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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 21
Response to claims made in "Chapter 21: The Hereafter"
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Chapter 22 |
506 - LDS leaders teach the "endless punishement" won't last forever
The author(s) of The Changing World of Mormonism make(s) the following claim:
LDS leaders teach the "endless punishement" won't last forever.
FAIR's Response
What is "endless punishment"?
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- Question: What is the nature of "endless" or "eternal" punishment?
- Question: What is the meaning of "eternal" life?
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon support the idea that "eternal" or "endless" punishment can be temporary?
- Question: Is there more than one state of "hell"?
- Question: Is the concept of redemption after this life unique to Mormonism?
506
Claim
- Joseph Smith's later teachings regarding endless punishment contradict the Book of Mormon.
Author's source(s) - Doctrine and Covenants 19:6
- Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 2, p.160
- Alma 42꞉16
507
Claim
- Brigham Young taught that there would be no women in hell.
Author's source(s) - Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 8:222.
507
Claim
- LDS leaders teach that "very few" will become "sons of perdition."
Author's source(s) - Joseph Smith—Seeker After Truth, pp.177-78
508
Claim
- The idea of "spirit prison" as an opportunity for the dead to be taught and receive the gospel contradicts the Book of Mormon.
Author's source(s) - Doctrines of Salvation 2:183
- Doctrines of Salvation 3:60
- Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 4:223.
- Alma 34꞉32-35
- Author(s) impose(s) own fundamentalism on the Saints
- The author's claim is false: 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/Contains the fulness of the gospel
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Claim
- The concept of three degrees of glory is not consistent with the Book of Mormon.
Author's source(s) - 1 Nephi 15꞉35
- Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses 20:70.
- Author(s) impose(s) own fundamentalism on the Saints
- The author's claim is false: The Book of Mormon is targeted at the fundamentals of the gospel; the doctrine of the degrees of glory is biblical (1 Corinthians 15꞉40-42, 2 Corinthians 12:2) and complementary to it.
- Book of Mormon/Contains the fulness of the gospel