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myös lyhennettynä versiona nimellä The Changing
World of Mormonism, Moody Press, Chicago, 1981 (kokonaisuudessaan
heidän sivuillaan).
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on tullut kirkon "arkkivihollisia."
Tämä isokokoinen kirja on hyvä yhteenveto mormonismin
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tapa painottaa tärkeitä kohtia valokopioissaan alleviivaamalla
ja omissa teksteissään lihavoimalla osia turhanpäiten,
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Sisältö
- A MARVELOUS WORK?
Miraculous Claims - The Only True Church? - The Best People?
- CHANGE, CENSORSHIP AND SUPPRESSION
Changing Doctrines - Rebaptism - Censorship - Changing An Article
Of Faith - Key To Theology - Journal of Discourses - Lucy Smith's
Book - Book Burning - Suppressing The Records - Dr. Nibley Refused
- Apostles' Threats - Mormons Protest Suppression
- CHANGES IN THE REVELATIONS
Book Of Commandments - Not For Reproduction - Other Changes -
Study Of Changes - Important Changes - Unthinkable?
- JOSEPH SMITH AND MONEY-DIGGING
Joseph Smith's 1826 Trial - Importance Of Discovery - A Common
Practice - Peep Stones - Book Of Mormon From Stone - Embarrassed
Over Stone - Relationship To Book Of Mormon - Working With The
Rod - Affidavits And Statements - The Treasure Hunt Revelation
- THE BOOK OF MORMON
The Witnesses - Character Of Witnesses - Apostasy - Strang And
McLellin - Unreliable Witnesses - Martin Harris - Oliver Cowdery
- David Whitmer - Angels And Gold Plates - Too Much Excitement
- Harris' Shaker Book - Ancient Or Modern - Fits Smith's Environment
- Revivals - Infant Baptism - Church Of Christ - Ministers And
Money - Westminster Confession - Masonic Influence - Bible Influence
- The Apocrypha - Old Testament - New Testament - List Of Parallels
- A Real Dilemma - Alpha And Omega - Origin Of Indians - "Wonders
of Nature" - "No Traveller Returns" - Vapor Of
Darkness - Not Unique - "An Ignominious Death" - Joseph
Smith's Father's Dream - Smith Probably Qualified - Changes In
The Book Of Mormon - Lost Book Of Lehi - Making Up Names - Bible
Prophecy - Beyond The Book Of Mormon
- ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE BOOK OF MORMON
A Pagan People - A Lost Civilization - Mormon Scholars Face The
Truth - Nephite Coins And Chariots - Anthon Transcript - "Deformed
English" - Bat Creek Stone - Fraudulent Inscriptions - Kinderhook
Plates - Falsification Of History - "Childish Forgeries"
- Newark Stones - Tree of Life Stone - Lehi, Sariah And Nephi?
- Geography - Hill Cumorah - Compared With Bible Archaeology
- CHANGES IN JOSEPH SMITH'S HISTORY
Written By Joseph Smith? - New Discoveries - Film Supplies New
Evidence - Over 60% After Smith's Death - Rocky Mountain Prophecy
- Selected Changes - Conclusion
- THE FIRST VISION
Vision Criticized - "Strange" Accounts - An Important
Change - Revision Required - First History - Too Many Stories
- Doctrinal Change - Source of Confusion - An Evolving Story -
No Revival In 1820 - Lane And Stockton - Moving The Revival -
A Changing Story - Joseph A Methodist? - Joseph Changed His Mind
- Clandestine's Errors - Professor Hill's Speech
- THE GODHEAD
From One To Many - The Heavenly Mother - Serious Changes - Removing
The Lectures "Inspired" Corrections - Elohim - Hands
Or Wings? - A Changeable God - The Holy Ghost - No Real Answers
- THE ADAM-GOD DOCTRINE
Falling Upward - "Our Father And Our God" - Confusion
And Strife
- THE PRIESTHOOD
Added Later - Aaronic Priesthood - Aaronic Priesthood - High Priests
- First Presidency - Age Of Ordination
- THE ARM OF FLESH
Thinking A Sin? - No Revelation
- FALSE PROPHETS
The Canadian Revelation - The Lord's Coming - A Temple In Zion
- The Civil War - The Gathering - Joseph's Boys - Other Prophecies
- THE HEREAFTER
The Universalists - Joseph Changes His Mind - Mormon Purgatory
- Degrees Of Glory - Dissolved And Reorganized Spirits
- THE MISSIONARY SYSTEM
- PLURAL MARRIAGE
Reason For Revelation - Breaking The Law - Contradicts Book of
Mormon - Contradicts The Bible - Threatened With Destruction -
Wives Before The Revelation - Leaders Puzzled - Sorrows Of Polygamy
- Discord In Joseph's Home - Lived With His Wives - Number Of
Wives - Taking Other Men's Wives - Polygamy Or Promiscuity? -
John C. Bennett - Sarah Pratt Affair - Martha Brotherton - Nancy
Rigdon - Strange Marriages - Polygamy And Courtship - Only 2%
- One-Wife System Condemned - Adam A Polygamist - God And Christ
Polygamists - Essential To Salvation
- THE MANIFESTO
After The Manifesto - "Manifesto A Deception" - Polygamy
In Utah Today - Taylor's 1886 Revelation - The Dilemma
- MORMONISM AND TRUTH
The Mormon Battalion - Making God A Liar - Conclusion
- JOSEPH SMITH
A Fighting Prophet - General Smith - "The Greatest Egotist"
- Mixing Politics And Revelation - Destruction Of Expositor -
Like A Lamb?
- THE VIRGIN BIRTH
- THE NEGRO IN MORMON THEOLOGY
Black Skin - PreExistence - Sons Of Cain - Through The Flood -
One Drop Disqualifies - Negroes In The Priesthood - Negroes Unhappy
- Objections To Doctrine - For Cain's Sins - Negroes And The Gospel
- Nigerian Mission - Rooted In Prejudice - Slavery In Utah - Civil
Rights - The Genesis Group - Athletes Protest - A Serious Situation
- Church Rejects Violence - Appeasement - Dissatisfaction - A
Burning Issue - A New Revelation? - Joseph Fielding Smith - An
Honest Soution - Conclusion
- FALL OF THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM
The Papyri Rediscovered - "Caught Flat Footed" - History
Of Papyri - Deciphering Egyptian Spalding's Attack - "Dr.
Webb" - Tragic Neglect - Not Out Of Date - A Suspicious Discovery
- Other Papyri Suppressed - No Gift To Translate - Nibley Not
An Egyptologist - Dr. Nelson? - Source Of Book Of Abraham - Book
Of Breathings - Written In Hieratic - Finding The Key - Three
Witnesses Against Book - Dr. Nibley Confused - Nibley Reverses
His Position -
Abraham's Signature - A False Translation - Basis For Anti-Black
Doctrine - From A Hole In The Papyrus - An Unfinished Work - Complete
Confusion - Just A Memory Device'? - "Bushels Of Nonsense"
- Facing The Truth - The Facsimiles - Facsimile No. 2 - Falsification
Proven - Part A-K - Joseph Smith Responsible - "Cannot Be
Revealed" - A Pagan Object - Facsimile No. 1 - Unfamiliar
Writing? - Not Unique - The Interpretation - Changes In Facsimile
- Facsimile No. 3 - Dressed Like Women - A Common Scene - Not
Abraham's Drawings - Book Of Joseph - Joseph's Egyptian Alphabet
- "Mere Imagination" - Nibley Repudiates Grammar - Master
Of All Languages - Possible Sources - Imitation Genesis - Other
Sources - The Moment Of Truth - The Browns' Attack - Nibley's
New Book - Return To Old Facsimiles
- OLD TESTAMENT PRACTICES
Wine And Curses - Animal Sacrifice
- MORMON SCRIPTURES AND THE BIBLE
Paine's Influence - Evidence Compared - Dead Sea Scrolls - Isaiah
Text - Evidence For New Testament - Papyri Finds - "130,000
Different Readings" - "Inspired Revisions" - Weak
Points - Beyond The Text - "Drastically Changed" - Revising
The Revisions - Conclusion
- BLOOD ATONEMENT
Capital Crimes - Was It Actually Practiced?
- THE WORD OF WISDOM
Origin Of Revelation - Joseph's Example - Joseph's Bar - Young's
Distillery - Wine And Visions - Hypocrisy
- THE MORMON KINGDOM
Council Of Fifty - Joseph Made King - Joseph For President - Brigham
Young As King - Church And State One - No Democratic Elections
- Moses Thatcher - Attack On America - Decline Of The Kingdom
- Conclusion
- THE DANITES
Attempted Explanations - Origin Of The Danites - Joseph Smith
To Blame - Stealing From The Gentiles - Cutting Throats - "War
Of Extermination" - Mormon Crimes - Joseph Surrenders - Trouble
In Illinois - Using The Mean Devils - Bill Hickman - Orrin Porter
Rockwell
- TEMPLE WORK
Baptism For The Dead - Endless Genealogies - Elijah The Prophet
- All In Vain? - Temple Marriage - Connected With Polygamy - Sealing
In Spite Of Sin - A Secret Ceremony
- THE TEMPLE CEREMONY - By A Temple Worker
- CHANGES IN THE TEMPLE CEREMONY
Bloody Oaths - Oath Of Vengeance - Other Changes - Testimony On
Ceremony - Sealing Men To Men - Conclusion
- THE TEMPLE CEREMONY AND MASONRY
Joseph Becomes A Mason - Masonry In Temple Ritual - Only One Explanation
- Embarrassing Questions - Conclusion
- THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE
The Utah War - The Massacre - After The Massacre - Lee's Excommunication
- Trial And Execution - Responsibility For Massacre - Church Opposes
Study
- MORMONISM AND MONEY
Church Funds For Private Gain - Young Becomes Rich - Joseph F.
Smith's Testimony - Over $1.000,000 A Day - Tax Problems - Control
Of News Media - No Paid Ministry? - Church Or Business
- SPECULATION, ILLEGAL BANKING AND COUNTERFEITING
Speculation - The Kirtland Bank - Disaster - Bankruptcy - Fraudulent
Acts - Counterfeiting - Apostles Indicted - "Bogus Brigham"
- The Whittlers - Government Records - A Rapid Exodus - Bogus
Makers Go West
- BLOOD FLOWS IN UTAH
Killing The Thieves - Parrish Murders - Young Indicted For Murder
- No Protection In Utah
- MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY AND DOCTRINE
Birth Control - Compressed Spirits - Vegetable Spirits - A Year's
Supply Of Food - John Whitmer's History
- FACING REALITY
Exalts The Pride Of Man - Church Not Lost - Our Own Testimony
- Mormonism A Shadow
APPENDIX - Questions About Our Work
- How Did You Begin This Work?
- Is Your Work Effective In Reaching Mormons?
- Is There Any Opposition To Your Work?
- What Is The Purpose Of Your Work And What Do You Hope To Accomplish?
- Is It True That You Were Excommunicated From The LDS Church?
- How Do You Feel About The Mormon People?
- Is It True That You Have Stolen Films From The Church Historian's
Office?
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