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The Mormon Defenders Paperback – August 8, 2001

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The Mormon Defenders offers for the first time in print responses to leading Latter-day Saint apologists who argue that theirs is a true Biblical faith. Calling upon top-notch scholarship, The Mormon Defenders demonstrates that the case for a "Biblical" Mormonism is rooted in misinterpretations of the Scriptures.

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Proaster Books]
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August 8, 2001
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0970906307
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978-0970906304
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James Patrick Holding is President of Tekton Apologetics Ministries. He holds a Masters degree in Library Science and has written articles for the Christian Research Journal and the Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Proaster Books] (August 8, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0970906307
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0970906304
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces

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Bobby Boylan

Cut above the con-LDS Fare

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2006

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This book by James Patrick Holding is a cut above the anti-Mormon fare, and Holding deserves kudos for writing in a very respectful style, and, furthermore, not engaging in the typical straw-man arguments offered against "Mormonism," such as the bogus claim that Latter-day Saints believe in legalism, instead hitting the nail on the head by claiming that Latter-day Saint soteriology reflects covenantal nomism.

Notwithstanding, I feel that this text does have a number of flaws contained therein. For instance, his discussion of John 3:3-5 and baptismal regeneration is just one example. Early Christians such as Justin Martyr all understood this pericope as conducive to baptismal regeneration.

Furthermore, as for Acts 2:38, the Greek preposition "eis," whenever followed by a noun in the accusative case (which occurs in this instance) means "into." Thus, contra Holding and his other co-religionists who claim the contrary, Acts 2:38 means that one is baptised *into* a remission of their sins, conducive to LDS belief in baptismal regeneration.

I welcome sincere feedback at Robert.S.Boylan@nuim.ie

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Jason Clark

A useful answer

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2008

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Having encountered Mormon apologists and been bemused by their clear misuse of scripture I found this book to be a useful tool in providing answers for their misinterpretations.
I was very interested in J.P. Holding's observation that "the image of God" does not refer to physical likeness, nor even emotional/rational likeness, but rather the capacity to act as God's representative on Earth.
A worthwhile exercise on Holding's part.

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Ronnie Bennett-Bray

Holding doesn't like Mormons, but at least he could strive be ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2014

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Holding doesn't like Mormons, but at least he could strive be accurate in his interpretations of what Mormons believe and do. Grrrr!

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Daniel Preece

confused

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2002

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The book seems to be filled with important information, but is a very hard book to read. I struggled to get through it and after finishing it I still don't have a good argument for the topics. I just found it a hard read.

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A CRITIQUE OF RECENT LDS/MORMON APOLOGETICS

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2011

James Patrick Holding is "President of Tekton Apologetics Ministries ... and has written articles for the 'Creatio Ex Nihilo Technical Journal' and the 'Christian Research Journal.'"

He writes in the Introduction to this 2001 book, "a new line of defense is being prepared as innovative and aggressive Mormon apologists are doing for Mormonism what writers like Josh McDowell and William Lane Craig have done for Christianity; make the Mormon faith an intellectually respectable faith."

Here are some additional quotations from the book:

"The true power in Mormon apologetics is the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), a consortium of LDS scholars that represent the cream of the crop in Mormon academia... The Mormon defense league is organized, efficient, and above all, certain of itself and its mission." (Pg. 8)
"Josephus says that Jewish notions of God are similar to those held by Plato, and makes the special point that these notions were part of Jewish belief from the time of Moses---they were NOT derived from Greek intellectuals." (Pg. 31)
"Inevitably, we must face the question of what situation explains the evidence better: a nearly-total loss of a quite desirable doctrine (postmortem evangelization), not found in the Bible, that was distorted in manifold ways by the Church Fathers; or, the development of a doctrine at a later date. We see no reason why the former should be preferred over the latter." (Pg. 99)
"Like the LDS doctrine of pre-existence, the Mormon doctrine of 'theosis' (deification) carries theological freight that Mormons admit does not have Biblical support." (Pg. 121)
"The Bible clearly teaches a doctrine of theosis, but that it does not teach the Mormon version of theosis is equally clear." (Pg. 128)
"LDS apologists produce a flurry of citations from the New Testament proving that an apostasy was predicted, claiming that 'Paul spoke of this apostasy,' or that a given cite offers testimony to the fact of the apostasy. Yet it is always assumed, not proved, that any reference to a false teaching, or a rebellion, or to an apostasy, is de facto evidence of 'THE' apostasy that Mormon apologists claim took place. Upon investigation, the citations proved to be either to a false teaching with known content that does not correspond to the apostasy alleged by Mormonism... or else have no specific referent as to the content or nature of the apostasy..." (Pg. 129)

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