One-Minute Answers to Anti-Mormon Questions
by Gibson, Stephen W.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-02-01
Publisher(s): Horizon Publishers & Distributors
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Summary
Criticisms of the LDS Church are frequently based on intentional misinterpretations of Mormon doctrine. This book provides useful clarifications and rebuttals of many of those misrepresented doctrinal and historical areas. It gives simple but authoritative answers to more than sixty often-asked questions posed by anti-Mormon detractors. The answers are direct and nonconfrontational, providing readers with a friendly, teaching way of responding to those who question them.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. 10 |
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| Answers to Questions About The Book of Mormon | |
| Does It Quote Shakespeare? | p. 15 |
| Why Is the French Word Adieu Used? | p. 17 |
| Did It Give the Wrong Birthplace for Jesus? | p. 19 |
| Does It Quote the King James Bible? | p. 21 |
| Does It Contradict the Bible? | p. 24 |
| Does the Doctrine and Covenants Contradict It? | p. 25 |
| Why is Christ Only "A" Son of God? | p. 27 |
| Was It Based On View of the Hebrews? | p. 29 |
| Where Is Its "Fulness of the Gospel?" | p. 33 |
| Does It Forbid Polygamy? | p. 35 |
| Did the Smithsonian Refute It? | p. 37 |
| Why Were 4,000 Changes Made? | p. 40 |
| Answers to Questions About The Bible | |
| Can Anyone "Add To It"? | p. 48 |
| Was Moroni a False Spirit? | p. 50 |
| Do Latter-day Saints Teach "Another Gospel"? | p. 53 |
| Do Latter-day Saints Tear Down the Bible? | p. 55 |
| Why Trust in "Burnings in the Bosom"? | p. 58 |
| Why Believe In It Only "As It Is Translated Correctly"? | p. 60 |
| Answers to Questions About Joseph Smith | |
| Did He Claim To Do a Greater Work Than Jesus? | p. 65 |
| Did He Falsely Prophesy of Christ's Return? | p. 67 |
| Can People Go to Heaven Without His Consent? | p. 70 |
| Did He Falsely Prophesy of a Temple in Independence? | p. 73 |
| Was He Really a Martyr? | p. 76 |
| Did He Teach That the Moon Was Inhabited? | p. 79 |
| Why Did He Make Changes in the Doctrine & Covenants? | p. 82 |
| Did He Prophesy Falsely Regarding David Patten? | p. 85 |
| Answers to Questions About Church Doctrine | |
| How Does Baptism Relate to Being "Born Again"? | p. 89 |
| Can Men Become As God? | p. 92 |
| Are All Statements By LDS Authorities Doctrine? | p. 94 |
| Are Latter-day Saints Really Christians? | p. 97 |
| Why Don't Latter-day Saints Avoid "Endless Genealogy"? | p. 101 |
| Is Man Saved By Grace or Works? | p. 103 |
| Why Did Joseph Smith Describe "Everlasting Burnings" in Heaven? | p. 106 |
| No Salvation Outside the LDS Church? | p. 108 |
| Are There Three Heavens and No Hell? | p. 110 |
| Doesn't Isaiah Call Our Righteousness "Filthy Rags"? | p. 112 |
| Answers to Questions About Jesus Christ and God the Father | |
| Is God Adam? | p. 117 |
| Does the "Mormon" God Change? | p. 122 |
| Do the Saints Have a "Different Jesus"? | p. 126 |
| Was Jesus Begotten of the Holy Ghost? | p. 129 |
| Was Jesus Married? | p. 131 |
| Is Lucifer the Brother of Jesus? | p. 134 |
| Is There More Than One God? | p. 137 |
| Is the "Mormon Jesus" Unforgiving? | p. 147 |
| Is God a Spirit in the Book of Mormon? | p. 150 |
| Are Some Sins Unforgivable? | p. 152 |
| Questions and Answers About Miscellaneous Items | |
| Was the "Revelation" Received in Response to Pressure? | p. 156 |
| Does "Mormon" Mean "Gates of Hell"? | p. 161 |
| Why Don't the Saints Wear Crosses? | p. 163 |
| Is the Temple Garment Unchristian? | p. 166 |
| Why Was Joseph Smith Jailed? | p. 168 |
| Is Oliver Granger's Name Forgotten? | p. 170 |
| Do the Saints Have 4,300 Laws? | p. 172 |
| Was the Book of Abraham Disproved? | p. 174 |
| Why Have Secret Oaths and Covenants? | p. 179 |
| Does the Temple Display Pentagrams? | p. 182 |
| Are the Temple Rituals Anti-Christian? | p. 185 |
| Are Church Publications the Source of Doctrine? | p. 188 |
| Do Only Prophets Think For the Church? | p. 191 |
| Did Church Leaders Have Weaknesses? | p. 194 |
| Why Use Water For the Sacrament? | p. 196 |
| Bibliography | p. 199 |
| Index | p. 203 |
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