Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 15


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A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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Claims made in Chapter 15: The Arm of Flesh

Page Claim Response Author's sources

431-439

 There has been no new revelation since the time of Joseph Smith.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

431

 The Church teaches that you must let the leaders do your thinking for you.
  • Improvement Era, June 1945, p.354

433

 Joseph F. Smith said that he never received revelation.
  • Reed Smoot Case, Vol. 1, pages 483-484

434

 The Church chose to canonize two "new" revelations in order to counter claims made by the Tanners?
  •  Absurd claim
  •  Mind reading: author has no way of knowing this.: The authors have too high an opinion of themselves. Church leaders have long insisted that new revelation comes frequently to the Church, and this long pre-dates their anti-Mormon crusade:
So, when people say: "We ought to have revelation now as we did in the day of Joseph," we must answer, "Open your eyes; we do have revelation every day; such as we need from day to day." (John A. Widtsoe, 1939)[1]

435

The Church has never produced a copy of the revelation granting Blacks the ability to receive the priesthood.

437

Brigham Young claimed that his sermons were the same as scripture.

  • Journal of Discourses 13:95

Endnotes

  1. [note]  John A. Widtsoe, "Modern Revelation and Modern Questions," The Deseret News, Church Section (28 January 1939): 6.
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