Response to Denver Snuffer's Online Claims: Historical

Response to Denver Snuffer's Online Claims: Historical

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• Response to claim: Passing the Heavenly Gift is "the most correct account of our dispensation written so far"
• Response to claim: "Joseph Smith only built one building-a temple"

Response to claim: Passing the Heavenly Gift is "the most correct account of our dispensation written so far"

The author(s) of Denver Snuffer blog make(s) the following claim:

"[My book Passing the Heavenly Gift is] the most correct account of our dispensation written so far...."^[1]

FAIR's Response

Despite this grandiose claim, Snuffer's book is filled with historical errors, omissions, and misrepresentations.

Response to claims made in Passing the Heavenly Gift by Denver C. Snuffer

Summary: This account of Church history contains numerous inaccuracies, distortions, and misrepresentations of the data.

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• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Introduction to the volume's claims
• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims about priesthood ordination
• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims about Brigham Young and apostles not being witnesses of Christ
• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims regarding source of Brigham Young and apostles' authority after Joseph Smith's death
• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims regarding when Joseph Smith received priesthood authority
• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that authority could only be transmitted in a completed temple
• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that the Saints sinned and Joseph gave his life
• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that the Saints did not build the Nauvoo Temple quickly enough
• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that the Saints in Nauvoo were punished because they were slothful in building the temple
• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Response to claims made in Conclusion
• Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Appendix 1 & 2—Comparing the size and cost of the Kirtland and Nauvoo temples
• Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, "Passing Up The Heavenly Gift (Part One of Two)"
• Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, "Passing Up The Heavenly Gift (Part Two of Two)"
• Reviews of this work

Response to claim: "Joseph Smith only built one building-a temple"

The author(s) of Denver Snuffer, "Preserving The Restoration," Lecture 10, Mesa, Arizona (9 September 2014) make(s) the following claim:

"Joseph Smith only built one building. He completed the Kirtland temple. He got the Nauvoo temple started, but Joseph Smith only built one building."^[2]

FAIR's Response

1. REDIRECT Question: Should there be only one temple?

Notes

1. Jump up ↑ Denver Snuffer, “Current Events,” from the desk of Denver Snuffer (blog), 26 August 2013, http://denversnuffer.blogspot.ca/2013/08/current-events.html
2. Jump up ↑ Denver Snuffer, "Preserving The Restoration," Lecture 10, Mesa, Arizona (9 September 2014), 30. https://www.scribd.com/doc/239760895/10-Phoenix-Transcript-Preserving-the-Restoration