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|sublink1=Response to claim: 138 - "The priesthood of the Old Testament was brought to an end with the death of Christ" | |||
|sublink2=Response to claim: 138 - The author states that "God set the minimum age of the Aaronic Priesthood at twenty-five" | |||
|sublink3=Response to claim: 138-139 - "the only Christian priesthood mentioned in the New Testament is the spiritual priesthood of every believer" | |||
|sublink4=Response to claim: 139 - The author states that "Mormon high priests do not offer any sacrifices, so they are not following the Old Testament pattern" | |||
|sublink5=Response to claim: 140 - The author claims that 1 Corinthians 12:27-31 refers to "various ministries or gifts in the early church" and that it is "not listing specific offices of the priesthood" | |||
|sublink6=Response to claim: 140 - The author claims that 1 Corinthians 12:27-31 refers to "various ministries or gifts in the early church" and that it is "not listing specific offices of the priesthood" | |||
|sublink7=Response to claim: 140 - "Paul lists apostles first and prophets second, indicating their order of importance" | |||
|sublink8=Response to claim: 140 - The author states that the only men who could be chosen as apostles were those who were an "eyewitness to the full ministry of Jesus" | |||
|sublink9=Response to claim: 140 - The First Presidency plus the twelve apostles is equal to 15 apostles. The author states that this is not the same as Jesus' twelve apostles | |||
|sublink10=Response to claim: 141 - The author claims that "bishop is not a separate office in the church but one of the elders" | |||
|sublink11=Response to claim: 141- a deacon cannot be a 12-year-old boy, but must be mature men and "the husbands of one wife" | |||
|sublink12=Response to claim: 141 - "Teachers" must be "mature Christians" that are "able to teach others" rather than teenagers | |||
|sublink13=Response to claim: 141 - The author states the the LDS Church "does not have any pastors" | |||
|sublink14=Response to claim: 141 - The author states that "Evangelist" and "Patriarch" are not the same | |||
|sublink15=Response to claim: 142-143- The author claims that the Bible justifies a paid ministry | |||
|sublink16=Response to claim: 143 - The author claims that "Many of the Mormons are not aware that their apostles receive a salary" | |||
|sublink17=Response to claim: 144 - Church finances are not made public | |||
|sublink18=Response to claim: 145 - baptism does not need to be done "by someone holding a special priesthood" | |||
|sublink19=Response to claim: 145 - "Joseph Smith supposedly restored the original temple ceremony of the Old Testament" | |||
|sublink20=Response to claim: 147 - The author states that Paul condemned "endless genealogies" and that this contradicts the idea of performing temple marriages for the dead | |||
|sublink21=Response to claim: 147 - The author claims that Paul was not advocating the practice of baptism for the dead in 1 Corinthians 15:29, and that he was only emphasizing resurrection | |||
|sublink22=Response to claim: 148 - temples became unnecessary after Christ and that they were replaced by the atonement of Christ | |||
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Revision as of 03:59, 4 February 2017
Response to Mormonism Unmasked
A FAIR Analysis of: 'Mormonism Unmasked' A work by author: R. Philip Roberts
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This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within FairMormon Answers. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.
Chapter 1: Mormons on Your Doorstep
Summary: Chapter 1: "Mormons on Your Doorstep" is a fictionalized account of a series of encounters between Latter-day Saint missionaries and an investigator family. There are no glaring inaccuracies in this chapter, although the "investigator" family is a little too ideal. This chapter sets the stage for the remainder of the book.Chapter 2: The Marketing of an Image
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 2: The Marketing of an Image" indexed by page number.Chapter 3: The Making of Religion
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 3: The Making of Religion" indexed by page number.Chapter 4: Polytheism Reborn
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 4: Polytheism Reborn" indexed by page number.Chapter 5: Confronting the Mormon Jesus
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 5: Confronting the Mormon Jesus" indexed by page number.Chapter 6: This is Good News?
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 6: This Is Good News?" indexed by page number.Chapter 7: Revealing Revelations
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 7: Revealing Revelations" indexed by page number.Chapter 8: Jesus Is Coming Again
Summary: No claims are currently addressed in this chapter.Chapter 9: By Whose Authority?
Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in "Chapter 9: By Whose Authority?" indexed by page number.Chapter 10: Meeting the Mormon Challenge
Summary: No claims are currently addressed in this chapter.
About this work
Reviews of this work
Louis Midgley, "Orders of Submission: Review of essays on Mormonism. Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9/2 (Summer 2005): 1–81."
Louis Midgley, The FARMS Review, (2006)Though both The Mormon Puzzle and Mormonism Unmasked attack the Church of Jesus Christ and the faith of Latter-day Saints, the book is less irenic than the video. However, they are both well within the genre of aggressively adversarial "evangelism" that is typical of the countercult industry; they are not what one might expect from officials in a respectable, sophisticated, mainline Protestant denomination. Latter-day Saints seem to have ignored Mormonism Unmasked. Critical attention was, instead, focused more on The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism, on the widely distributed video, and on the accompanying packet of anti-Mormon literature.
In addition to the sinister mask on the cover of Mormonism Unmasked and the lurid title setting the tone, the back cover declares that this volume will "lift the veil from one of the greatest deceptions in the history of religion." Roberts claims to have demonstrated that "Mormonism is a fabricated and artificial form of Christianity. It is a new religion produced by the false prophet Joseph Smith." Other similar highly adversarial packaging sets the stage for the actual contents of this book. Readers of Mormonism Unmasked are promised, with much florid rhetoric, that within the pages of this book they will learn how to "expose and put an end to their false teachings" (back cover). However, the book does not spell out exactly how Baptists who are inflamed by what they find in Mormonism Unmasked are "to put an end" to LDS teachings.
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