Category: Mormon Leadership
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Joseph as a Prophet
An Important New Document Comes to Light By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The evidence we presented in another article in this issue of the Messenger shows that Joseph Smith failed as a translator. In this article we will show that the Mormon Church now faces a similar problem with regard to his role as a…
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The Changing World of Mormonism: Chapter 2
Change, Censorship and Suppression The fact that Mormonism is changing is very obvious to anyone who studies the history of the church. Things that were approved of when Mormonism first began are now condemned, and things that are now approved were once condemned. For instance, the Mormon church has made a major doctrinal change with…
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Will Benson Be King?
Mormon Leader Strives for Political Power By Jerald and Sandra Tanner On February 24, 1980, the Salt Lake Tribune carried a full-page advertisement concerning our new book, The Changing World of Mormonism. In this ad we demonstrated that many important changes have been made in Mormon doctrine. Two days after this was published, Ezra Taft…
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Blacks Receive LDS Priesthood
Pressure Forces Mormon President to Issue New “Revelation” By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Bruce R. McConkie, who now serves as an Apostle in the Mormon Church, made these remarks concerning blacks in his book Mormon Doctrine: Negroes in this life are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from…
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Reign of the Mormon Kings
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner We are happy to announce that we have now completed the second volume of The Mormon Kingdom. In the first volume of this work (temporarily out of print) we showed that Joseph Smith formed a secret organization known as the “Council of Fifty” and “suffered himself to be ordained king”…
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Reliable Revelations?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In our three-volume work The Case Against Mormonism, we have presented a great deal of evidence which demonstrates that the Book of Abraham was a work of Joseph Smith’s own imagination and that the anti-Negro doctrine contained in its pages must be abandoned. Fawn M. Brodie has recently come out…
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“The Thinking Has Been Done”
“When our leaders speak, the thinking has been done. When they purpose a plan—it is God’s plan. . . . When they give direction, it should mark the end of controversy.”
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The Seer
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1830 the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, published the Book of Mormon—a book which purports to be a history of the “former inhabitants of this continent.” The same year he organized a church in the State of New York. Later he claimed to have power from God to revise the…
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Orson Pratt’s Troubles
Orson Pratt faced significant turmoil in 1842 over polygamy, only to return and become its staunch defender.
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I’m Warning You
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Several years ago we were sitting in the office of the Mormon Apostle LeGrand Richards, when he threatened us as follows: I’m warning you! Don’t start anything against this church! Since that time people have asked us such questions as: “Do you have a gun to protect yourself?” or “Do…