Tuesday, September 14, 2021

New Book: "Rightly Guided by Mormonism"

In 2019, I wrote a series of articles responding to Christina Darlington’s book, Misguided By Mormonism:

 

Listing of Responses to Christina R. Darlington's "Misguided by Mormonism" 

I emailed and messaged on facebook Darlington to try to discuss, and even try to arrange a debate, on these issues, but to no avail. A few weeks ago, I felt impressed to put together some of these articles into a book, as well as other articles on my blog touching related issues. It is now available on Lulu books:


Rightly Guided by Mormonism: A Defense of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and a Refutation of Christina Darlington’sMisguided by Mormonism



For those interested, here is the Table of Contents:


Introduction


Chapter 1: Darlington Admits that the Bible Does not Explicitly Teach “Special Revelation” Ceased With the Death of the Last Apostle and an Excursus on Ecclesiology


Chapter 2: Sola Scriptura, John 14:26 and 1 Corinthians 15:1-4


Chapter 3: Christina Darlington on "Missing Books of the Bible": Colossians 4:16 and the Epistle from Laodicea and the Meaning of Isaiah 40:8


Chapter 4: Christina Darlington on the Canon and the Council of Carthage


Chapter 5: Modern (Evangelical Protestant) New Testament Scholarship vs. Christina Darlington


Chapter 6: Refuting Christina Darlington's Claim the Bible has Been Preserved with 99.5% Accuracy


Chapter 7: Refuting the Myth that all but 11 verses of the New Testament Can be Reconstructed from the Church Fathers


Chapter 8: Ancient Evidence for the JST


Chapter 9: Answering Christina Darlington on JST Genesis 17:10-12 and the Age of those to be Circumcised


Chapter 10: JST Exodus 33:20 and Divine Embodiment


Chapter 11: On Joseph Smith “Seeing” God


Chapter 12: Answering an Argument from Hebrews 2 and LDS Belief in Universal Pre-Existence


Chapter 13: Early Christians and the Nature of Deification


Chapter 14: Refutation of the Protestant Doctrine of Forensic Justification


Chapter 15: D&C 82:7, and the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant


Chapter 16: Some Miscellaneous Arguments Against the Book of Mormon


Appendix 1: The Nature of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible


Appendix 2: Did Joseph Smith Finish His Revision of the Bible in 1833?


Appendix 3: The Christological Necessity of Universal Pre-Existence


Appendix 4: 1 Corinthians 3:15: A Very “Un-Protestant” Biblical Verse


Appendix 5: Latter-day Saint (and Biblical) Theology on Divine Embodiment


Appendix 6: Romans 6:3-7: Water Baptism as the Instrumental Agent of Regeneration


Appendix 7: Falling at the First Hurdle: Why Sola Scriptura is an exegetical impossibility


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