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Category:The Changing World of Mormonism
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Responses to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
Pages in category "The Changing World of Mormonism"
The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 263 total.
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- Question: When did the "mark of Cain" become associated with black skin?
- Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from?
- Question: Where is the Hill Cumorah?
- Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?
- Question: Who wrote the Lectures on Faith?
- Question: Why did Brigham Young build a whiskey distillery in Utah?
- Question: Why did Joseph Fielding Smith say that the consumption of tea may bar someone from the celestial kingdom?
- Question: Why did Joseph keep the doctrine of plural marriage private?
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith eventually stop using the seer stones to receive revelation?
- Question: Why did Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer accept Hiram Page's seer stone revelations as authoritative?
- Question: Why did the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants include a statement of marriage that denied the practice of polygamy at a time when some were actually practicing it?
- Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitical Priesthood was "changed" to the unique priesthood "after the order of Melchizedek" held by Jesus Christ?
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith state in his 1832 First Vision account that he was in his "16th year" of age?
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 1832 account of the First Vision not mention two personages?
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 9 November 1835 account of the First Vision mention "many angels?"
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period?
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it?
- Question: Why was Joseph fined if he wasn't found guilty of anything?
- Question: Why was the name "Michael" deleted from Joseph Smith's vision of the Celestial Kingdom?
- Question: Why were textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published?
- Question: Why were the gold plates needed at all if they weren't used directly during the translation process?
- Question: Why were the Lectures on Faith removed from the Doctrine and Covenants in 1921?
- Question: Why would Joseph be sealed to the wife of someone who was not only married to someone else, but pregnant with her husband's child?
- Question: Why would Joseph Smith incorporate Masonic elements into the temple ritual?
- Question: Why would Martin Harris use the phrases "eye of faith" or "spiritual eye" to describe his visionary experience?
- Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God?
- Question: Will the Holy Ghost ever receive a physical body?
- Question: Will the Sons of Perdition be given another chance to achieve celestial glory?
- Question: Would an Israelite use Egyptian?
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- Seminary Teacher Resource Manual: "We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation"
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"?
- Source:Christofferson:The Prophet Joseph Smith:BYUI Devotional:2013:Critics have also claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York, area in 1820
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Latter-day Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them
- Source:Gospel Topics:Bible, Inerrancy of:As the Bible was compiled, organized, translated, and transcribed, many errors entered the text
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:The Second Manifesto
- Source:James H. Reeves:Palmyra Courier:24 May 1872:Martin Harris "quite skeptical, as well as superstitious"
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch22:8:Greek Names
- Source:Nibley:Teachings of the Book of Mormon:Vol1:430:in Lehi's day Palestine was swarming with Greeks
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:19:Vastness of Joseph Smith's theology - it is not pagan
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:21:Joseph Smith's theosis does not supplant God or veer into polytheism
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic
- Source:When the Prophet Speaks, Is the Thinking Done?
- Stephen E. Robinson: "Yet another way in which anti-Mormon critics often misrepresent LDS doctrine is in the presentation of anomalies as though they were the doctrine of the Church"
- Stephen H. Webb: "Evidence That Demands Our Amazement... Joseph Smith was a remarkable person"
- Stephen Robinson: "In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place"