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A work by author: Walter Martin, Hank Hanegraaff (editor)

Index to claims made in The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised edition)

This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FAIRwiki. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible. This index only treats the section of the book dealing with Mormonism.

182

  • Joseph Smith practiced "occult peep-stone seeking."
Page Claim Response Author's sources

179

  •  Author's quote: [I]n keeping with the acceleration of cult propoganda everywhere, the Mormons have around 50,000 "missionaries" active today
  • Author's opinion

180

  • The book claims that Latter-day Saints are cautioned against the use of "caffeine-bearing drinks, such as Coca-Cola."
  • No source provided.

181

  • Tithing is claimed to be one-tenth of gross income.
  • No source provided.

181, n3

  • Utah "shows that rates of divorce, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, and suicide are above the national average and climbing."
  • No source provided.

182

  •  Author's quote: Mormons…flourish a pseudo-mastery of Scripture before the uninformed Christian's dazzled eyes and confuse him, sometimes beyond description.
  • Author's opinion

182

  • The book refers to the "young and boastful Joseph Smith…"
  • No source provided.

182

It is claimed that Joseph Smith's statement that "no man knows my history" resulted in "endless suspicion by Mormon historians and non-Mormons" who began researching it.

  • This claim is absurd. The history of the Church has been of intense interest to historians since the Church was formed.
  • No source provided.
  • No source provided.

182

  • Joseph Smith practices "treasure digging."
  • No source provided.

182

  • Joseph Smith committed "adultery before the polygamy prophecy."
  • No source provided.

182

  • Joseph Smith proclaimed that the Book of Mormon "is the most correct of any book on earth."
  • No source provided.

182

  • Joseph Smith said "I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam…"
  • History of the Church, 6:408-409

183

  • According to D. Michael Quinn, Joseph Smith Sr. was a "mystic" and a treasure digger.

183

  • Joseph Smith Jr. was "interested in treasure seeking even after he became president of the LDS Church.

183

  • D. Michael Quinn was excommunicated "after refusing to keep silent about his unflattering research."

184

  • Brigham Young wanted to suppress Lucy Mack Smith's history because it had "many mistakes."
  • Millennial Star, 17:297-298, personal letter dated January 31, 1885.

184

  •  Author's quote: It is interesting to observe that Smith could not have been too much moved by the heavenly vision, for he shortly took up once again the habit of digging for treasure along with his father and brother, who were determined to unearth treasure by means of 'peep stones,' 'divining rods,' or just plain digging.
  • No source provided

184

  • Joseph is claimed to have gone "on record as denying that he had ever been a money-digger."
  • Joseph Smith, History, 1:55

184

  • Joseph "took part in and personally supervised numerous treasure-digging expeditions" and "claimed supernatural powers."
  • Gleanings by the Way, by J.A. Clark, 225.

184

  • A hearing 1826 ruled that Joseph was "guilty of money-digging."

186

  • The angel Moroni was originally identified as Nephi.
  • 1851 edition of the Pearl of Great Price.
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?, 5th edition, (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1987), 136.
  • Times and Seasons, vol. 3, 753

186

  •  Author's quote: This unfortunate crossing up of the divine communication system was later remedied by thoughful Mormon scribes who have exercised great care to ferret out all the historical and factual blunders not readily explainable in the writings of Smith...

187, n10

  • "Reformed Egyptian" has never been seen by any "leading Egyptologist.
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