Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 21
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Response to claims made in "Chapter 21: The Hereafter"
506
Claim
- LDS leaders teach the "endless punishement" won't last forever.
Author's source(s)
Response
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
507
Claim
- Brigham Young taught that there would be no women in hell.
Author's source(s)
Response
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
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)
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)
Response