 239, n5 - Oliver Cowdery claimed that it was Moroni that called Joseph to the work rather than Jesus in the First Vision | |||
|sublink4=Response to claim: 239 - Joseph viewed his First Vision in "evangelical Protestant fashion" until 1838 and "viewed his epiphany" in this fashion until 1838 | |||
|sublink5=Response to claim: 240, n7 - Joseph is claimed to "not yet mention the appearance of God the Father" in his 1835 First Vision account | |||
|sublink6=Response to claim: 240 - The author claims that Joseph rewrote his personal conversion experience in 1838 to satisfy institutional needs | |||
|sublink7=Response to claim: 240, n8 - The 1820 revival described by Joseph better fits the 1824-25 revival | |||
|sublink8=Response to claim: 242, n14 - William Smith said that the revival occurred in 1823 | |||
|sublink9=Response to claim: 242, n15 - Oliver Cowdery said that the revival that affected Joseph came in 1823 | |||
|sublink10=Response to claim: 245 "If his report that "all the sects...united to persecute me" were accurate, one would expect to find some hint of this in the local newspapers" | |||
|sublink11=Response to claim: 245, n27 - In 1838, Joseph is claimed to have shifted his calling from 1823 to 1820 because of apostasy in the Church | |||
|sublink12=Response to claim: 246, n31 - Martin Harris is claimed to have publicly stated that "none of the witnesses had physically seen or handled the plates" and that they had not seen them with their "natural eyes" | |||
|sublink13=Response to claim: 248, n44-45 - The author claims that Joseph wrote his 1838 narrative to secure his position and authority within the church | |||
|sublink14=Response to claim: 251 - Joseph moved his calling from 1823 to 1820 in order to disassociate himself from "troubling questions" regarding the Book of Mormon witnesses, who had left the Church | |||
|sublink15=Response to claim: 251-252 - The author claims that Joseph's motive for praying was different in the 1832 account than in the 1838 account | |||
|sublink16=Response to claim: 252 - The author claims that Joseph "knows that the pure gospel is not on the earth and therefore does not ask which church is right" | |||
|sublink17=Response to claim: 252 - "During the leadership crisis of April 1838, Joseph remembered a different purpose in going to pray" | |||
|sublink18=Response to claim: 253, n51 - Joseph is claimed to have "sought membership with the Methodists in Harmony, Pennsylvania" in 1828, well after he was instructed to join no churches in 1820 | |||
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Index to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
A FAIR Analysis of: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins A work by author: Grant Palmer
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This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within FairMormon Answers.
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