What is so amazing about Royal Skousen's “critical text” of the BofM published by Yale University Press? It's that Mormons are touting it as being “on a par with” the “critical texts” of the Bible — that is, a look at...
The mainstream Latter-day Saint Church did not in the past officially recognize its own “Inspired Version” as doctrine, claiming that it was never completed by Joseph Smith, and that what was finished was later corrupted by uninspired persons. In recent years, the...
A recent guest on Chris Arnzen's hour-long radio program, Iron Sharpens Iron, was Sandra Tanner. As well as being Brigham Young's great, great granddaughter, she is also one of the world's most authoritative experts on Mormonism. She and her late husband...
Mormons frequently point to Psalm 82:6, quoted by Jesus in John 10:34-35, to say that the Bible teaches that men are gods, or at least can become gods. Taken alone, these two scriptures could possibly be construed to have that meaning (although the...
