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Title: Offenders for a Word by Daniel C. Peterson, Stephen David Ricks ISBN: 0-934893-35-7 Publisher: F.A.R.M.S. Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: an educational read for LDS and anti-LDS alike
Comment: The people reviewing the book with a negative aspect on the LDS faith have obviously not read the book. I saw things on the previously posted reviews that Daniel Peterson very effectively refutes IN THE BOOK. I have also seen some of the logical fallacies which DCP also explains in the book. This is a very well-written book.
From an LDS standpoint, it is a good book to own, because it helps to keep faith, even in the midst of many critics spewing forth the same drivel day in and day out.
From an anti-LDS standpoint, this should also be a very good book. While it would be insulting to read, chiefly because of Daniel Peterson's entire outlook on "anti-Mormons", it would serve as a valuable tool to make their arguments a little more effective. I tell you, some of the anti-Mormon literature out there is just plain sad in their poor research and half-truths. If these anti-Mormons would read this book, they may realize that honest research will ultimately be more persuasive then faulty half-truths and fear tactics.
-Christoph-
Rating: 1
Summary: This is funny.
Comment: This is only one of many books written by members of the LDS Church trying to prove to the world that Mormonism is also Christianity. Fortunately most people are not decieved, no matter how hard you try to name an orange an apple, it will always be an orange. Mormonism is the gospel according to Joseph Smith, nothing else. Daniel C. Peterson is just another spin doctor for his faith. Those who are really interested in Mormonism should read: "Mormonism-Shadow or Reality" by Jerald and Sandra Tanner.
Rating: 1
Summary: Bailing out a sinking ship... with a thimble
Comment: Word games, word games, word games. As if I had to say it three times, but this is exactly what this book does... Mormons ARE Christians but the fact that they are doesn't necessarily vindicate their faith (or Christianity). This book plays word games repeatedly on the very people it is trying to help avoid them, except of course these word games come from the right side... The minds of most of the readers are already decided and closed.
We're told the Book of Mormon is the "most correct book" in the LDS Articles of Faith. If this is the case, why are there so many changes since the original edition? If it was correct then this wouldn't be the case.
2 Nephi 30:6 (1830) "they shall be a WHITE and delightsome people." Now the word "PURE" is used. Mosiah 21:28 (1830) "...on learning from the mouth of Ammon that king BENJAMIN had a gift from God..." Benjamin is now Mosiah. These are not minor changes.
This seed did "swelleth" nearly to double the size.
Alma 32:30: (1830): "But behold, as the seed swelleth and sprouteth and beginneth to grow, and then ye must needs say, That seed is good; for behold, it swelleth and sprouteth and beginneth to grow."
Today: "But behold, as the seed swelleth and sprouteth and beginneth to grow, and then ye must needs say, That seed is good; for behold, it swelleth and sprouteth and beginneth to grow. And now behold, will not this strengthen your faith? Yea, it will strengthen your faith: for ye will say that I know that this is a good seed; for behold, it sprouteth and beginneth to grow."
If you can't see these changes you need your eyesight tested. Those who wish to do so can buy a facsimile of the ORIGINAL 1830 Book of Mormon at Amazon.
What about Brigham Young? Let's read his own words (no word play here)... Here's his view of his being a prophet, judge for yourself (reference included for personal research into his writings)
Journal of Discourses, 5:177
"I do not profess to be a Prophet. I never called myself so; but I actually believe I am, because people are all the time telling me that I am."
Brigham Young said about black people in his own Journal of Discourses, 7:291, again LOOK IT UP YOURSELF IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME-
"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race-that they should be the 'servant of servants;' and they will be, until that curse is removed; and the Abolitionists cannot help it, nor in the least alter that decree. How long is that race to endure the dreadful curse that is upon them? That curse will remain upon them, and they never can hold the Priesthood or share in it until all the other descendants of Adam have received the promises and enjoyed the blessings of the Priesthood and the keys thereof. Until the last ones of the residue of Adam's children are brought up to that favorable position, the children of Cain cannot receive the first ordinances of the Priesthood."
The anti-black priesthood restriction was only lifted in 1978, and can be read in Doctrines and Covenants.
If you wish to KNOW the Mormon church, these quotes from Brigham Young and from the Book of Mormon are ENTIRELY relevant.
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