Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 22

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Chapter 21
A FAIR Analysis of:
Criticism of Mormonism/Books
A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner


Claims made in Chapter 22: Temple Work

Page Claim Response Author's sources

512

Early Mormon leaders were "very confused" about baptism for the dead since they performed a number of them without recording them and had to do

them over.

514

Baptism for the dead was not a doctrine in the early church.

  •  The author's claim is false: The majority of modern scholars accept that vicarious baptism for the dead was practiced by at least some of the early

Church.

  • Orson Pratt's Works, 1891, p.205
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