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Chapter 21 |
Claims made in Chapter 20: Blood Atonement
490
Claim
- Reed Peck said that Joseph Smith told him of a revelation in which Apostle Peter stated that he had hung Judas.
Response- Misrepresentation of source
- This claim is repeated in One Nation Under Gods: ONUG - apostles kill Judas?
490-491
Claim
- Brigham Young advocated blood atonement.
Author's source(s) - Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 4:53-54.
491-492
Claim
- Jedediah Grant advocated blood atonement.
Author's source(s) - Jedediah Grant, Journal of Discourses 4:49-50. [ATTENTION!]
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
493
Claim
- Adultery and immorality were worthy of death.
Author's source(s) - Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 7:20.
- Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 6:38.
- Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 7:19.
- George A. Smith, Journal of Discourses 1:97.
493
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- Brigham Young said that he would put a javelin through the heart of an adulterous woman.
|response=
|authorsources=
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 3:247.
496
Claim
- Stealing was worthy of death.
Author's source(s) - Times and Seasons, vol. 4, pp.183-84
- History of the Church 7:597
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 1:108-109.
- Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses 1:73.
496
Claim
- 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
496
Claim
- Not receiving the Gospel was worthy of death.
Author's source(s) - Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 3:226.
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
498
Claim
- Breaking covenants was worthy of death.
Author's source(s) - Jedediah Grant, Journal of Discourses 4:49-51. [ATTENTION!]
- Deseret News, July 27, 1854
- Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 4:375.
498-499
Claim
- Apostasy was worthy of death.
Author's source(s) - Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 1:83.
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 4:219-220.
- Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 6:34-35.
500
Claim
- Lying was worthy of death.
Author's source(s) - "Manuscript History of Brigham Young," December 20, 1846
500
Claim
- Counterfeiting was worthy of death.
Author's source(s) - "Manuscript History of Brigham Young," February 24,1847
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
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
501
Claim
- 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