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Claims made in "Chapter 1: A Chosen Race in a Promised Land"
3
Claim
- Attempts to describe Mormon doctrine are "fraught with peril."
Author's source(s)
Response
3
Claim
- Reversals of doctrine regarding polygamy and regarding Blacks and the priesthood were "painful and damaging" to the Church.
Author's source(s)
- Author's opinion.
- No examples of the "pain" and "damage" are provided.
Response
4
Claim
- The idea that the words of living prophets supersede the words of dead prophets has been "recently" promoted.
Author's source(s)
Response
- Absurd claim: This has always been the doctrine of the Church:
- [When invited by Joseph Smith], Brother Brigham took the stand, and he took the Bible, and laid it down; he took the Book of Mormon, and laid it down; and he took the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and laid it down before him, and he said: "There is the written word of God to us, concerning the work of God from the beginning of the world, almost, to our day. And now,' said he, 'when compared with the living oracles those books are nothing to me; those books do not convey the word of God direct to us now, as do the words of a Prophet or a man bearing the Holy Priesthood in our day and generation. I would rather have the living oracles than all the writing in the books.' That was the course he pursued. When he was through, Brother Joseph said to the congregation, "Brother Brigham has told you the word of the Lord, and he has told you the truth.'"[1]
- If living prophets outrank scriptures, then living prophets clearly supersede dead prophets: whether written or spoken.
- Church doctrine/Changing
4
Claim
- Mormon doctrine is "fluid and changeable."
Author's source(s)
Response
7-8
Claim
- The Nephites raise "herds of cattle, goats and horses."
Author's source(s)
Response
The work repeats itself on p. xiv, 7-8., 173., and 199.
8
Claim
- The Nephites raise Old World wheat and barley.
Author's source(s)
Response
8
Claim
- The Nephites construct a temple that is "similar in splendor" to Solomon's.
Author's source(s)
Response
- The author's claim is false: Nephi explicitly says that he uses Solomon's temple as a model, but "it [was] not built of so many precious things; for they were not to be found upon the land, wherefore, it could not be built like unto Solomon's temple" (2 Nephi 5꞉16).
- Book of Mormon anachronisms—Temple in New World
8
Claim
- The Nephites are skilled in the use of metals such as iron, copper, brass, gold and silver.
Author's source(s)
Response
8
Claim
- The Nephites use steel to fashion swords, breastplates, and arm and head shields.
Author's source(s)
Response
- The author's claim is false: "steel" is applied to two Old World weapons (Nephi's bow and the sword of Laban). Only in Ether are swords made of steel (Ether 7꞉9). Nephites are said to use steel (Jarom 1꞉8), but it is never described for breastplates, arm, or head shields.
- The author is again shown to be woefully ignorant of the Book of Mormon text.
- Book of Mormon anachronisms—Metals—Swords
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The work repeats itself on p. 8, 172., and 199.
The work repeats itself on p. 8 and 199.
8
Claim
- The Nephites built defensive mounds around their cities.
Author's source(s)
Response
8
Claim
- The Lamanites vastly outnumber the Nephites.
Author's source(s)
Response
8
Claim
- The "skin of blackness" is occasionally removed from the Lamanites when they are righteous, and returns to the Lamanites when they become unrighteous.
Author's source(s)
Response
8
Claim
- The Book of Mormon links the color of a person's skin to morality.
Author's source(s)
- 2 Nephi 5꞉21
- Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate, March 1835
Response
9
Claim
- The Book of Mormon promotes the view that the "white race" is superior.
Author's source(s)
Response
10
Claim
- In 1966 the Book of Abraham papyri were discovered.
Author's source(s)
- Charles M. Larson, By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri, 2nd ed., (Grand Rapids, MI: Institute for Religious Research, 1992), no pg. given.
Response
10
Claim
- The translation of the papyri does not resemble the Book of Abraham.
Author's source(s)
Response
10
Claim
- The denial of the priesthood to the Blacks was based upon the Book of Abraham.
Author's source(s)
Response
10-11
Claim
- The Church publicly taught racist principles in the 1950's.
Author's source(s)
- Mark E. Petersen, "Race Problems—As They Affect the Church," Talk given at Brigham Young University on Aug. 27, 1954
Response
Logical Fallacy: Tu Quoque/Appeal to Hypocrisy—The author tries to discredit the validity of someone's position by asserting their failure to act consistently.
The author is determined to represent LDS leaders as either bumbling, ill-informed, manipulative, or overwhelmed. The author never acknowledges that the LDS do not believe in
infallibility in their leaders. The author finally admits on
p. 205 that there is no official geography—why, then, does he bother to reiterate the views of various leaders as if this were some kind of problem? Since even he agrees there is
no official geography, what difference does it make if members and leaders are of differing views, or if they even change their minds?
The work repeats itself on p. 10-11, 38-39., 40., 41., 45., 137., 138., 140., and 142.
11
Claim
- The 1978 revelation allowing all men to hold the priesthood came in response to "public pressure."
Author's source(s)
Response
12
Claim
- Many General Authorities believed that the priesthood prohibition would remain in place until Christ's return.
Author's source(s)
Response
12
Claim
- Passages in the Book of Mormon were rewritten to "tone down references to skin color."
Author's source(s)
Response
The work repeats itself on p. 12 and 40.
12
Claim
- LDS scripture states that those with lighter skin color "are favored because of what they did as spirits in a pre-earth life."
Author's source(s)
Response
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Notes
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- [note] Wilford Woodruff, Conference Report (October 1897), 18-19.