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| − | =={{Criticism label}}== | + | {{UnderConstruction}} |
| − | Critics claim that Joseph Smith and other early Latter-day Saints didn't follow the Word of Wisdom. They point to accounts in the Church's own printed history where Joseph drank wine and beer, and Brigham Young admitted drinking coffee regularly.
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| − | {{epigraph|The only official interpretation of “hot drinks” (D&C 89:9) in the Word of Wisdom is the statement made by early Church leaders that the term “hot drinks” means tea and coffee. Members should not use any substance that contains illegal drugs. Nor should members use harmful or habit-forming substances except under the care of a competent physician.<br>
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| − | —{{Book:Church:CHI:2:2010|section=21|sub1=3|sub2=11}} }}
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| − | |subject=History and implementation of the Word of Wisdom
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| − | |summary=Observance of the Word of Wisdom has changed over time, due to on-going revelation from modern-day prophets, who put greater emphasis on certain elements of the revelation originally given to Joseph Smith. Early Latter-day Saints were not under the same requirements as today's Saints are.
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| − | ==Specific criticisms related to the Word of Wisdom==
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| − | ===Joseph Smith and the Word of Wisdom===
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| − | |link=/Joseph Smith used tea
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| − | |subject=Joseph Smith used tea
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| − | |summary=Critics charge that Joseph Smith drank tea, used tobacco, or encouraged others to do so, thus violating the Word of Wisdom as we practice it today.
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| − | |link=/Almon Babbitt followed Joseph
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| − | |subject=Almon Babbitt followed Joseph in violating the Word of Wisdom
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| − | |summary=Critics charge that Joseph Smith violated the Word of Wisdom, and that another member (Almon W. Babbitt) followed his example.
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| − | |link=/Joseph Smith sold liquor in Nauvoo
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| − | |subject=Joseph Smith sold liquor in Nauvoo
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| − | ===Brigham Young and the Word of Wisdom===
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| − | |link=/Brigham Young and tobacco
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| − | |summary=Critics charge that Brigham Young used snuff, tobacco, and tea, thus violating the Word of Wisdom.
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| − | |link=/Brigham Young's whiskey distillery
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| − | |subject=Brigham Young's whiskey distillery
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| − | |summary=Critics note that Brigham had a whiskey distillery in Utah, thus encouraging others to violate the Word of Wisdom and showing his hypocrisy.
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| − | |link=Brigham Young and tobacco/Growing tobacco in Utah
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| − | |subject=Growing tobacco in Utah
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| − | |summary=Critics charge that Brigham Young instructed members of the Church to grow tobacco in Utah, thus violating the Word of Wisdom.
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| − | ===Modern prophets and the Word of Wisdom===
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| − | |link=/Tea prevent exaltation
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| − | |subject=Consumption of tea may bar someone from the Celestial Kingdom?
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| − | |summary=Critics quote Joseph Fielding Smith as saying that the consumption of tea may bar someone from the celestial kingdom.
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| − | ===Modern day implementation of the Word of Wisdom===
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| − | |link=/Eat meat sparingly
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| − | |subject=Are we violating the Word of Wisdom if we do not eat meat sparingly?
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| − | |summary=Critics charge that Latter-day Saints do not keep the Word of Wisdom by eating meat "sparingly."
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| − | The Word of Wisdom is "a principle with promise," initially given "not by commandment or constraint" ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/89/2-3#2 D&C 89:2–3]). Today's Latter-day Saints are required to observe it more rigorously than those who came before them.
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| − | #{{note|brigham1}}''Deseret News'' (11 May 1870): 160; reprinted in {{MS1|author=Brigham Young|article=Fortieth Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|num=22|vol=32|date=31 May 1870|start=346}} See discussion of the history in {{Dialogue|author=Robert J. McCue|article=Did the Word of Wisdom Become a Commandment in 1851?|date=Autumn 1981|num=3|vol=14|start=66|end=77}}{{link|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,6577}}
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| − | #{{note|by.1861}} {{JDfairwiki|author=Brigham Young|vol=9|start=35|disc=8}}
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| − | #{{note|etb.1867}} {{JDfairwiki|vol=11|start=367|author=Ezra T. Benson|disc=54}}
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| − | #{{note|by.1870}} {{JDfairwiki|author=Brigham Young|vol=14|start=20|disc=4}}
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| − | #{{note|ww.1898}} Minutes of First Presidency and Council of Twelve Meeting, Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” May 5, 1898, LDS Church Archives; cited in {{Dialogue|author=Thomas G. Alexander|article=The Word of Wisdom: From Principle to Requirement|date=Autumn 1981|num=3|vol=14|start=78|end=88}}{{link|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,6589}}
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| − | #{{note|fn.8}} Alexander, "Principle to Requirement," 79.
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| − | #{{note|fn.9}} Alexander, "Principle to Requirement," 79.
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| − | #{{note|fn.10}} This exception had been permitted by the Word of Wisdom from the beginning (see {{s||DC|89|5-6}}), though it was also clear that what one used for the sacramental emblems was not of primary doctrinal importance (see {{s||DC|27|}}).
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| − | #{{note|fn.11}} Alexander, "Principle to Requirement," 82.
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| − | #{{note|fn.12}} See discussion in Joseph Fielding McConkie and Craig J. Ostler, Revelations of the Restoration: A Commentary on the Doctrine and Covenants and Other Modern Revelations'' (Salt Lake: Deseret Book, 1964), Doctrine and Covenants 89:2.
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| − | #{{note|fn.13}} McConkie and Ostler, ''ibid.''
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| − | #{{note|jfs.1913}} {{CR1|author=Joseph F. Smith|date=October 1913|start=14}}
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| − | #{{note|hinckley1}} {{Ensign1|author=Gordon B. Hinckley|article=The Scourge of Illicit Drugs|date=November 1989|start=48}}{{link|url=http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Ensign/1989.htm/ensign%20november%201989.htm/the%20scourge%20of%20illicit%20drugs%20.htm}}; {{Ensign1|author=James E. Faust|article=The Enemy Within|date=November 2000|start=44}}{{link|url=http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Ensign/2000.htm/ensign%20november%202000.htm/the%20enemy%20within.htm}}
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| − | #{{note|hotdrinks1}} See, for example, {{CR1|author=Robert L. Simpson|date=April 1963|start=53}};{{CR1|author=Boyd K. Packer|date=April 1963|start=107}} Early statements available in John A. Widtsoe and Leah D. Widtsoe, ''The Word Of Wisdom: A Modern Interpretation'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1937), 28 and Roy W. Doxey, ''The Word of Wisdom Today'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1975),10–13.
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| − | #{{note|by.1868}} {{JDfairwiki|author=Brigham Young|vol=12|start=157|end=158|disc=32}}
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| − | #{{note|eom1}}{{EoM1|author=Wouter Van Beek|article=Covenants|vol=1|start=333}}
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| − | #{{note|ash1}} Mike Ash, FAIR e-mail list, 3 September 2006 (cited with permission).
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