Difference between revisions of "Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 21"

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LDS leaders teach the "endless punishement" won't last forever.

• Will "endless punishment" last forever?

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

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Joseph Smith's later teachings regarding endless punishment contradict the Book of Mormon.

• Will "endless punishment" last forever?

• Doctrine and Covenants 19:6
• Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 2, p.160
• Alma 42꞉16

507

LDS leaders teach that "very few" will become "sons of perdition."

• Fate of the Sons of Perdition

• Joseph Smith—Seeker After Truth, pp.177-78

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The idea of "spirit prison" as an opportunity for the dead to be taught and receive the gospel contradicts the Book of Mormon.

•  Author(s) impose(s) own fundamentalism on the Saints
•  The author's claim is false: The Book of Mormon is addressed to those who have heard the gospel in this life; the doctrine of post-mortal evangelization is a different matter.
• Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel

• Doctrines of Salvation 2:183
• Doctrines of Salvation 3:60
• Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 4:223.
• Alma 34꞉32-35

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The concept of three degrees of glory is not consistent with the Book of Mormon.

•  Author(s) impose(s) own fundamentalism on the Saints
•  The author's claim is false: The Book of Mormon is targeted at the fundamentals of the gospel; the doctrine of the degrees of glory is biblical (1 Corinthians 15꞉40-42, 2 Corinthians 12:2) and complementary to it.
• Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel

• 1 Nephi 15꞉35
• Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses 20:70.