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Chapter 19
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Claims made in Chapter 20: Blood Atonement

Page Claim Response Author's sources

490
  • Reed Peck said that Joseph Smith told him of a revelation in which Apostle Peter stated that he had hung Judas.
  • The Reed Peck Manuscript, p.13
  • Journal of Discourses 6:125-26
490-491 Brigham Young advocated blood atonement. Blood atonement
  • Journal of Discourses 4:53-54
491-492 Jedediah Grant advocated blood atonement. Blood atonement
  • Journal of Discourses 4:49-50
493 Murder was worthy of death. Blood atonement
  • History of the Church 5:296
  • Doctrines of Salvation 1:136
  • Mormon Doctrine, 1958, p.314"
493 Adultery and immorality were worthy of death. 19th century crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
  • Journal of Discourses 7:20
  • Journal of Discourses 6:38
  • Journal of Discourses 7:19
  • Journal of Discourses 1:97
493 Brigham Young said that he would put a javelin through the heart of an adulterous woman. Blood atonement
  • Journal of Discourses 3:247
496 Stealing was worthy of death. 19th century crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
  • Times and Seasons, vol. 4, pp.183-84
  • History of the Church 7:597
  • Journal of Discourses 1:108-9
  • Journal of Discourses 1:73"
496 Using the name of the Lord in vain was worthy of death. 19th century crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
  • Journal of Hosea Stout, vol. 2, p.71; p.56 of the typed copy at Utah State Historical Society
496 Not receiving the Gospel was worthy of death. 19th century crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
  • Journal of Discourses 3:226
496 Marrying and African was worthy of death. 19th century crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
  • Journal of Discourses 10:110
  • Wilford Woodruff's Journal, January 16,1852
  • Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring 1973, p.26
498 Breaking covenants was worthy of death. 19th century crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
  • Journal of Discourses 4:49-51
  • Deseret News, July 27, 1854
  • Journal of Discourses 4:375
498-499 Apostacy was worthy of death. Blood atonement
  • Journal of Discourses 1:83
  • Journal of Discourses 4:219-20
  • Journal of Discourses 6:34-35
500 Lying was worthy of death. 19th century crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
  • "Manuscript History of Brigham Young," December 20, 1846
500 Counterfeiting was worthy of death. 19th century crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
  • "Manuscript History of Brigham Young," February 24,1847
500 Condemning Joseph Smith was worthy of death. 19th century crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
  • Quest for Empire, p.127
  • Daily journal of Abraham H. Cannon,"" December 6, 1889, pp.205-6
501-503 Blood atonement was "put into practice" in Utah. Blood atonement
  • Confessions of John D. Lee, 1880, pp.282-83
  • Utah Historical Quarterly, January 1958, p.62, note 39
501 Modern church leaders have confirmed the principle but denied the practice of blood atonement. Blood atonement
  • Mormon Doctrine, 1958, p.87
  • Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp.133-36
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