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Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................iv Foreword ................................................................................................................................vii Part I—Misplaced Testimony and Anti-Mormon Vulnerability ..........................................1 Chapter 1—Dealing With Doubt...............................................................................................3 Chapter 2—Ex-Mormons, Critics, and Fundamentalist Assumptions .......................................11 Chapter 3—Unrealistic Expectations of Prophets ...................................................................19 Chapter 4—Confusing Tradition With Doctrine (Read this on-line)............................................31 Chapter 5—Paradigms, Evidence, and Imposing Our Assumptions on Others .........................35 Chapter 6—Scholarly, Historical, and Scientific Limitations & Unrealistic Expectations ...........53 Chapter 7—Betrayal and Church "Cover-Up" .......................................................................71 Chapter 8—Adding Cognitions (Beliefs) ................................................................................77 Chapter 9—Anti-Mormon Disdain for LDS Scholarship and Apologists..................................83 Chapter 10—Summary to Part I: "The Answers Are Out There" …......................................103 Resources ...........................................................................................................................107 Part II—Responses to Specific Anti-Mormon Claims......................................................109 Section 1—The Book of Abraham .......................................................................................111 Chapter 11—Joseph Smith, Abraham, and Modern Egyptology ...........................................113 Section 2—The Book of Mormon .......................................................................................129 Chapter 12—Anachronisms: The Wrong Things at the Wrong Time .....................................131 Chapter 13—Book of Mormon Geography .........................................................................143 Chapter 14—Book of Mormon Textual Changes .................................................................149 Chapter 15—DNA and the Book of Mormon.......................................................................157 Chapter 16—Fulness of the Gospel .....................................................................................163 Chapter 17—Joseph's Environment and the Book of Mormon .............................................169 Chapter 18—Others in the Book of Mormon.........................................................................177 Chapter 19—Reformed Egyptian and Book of Mormon Language ......................................183 Chapter 20—Who are the "Lamanites"? .............................................................................189 Chapter 21—The Book of Mormon Witnesses....................................................................193 Section 3—Historical Issues ...............................................................................................201 Chapter 22—The Journal of Discourses ..............................................................................203 Chapter 23—The Kinderhook Plates ..................................................................................209 Chapter 24—Plural Marriage .............................................................................................215 Chapter 25—The Temple ..................................................................................................229 Section 4—Joseph Smith ...................................................................................................235 Chapter 26—The First Vision ............................................................................................237 Chapter 27—"Magic," Treasure Digging, and the Young Joseph Smith ...............................245 Chapter 28—Part II Summary: Conclusion .........................................................................253 Endnotes ............................................................................................................................255 Index .................................................................................................................................297
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