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  • ...elf-evident, that accumulating means of knowledge are constantly demanded. With no other than a benevolent desire of benefiting mankind, do we contemplate ...artments of the Literary, and Scientific world; embellished, occasionally, with the charms of Poetry. A small portion of this department will be assigned t
    68 KB (11,468 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • Once read in context, with the assistance of the Holy Ghost, many passages that were confusing can bec These two men have many views about bible passages that align with each othermdash;but Sparks stands apart from Copan in a key way. Copan agre
    130 KB (21,472 words) - 23:10, 26 May 2024
  • ...avens send forth their blessings. <ref>{{JDwiki|author=Brigham Young|vol=9|pages=311|url=http://en.fairmormon.org/Journal_of_Discourses/9/64}}</ref> There are several problems with the idea that Joseph simply copied passages from the Holy Bible.
    70 KB (11,612 words) - 20:31, 30 May 2024
  • ...hing more frivolous, than to imagine that this polygamy had anything to do with personal licentiousness. If Joseph Smith had proposed to the Latter-day Sai ...ve known their sensibilities. If it was "all about sex," why push his luck with them? Why up the ante and ask them to marry polygamously? It would have bee
    45 KB (7,191 words) - 01:16, 19 May 2024
  • ...ive credibility to the rest of his data and make his case come together....With the salamander letter and other Hofmann materials, Quinn had a respectable ...mission is an intentional effort to conceal or avoid presenting the reader with evidence that contradicts the preferred view of the writer, that is fraud,
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  • ...ventually came into possession of Orson Pratt, an LDS apostle, who took it with him to England and published it in 1853. It generated considerable controve Brigham Young began to complain about errors in Lucy's history almost as soon as it was published in 1855. He assigned
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  • ...5-226 - The author intends Joseph to be seen as arrogant...“I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs..." ...al wives can be accomplished, ascertaining whether Smith fathered children with any of his plural wives remains hypothetical"
    30 KB (4,298 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
  • ...This inevitably pressed upon Joseph the multiple necessities of complying with the divine revelation and warning that he must implement it, denying that B ...ett clearly had his sights set on influencing the prophet.<ref>{{HoC|vol=4|pages=168–172}}</ref>
    166 KB (26,694 words) - 16:51, 1 June 2024
  • ...marriage to enrich himself. <ref>{{CriticalWork:Compton:Sacred Loneliness|pages=478-479}}; William Law, cited in "Dr. Wyl and Dr. Wm. Law," ''Daily Tribune G.D. Smith reports that William Law charged Joseph with
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  • ...t Sidney Rigdon "virtually challenged the whole state to do pitched battle with the 'Saints'" and as a result they were "subsequently persecuted and expell ...se to claim: 204 - Martin Harris is claimed to said that he saw the plates with his "spiritual eyes" rather than his "naked eyes"]]
    118 KB (18,356 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
  • ...for not bringing the perpetrators to justice.<ref>This section is derived, with permission, from David Keller, "[http://www.fairblog.org/2008/01/16/thomas- ...Young told them that US. attorney Alexander Wilson had called "to consult with him about making some arrests of" the accused.[95]
    80 KB (12,856 words) - 18:54, 31 May 2024
  • ...- For Joseph and Emma, "Married life was not easy. In fact, it was riddled with doubts, rumors, and deception from the start" ...im from place to place, that he crossed moral boundaries in his friendship with other women"
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  • ...es referred to as a history of that society, it is really a religious text with historical events used to teach and explain religious principles. The Book ...the Book of Mormon published today generally result in a book of over 500 pages. The Book of Mormon has been translated from English into over 105 language
    22 KB (3,753 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
  • ...to claim: 131 - The author claims that "numerous apostates" were traveling with the Fancher Train by the time it reached Mountain Meadows ...author claims that William Bateman, who had weeks earlier been "threatened with excommunication for apostasy," was given a chance to redeem himself by "car
    13 KB (1,994 words) - 01:03, 31 May 2024
  • |L3=Response to claim: 165 - Brigham made an "oblique but unrecognized reference to the massacre at Mountain Meadows" to Van Vliet" ...nel Thomas Kane is portrayed as arrogant, effeminate, a hypochondriac, and with delusions of fame
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  • ...s remarkable, however, how many of the issues which some charge the Church with "suppressing" are discussed in Church publications. |L1=Church sources discussing issues with Anachronisms in the Book of Mormon
    71 KB (10,879 words) - 20:12, 20 May 2024
  • ...in the prophecies to convince us that such a book must come, and we should with one accord look for a book of a similar description. ...have been done away, they were distressed, and brought down, and afflicted with heaviness and sorrow.
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  • |L6=Response to claim: 109 - Smith did in fact have an affair with Fanny Alger |L14=Response to claim: 112-113 - Joseph Fielding Smith disagreed with the early proposals suggesting that Mesoamerica was the land of Book of Mor
    39 KB (6,268 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
  • ...ipped multiple gods and performed human sacrifice, which is not consistent with the culture of the Book of Mormon people ...on [[#188|p. 188]]. This is our first hint that the author's familiarity with the necessary detail in the Book of Mormon is not adequate.
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  • |L18=Response to claim: 31 - Joseph claimed that he learned about the errors in Christendom through personal Bible study several years before the First |L38=Response to claim: 37, 344n95 - Joseph had a "Jupiter talisman" with him the day he died
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