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

Chapter 20

A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner

Chapter 22

Claims made in Chapter 21: The Hereafter

Page	Claim	Response	Author's sources
506	LDS leaders teach the "endless punishement" won't last forever.	Will "endless punishment" last forever?	[ATTENTION!]
506	Joseph Smith's later teachings regarding endless punishment contradict the Book of Mormon.	Will "endless punishment" last forever?	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."	Fate of the 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.	Template:FalseClaim: The Book of Mormon is addressed to those who have heard the gospel in this life; the doctrine of post-mortal evangelization is a different matter. Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel	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. Alma 34꞉32-35
510	The concept of three degrees of glory is not consistent with the Book of Mormon.	Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel	1 Nephi 15꞉35 Orson Pratt, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Journal_of_Discourses/Volume_20/The_Book_of_Mormon%E2%80% 94Promises_to_the_Lamanites,_etc. Journal of Discourses 20:70].