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Summary: What do Mormons Really Believe? Ask an actual MORMON!
Review: All I have to say is if you have a question, go to the source. I don't care how many degrees, doctorates or whatever these authors have, they are not LDS and are just trying to discredit the religion. I would suggest to any person who is searching for answers about the LDS religion to go to a member of that religion and ask. Someone who is not LDS is going to twist things to their own way to make people believe the way they do.(I put one star because there isn't an option to put zero stars.)
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Summary: Historical Evidence
Review: I believe that this book is very important to understand the Mormon Church. Historical background is a very important aspect in dertermining the validity of a faith.
I would also like to respond to the reader from Baton Rouge, who wrote their review on August 15, 2002. To say that the historical background of the Mormon Church no longer reflects the beliefs currently held by the Church members today is to undermine the reliablitlity of its doctrine in the first place. A Church who's own past and founding principals is no longer reliable or in line with current belief should stop and take a look at how they got to where they are today. Unlike Mormonism, Christianity (not in any way affiliated with Mormonism) is consistent today with historical background and evidence, including medical, anthropological, and non-Christian history evidence. I encourage you to thouroughly research objectively the beleifs and doctrines of the Mormon Church and contrast them to Christianity. You may be surprised.
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Summary: What do Mormons Really Believe? Ask an actual MORMON!
Review: I was very saddened to read this work. The one star is only for the portion of historical content that was true. It is a shame that men in their positions of influence would publish fiction- that's more polite than saying lies. Like the Apostle Paul wrote- "professing themselves wise, they became fools". It is sad that many people will ultimately place their faith in the works of these 2 men, accrediting their "learned book knowledge", without ever researching their references and quoted scriptures for themselves. I found it contradictive that the primary thrust of this book was to attack that Joseph Smith was not a prophet based on setting forth that he may have made a prediction that has yet to be fulfilled. If that is true, Then we must also have to disclaim Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah, Saint John and many others (in fact all others making prophecies in eschatology) who have prophecies yet to be fulfilled. And then to pull Deuteronomy 18:20 as a sole hinge to supposedly prove that Joseph Smith wasn't a Prophet, because he was killed- allowed to be killed- martyred, (hmm like Jesus and the Apostles?) was pitiful. The verse itself that they set forth, in stating "THAT PROPHET SHALL DIE" presupposes that if this verse is applicable to Joseph at all, then HE WAS A PROPHET. I sincerely hope that readers will recognize the spirit of Christ is not one of contention as they see the apostle Paul's fulfillment of scripture as these 2 writers "Profess themselves wise, ..becoming fools." My heart aches for those who will be mislead by it's message, which is easy to see thru if one will actually look under the guidance of the Holy Spirit for themselves at the issues. Their type statements and logic would teach me that Jesus actually did sin because he was rude to, and destroyed the possessions of, those in the Temple when he cleansed it. Yet we know there is more to the purpose and truth of that story. Even so, that is the type of surface scanning, attempt at objectivity taken in this book. I trashed it.
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Summary: An awesome witness tool
Review: If you are a Christian with Mormon friends, read this book. If you are a LDS yourself read it. I beg of any Mormons reading this to consider Christianity. Not the type of Christianity that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints teaches. But the type of Christianity that the Bible teaches. I have studied Mormonism to an extent, and found it interesting, but there are just to many flaws in it for me to have faith in it. (Besides the fact that Joseph Smith had a police record 3 pages long before the 1st visitation.) You may be thinking 'what flaws?' I mean the flaws where the Mormon holy books contradict themselves. I mean the flaws in it's history. In the book of Mormon it was claimed that it was written in Reformed Egyptian. There never was any such language. I mean the flaws in Joseph Smith's recordings of the 1st visitation. There are 3 different records, all written by him, at different times, saying different things. Buy this book and consider what it has to say. Most importantly, consider regular Christianity with an open mind and open heart.
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Summary: very poorly reserached; there are better books than this one
Review: My review will be brief since a multitude of other reviewers dictated my thoughts about this book. I do give Weldon and Ankerberg the credit of doing a good job of research in this book. They analyze Mormon documents and appear to have a sophisticated knowledge of the Momron Church. However, my praise really stops there. The books makes several errors in its abstraction of evidence from out-of-context situations. Often the authors regard minute points in the Mormon faith far beyond their significance. They harp on points that really don't matter in the larger scheme. The result is that one must sort though a mess of writing before coming to a final conclusion. This makes the book very exacting to read. I suggest one reads something else before tackling the arcana these two authors invent.
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Summary: very poorly reserached; there are better books than this one
Review: My review will be brief since a multitude of other reviewers dictated my thoughts about this book. I do give Weldon and Ankerberg the credit of doing a good job of research in this book. They analyze Mormon documents and appear to have a sophisticated knowledge of the Momron Church. However, my praise really stops there. The books makes several errors in its abstraction of evidence from out-of-context situations. Often the authors regard minute points in the Mormon faith far beyond their significance. They harp on points that really don't matter in the larger scheme. The result is that one must sort though a mess of writing before coming to a final conclusion. This makes the book very exacting to read. I suggest one reads something else before tackling the arcana these two authors invent.
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Summary: EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR LEARNING ABOUT MORMONISM
Review: Reading this book I found it to be very well researched. The authors' provide accurate information regarding the rapidly growing cult. Other books of interest on this subject would be "No Man Knows My History" by Juanita Brooks, "Under The Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krackour, and "An American Massacre" by Sally Denton.
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