The Retrofitted Priesthood Restoration | 10. Significant Changes to Key Revelations | 9. Book of Mormon Translation - Church Narrative vs. The Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible Plagiarism | 4. King James Errors and Deutero-Isaiah | 3. Either the Book of Mormon is what the Prophet Joseph said it is or this Church and its founder are false, fraudulent, a deception from the first instance onward.”ġ. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.”Įlder Jeffrey Holland: “.everything in the Church – everything – rises or falls on the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and, by implication, the Prophet Joseph Smith’s account of how it came forth.It sounds like a ‘sudden death’ proposition to me. Reuben Clark: 'If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. The Church has to absorb all this new information or it will be on very shaky grounds and that’s what it is trying to do and it will be a strain for a lot of people, older people especially. The dominant narrative is not true it can’t be sustained. If anyone has any suggestions or rebuttals, please email us anytime at and we would be happy to correct any incorrect info or give you more information as to why we feel as we do.Īs prominent LDS historian Richard Bushman noted, 'I think that for the Church to remain strong it has to reconstruct its narrative.

These different subjects are difficult to read and a lot of it is unknown to members, but they are facts and we all deserve to know the truth as difficult as it might be to discover. They are real, they are tangible, and they are what we have learned since Joseph Smith's lifetime. Facts matter and the truth does not change no matter how much we want to believe otherwise. One quick note: While many used to call these arguments 'anti-Mormon,' as you will see below they are heavily sourced from LDS materials/history. This page might be a bit long, but I believe you will find it worthwhile and we have plenty of links below if you'd like to research any of these points further. When you take these in totality, it paints a picture that is difficult to reconcile with the narrative the church taught me, and we'll explain why as we go through these points. What we want to do below is just quickly highlight each problem with links to the individual pages on this site if you want to read further on any given topic. Apologists often approach these problems by isolating each one individually with an overload of information that doesn't actually solve the problem, but can end up making you think you were the silly one for questioning it in the first place. This section is meant to serve as a recap of what has been written on this site across all of the various subjects to briefly illustrate some of the issues we have come across that can not be reconciled by apologetic arguments. Problems with the Truth Claims of the LDS Church: A Summary

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