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Index to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism
This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FairMormon Answers Wiki.
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 1: A Marvelous Work?" (1–27)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 2: Change, Censorship and Suppression" (28–37)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 3: Changes in Revelations" (38-63)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Joseph Smith and Money-Digging" (64–89)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 6: The First Vision" (145–171)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 7: The Godhead" (172-191)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 8: Adam-God Doctrine" (192–204)
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Brief Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 9: Plural marriage" (205-290) (Click here for full article)
- Response to claim: 205 - The 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants had a section denouncing polygamy
- Response to claim: 207 - Section 101 was replaced with Section 132 in 1876
- Response to claim: 207 - A revelation on plural marriage given in 1831 was "suppressed" which said that the Indians would become "white and delightsome"
- Response to claim: 208-209 - Spencer Kimball believed that the Indians were becoming a "white and delightsome" people
- Response to claim: 212 - Brigham Young believed that the Indians skin would become white through intermarriage
- Response to claim: 214 - Church leaders did not approve of interracial marriage
- Response to claim: 215 - Oliver Cowdery believed that Joseph had an improper relationship with Fanny Alger
- Response to claim: 219 - Lorenzo Snow said that anyone who had a plural marriage prior to the date of the revelation (July 12, 1843) was living in adultery
- Response to claim: 219 - It is claimed that Mormon leaders say that the 1843 revelation was actually received earlier
- Response to claim: 220 - Brigham Young said that he lived "above the law"
- Response to claim: 220 - Polygamy is forbidden by the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 220-221 - Joseph F. Smith and Orson Pratt said that the Book of Mormon forbid polygamy
- Response to claim: 222 - Joseph took wives without his first wife's consent
- Response to claim: 225 - It is claimed that LDS leaders were worried that the missionaries would "take the best women"
- Response to claim: 226 - Heber C. Kimball remarked on the "great sorrow" of plural marriage
- Response to claim: 226 - Brigham Young spoke of the "problems" of plural marriage
- Response to claim: 228 - Brigham Young offered to let any wife go who wanted to
- Response to claim: 230-231 - Joseph and Emma fought about plural marriage
- Response to claim: 231 - Joseph had between 27 to "sixty or more" wives
- Response to claim: 231 - There is a rumor that Emma beat Eliza Snow with a broomstick and caused her to fall down the stairs, preventing her from having Joseph's child
- Response to claim: 232 - Joseph was sealed to a large number of women after his death
- Response to claim: 233 - Brigham Young had "fifty or sixty" wives, and boasted of his ability to obtain more
- Response to claim: 234 - Mormon men believed that they "could have all the wives they wanted." Heber C. Kimball said that in the resurrection, he could have "thousands" of wives
- Response to claim: 236 - Joseph asked for other men's wives, such as the wife of Heber C. Kimball
- Response to claim: 237 - Joseph married Heber C. Kimball's daughter, Helen
- Response to claim: 239 - Joseph married Zina, the wife of Henry Jacobs
- Response to claim: 239 - Brigham Young publicly told Henry Jacobs to find another wife
- Response to claim: 239-240 - Some women who were associated with Joseph claimed that they did not know who the father of their children were
- Response to claim: 243 - Joseph performed a "pretended" marriage for time for Sarah Ann Whitney to Joseph Kingsbury
- Response to claim: 245-246 - The Bible prohibited a man from marrying sisters or mothers and daughters, therefore Mormon polygamy was not Biblical
- Response to claim: 246-247 - Joseph sealed brothers and sisters together
- Response to claim: 248 - Brigham said that monogamy was a "fruitful source of prostitution and whoredom"
- Response to claim: 249 - Some Mormons believed that Joseph taught that Adam had two wives
- Response to claim: 249-251 - Early Church leaders taught that Jesus was married to more than one wife
- Response to claim: 258 - Brigham Young said that the "only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy"
- Response to claim: 258-259 - Polygamy was practiced in secret and denied publicly
- Response to claim: 262-263 - John Taylor stated that he believed in keeping every law except the law against polygamy
- Response to claim: 263 - Brigham Young said the polygamy would never go away
- Response to claim: 270-281 - Polygamy was practiced after the Manifesto was issued∗ ∗ ∗
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 10: Changing the Anti-Black Doctrine" (291–328)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 11: Fall of the Book of Abraham" (329–364)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 12: Mormon Scriptures and the Bible" (365–397)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 13: Changes in Joseph Smith's History" (398–415)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 14: False Prophecy" (416–424)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 15: The Arm of Flesh" (425–441)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 16: Mountain Meadows Aftermath" (442–446)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 17: Joseph Smith" (447-464)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 18: Word of Wisdom" (465-483)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 19: Old Testament Practices" (484-488)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 20: Blood Atonement" (490-501)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 21: The Hereafter" (502-510)
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 22: Temple Work" (511-547)