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|sublink1=Response to claim: 38 - "Mormon writers" have "admitted" that revelations have been modified after they have been received | |||
|sublink2=Response to claim: 39 - John A. Widtsoe said that the revelations "have remained unchanged. There has been no tampering with God's word" | |||
|sublink3=Response to claim: 41-42 - David Whitmer said that the revelations in the Book of Commandments were printed correctly and didn't need to be modified later | |||
|sublink4=Response to claim: 42 - David Whitmer objected to changing the revelations | |||
|sublink5=Response to claim: 43 - D&C 68 was changed from its original printing in the Evening and Morning Star | |||
|sublink6=Response to claim: 45 - It is claimed that Joseph Smith was not supposed to do any translating beyond the Book of Mormon, as shown in Book of Commandments 4:2, which was changed in D&C 5:4 | |||
|sublink7=Response to claim: 52 - The name "Urim and Thummim" was added to the revelations later | |||
|sublink8=Response to claim: 59 - The United Order was simply a form of Communism | |||
|sublink9=Response to claim: 59 - The United Order was claimed to have actually been Sidney Rigdon's idea | |||
|sublink10=Response to claim: 62 - a section on marriage that was removed from the D&C | |||
|sublink11=Response to claim: 62 - The Lectures on Faith were removed from the D&C | |||
|sublink12=Response to claim: 62 - It is claimed that few LDS writers will "admit" to changes made in the D&C | |||
|sublink13=Response to claim: 63 - The name "Michael" was deleted from Joseph Smith's vision of the Celestial Kingdom because Adam is Michael | |||
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Index to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism
A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FairMormon Answers Wiki.
Chapter 1
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 1: A Marvelous Work?" (1–27)Chapter 2
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 2: Change, Censorship and Suppression" (28–37)Chapter 3
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 3: Changes in Revelations" (38-63)Chapter 4
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Joseph Smith and Money-Digging" (64–89)- Chapter 5—
Brief Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 5: The Book of Mormon" (90–144) (Click here for full article)
- Response to claim: 94 - Brigham Young claimed that some of the Book of Mormon witnesses doubted that they had ever seen an angel
- Response to claim: 94 - The authors claim that Oliver Cowdery may have had doubts about his testimony
- Response to claim: 96 - The story of Hiram Page and his stone is used as an example of the witnesses' gullibility
- Response to claim: 97 - David Whitmer said that God told him to separate himself from among the Latter Day Saints
- Response to claim: 97 - Joseph said that John Whitmer, David Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery and Martin Harris are "too mean to mention"
- Response to claim: 98 - Oliver Cowdery was accused of being involved in counterfeiting
- Response to claim: 99 - Oliver Cowdery is not a reliable witness because he joined a Methodist church after his excommunication
- Response to claim: 99-100 - Some of the Book of Mormon witnesses later followed James Strang
- Response to claim: 103 - Latter-day Saint author Richard Anderson was "forced to acknowledge that Martin Harris' life shows evidence of 'religious instability'"
- Response to claim: 108 - Martin Harris said that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eyes"
- Response to claim: 108 - David Whitmer said that he "handled the plates," but that he "did not touch nor handle the plates"
- Response to claim: 108 - Martin Harris said that the eight witnesses never saw the plates
- Response to claim: 109 - No visions actually occurred in the Kirtland Temple. William McClellin claimed that there was "no endowment"
- Response to claim: 111 - Material from the Presbyterian "Westminster Confession" is "probably" the source for Alma 40
- Response to claim: 114 - Joseph is claimed to have copied the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha
- Response to claim: 115 - The story of Moses leading the children of Israel out of Egypt is claimed to be the source for the book of 1 Nephi
- Response to claim: 115 - The Book of Mormon is proven false because it quotes Malachi many years before it was written
- Response to claim: 116 - The story of Lazarus being raised from the dead is a source for the story of Ammon
- Response to claim: 118 - The story of Alma was taken from the story of Paul
- Response to claim: 119-121 - The Book of Mormon is proven false because it contains material found in the New Testament
- Response to claim: 122 - In the Book of Mormon, Jesus quotes a paraphrase of Moses' words found in Acts 3:22-26, rather than Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19
- Response to claim: 123 - The Greek terms "Alpha" and "Omega" appear in the Book of Mormon, thereby proving that it is not an ancient work
- Response to claim: 124 - The Book of Mormon is proven false because it contains the Greek name Timothy
- Response to claim: 125 - Joseph Smith's mother said that he used to entertain them with stories about the ancient inhabitants of the American continent
- Response to claim: 127 - B.H. Roberts concluded that the book View of the Hebrews could have provided a structural foundation for the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 127 - B.H. Roberts listed a number of parallels between View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 128 - The Book of Mormon may have used Josiah Priest's book The Wonders of Nature as a source
- Response to claim: 128-129 - The Book of Mormon contains changes that altered the original meaning of the text
- Response to claim: 132 - According to Oliver B. Huntington, the proper spelling of words was given by the Lord
- Response to claim: 133 - Members of the Church have claimed that the Smithsonian uses the Book of Mormon in archaeological research
- Response to claim: 139 - Some Mormon archaeologists have begun to "face the truth" regarding Book of Mormon archeology by declaring that it is a "myth"
- Response to claim: 140-141 - Mormon archaeologist Thomas Stuart Ferguson lost his testimony because he couldn't find any archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 141-142 - Lehi would never have written using an Egyptian language
- Response to claim: 144 - There is no such language as "Reformed Egyptian"
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Chapter 6
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 6: The First Vision" (145–171)Chapter 7
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 7: The Godhead" (172-191)Chapter 8
Summary: Response to claims made in "Chapter 8: Adam-God Doctrine" (192–204)- Chapter 9—
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: 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
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