Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 11

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Claims made in "Chapter 10: The Army of the Lord"
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 Claims made in "Chapter 12: Master of Languages"

Claims made in "Chapter 11: Patronage and Punishment"

159

Claim
  • Zion's Camp was a "major failure" for Joseph Smith.

Author's source(s)
  • Author's opinion.
Response
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159

Claim
  • Men and women had died in Missouri Joseph Smith's name.

Author's source(s)
  • Author's opinion.
Response
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159

Claim
  • Joseph decided that he could no longer give out "incidental" revelations after the Missouri trials.

Author's source(s)
  • Author's opinion.
Response
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162

Claim
  • The Kirtland High Council complained that the Apostles had too much power.

Author's source(s)
  • History of the Church 2:240
Response

162

Claim
  • Henry Green was cut off from the church simply because of a remark made that Joseph was "extorting" the cost of a book.

Author's source(s)
  • History of the Church 2:275
Response
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164

Claim
  • Apostle William Smith called his brother Joseph a "tyrant" and attempted to beat him.

Author's source(s)
  • Court of Common Pleas, County of Geauga, Ohio, June 16, 1835.
  • Painesville Telegraph, June 26, 1835.
Response
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165

Claim
  • Joseph was "vain" regarding his "wrestling prowess."

Author's source(s)
  • Author's opinion.
Response

166

Claim
  • The Word of Wisdom was not given by "commandment or constraint" because Joseph was "too fond of earthly pleasures."

Author's source(s)
  • Author's opinion.
Response

167

Claim
  • Joseph did not take the Word of Wisdom seriously.

Author's source(s)
  • Author's opinion.
Response

167

Claim
  • Joseph replaced wine with water in the Sacrament because Sidney Rigdon forced a vote for total abstinence through the Church.

Author's source(s)
  • Wilford Woodruff's journal, quoted by Matthias F. Cowley in Wilford Woodruff (Salt Lake, 1909), p. 65.
Response
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