By Jerald and Sandra Tanner

Contents

Foreword……….10
Preface……….12
Acknowledgments……….15
Introduction……….16

Chapter

1. A Marvelous Work?……….19
   • Miraculous Claims……….21
   • The Only True Church?……….26
2. Change, Censorship and Suppression……….29
   • Censorship……….29
   • Suppression and Book Burning……….34
3. Changes in the Revelations……….38
   • Book of Commandments……….39
   • Study of Changes……….43
   • Important Changes……….45
   • Important Change in Newly-Accepted Revelation……….62
   • Unthinkable?……….63
4. Joseph Smith and Money Digging……….67
   • Book of Mormon From the Stone……….80
   • Money-Digging and the Book of Mormon……….84
   • Working with the Rod……….86
   • Joseph Smith’s Magic Talisman……….88
5. The Book of Mormon……….92
   • The Witnesses……….94
   • Ancient or Modern?……….111
   • Origin of the Indians……….125
   • Changes in the Book of Mormon……….128
   • Archaeology and the Book of Mormon……….133
   • The Anthon Transcript……….141
   • Compared with Bible Archaeology……….145
   • Beyond the Book of Mormon……….147
6. The First Vision……….148
   • “Strange” Accounts……….150
   • Not Unique……….159
   • First History……….160
   • A Doctrinal Change……….161
   • No Revival in 1820……….166
7. The Godhead……….172
   • From One to Many……….173
   • The Heavenly Mother……….177
   • The Virgin Birth……….179
   • Serious Changes……….183
   • Removing the Lectures……….183
   • A Changeable God……….187
   • The Holy Ghost……….188
   • No Real Answers……….191
8. The Adam-God Doctrine……….192
   • Not Created of the Dust of This Earth……….198
   • The Only God with Whom We Have to Do……….198
   • The Father of Our Spirits……….199
   • The Father of Jesus Christ……….199
9. Plural Marriage……….204
   • Suppressed 1831 Revelation……….207
   • The 1843 Revelation Examined……….218
   • Sorrows of Polygamy……….226
   • Number of Wives……….231
   • Taking Other Men’s Wives……….236
   • Strange Marriages……….245
   • God and Christ Polygamists?……….247
   • Essential to Salvation……….255
   • Lying About Polygamy……….258
   • The Manifesto……….262
   • Mormon Leaders Yield……….268
   • After the Manifesto……….270
   • “Manifesto a Deception”……….281
   • The Dilemma……….286
10. Changing the Anti-Black Doctrine……….291
    • Black Skin and the Pre-Existence……….291
    • Descendants of Cain Through the Flood……….294
    • One Drop Disqualifies……….296
    • Objections to Doctrine……….299
    • Blacks and the Gospel……….300
    • Rooted in Prejudice……….301
    • Slavery in Utah……….303
    • Civil Rights……….305
    • The New “Revelation”……….308
    • Brigham Young Misrepresented……….311
    • Better Late Than Never……….319
    • Problem in Brazil……….322
    • New “Revelation” Evades the Real Issues……….323
    • Does the Revelation Really Exist?……….325
    • Impact of Revelation……….328
11. Fall of the Book of Abraham……….329
    • The Papyri Rediscovered……….330
    • No Gift to Translate……….334
    • Source of the Book of Abraham……….340
    • Only the Book of Breathings……….344
    • Three Witnesses Against the Book of Abraham……….346
    • Destroys Basis for Anti-Black Doctrine……….351
    • Complete Confusion……….351
    • The Facsimiles……….356
    • The Moment of Truth……….362
12. Mormon Scriptures and the Bible……….364
    • Paine’s Influence……….365
    • Evidence Compared……….368
    • Dead Sea Scrolls……….370
    • Evidence for New Testament……….373
    • “130,000 Different Readings”……….376
    • “Inspired Revision”……….383
    • “Drastically Changed”……….395
13. Changes in Joseph Smith’s History……….398
    • Written by Joseph Smith?……….400
    • New Discoveries……….401
    • Over Sixty Percent After Joseph Smith’s Death……….403
    • Rocky Mountain Prophecy……….404
    • Selected Changes.………408
    • Joseph Smith’s Diaries Discredit History……….412
    • Conclusion……….414
14. False Prophecy……….417
    • The Canadian Revelation……….417
    • The Lord’s Coming……….418
    • A Temple in Zion……….420
    • The Civil War……….424
    • Suppressed Material on Civil War……….428
    • Conclusion……….430
15. The Arm of Flesh……….431
    • No New Revelation……….432
    • Conclusion……….437
16. The Priesthood……….440
    • Added Later……….442
    • Aaronic Priesthood……….443
    • Melchizedek Priesthood……….444
    • High Priests……….446
17. Joseph Smith……….448
    • A Fighting Prophet……….450
    • General Smith……….452
    • “The Greatest Egotist”……….455
    • Smith Ordained King……….456
    • Joseph Smith for President……….457
    • Greater than Jesus?……….460
    • Destruction of Expositor……….460
    • Like a Lamb?……….464
18. The Word of Wisdom……….467
    • Origin of the Revelation……….468
    • Joseph’s Example……….469
    • Joseph Smith’s Bar……….472
    • Brigham Young’s Distillery……….474
    • Wine and Visions……….479
    • Hypocrisy……….481
19. Old Testament Practices……….484
    • Wine and Curses……….484
    • Animal Sacrifice After Christ……….488
20. Blood Atonement……….490
    • Crimes Worthy of Death……….493
    • Blood Atonement in Actual Practice……….501
21. The Hereafter……….505
    • Mormon Purgatory……….508
    • Degrees of Glory……….509
22. Temple Work……….512
    • Baptism for the Dead……….512
    • Temple Marriage……….518
    • Connected with Polygamy……….520
    • A Secret Ceremony……….524
    • Changes in the Temple Ceremony……….530
    • The Temple Ceremony and Masonry……….534
    • Joseph Smith Becomes a Mason……….535
    • Masonic Ritual in the Temple Ceremony……….536
    • Conclusion……….547
23. Facing Reality……….548
    • Exalts the Pride of Man……….549
    • Church Not Lost……….554
    • Our Own Testimony……….555
    • Mormonism a Shadow……….559

• Appendix A: Mormon Plan of Eternal Progression……….561
• Appendix B: The New Mormon Bible……….562
• Bibliography……….563
• Index……….574

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