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Chapter 20

A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner

Chapter 22

Claims made in Chapter 21: The Hereafter

506

Claim

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

Author's source(s)

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

Response

• Plan of salvation/What is "endless punishment"

506

Claim

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

Author's source(s)

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

Response

• Plan of salvation/What is "endless punishment"

507

Claim

• Brigham Young taught that there would be no women in hell.

Author's source(s)

• Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 8:222.

Response

• Plan of salvation/Sons of Perdition/Can women be "Sons of Perdition"

507

Claim

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

Author's source(s)

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

Response

• Plan of salvation/Sons of Perdition/Eventual fate

508

Claim

• 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 source(s)

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

Response

•  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/Contains the fulness of the gospel

510

Claim

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

Author's source(s)

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

Response

•  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/Contains the fulness of the gospel