Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 21

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

Page	Claim	Response	Author's sources
506	LDS leaders teach the "endless punishement" won't last forever.	Will "endless punishment" last forever?	[ATTENTION!]
506	Joseph Smith's later teachings regarding endless punishment contradict the Book of Mormon.	Will "endless punishment" last forever?	Doctrine and Covenants 19:6 Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 2, p.160 Alma 42꞉16
507	LDS leaders teach that "very few" will become "sons of perdition."	Fate of the Sons of Perdition	Joseph Smith—Seeker After Truth, pp.177-78
508	The idea of "spirit prison" as an opportunity for the dead to be taught and receive the gospel contradicts the Book of Mormon.	Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel	Doctrines of Salvation 2:183 Doctrines of Salvation 3:60 Wilford Woodruff, Journal of Discourses 4:223. Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 3:109. Alma 34꞉32-35
510	The concept of three degrees of glory is not consistent with the Book of Mormon.	Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel	1 Nephi 15꞉35 Orson Pratt, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Journal_of_Discourses/Volume_20/The_Book_of_Mormon%E2%80% 94Promises_to_the_Lamanites,_etc. Journal of Discourses 20:70].