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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 17
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Claims made in Chapter 17: Joseph Smith
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- No man can enter the Celestial Kingdom without Joseph Smith's consent.
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448
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- Joseph Smith would be looked upon as a god.
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450
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- Church members elevate Joseph Smith almost to the level of Jesus Christ.
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451-452
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- Joseph Smith liked to fight?
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452-454
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- Joseph Smith liked military trappings and titles.
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- Joseph Smith was ordained "King on earth" by the Council of Fifty.
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458
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- Joseph Smith ran for president because he thought that he could win and rule as king over the United States.
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460
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- Joseph Smith felt that he was "almost equal with God" and that God was his "right hand man."
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460
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- Joseph boasted that he was the only one who kept a whole church together.
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462-463
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- The destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor was illegal.
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465
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- Joseph fought his attackers at Carthage using a six-shooter.
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Endnotes
- [note] William Clayton to the Saints at Manchester, 10 Dec. 1840, Clayton Papers; cited in James B. Allen, Trials of Discipleship: The Story of William Clayton, a Mormon (Urbana and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 69. ISBN 0252013697.