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Denver Snuffer: Historical Claims: Passing the Heavenly Gift is "the most correct account of our dispensation written so far"?
Passing the Heavenly Gift is "the most correct account of our dispensation written so far"
Denver Snuffer claim:
"[My book Passing the Heavenly Gift is] the most correct account of our dispensation written so far...."[1]
"[My book Passing the Heavenly Gift is] the most correct account of our dispensation written so far...."[1]
FairMormon Response
Despite this grandiose claim, Snuffer's book is filled with historical errors, omissions, and misrepresentations.
Response to claims made in Passing the Heavenly Gift by Denver C. Snuffer
Summary: This account of Church history contains numerous inaccuracies, distortions, and misrepresentations of the data.
Jump to details:
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Introduction to the volume's claims
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims about priesthood ordination
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims about Brigham Young and apostles not being witnesses of Christ
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims regarding source of Brigham Young and apostles' authority after Joseph Smith's death
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims regarding when Joseph Smith received priesthood authority
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that authority could only be transmitted in a completed temple
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that the Saints sinned and Joseph gave his life
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that the Saints did not build the Nauvoo Temple quickly enough
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Claims that the Saints in Nauvoo were punished because they were slothful in building the temple
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Response to claims made in Conclusion
- Response to Passing the Heavenly Gift: Appendix 1 & 2—Comparing the size and cost of the Kirtland and Nauvoo temples
- Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, "Passing Up The Heavenly Gift (Part One of Two)"
- Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, "Passing Up The Heavenly Gift (Part Two of Two)"
- Reviews of this work
Notes
- ↑ Denver Snuffer, “Current Events,” from the desk of Denver Snuffer (blog), 26 August 2013, http://denversnuffer.blogspot.ca/2013/08/current-events.html