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A FAIR Analysis of:
The Changing World of Mormonism
A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner


Claims made in Chapter 20: Blood Atonement

490

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  • Reed Peck said that Joseph Smith told him of a revelation in which Apostle Peter stated that he had hung Judas.

Response

490-491

Claim
  • Brigham Young advocated blood atonement.

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491-492

Claim
  • Jedediah Grant advocated blood atonement.

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493

Claim
  • Murder was worthy of death.

Author's source(s)
  • History of the Church 5:296
  • Doctrines of Salvation 1:136
  • Mormon Doctrine, 1958, p.314
Response

493

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  • Adultery and immorality were worthy of death.

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493

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496

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  • Stealing was worthy of death.

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496

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  • Using the name of the Lord in vain was worthy of death.

Author's source(s)
  • Journal of Hosea Stout, vol. 2, p.71; p.56 of the typed copy at Utah State Historical Society
Response

496

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  • Not receiving the Gospel was worthy of death.

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Response

496

Claim
  • Marrying an African was worthy of death.

Author's source(s)
  • Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 10:110.
  • Wilford Woodruff's Journal, January 16,1852
  • Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring 1973, p.26
Response

498

Claim
  • Breaking covenants was worthy of death.

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498-499

Claim
  • Apostasy was worthy of death.

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Response

500

Claim
  • Lying was worthy of death.

Author's source(s)
  • "Manuscript History of Brigham Young," December 20, 1846
Response

500

Claim
  • Counterfeiting was worthy of death.

Author's source(s)
  • "Manuscript History of Brigham Young," February 24,1847
Response

500

Claim
  • Condemning Joseph Smith was worthy of death.

Author's source(s)
  • Quest for Empire, p.127
  • Daily journal of Abraham H. Cannon,"" December 6, 1889, pp.205-6
Response

501-503

Claim
  • Blood atonement was "put into practice" in Utah.

Author's source(s)
  • Confessions of John D. Lee, 1880, pp.282-83
  • Utah Historical Quarterly, January 1958, p.62, note 39
Response

501

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  • Modern church leaders have confirmed the principle but denied the practice of blood atonement.

Author's source(s)
  • Mormon Doctrine, 1958, p.87
  • Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp.133-36
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