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Response to Denver Snuffer's Online Claims: Historical



A FAIR Analysis of: Denver Snuffer's Online Claims, a work by author: Denver Snuffer

Response to Denver Snuffer's Online Claims: Historical


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Response to claim: Passing the Heavenly Gift is "the most correct account of our dispensation written so far"

The author(s) of Denver Snuffer blog make(s) the following claim:

"[My book Passing the Heavenly Gift is] the most correct account of our dispensation written so far...."[1]

FAIR's Response

Despite this grandiose claim, Snuffer's book is filled with historical errors, omissions, and misrepresentations.


Response to claims made in Passing the Heavenly Gift by Denver C. Snuffer

Summary: This account of Church history contains numerous inaccuracies, distortions, and misrepresentations of the data.


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Response to claim: "Joseph Smith only built one building-a temple"

The author(s) of Denver Snuffer, "Preserving The Restoration," Lecture 10, Mesa, Arizona (9 September 2014) make(s) the following claim:

"Joseph Smith only built one building. He completed the Kirtland temple. He got the Nauvoo temple started, but Joseph Smith only built one building."[2]

FAIR's Response

  1. REDIRECT Question: Should there be only one temple?


Notes

  1. Denver Snuffer, “Current Events,” from the desk of Denver Snuffer (blog), 26 August 2013, http://denversnuffer.blogspot.ca/2013/08/current-events.html
  2. Denver Snuffer, "Preserving The Restoration," Lecture 10, Mesa, Arizona (9 September 2014), 30. https://www.scribd.com/doc/239760895/10-Phoenix-Transcript-Preserving-the-Restoration