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=Chapter 17, Is Mormonism Christian?: Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine=
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==The Quote==
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None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine. I think I understand them thoroughly.45
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===''One Nation under Gods'', page 389 (hardback and paperback)===
Gordon B. Hinckley said:
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None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine. I think I understand them thoroughly.
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==The Reference==
===Endnote 45, page 603 (hardback)===
===Endnote 45, page 603 (hardback)===
45. Gordon B. Hinckley, October 1997 General Conference Address. Quoted in Internet Thread article on Hinckley, online at www.lds-mormon.com/gbh.shtml. In an attempt to cover-up Hinckley's disingenuous answer to Time, the Mormon church is officially stating that Hinckley was taken out of context. However, a follow-up investigation and information obtained from both Time magazine and Richard Ostling (the journalist who conducted Hinckley's interview), reveal that the LDS church president was not taken out of context at all. For the text of several letters dealing with this issue, see documents reproduced in the Internet article "Dodging and Dissembling Prophet?," published by the Institute for Religious Research, online at www.irr.org/mit/hinckley.html.
Gordon B. Hinckley, October 1997 General Conference Address. Quoted in Internet Thread article on Hinckley, online at '''www.lds-mormon.com/gbh.shtml'''. In an attempt to cover-up Hinckley's disingenuous answer to ''Time'', the Mormon church is officially stating that Hinckley was taken out of context...
 
===Endnote 45, page 602 (paperback)===
45. Gordon B. Hinckley, October 1997 General Conference Address, http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,523349-1-32-1,00.html. Quoted in Internet Thread article on Hinckley, online at www.lds-mormon.com/gbh.shtml. In an attempt to cover-up Hinckley's disingenuous answer to ''Time'', the Mormon church is officially stating that Hinckley was taken out of context...
 
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==The Problems==
It is interesting and instructive that the hardback edition's original documented source in the endnotes is an anti-Mormon message board. The author uses this to document the quote from Hinckley. Why would a "comprehensive," and "detailed" history, a "scholarly" work (all adjectives used to describe this book, on the back cover), document a quote from a Church leader using an anti-Mormon message board, instead of using direct original sources?
It is interesting and instructive that the author's documented source in the endnotes is an anti-Mormon message board. He uses this to document the quote from Hinckley. Why would an author of a "comprehensive," and "detailed" history, a "scholarly" work (all adjectives used to describe the author's book, on the back cover), document a quote from a Church leader using an anti-Mormon message board, instead of using direct original sources?


(Side Note: For a more complete and fair treatment of President Hinckley's comment taken out of context, go to http://www.fairlds.org/Misc/Does_President_Hinckley_Understand_LDS_Doctrine.html.)
(Side Note: For a more complete and fair treatment of President Hinckley's comment taken out of context, go to [http://www.fairlds.org/Misc/Does_President_Hinckley_Understand_LDS_Doctrine.html Does President Gordon B. Hinckley Understand LDS Doctrine?])

Latest revision as of 20:16, 13 April 2024

Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine



A FAIR Analysis of: One Nation Under Gods, a work by author: Richard Abanes

Author's Claims


One Nation under Gods, page 389 (hardback and paperback)

Gordon B. Hinckley said:

None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine. I think I understand them thoroughly.

Author's Sources


Endnote 45, page 603 (hardback)

Gordon B. Hinckley, October 1997 General Conference Address. Quoted in Internet Thread article on Hinckley, online at www.lds-mormon.com/gbh.shtml. In an attempt to cover-up Hinckley's disingenuous answer to Time, the Mormon church is officially stating that Hinckley was taken out of context...

Endnote 45, page 602 (paperback)

45. Gordon B. Hinckley, October 1997 General Conference Address, http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,523349-1-32-1,00.html. Quoted in Internet Thread article on Hinckley, online at www.lds-mormon.com/gbh.shtml. In an attempt to cover-up Hinckley's disingenuous answer to Time, the Mormon church is officially stating that Hinckley was taken out of context...

Answer


It is interesting and instructive that the hardback edition's original documented source in the endnotes is an anti-Mormon message board. The author uses this to document the quote from Hinckley. Why would a "comprehensive," and "detailed" history, a "scholarly" work (all adjectives used to describe this book, on the back cover), document a quote from a Church leader using an anti-Mormon message board, instead of using direct original sources?

(Side Note: For a more complete and fair treatment of President Hinckley's comment taken out of context, go to Does President Gordon B. Hinckley Understand LDS Doctrine?)