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| + | |sublink1=Response to claim: 16 - "Mormonism therefore practices proselytization, of the conversion of a person, not just to faith in the Christ of Mormonism but to the Mormon Church itself" | ||
| + | |sublink2=Response to claim: 16 - converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are encouraged to "renounce the validity of their own denominations" | ||
| + | |sublink3=Response to claim: 17 - the Book of Mormon is "fallacious" and that it contradicts "all that historians and anthropologists know about the Americas" | ||
| + | |sublink4=Response to claim: 18 - Mormons teach that if the whole family "obeys and serves the church, then they will spend eternity together" | ||
| + | |sublink5=Response to claim: 19 - the concept of performing ordinances for deceased relatives is contrary to the Bible | ||
| + | |sublink6=Response to claim: 19-20 - "Generally the claim of the LDS Church to be the one true Church, the fact that LDS baptism is essential for eternal progression, and questions raised about the integrity of the Bible are not mentioned by the missionaries to potential converts" | ||
| + | |sublink7=Response to claim: 20 - Mormonism "adds a nonbiblical dimension" to the law of tithing by "teaching that tithing is essential to gain the celestial kingdom | ||
| + | |sublink8=Response to claim: 21 - "since the general authorities of Mormonism are comprised of business executives, there is a built-in stratum of money-making minds within the church hierarchy" | ||
| + | |sublink9=Response to claim: 22 - Joseph Smith stated that "all Christian denominations were wrong, their confessions an abomination, and their professors and members corrupt" | ||
| + | |sublink10=Response to claim: 25 - "due to the negative connotation of the word Mormon and its identification with anti-Christian beliefs, now the 'Mormons urge use of formal name'-The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" | ||
| + | |sublink11=Response to claim: 25 - "on the surface, Mormons sometimes look and sound Christian" | ||
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Contents
- 1 Response to Mormonism Unmasked
- 1.1
- 1.2 Chapter 1: Mormons on Your Doorstep
- 1.3 Chapter 2: The Marketing of an Image
- 1.4 Chapter 3: The Making of Religion
- 1.5 Chapter 4: Polytheism Reborn
- 1.6 Chapter 5: Confronting the Mormon Jesus
- 1.7 Chapter 6: This is Good News?
- 1.8 Chapter 7: Revealing Revelations
- 1.9 Chapter 8: Jesus Is Coming Again
- 1.10 Chapter 9: By Whose Authority?
- 1.11 Chapter 10: Meeting the Mormon Challenge
- 1.12 About this work
- 1.13 Reviews of this work
- 1.14 Louis Midgley, "Orders of Submission: Review of essays on Mormonism. Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9/2 (Summer 2005): 1–81."
Response to Mormonism Unmasked
| A FAIR Analysis of: 'Mormonism Unmasked' A work by author: R. Philip Roberts
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This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within FairMormon Answers. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.
Chapter 1: Mormons on Your Doorstep
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 1: Mormons on Your Doorstep" indexed by page number.Chapter 2: The Marketing of an Image
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 2: The Marketing of an Image" indexed by page number.Chapter 3: The Making of Religion
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 3: The Making of Religion" indexed by page number.Chapter 4: Polytheism Reborn
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 4: Polytheism Reborn" indexed by page number.Chapter 5: Confronting the Mormon Jesus
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 5: Confronting the Mormon Jesus" indexed by page number.Chapter 6: This is Good News?
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 6: This Is Good News?" indexed by page number.Chapter 7: Revealing Revelations
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 7: Revealing Revelations" indexed by page number.Chapter 8: Jesus Is Coming Again
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 8: Jesus Is Coming Again" indexed by page number.Chapter 9: By Whose Authority?
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 9: By Whose Authority?" indexed by page number.Chapter 10: Meeting the Mormon Challenge
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 10: Meeting the Mormon Challenge" indexed by page number.About this work
Reviews of this work
Louis Midgley, "Orders of Submission: Review of essays on Mormonism. Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9/2 (Summer 2005): 1–81."
Louis Midgley, The FARMS Review, (2006)Though both The Mormon Puzzle and Mormonism Unmasked attack the Church of Jesus Christ and the faith of Latter-day Saints, the book is less irenic than the video. However, they are both well within the genre of aggressively adversarial "evangelism" that is typical of the countercult industry; they are not what one might expect from officials in a respectable, sophisticated, mainline Protestant denomination. Latter-day Saints seem to have ignored Mormonism Unmasked. Critical attention was, instead, focused more on The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism, on the widely distributed video, and on the accompanying packet of anti-Mormon literature.In addition to the sinister mask on the cover of Mormonism Unmasked and the lurid title setting the tone, the back cover declares that this volume will "lift the veil from one of the greatest deceptions in the history of religion." Roberts claims to have demonstrated that "Mormonism is a fabricated and artificial form of Christianity. It is a new religion produced by the false prophet Joseph Smith." Other similar highly adversarial packaging sets the stage for the actual contents of this book. Readers of Mormonism Unmasked are promised, with much florid rhetoric, that within the pages of this book they will learn how to "expose and put an end to their false teachings" (back cover). However, the book does not spell out exactly how Baptists who are inflamed by what they find in Mormonism Unmasked are "to put an end" to LDS teachings.
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