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{{SummaryItem2|link=One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy|subject=Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy|summary=One critic claims that the horrors of the Civil War actually brought the Saints "some degree of emotional satisfaction and comfort," since it fulfilled Joseph's prophecy.}}
 
{{SummaryItem2|link=One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy|subject=Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy|summary=One critic claims that the horrors of the Civil War actually brought the Saints "some degree of emotional satisfaction and comfort," since it fulfilled Joseph's prophecy.}}
 
{{SummaryItem|link=Joseph Smith/Prophecies/David Patten to serve mission|subject=David Patten to serve a mission|summary= Joseph Smith, under the inspiration of the Lord, issued a call for David Patten to go on a mission the following spring. Since Patten died before fulfilling this mission, critics claim that this is a failed prophecy.}}
 
{{SummaryItem|link=Joseph Smith/Prophecies/David Patten to serve mission|subject=David Patten to serve a mission|summary= Joseph Smith, under the inspiration of the Lord, issued a call for David Patten to go on a mission the following spring. Since Patten died before fulfilling this mission, critics claim that this is a failed prophecy.}}
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{{SummaryItem|link=One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Forged_Rocky_Mountain_prophecy|subject=Forged prophecy about Saints in Rocky Mountains?|summary=Critics Jerald and Sandra Tanner claim that a prophecy from Joseph about the Saints' move to the Rocky Mountains was forged after the fact and inserted into the History of the Church.}}
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== Critics claim that Joseph Smith was not a true prophet, and that he made "false prophecies."

To see citations to the critical sources for these claims, [[../CriticalSources|click here]]

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Detailed Analysis

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Main article: Deuteronomy 18 as a prophetic test

Fulfilled prophecies

  • The Word of Wisdom states that it is given in part because of the "evils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days" (DC 89꞉4). Modern developments have vindicated this prophetic warning.
  • A list of some examples of fulfilled prophecies can be found here:
    • Jeff Lindsay, "Fulfilled Prophesies of Joseph Smith," off-site

Accusations of false prophecy

Specific accusations of Joseph Smith having uttered "false prophecy" are treated in the following wiki articles:

Can't kill Joseph within 5 years of August 1843?

Summary: Sarah Scott's claim that Joseph Smith said on 27 August 1843 that nobody could kill him "till the Temple would be completed."

Civil War prophecy

Summary: Joseph Smith made an 1832 prophecy of the Civil War. Critics use a variety of tactics to dismiss this prophetic "hit."

David Patten to serve a mission

Summary: Joseph Smith, under the inspiration of the Lord, issued a call for David Patten to go on a mission the following spring. Since Patten died before fulfilling this mission, critics claim that this is a failed prophecy.

Forged prophecy about Saints in Rocky Mountains?

Summary: Critics Jerald and Sandra Tanner claim that a prophecy from Joseph about the Saints' move to the Rocky Mountains was forged after the fact and inserted into the History of the Church.

Government to be overthrown and wasted

Independence temple to be built "in this generation"

The Saints had to leave Missouri before the temple was built in Independence

Joseph and Orson Hyde to drink of wine in Palestine?

Notes from Kirtland Safety Society to be "as good as gold"?

Prophetic test in Deuteronomy

Queens to pay respect to Relief Society within ten years?

Second Coming in 1890 (56 years)

Stephen A. Douglas prophecy

Ten tribes return and wicked swept away?

Thomas B. Marsh to be "exalted"

United Order everlasting, immutable, and unchangeable?

Zion redeemed by September 1836?

Official doctrine: what is it?

== Notes == None

Further reading

FairMormon Answers articles

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