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- 1 Response to "Difficult Questions for Mormons: Influenced by happenings of the early 19th century America"
- 1.1 Quick Navigation
- 1.2 Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon confuse the Old and New Covenants?"
- 1.3 Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon discuss the concept of infinite sins paid by an infinite being? (Alma 12) This idea was originated by Anselm of Canterbury and was a raging debate during the time of Joseph Smith"
- 1.4 Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon's teachings reflect the religious conflicts of the early 19th century including: grace, infant baptism, ordination, authority, repentance, resurrection, eternal punishment, fall of man, nature of man, fasting, etc.?"
- 1.5 Response to claim: "Why were there missionaries in the Book of Mormon before Christ? That certainly wasn't the case in the Old World"
- 1.6 Response to claim: "Why is King Benjamin's oratory like a 19th century camp meeting?"
- 1.7 Response to claim: "Revival gathering (Mosiah 2)"
- 1.8 Response to claim: "Guilt ridden falling exercise (Mosiah 4:1-2)"
- 1.9 Response to claim: "Petition for spiritual emancipation (Mosiah 4:2)"
- 1.10 Response to claim: "Absolution and ecstasy (Mosiah 4:3)"
- 1.11 Response to claim: "Repentance (Mosiah 4:4-8)"
- 1.12 Response to claim: "Born again (Mosiah 5:7)"
- 1.13 Response to claim: "Take name of Christ (Mosiah 5:8-15)"
- 1.14 Response to claim: "Why do other works early in Joseph Smith's lifetime teach that the Indians were descended from the Hebrews?"
- 1.15 Response to claim: "Was "View of the Hebrews" one of the sources?"
- 1.16 Response to claim: "Was Josiah Priest's book "The Wonders of Nature and Providence", copyrighted by him June 2nd, 1824, and printed soon afterwards in Rochester, New York, only some twenty miles distant from Palmyra a source?"
- 1.17 Response to claim: "Was James Adair's 'A History of the American Indians' a source?"
Response to "Difficult Questions for Mormons: Influenced by happenings of the early 19th century America"
| Influenced by the KJV of the Bible | A FAIR Analysis of: Difficult Questions for Mormons A work by author: The Interactive Bible
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- Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon confuse the Old and New Covenants?"
- Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon discuss the concept of infinite sins paid by an infinite being? (Alma 12) This idea was originated by Anselm of Canterbury and was a raging debate during the time of Joseph Smith"
- Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon's teachings reflect the religious conflicts of the early 19th century including: grace, infant baptism, ordination, authority, repentance, resurrection, eternal punishment, fall of man, nature of man, fasting, etc.?"
- Response to claim: "Why were there missionaries in the Book of Mormon before Christ? That certainly wasn't the case in the Old World"
- Response to claim: "Why is King Benjamin's oratory like a 19th century camp meeting?"
- Response to claim: "Revival gathering (Mosiah 2)"
- Response to claim: "Guilt ridden falling exercise (Mosiah 4:1-2)"
- Response to claim: "Petition for spiritual emancipation (Mosiah 4:2)"
- Response to claim: "Absolution and ecstasy (Mosiah 4:3)"
- Response to claim: "Repentance (Mosiah 4:4-8)"
- Response to claim: "Born again (Mosiah 5:7)"
- Response to claim: "Take name of Christ (Mosiah 5:8-15)"
- Response to claim: "Why do other works early in Joseph Smith's lifetime teach that the Indians were descended from the Hebrews?"
- Response to claim: "Was "View of the Hebrews" one of the sources?"
- Response to claim: "Was Josiah Priest's book "The Wonders of Nature and Providence", copyrighted by him June 2nd, 1824, and printed soon afterwards in Rochester, New York, only some twenty miles distant from Palmyra a source?"
- Response to claim: "Was James Adair's 'A History of the American Indians' a source?"
Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon confuse the Old and New Covenants?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon confuse the Old and New Covenants? It stresses that before Christ, the faithful kept the Law of Moses (2 Nephi 5:10; 25:23-25, 20; Alma 30:3), yet they also established churches, taught and practiced Christian baptism, and were conversant with New Testament doctrines and events (e.g. 2 Nephi 9:23; Mosiah 18:17). In the Bible, the Old Covenant is taken away to establish the New according to Paul and his followers (Heb. 10:9). The Book of Mormon intermingles the covenants. Paul was the man who first tried to reconcile the Old to the New convenant--not anyone during Old Testament times."
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon discuss the concept of infinite sins paid by an infinite being? (Alma 12) This idea was originated by Anselm of Canterbury and was a raging debate during the time of Joseph Smith"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon discuss the concept of infinite sins paid by an infinite being? (Alma 12) This idea was originated by Anselm of Canterbury and was a raging debate during the time of Joseph Smith."
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon's teachings reflect the religious conflicts of the early 19th century including: grace, infant baptism, ordination, authority, repentance, resurrection, eternal punishment, fall of man, nature of man, fasting, etc.?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why does the Book of Mormon's teachings reflect the religious conflicts of the early 19th century including: grace, infant baptism, ordination, authority, repentance, resurrection, eternal punishment, fall of man, nature of man, fasting, etc.?"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Why were there missionaries in the Book of Mormon before Christ? That certainly wasn't the case in the Old World"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why were there missionaries in the Book of Mormon before Christ? That certainly wasn't the case in the Old World."
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Why is King Benjamin's oratory like a 19th century camp meeting?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why is King Benjamin's oratory like a 19th century camp meeting?"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Revival gathering (Mosiah 2)"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Revival gathering (Mosiah 2)"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Guilt ridden falling exercise (Mosiah 4:1-2)"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Guilt ridden falling exercise (Mosiah 4:1-2)"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Petition for spiritual emancipation (Mosiah 4:2)"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Petition for spiritual emancipation (Mosiah 4:2)"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Absolution and ecstasy (Mosiah 4:3)"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Absolution and ecstasy (Mosiah 4:3)"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Repentance (Mosiah 4:4-8)"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Repentance (Mosiah 4:4-8)"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Born again (Mosiah 5:7)"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Born again (Mosiah 5:7)"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Take name of Christ (Mosiah 5:8-15)"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Take name of Christ (Mosiah 5:8-15)"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Why do other works early in Joseph Smith's lifetime teach that the Indians were descended from the Hebrews?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why do other works early in Joseph Smith's lifetime teach that the Indians were descended from the Hebrews?"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Was "View of the Hebrews" one of the sources?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Was "View of the Hebrews" one of the sources? B. H. Roberts (Studies of Book of Mormon pp.240,242) said, "But now to return . . . to the main theme of this writing -- viz., did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other. Not a few things merely, one or two, or a half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin . . .""
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Was Josiah Priest's book "The Wonders of Nature and Providence", copyrighted by him June 2nd, 1824, and printed soon afterwards in Rochester, New York, only some twenty miles distant from Palmyra a source?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Was Josiah Priest's book "The Wonders of Nature and Providence", copyrighted by him June 2nd, 1824, and printed soon afterwards in Rochester, New York, only some twenty miles distant from Palmyra a source?"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Was James Adair's 'A History of the American Indians' a source?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Was James Adair's 'A History of the American Indians' a source? On pages 377-378, he wrote the following about the Indians: "Through the whole continent, and in the remotest woods, are traces of their ancient warlike disposition. We frequently met with great mounds of earth, either of a circular, or oblong form, having a strong breast-work at a distance around them, made of the clay which had been dug up in forming the ditch on the inner side of the inclosed ground, and these were their forts of security against an enemy... About 12 miles from the upper northern parts of the Choktah country, there stand...two oblong mounds of earth...in an equal direction with each other... A broad deep ditch inclosed those two fortress, and there they raised an high breast-work, to secure their houses from the invading enemy." In Alma it states, "Yea, he had been strengthening the armies of the Nephites, and erecting small forts, or places of resort: throwing up banks of earth round about to enclose his armies...the Nephites were taught...never to raise the sword except it were against an enemy... they had cast up dirtround to shield them from the arrows...the chief captains of the Lamanites were astonished exceedingly, because of the wisdom of the Nephites in preparing their places of security...they knew not that Moroni had fortified, or had built forts of security in all the land roundabout ...the Lamanites could not get into their forts of security...because of the highness of the bank which had been thrown up, and the depth of the ditch which had been dug round about...they (the Lamanites) began to dig down their banks of earth...that they might have an equalchance to fight...instead of filling up their ditches by pulling down banks of earth, they were filled up in a measure with their dead...And (Moroni) caused them to erect fortifications that they should commence laboring in digging a ditch round about the land...And he caused that they should build a breastwork of timbers upon the inner bank of the ditch: and they did cast up dirt out of the ditch against the breastwork of timbers". Why are there other direct word parallels between Adair and the Book of Mormon such as Omni 1:21 and page 125 of Adair which says, '...for the space of four moons...' or page 122 which says 'for the space of three days and nights...' and Alma 36:10."
FAIR's Response
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