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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index
This is an index of claims made in this work and responses to them.
Chapter 1
| Page | Claim | Response |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph claimed to translate the Kinderhook plates | Kinderhook Plates |
| 1 | Illustrations show Joseph Smith translating the plates directly | Church art and historical accuracy |
| 2 | Joseph Smith used a seer stone that he placed in his hat | Joseph Smith and seer stones |
| 2-3 | The plates were often not nearby while Joseph translated them | Book of Mormon translation method |
| 6 | Oliver attempted to translate using a divining rod | Joseph Smith and the occult#Working with the rod |
| 6 | Oliver would ask questions of his divining rod in faith and it would move | Joseph Smith and the occult#Source of the power? |
| 7 | Alterations in a different handwriting on the 116 pages would have been readily apparent. | |
| 8 | Joseph was brought to court three times for stone gazing | Joseph Smith's 1826 glasslooking trial |
| 9 | After he lost the manuscript, Joseph became more vague regarding the method of translation | |
| 9 | Joseph altered the Book of Mormon to modify description of God and Jesus to be separate beings | |
| 10 | Scholars have determined that Joseph consulted an open Bible during translation | |
| 10 | Joseph copied errors from the King James Bible | Book of Mormon plagiarized from the Bible |
| 11 | None of Joseph's changes to the Bible have been supported by manuscript finds | Joseph Smith Translation as a restoration of the original Bible text |
| 11 | Some of Joseph's changes to the Bible contradict LDS beliefs | |
| 12 | Joseph evolved his concept of the Father and Son | The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied |
| 12 | The heiroglyphics next to facsimie 1 state that Hor is the deceased man lying on the altar | Book of Abraham papyri |
| 12 | Joseph used this papyrus as his source for Abraham 1 through 2:18 | Book of Abraham papyri |
| 13 | Near facsimile 3, Hor's name appears at the top and bottom | Book of Abraham papyri |
| 17 | Joseph expanded Abraham's curse to include denial of priesthood ordination to blacks | Blacks and the priesthood |
| 17 | Joseph got the story for the Book of Abraham from Josephus | |
| 19 | Joseph's interpretations have been shown by Egyptologists as a mis-reading of the papyrii | Book of Abraham papyri |
| 19 | A primary source for much of Abraham is Genesis | |
| 21 | From 1820 to 1834 Joseph believed in one God. | |
| 21 | The astronomical concepts in Abraham were common in Joseph Smith's environment | |
| 22-24 | Joseph's theology was influenced by Thomas Dick's Philosophy of a Future State | |
| 29 | It is easy to identify the Book of Joseph from the papyrus fragments | Book of Abraham papyri |
| 31 | Kinderhook plates | Kinderhook Plates |
| 34-35 | Joseph translated a Greek psalter | |
| 36 | Joseph mistranslated a number of documents |