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- ...t David Whitmer as a valid Book of Mormon witness if God told him to leave the Saints?== ...force Whitmer to remain in the Church, He could take steps to ensure that Whitmer was safe from harm===2 KB (332 words) - 18:33, 27 June 2017
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- ...Smiths do not seem to have been involved to the extent claimed by some of the exaggerated attacks upon them by former neighbors. ...ing" was a popular, and sometimes respected activity. When Joseph was 16, the ''Palmyra Herald'' printed such remarks.44 KB (7,242 words) - 18:38, 26 March 2023
- {{Navigation Book of Mormon}} <small>Video by The Interpreter Foundation.</small>2 KB (248 words) - 16:20, 5 December 2023
- {{Navigation Book of Mormon}} <small>Video by The Interpreter Foundation.</small>1 KB (182 words) - 16:20, 5 December 2023
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Polygamy |H=<em>Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith</em> or <em>Search for the Truth</em> DVD49 KB (8,015 words) - 17:19, 26 June 2017
- |link=Book of Mormon/Translation ...anslating them? Some claim that each sentence and word in the 1830 Book of Mormon "had supposedly come directly from God."2 KB (341 words) - 00:01, 9 June 2017
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=A HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED.66 KB (11,466 words) - 14:16, 25 December 2018
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=RISE OF THE CHURCH.69 KB (12,222 words) - 17:44, 25 December 2018
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 3 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet"27 KB (4,315 words) - 21:32, 20 October 2017
- |H=Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing"? |<=[[../Introduction of the eternal marriage |Fanny Alger and the beginnings of plural marriage]]27 KB (4,309 words) - 22:40, 17 March 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index |H=Index to claims made in ''The Kingdom of the Cults'' (Revised edition)118 KB (18,352 words) - 21:35, 20 October 2017
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 6 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 6: Witnesses to the Golden Plates"33 KB (5,204 words) - 21:25, 20 October 2017
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 5 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 5: The Book of Mormon"33 KB (5,226 words) - 21:36, 20 October 2017
- |L=Journal of Discourses/3/48 |T=Journal of Discourses 3: REMARKS ON A REVELATION GIVEN IN AUGUST 1831—GENERAL INSTRU37 KB (7,135 words) - 14:40, 16 January 2019
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830 |H=An analysis of Wikipedia article "Joseph Smith"40 KB (5,632 words) - 16:51, 15 October 2017
- |L=Journal of Discourses/7/4 |H=EVIDENCES OF THE BIBLE AND BOOK OF MORMON COMPARED59 KB (10,546 words) - 18:08, 16 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/7/29 |H=PERSONAL REMINISCENCES AND TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE PROPHET JOSEPH AND THE CHURCH, ETC.50 KB (9,343 words) - 16:17, 16 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/21/20 |H=THE BOOK OF MORMON AN AUTHENTIC RECORD36 KB (6,708 words) - 18:53, 18 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/12/19 ...IN MISSIONARY LABORS—ANCIENT PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN THE LAST DAYS33 KB (6,117 words) - 15:42, 11 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/12/66 |T=Journal of Discourses 12: "MORMONISM"36 KB (6,605 words) - 15:38, 11 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/14/20 ...HE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY—THE EARTH HISTORY OF THE CHURCH—THE BOOK OF MORMON34 KB (6,262 words) - 17:45, 15 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/14/36 |H=THE GATHERING—THE RISE OF THE CHURCH—THE BOOK OF MORMON—TRUE CHRISTIANITY43 KB (7,921 words) - 16:57, 15 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/16/21 ...AGES—CONSECRATION—ORDER OF ENOCH—TITHING—STEWARDSHIPS—REDEMPTION OF ZION46 KB (8,522 words) - 21:06, 17 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/16/28 |H=EVIDENCES, RELATING TO THE DIVINE AUTHENTICITY OF THE BIBLE AND BOOK OF MORMON, COMPARED38 KB (6,921 words) - 21:07, 17 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/19/2 ...NG TEMPLES—THEIR STYLE AND CHARACTER PROGRESSIVE—DILIGENCE WILL SECURE THE BLESSING.41 KB (7,492 words) - 17:41, 18 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/17/1636 KB (6,612 words) - 22:51, 17 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/17/41 ...—BAPTISM OF INDIANS-SECOND COMING OF CHRIST—EVERY JOT AND EVERY TITTLE OF DIVINE REVELATION WILL BE FULFILLED61 KB (11,609 words) - 17:20, 18 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/18/20 ...OF MORMON—ALSO EIGHT OTHER WITNESSES—ISAIAH'S PROPHECY RELATES TO THAT BOOK—EZEKIEL'S PROPHECY47 KB (8,780 words) - 23:54, 17 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/23/11 ...HE RIGHTEOUS; HIS CURSE UPON THE UNRIGHTEOUS—THE LIBERTY OF THE GOSPEL—THE SAINTS PRESERVED FROM WAR AND BLOODSHED—THEIR UNION AND UNIVERSAL GOODWIL43 KB (8,145 words) - 17:52, 20 January 2019
- |L=Journal of Discourses/25/3 ...TISM FOR THE DEAD—BOOK OF MORMON—RESTORATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD—CAUSE OF PERSECUTION—NO SURRENDER—PLURAL MARRIAGE.32 KB (5,895 words) - 22:21, 14 January 2019
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 8 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 8: The Book of Mormon"39 KB (6,266 words) - 21:28, 20 October 2017
- |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - "Sealed" portion |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - "Sealed" portion18 KB (2,779 words) - 16:52, 15 October 2017
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Witness accounts |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Witness accounts19 KB (2,892 words) - 16:52, 15 October 2017
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Returning the plates ...alysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Returning the plates7 KB (1,088 words) - 16:49, 15 October 2017
- ...claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Reputed location of the plates during translation |<=[[../Translating|Translating the plates]]8 KB (1,218 words) - 16:50, 15 October 2017
- ...ysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Translating the plates |<=[[../Receiving|Receiving the plates]]16 KB (2,264 words) - 16:52, 15 October 2017
- |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Origin and historicity |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Origin and historicity16 KB (2,462 words) - 16:50, 15 October 2017
- |H=An analysis of Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Introduction |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Introduction11 KB (1,804 words) - 16:50, 15 October 2017
- |L=David Whitmer |H=David Whitmer722 bytes (112 words) - 22:25, 27 June 2017
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/The Three Witnesses |H=An analysis of the Wikipedia article "Three Witnesses"46 KB (7,045 words) - 22:32, 13 January 2019
- |subject=A FairMormon Analysis of Wikipedia article "Golden plates" |link=Book of Mormon/Witnesses5 KB (871 words) - 19:49, 8 June 2017
- 22 Sept. 1827. Manuscript of the early History of Joseph Smith finding of plates, &c. &c. =MANUSCRIPT OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH=20 KB (4,138 words) - 22:50, 8 June 2017
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 5 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 5: Witnesses for God"15 KB (2,396 words) - 21:30, 20 October 2017
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 2 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 2: And it Came to Pass"44 KB (6,753 words) - 21:25, 20 October 2017
- !width="10%"|Click to edit ...of Mormonism|pages=xxx}} ||[[Template: Book:Vestal Wallace:Firm Foundation of Mormonism|edit]]12 KB (1,664 words) - 23:42, 8 June 2017
- ===GENERIC Book === ;[[Template:book]] : Any book, standard formatting.27 KB (3,431 words) - 23:30, 8 June 2017
- |L=Book of Mormon/Translation/Method/1846-1900 |H=Statements on the Book of Mormon Translation method: 1846-190023 KB (3,921 words) - 14:22, 6 July 2017
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...g reflection that I shall never be held accountable for the misimprovement of five talents when only one or two were bestowed.76 KB (13,989 words) - 21:55, 18 January 2019
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...es pure religion. The reason is, men have little faith and lack the spirit of God.68 KB (12,351 words) - 21:55, 18 January 2019
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l DEAR BROTHER IN THE LORD:80 KB (14,516 words) - 21:56, 18 January 2019
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ==For the Messenger and Advocate==70 KB (12,664 words) - 21:56, 18 January 2019
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...evealed, confirmed by miracles, and recorded in the New Testament; we were to expect no more revelation, and consequently needed no more miracles.67 KB (12,126 words) - 21:57, 18 January 2019
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ====THE SAINTS AND THE WORLD.====70 KB (12,743 words) - 21:58, 18 January 2019
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ''Wisdom is better than weapons of war.''69 KB (12,143 words) - 21:59, 18 January 2019
- |L=The Evening and The Morning Star/1/8 |H=The Evening and the Morning Star: Volume 1, Number 890 KB (16,996 words) - 13:31, 27 December 2018
- |L=The Evening and The Morning Star/2/15 |H=The Evening and the Morning Star: Volume 2, Number 1578 KB (14,020 words) - 21:07, 27 December 2018
- |L=The Evening and The Morning Star/2/16 |H=The Evening and the Morning Star: Volume 2, Number 1681 KB (14,719 words) - 20:42, 27 December 2018
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.76 KB (13,687 words) - 21:40, 26 December 2018
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.73 KB (12,690 words) - 21:43, 26 December 2018
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.78 KB (13,862 words) - 21:43, 26 December 2018
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.79 KB (13,961 words) - 21:44, 26 December 2018
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.80 KB (14,155 words) - 21:51, 26 December 2018
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.78 KB (13,921 words) - 21:53, 26 December 2018
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.79 KB (14,337 words) - 20:54, 26 December 2018
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.79 KB (14,212 words) - 21:24, 26 December 2018
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 3 |H=Response to "For my Wife and Children" ("Letter to my Wife"): Chapter 3 - The Witnesses23 KB (3,866 words) - 22:07, 20 October 2017
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Witnesses |H=Response to MormonThink page "The Witnesses"38 KB (6,207 words) - 12:03, 4 August 2017
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Sources and links |H=Source analysis of MormonThink page "Translation of the Book of Mormon"20 KB (2,815 words) - 13:30, 4 August 2017
- ...ation of the Book of Mormon|T=[[../|MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon]] ...t the table close by him, he sitting with his face buried in his hat, with the stone in it, and dictating hour after hour with nothing between us.101 KB (17,237 words) - 21:57, 12 October 2017
- {{MormonThinkNoCommentary|The Witnesses|T=[[../|MormonThink/The Witnesses]] |quote=The Testimony Of Three Witnesses33 KB (5,897 words) - 21:57, 12 October 2017
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Lying for the Lord |H=Response to MormonThink page "Lying for the Lord"27 KB (4,213 words) - 08:43, 13 September 2017
- |L=Mormonism and culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Historical and doctrinal issues |H=An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Historical and doctrinal issues61 KB (9,674 words) - 00:13, 10 August 2017
- Return to index [http://en.fairmormon.org/FAIR_Study_Aids/Book_of_Mormon_Resources_by ===The Plates and the Three, Eight, and Other Witnesses===47 KB (6,269 words) - 15:39, 26 December 2012
- ===The Plates and the Three, Eight, and Other Witnesses=== *Robert L. Marrott, "Law of Witnesses" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=51&c57 KB (7,530 words) - 09:36, 27 August 2013
- |link=/An Address to All Believers in Christ |subject=An Address to All Believers in Christ289 bytes (43 words) - 14:26, 8 June 2017
- |section=An Address to All Believers in Christ ...ver&source=web&ots=urzg3TSazW&sig=wnhh_R4MyfhBmMnHydpfbF4-B0w ''An Address to All Believers in Christ''] in Google Books234 KB (43,988 words) - 19:20, 18 January 2019
- ...ery's 1839 Defence in a Rehearsal of my Grounds for Separating Myself from the Latter Day Saints ...eged 1839 "Defence in a Rehearsal of my Grounds for Separating Myself from the Latter Day Saints"32 KB (5,507 words) - 22:32, 27 June 2017
- |L=Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness |H=Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness31 KB (5,072 words) - 14:55, 5 February 2024
- |L=Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration |H=Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration21 KB (3,337 words) - 14:56, 5 February 2024
- |L=Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses |H=Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses63 KB (10,060 words) - 14:56, 5 February 2024
- |L=David Whitmer/Interview with John Murphy in June 1880 ...ohn Murphy's June 1880 claims regarding his experience as a Book of Mormon witness2 KB (284 words) - 22:24, 27 June 2017
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Citation abuse |H=Citation abuse in the original ''Letter to a CES Director''15 KB (2,336 words) - 11:08, 7 October 2018
- ==Question: Are the Book of Mormon witnesses unreliable because many of them were related?== ===To imply that someone is unreliable simply because of who they are related to is a ''ad hominem'' attack===4 KB (727 words) - 15:41, 4 October 2019
- ==Question: Did the witnesses make clear statements regarding their testimonies?== ===The witnesses made very clear statements regarding their testimonies===3 KB (577 words) - 18:01, 27 June 2017
- ...itnesses disagree with their testimony after it was printed in the Book of Mormon?== ...nesses never refuted their testimony in the Book of Mormon. In fact, David Whitmer even affirmed it "as then made and published"===2 KB (328 words) - 18:01, 27 June 2017
- ==Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"?== ...ert, who printed the Book of Mormon, reported that Harris said that he saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"===3 KB (465 words) - 21:42, 11 March 2019
- ==David Whitmer (1878): "I saw them just as plain as I see this bed"== ...or example, he gave dramatic and emphatic testimony of his experience as a witness:2 KB (421 words) - 12:53, 19 October 2017
- ==David Whitmer (1884): "I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears"== ...the Personage, the Angel, the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the sword of Laban."3 KB (417 words) - 12:53, 19 October 2017
- ==David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!"== David Whitmer:917 bytes (156 words) - 12:54, 19 October 2017
- ==Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism?== ...leave Far West one month ''after'' he had already been excommunicated from the Church===4 KB (611 words) - 17:27, 27 June 2017
- ...t David Whitmer as a valid Book of Mormon witness if God told him to leave the Saints?== ...force Whitmer to remain in the Church, He could take steps to ensure that Whitmer was safe from harm===2 KB (332 words) - 18:33, 27 June 2017
- ==Question: When did God tell David Whitmer to separate himself from the Latter-day Saints?== ===Whitmer claimed no revelation from God at the time that he was excommunicated===3 KB (530 words) - 21:27, 27 June 2017
- ==Question: Did David Whitmer tell John Murphy that the angel Moroni "had no appearance or shape" and that he saw "nothing"?== ===John Murphy quoted David Whitmer as saying that his witness experience was just a "feeling" or an "impression"===5 KB (937 words) - 13:44, 2 October 2019
- ..., denied that testimony...which has so long since been published with that book...It was no Delusion"== ...81, quoted in "David Whitmer Interview with John Murphy, June 1880," Early Mormon Documents 5:63.</ref>:3 KB (478 words) - 11:41, 11 September 2017
- ...d Whitmer) has been at the Hill Cumorah and seen the casket that contained the tablets and seerstone"== It was reported that David Whitmer had seen the stone box from which the plates were removed.1 KB (203 words) - 09:18, 19 July 2017
- ==Question: What happened to the stone box in which gold plates were deposited?== ===David Whitmer reported seeing the stone box three times, but that it had broken apart and been destroyed===2 KB (248 words) - 09:13, 19 July 2017
- ==Question: What material were the plates made from?== ...oy of a lighter metal, such as copper, which was covered with a thin layer of gold===3 KB (428 words) - 19:46, 16 July 2017
- ...d the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences?== ===The term "supernatural" is used as a synonym for "miraculous"===6 KB (966 words) - 21:46, 11 March 2019
- ...nt of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to those of the eyewitnesses?== ...ormoncentral.org/knowhy/why-did-joseph-smith-attempt-to-secure-the-book-of-mormon-copyright-in-canada|number=556}}3 KB (413 words) - 23:25, 17 April 2020
- ==Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time?== ...ormoncentral.org/knowhy/why-did-joseph-smith-attempt-to-secure-the-book-of-mormon-copyright-in-canada|number=556}}5 KB (840 words) - 23:25, 17 April 2020
- ===William Lang, who apprenticed in Cowdery's law office long after he left the Church, knew him for many years=== ...for major state offices twice." <ref>{{InvestigatingWitnesses1|start=40}}; the following quotes on Oliver are also taken from Anderson.</ref>20 KB (3,230 words) - 15:27, 13 January 2021