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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/John Taylor September 1886 revelation
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Author's Claims
Author's Sources
Did John Taylor receive a revelation on September 27, 1886 that promised that “polygamy would never be abandoned?”
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Author's Claims
One Nation Under Gods, page 316 (hardback and paperback)
The author asserts that John Taylor received a revelation on September 27, 1886 that promised that the practice of plural marriage would never be abandoned.
Author's Sources
Endnote 15, page 587 (hardback); page 585 (paperback)
- Fred C. Collier, Unpublished Revelations, vol. 1, 145-146, 180-183.
Other source(s) of the criticism
- John W. Taylor—claimed that the revelation read "the Law of Plural Marriage was Eternal." This phrase is not, however, in the revelation. (See diary of Heber J. Grant, 30 September 1890).
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