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| + | |sublink1=Response to claim: 365 - The Bible has secondary status in the Mormon Church | ||
| + | |sublink2=Response to claim: 365 - Joseph Smith taught that the Bible contains errors | ||
| + | |sublink3=Response to claim: 365 - Thomas Paine's book The Age of Reason influenced early Church leaders to criticize the Bible | ||
| + | |sublink4=Response to claim: 366-367 - Orson Pratt attacked the accuracy of the Bible | ||
| + | |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 | ||
| + | |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 | ||
| + | |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 | ||
| + | |sublink8=Response to claim: 383 - The "Inspired Version" of the Bible has been a "source of much embarrassment" for leaders of the Church | ||
| + | |sublink9=Response to claim: 383 - The Church would never allow the Inspired Version of the Bible to be printed | ||
| + | |sublink10=Response to claim: 385 - The contents of the "Inspired Version" of the Bible contradict doctrines taught by the Mormon church | ||
| + | |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 | ||
| + | |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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Contents
- 1 Index to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism
- 1.1
- 1.2 Chapter 1
- 1.3 Chapter 2
- 1.4 Chapter 3
- 1.5 Chapter 4
- 1.6 Chapter 5
- 1.7 Chapter 6
- 1.8 Chapter 7
- 1.9 Chapter 8
- 1.10 Chapter 10
- 1.11 Chapter 11
- 1.12 Chapter 12
- 1.13 Chapter 13
- 1.14 Chapter 14
- 1.15 Chapter 15
- 1.16 Chapter 16
- 1.17 Chapter 17
- 1.18 Chapter 18
- 1.19 Chapter 19
- 1.20 Chapter 20
- 1.21 Chapter 21
- 1.22 Chapter 22
Index to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism
| A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FairMormon Answers Wiki.
Chapter 1
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 1: A Marvelous Work?" (1–27)Chapter 2
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 2: Change, Censorship and Suppression" (28–37)Chapter 3
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 3: Changes in Revelations" (38-63)Chapter 4
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Joseph Smith and Money-Digging" (64–89)Chapter 5
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 5: The Book of Mormon" (90–144)Chapter 6
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 6: The First Vision" (145–171)Chapter 7
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 7: The Godhead" (172-191)Chapter 8
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 8: Adam-God Doctrine" (192–204)- Chapter 9—
Brief Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 9: Plural marriage" (205-290) (Click here for full article)
- Response to claim: 205 - The 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants had a section denouncing polygamy
- Response to claim: 207 - Section 101 was replaced with Section 132 in 1876
- Response to claim: 207 - A revelation on plural marriage given in 1831 was "suppressed" which said that the Indians would become "white and delightsome"
- Response to claim: 208-209 - Spencer Kimball believed that the Indians were becoming a "white and delightsome" people
- Response to claim: 212 - Brigham Young believed that the Indians skin would become white through intermarriage
- Response to claim: 214 - Church leaders did not approve of interracial marriage
- Response to claim: 215 - Oliver Cowdery believed that Joseph had an improper relationship with Fanny Alger
- 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
- Response to claim: 219 - It is claimed that Mormon leaders say that the 1843 revelation was actually received earlier
- Response to claim: 220 - Brigham Young said that he lived "above the law"
- Response to claim: 220 - Polygamy is forbidden by the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 220-221 - Joseph F. Smith and Orson Pratt said that the Book of Mormon forbid polygamy
- Response to claim: 222 - Joseph took wives without his first wife's consent
- Response to claim: 225 - It is claimed that LDS leaders were worried that the missionaries would "take the best women"
- Response to claim: 226 - Heber C. Kimball remarked on the "great sorrow" of plural marriage
- Response to claim: 226 - Brigham Young spoke of the "problems" of plural marriage
- Response to claim: 228 - Brigham Young offered to let any wife go who wanted to
- Response to claim: 230-231 - Joseph and Emma fought about plural marriage
- Response to claim: 231 - Joseph had between 27 to "sixty or more" wives
- 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
- Response to claim: 233 - Brigham Young had "fifty or sixty" wives, and boasted of his ability to obtain more
- 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
- Response to claim: 236 - Joseph asked for other men's wives, such as the wife of Heber C. Kimball
- Response to claim: 237 - Joseph married Heber C. Kimball's daughter, Helen
- Response to claim: 239 - Joseph married Zina, the wife of Henry Jacobs
- Response to claim: 239 - Brigham Young publicly told Henry Jacobs to find another wife
- 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
- Response to claim: 243 - Joseph performed a "pretended" marriage for time for Sarah Ann Whitney to Joseph Kingsbury
- Response to claim: 245-246 - The Bible prohibited a man from marrying sisters or mothers and daughters, therefore Mormon polygamy was not Biblical
- Response to claim: 246-247 - Joseph sealed brothers and sisters together
- Response to claim: 248 - Brigham said that monogamy was a "fruitful source of prostitution and whoredom"
- Response to claim: 249 - Some Mormons believed that Joseph taught that Adam had two wives
- Response to claim: 249-251 - Early Church leaders taught that Jesus was married to more than one wife
- 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"
- Response to claim: 258-259 - Polygamy was practiced in secret and denied publicly
- Response to claim: 262-263 - John Taylor stated that he believed in keeping every law except the law against polygamy
- Response to claim: 263 - Brigham Young said the polygamy would never go away
- Response to claim: 270-281 - Polygamy was practiced after the Manifesto was issued
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