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A FairMormon Analysis of Denver Snuffer's Online Claims: Historical claims: Passing the Heavenly Gift is "the most correct account of our dispensation written so far"
Denver Snuffer claim:
"[My book Passing the Heavenly Gift is] the most correct account of our dispensation written so far...."[1]
"[My book Passing the Heavenly Gift is] the most correct account of our dispensation written so far...."[1]
FairMormon Response
Despite this grandiose claim, Snuffer's book is filled with historical errors, omissions, and misrepresentations.
Response to claims made in Passing the Heavenly Gift by Denver C. Snuffer
Summary: This account of Church history contains numerous inaccuracies, distortions, and misrepresentations of the data.
Jump to details:
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Introduction to the volume's claims
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims about priesthood ordination
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims about Brigham Young and apostles not being witnesses of Christ
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims regarding source of Brigham Young and apostles' authority after Joseph Smith's death
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims regarding when Joseph Smith received priesthood authority
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that authority could only be transmitted in a completed temple
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that the Saints sinned and Joseph gave his life
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that the Saints did not build the Nauvoo Temple quickly enough
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that the Saints in Nauvoo were punished because they were slothful in building the temple
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Response to claims made in Conclusion
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Appendix 1 & 2—Comparing the size and cost of the Kirtland and Nauvoo temples
- Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, "Passing Up The Heavenly Gift (Part One of Two)"
- Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, "Passing Up The Heavenly Gift (Part Two of Two)"
- Reviews of this work
Notes
- ↑ Denver Snuffer, “Current Events,” from the desk of Denver Snuffer (blog), 26 August 2013, http://denversnuffer.blogspot.ca/2013/08/current-events.html