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Mormonism and church integrity
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Contents
- 1 Mormonism and church integrity
- 2 Accusations of lying and hypocrisy on the part of the Church
- 2.1 Accusations of lying in the 19th-century Church
- 2.1.1 Cognitive dissonance
- 2.1.2 History of the Church—authorship?
- 2.1.3 Immigration reform in the U.S.A.
- 2.1.4 Paid clergy
- 2.1.5 Testimony and doubt reconciliation
- 2.1.6 City Creek Center Mall in Salt Lake City
- 2.1.7 Claims that church membership numbers distorted
- 2.1.8 Accusations of plagiarizing C.S. Lewis in General Conference
- 2.1 Accusations of lying in the 19th-century Church
Mormonism and church integrity
Topics
Accusations of lying and hypocrisy on the part of the Church
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- Accusations of hypocrisy in Church practices related to the Word of Wisdom
- "Lying for the Lord"
- Joseph Smith fired a gun at Carthage Jail
- No paid ministry
- City Creek Center Mall in Salt Lake City
- Accusations of lying in the 19th-century Church
- Dealing with doubts about the Church and its integrity
Accusations of lying in the 19th-century Church
Jump to details:
- Question: Are there government records that prove that the apostles were involved in counterfeiting in Nauvoo?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith really tell Orrin Porter Rockwell 'it was right to steal'?
- Question: Did Orson Hyde state that it was permissible to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons?
- Question: Did Brigham say "We shall pull the wool over the eyes of the American people"?
- Question: Why is History of the Church written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it?
- REDIRECT Approaching history