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

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Claims made in Chapter 21: The Hereafter

Page Claim Response Author's sources

506

LDS leaders teach the "endless punishement" won't last forever.

506

Joseph Smith's later teachings regarding endless punishment contradict the Book of Mormon.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

510

The concept of three degrees of glory is not consistent with the Book of Mormon.

94Promises_to_the_Lamanites,_etc. Journal of Discourses 20:70].