Category: Ed Decker
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God Makers II Lawyer Threatens Tanners With Suit
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Unfortunately, our last newsletter regarding the video The God Makers II, has stirred up a real hornet’s nest. While we tried to be very accurate and tactful in our presentation, in an article entitled, “The Tanners Strike Again,” J. Edward Decker exclaimed: One would think that I’d have developed some…
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The Godmakers II: Under Fire from Within and Without
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner A real controversy has been raging in Salt Lake City ever since the film The Godmakers II was shown at a local church. The reason the film created such a heated debate was that it openly accused the acting head of the Mormon Church, President Gordon B. Hinckley, of committing…
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Trojan Horses in Mormon Land
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner A great deal has happened since we began working on the last issue of the Salt Lake City Messenger. For example, on April 23, 1991, we were informed that Darrick Evenson, a Mormon writer who has worked very hard in an attempt to discredit our work, had been unmasked as…
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The Tanners: Demonized Agents of the Mormon Church?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner When the Apostle Paul wrote to the churches of Galatia, he asked this question: “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” (Galatians 4:16) Paul was painfully aware of the fact that his stand for true Christianity was costing him a great deal. Many of those…
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Witchcraft Controversy Rekindled
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the Salt Lake City Messenger for September 1988, we noted that a statement by Walter Martin of Christian Research Institute had finally ended a controversy between our ministry and Ed Decker. At the heart of the disagreement was a question regarding the influence of witchcraft and Satanism on the…
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CRI Statement Ends Witchcraft Dispute
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Most of our readers are aware of the fact that for a number of months we have been involved in a disagreement concerning the question of whether the Mormon temple ceremony came from witchcraft and Satanism. The conflict centered around William Schnoebelen, a man who participated in both witchcraft and…
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Covering Up Syn
Ex-Satanist Brings Confusion to Mormons and Their Critics By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the late 1960s William Schnoebelen, a young man who had always wanted to be a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, decided to enter into the occult. On September 22, 1968 he became a “1st Degree (Gardnerian Tradition) Witch.” He later…
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Devils All Over?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the March 1987 issue of the Messenger, we warned that some critics of the Mormon Church have become so obsessed with finding “Luciferian” influence in the temple ceremony that they have lost sight of reality. Since we published that article, things have gone from bad to worse. In a…