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|H2=John Whitmer states that the plates were "shown to me by a supernatural power"
|S=Some critics of the Restoration have focused on a single statement reportedly made by John Whitmer in 1839 to make it appear as though the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon did not have a physical encounter with the golden plates (as they so testified on the pages of the book itself), but rather a spiritual or visionary experience only.
|L1=Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"?
|L2=Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences?
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{{:Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences?}}

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