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7 chapters Examining Church Claims Don Cohen

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Examining Church Claims

by Don Cohen · 7 chapters · about 57 min

A Mul­ti-faceted Approach to the Claims of The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat­ter-day Saints
Writ­ten by Don­ald L. Cohen, MD

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Contents

  1. 1 Introduction to Examining Church Claims The Church was orga­nized in Man­ches­ter, New York, on April 6, 1830. The orig­i­nal name used on that date was actu­al­ly the “Church of Christ.” This was changed… 2 min read
  2. 2 Factual Claims The Church makes many spe­cif­ic claims about mat­ters of his­to­ry (both its own, and that of oth­er peo­ples), the migra­tion of peo­ple from one con­ti­nent to anoth­er, the… 13 min read
  3. 3 Epistemological Considerations (or how do we know what we think we know) I am by no means a Philoso­pher, but I think it is cru­cial to address this top­ic here. It… 7 min read
  4. 4 Examining the Fruits of the Church in Practice I first need to make a cru­cial dis­tinc­tion here, between the Cor­po­rate and Insti­tu­tion­al Church, and the Church that exists in the lives of the indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies… 25 min read
  5. 5 Examination Summary My intent here was to approach the Church’s claims about itself, its his­to­ry, and its mis­sion, from sev­er­al dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives, rather than rely­ing on a sin­gle dimen­sion. The… 4 min read
  6. 6 Final Thoughts — Potential Harm Sev­er­al years back, I was dis­cussing some of these mat­ters with one of my daugh­ters, and she posed this ques­tion to me: Let’s just say you’re right, and… 5 min read
  7. 7 About The Author On a per­son­al lev­el, my life has been an ongo­ing search for the Truth. It has been the pri­ma­ry moti­va­tion­al force in my life, along with my love… 1 min read