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*The Jaredites had steel swords, but "steel" in the Bible is actually bronze or iron. | |||
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*Interpreting "steel" as "bronze" undermines the claim that the Book of Mormon was translated correctly. | |||
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*William Hamblin, "Handheld Weapons in the Book of Mormon" 1985, FARMS. | |||
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*The compass was not yet invented. "Mormons" are claimed to defend this by using Acts 28:13, which is correctly rendered as "circle" instead of "compass". | |||
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*The Bible says that the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem, but the Book of Mormon says that he would be born "at Jerusalem." | |||
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*The Bible is claimed to contradict the Book of Mormon teaching that children cannot sin under eight years of age. | |||
*The Bible is claimed to place sin at the point of conception. | |||
*{{AuthorQuote|Anyone who thinks that children under age eight cannot sin has not visited the classrooms of today's schools.}} | |||
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*The Book of Mormon and D&C are claimed to contradict one another. According to the author, the Book of Mormon states that ""remission of sins is the accomplishment of baptism,"" while the D&C states ""the direct opposite,"" by claiming that remission of sins occurs before baptism. | |||
*The author claims that "Mormon theologians conspicuously omit any serious discussion of the contradiction." | |||
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*The author claims that the Book of Mormon condemns polygamy, and that this contradicts the D&C. | |||
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*The Book of Moses and Book of Abraham are claimed to be in conflict with one another. The Book of Moses talks of one God creating the earth, while the Book of Abraham talks of more than one god creating the earth. | |||
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*Joseph Smith's "Civil War Prophecy" is claimed to have been "drawn chiefly from material already published at the time." | |||
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*[[Joseph Smith prophecies/Civil War prophecy|Civil War prophecy]] | |||
*[[One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy|Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy]] | |||
*{{CrossRef:Abanes:One Nation|chapter=B|pages=461}} | |||
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*Boston Daily Advertiser & Patriot, December 10, 1832. | |||
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*Joseph "prophesied that he would possess the house he built at Nauvoo 'for ever and ever,'" yet the Nauvoo House was never completed. | |||
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*It is claimed regarding Joseph's prophecy concerning the restoration of Israel that he expected it to occur within his lifetime, when in reality the prophecy in Ezekiel 37 "began to be fulfilled in 1948, more than a hundred years after Smith's death." | |||
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* The statement from Joseph occurred around 1832 (see {{HC1|vol=4|start=375}} where Hyde dates this to ""about nine years"" before 1841). | |||
* The author's grasp of Zionism and Israeli history is poor. European Jews began immigrating in large numbers to Palestine in 1882, and immigration was already increasing from the 1840s-1880s. The ""gathering of the Jews"" began well before the establishment of the state of Israel, as the author appears to believe (see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah here]]). | |||
* The author does not believe that a dedication by Hyde has any effect, but he cannot prove that it did not, just as those with faith cannot ''prove'' that it did. | |||
*{{CrossRef:Abanes:One Nation|chapter=B|pages=463, 617n18}}" "*{{s||Ezekiel|37|}} | |||
*No source provided for Joseph Smith's prophecy of the restoration of Israel. | |||
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*The author claims that "numerous students of Mormonism" such as E.D. Howe, Pomeroy Tucker and William A. Linn believe that the Book of Mormon was based upon the writings of Solomon Spalding. Spalding is claimed to have "written a number of 'romances' with biblical backgrounds similar to those of the Book of Mormon." | |||
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*Howe, Tucker and Linn are not ""students of Mormonism"" - they were critics of the Church. | |||
*[[Book of Mormon and Spalding manuscript]] | |||
*[[The Hurlbut affidavits]] | |||
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*It is claimed that the "theological portions" of the Book of Mormon were added to Spalding's writings by Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery and Sidney Rigdon. | |||
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*[[Book of Mormon and Spalding manuscript]] | |||
*[[The Hurlbut affidavits]] | |||
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*Testimony of John Spaulding, Martha Spaulding printed in {{CriticalWork:Howe:Mormonism Unvailed|pages=278}} | |||
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=Further reading= | =Further reading= | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) A work by author: Walter Martin, Hank Hanegraaff (editor)
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