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Chapter 2 |
Claims made in Chapter 1: A Marvelous Work?
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- Joseph Smith stated that the final battle in the Book of Mormon was fought in New York.
Author's source(s) - Mormon Doctrine, p. 175.
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- Bruce R. McConkie said that Brigham Young stated that there was a cave in the Hill Cumorah that was full of records.
Author's source(s) - Mormon Doctrine, p. 454.
- Archaeology and the Hill Cumorah—Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records?
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- Joseph Smith found a seer stone while digging a well.
Author's source(s) - B.H. Roberts, Comprehensive History of the Church, vol.1, p.129.
22
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- LeGrand Richards claimed that Mormons do not have to rely on the Bible.
Author's source(s) - A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, p. 41.
- Citation error: Page 41 of this work contains a reprint of the Joseph Smith story (i.e., JS-H 1꞉26-28). The word "bible" is used only once in the entire chapter (p. 43), where Richards cites JS-H 1꞉36.
- It is true, though, that Joseph Smith did not gain all his knowledge about God from the Bible, but through direct revelation.
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- Mormon leaders taught that the Garden of Eden was located in Jackson County.
Author's source(s) - Mormon Doctrine, p. 20.
22
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- A remnant of Adam's altar remained in Missouri.
Author's source(s) - Mormon Doctrine, p. 21.
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- Joseph Smith taught that Noah built his ark "near Carolina."
Author's source(s) - The Juvenile Instructor, Nov. 15, 1895, pp. 700-1.
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- Joseph Smith described the inhabitants of the moon.
Author's source(s) - Journal of Oliver B. Huntington
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- Brigham Young taught that the moon and sun were inhabited.
Author's source(s) - Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 13:271.
- Joseph Smith/Moon inhabited
- See Quote mining—Journal of Discourses 13:271 to see how this quote was mined.
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- Orson Pratt preached against the Catholic Church
Author's source(s) - Pamphlets by Orson Pratt, p. 112
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- John Taylor taught that "we are the saviors of the world."
Author's source(s) - John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 6:163.
- See Quote mining—Journal of Discourses 6:163 to see how this quote was mined.
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- Joseph Fielding Smith taught that Mormons are "the best people in the world."
Author's source(s) - Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols., (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1954–56), 236.
- This claim is repeated in One Nation Under Gods and is responded to here: Mormons believe they are morally, ethically, spiritually superior to others?
- See Quote mining—Doctrines of Salvation 1:236 to see how this quote was mined.
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- Brigham Young claimed that every person that does not confess that Joseph Smith was a prophet is "anti-Christ."
Author's source(s) - Joseph Smith, History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 volumes, edited by Brigham H. Roberts, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1957), 7:287. Volume 7 link
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- Joseph Fielding Smith taught that there is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith.
Author's source(s) - Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols., (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1954–56),189–190.
- Joseph Smith/Status in LDS belief
- See Quote mining—Doctrines of Salvation 1:189-90 to see how this quote was mined.