Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 26

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Claims made in "Chapter 25: Candidate for President"
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 Claims made in "Chapter 27: Carthage"

Claims made in "Chapter 26: Prelude to Destruction"

368

Claim
  • Joseph threatened to excommunicate wealthy converts who came to Nauvoo and purchased land without his consent.

Author's source(s)
  • History of the Church 5:272-273
  • History of the Church 6:164-165
Response
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368

Claim
  • William Law thought that Joseph was diverting funds donated for the Nauvoo House to purchasing land to re-sell to converts.

Response
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370

Claim
  • Joseph said that Hell was "an agreeable place."

Author's source(s)
  • Nauvoo Expositor, June 7, 1844
Response
  •  Prejudicial or loaded language: the author's only source is the anti-Mormon Expositor.

370

Claim
  • Joseph threatened to "blow up the steamboats that did not pay" wharfage fees.

Author's source(s)
  • History of the Church 6:234, 238
Response
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373

Claim
  • All references to plural marriage in Joseph's journals were disguised.

Author's source(s)
  • History of the Church 6:409
Response

374

Claim
  • Joseph boasted that he was the only one who had kept a while church together since the days of Adam and that "no man ever did such a work as I."

Author's source(s)
  • History of the Church 6:408-412
Response

376

Claim
  • Joseph admitted to William Marks that he had been "deceived" by the "spiritual wife-system," and that he would "rid the church" of the practice.

Author's source(s)
  • William Marks, Zion's Harbinger and Baneemy's Organ Vol. 3 (July 1853), pp. 52-53.
Response
  • Marks was an unreliable witness; he broke with Joseph over plural marriage.
  • Joseph continued to teach the doctrine to his death.

377

Claim
  • Joseph claimed that the revelation on polygamy concerned "former days, and had no reference to the present time."

Author's source(s)
  • Nauvoo Neighbor, June 19, 1844, Nauvoo City Council minutes; History of the Church 6:441
Response

377

Claim
  • The destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor was a violation of the Constitution.

Author's source(s)
  • No source provided.
Response
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