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- ===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 Christ288 bytes (44 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- |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 (43,989 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...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 (5,508 words) - 14:24, 13 April 2024
- |L=Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness |H=Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness31 KB (5,073 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |L=Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration |H=Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration21 KB (3,338 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |L=Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses |H=Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses63 KB (10,061 words) - 14:21, 13 April 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 (285 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |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 (2,337 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ==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 (730 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did the witnesses make clear statements regarding their testimonies?== ===The witnesses made very clear statements regarding their testimonies===3 KB (580 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ...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 (331 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ==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 (467 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
- ==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 (422 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ==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 (418 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ==David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!"== David Whitmer:916 bytes (157 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ==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 (614 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- ...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 (335 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- ==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 (533 words) - 15:36, 13 April 2024
- ==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 (940 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ..., 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 (479 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ...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 (204 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ==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 (251 words) - 15:33, 13 April 2024
- ==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 (431 words) - 15:35, 13 April 2024
- ...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 (969 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ...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 (416 words) - 15:22, 13 April 2024
- ==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 (843 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- ===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 (3,233 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What did Martin Harris's non-Mormon associates say about his character?== ...s|start=96|end=98}}</ref> Wrote the local paper on Harris' departure with the Saints:16 KB (2,770 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character?== ===Throughout Richmond, Missouri, the non-Mormons knew David Whitmer as an honest and trustworthy citizen===21 KB (3,608 words) - 15:31, 13 April 2024
- ...itmer (1887): "We were in the spirit when we had the view...but we were in the body also"== ...the “spiritual” vs. “natural” viewing of the plates. Responding to the interviewer who questioned Harris. Anthony Metcalf wrote:3 KB (434 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ...Were the Book of Mormon witnesses not neutral because they were members of the Church and believers in Joseph's mission?== ...had seen plates because they believed in the restoration; they believed in the restoration because they had seen plates===3 KB (589 words) - 15:30, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did David Whitmer ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet?== ...was very vocal about his testimony of the Book of Mormon up until the end of his life, even though he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet===6 KB (959 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ...e Three Witnesses consider Joseph Smith a "fallen prophet" after they left the Church?== ...Witnesses considered Joseph Smith to be a "fallen prophet" after they left the Church===3 KB (490 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- .... Below are links to various FAIR resources and other resources responding to each concern. ''CES Letter: "Joseph did not use the gold plates for translating the Book of Mormon."''8 KB (1,075 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ==Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon?== ...im that B.H. Roberts abandoned the Book of Mormon can be found in his last book, which he considered his masterwork===27 KB (4,505 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone?== ...mentioned occasionally in Church publications, but is rarely discussed in the 21st century in venues such as Sunday School===16 KB (2,511 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- ...ion: Did Joseph Smith begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God?== ...were not trinitarian, and understood God's embodiment and the identity of the Father and Son as separate beings very early on===17 KB (2,849 words) - 22:48, 28 April 2024
- ...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.16 KB (2,702 words) - 20:35, 27 April 2024
- Question: Did no one ever actually see the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?...stion: Did no one ever actually see the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?== ...s nonsense: Statements by the Book of Mormon witnesses do not lend support to these interpretations===5 KB (823 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
- ...rical record, but are included here as written as a reference for the type of discussions which continued regarding plural marriage. ...w, ''Biography of Lorenzo Snow'', 69 [Joseph Smith teaches plural marriage to Lorenzo Snow]522 KB (89,565 words) - 14:45, 24 September 2023
- ...record of Joseph Smith performing healings or other miracles by the power of Christ's priesthood?== ...day Saints are at least as well attested historically as those recorded in the Gospels===19 KB (3,384 words) - 15:19, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Could Moroni have been an "angel of Satan"?== ...h, the Book of Mormon, and the Church of Jesus Christ affirm that Jesus is the Christ, something that Satan cannot do===11 KB (1,826 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...of Mormon "printer's manuscript" and why is it entirely in the handwriting of Oliver Cowdery?== ...30-joseph-smith-papers-robin-jensen-1080p-eng.mp4 The Story of the Book of Mormon Printer's Manuscript], Robin Jensen, LDS.org.2 KB (347 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What did James Henry Moyle say about his visit to David Whitmer?== Moyle interviewed Whitmer and soon after wrote in his diary:11 KB (1,928 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Does Martin Harris' involvement with other faiths after the Restoration discredit him?== ===Harris's decision to oppose Joseph Smith in Kirtland led him into a series of theological adaptations===15 KB (2,342 words) - 15:19, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did David Whitmer believe his witness experience was "only a vision"?== ...which David Whitmer described his witness of the plates as occurring “in the holy vision.”9 KB (1,560 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ...tions from David Whitmer which demonstrate the literal nature of the Three Witness experience== ...to the Editor, ''Fall River'' (MA) ''Herald'', 28 March 1879; reprinted in the ''Saints' Herald'' 26 (15 April 1879): 128; cited in {{EMD|vol=5|pages=26}}5 KB (909 words) - 15:43, 13 April 2024
- ...tions from Martin Harris which demonstrate the literal nature of the Three Witness experience== {{Epigraph|"He believes in the visitation of angels '''in bodily form''', for he has seen and conversed with them, as he11 KB (1,922 words) - 15:43, 13 April 2024
- ...: What did the Witnesses say about the faithfulness of the other witnesses to their testimony?== ...ffirm their witness. They also repeatedly denied any knowledge of a fellow witness denying their testimony.3 KB (479 words) - 14:07, 13 April 2024
- ==Oliver Cowdery statements as one of Three Witnesses== ...rris, in letter dated 29 November 1829, quoted in {{CriticalWork:Blatchley:The New Bible|pages=194}}</ref>9 KB (1,466 words) - 15:07, 13 April 2024
- ==Martin Harris statements as one of the Three Witnesses== ...rris, in letter dated 29 November 1829, quoted in {{CriticalWork:Blatchley:The New Bible|pages=194}}</ref>14 KB (2,478 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024
- ==David Whitmer statements as one of the Three Witnesses== ...aced it in its former position, alledging that the book was in the custody of another, intimating that some Divine agent would have it in safe keeping.{{36 KB (6,431 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ==David Whitmer reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon== ...st material from him. He repeatedly referred to and endorsed the published witness statement.11 KB (2,005 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ...sses who left the Church continue to maintain their witness of the Book of Mormon?== ...time, against Joseph Smith. Yet, they clung to their witness and continued to affirm it===6 KB (922 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ...hn Whitmer: Oliver Cowdery would not have denied his witness "at the peril of his life"== ...engthy letter to Mark Forscutt, and discussed Oliver Cowdery's willingness to suffer death:2 KB (287 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses say about the faithfulness of other witnesses?== Some Book of Mormon witnesses emphasized that they had never renounced their testimony, and ins3 KB (513 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did the Book of Mormon witnesses hold to their published testimonies?== ===Several of the Book of Mormon witnesses publicly reaffirmed their published testimonies===1 KB (148 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
- ...passed into a state of entrancement, and in that state I saw the angel and the plates"== Anthony Metcalf interviewed Martin Harris in the 1873 or 1874 timeframe. Note that Metcalf considered Joseph Smith a "preten2 KB (338 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024
- ...t ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Witnesses |H=Response to "Difficult Questions for Mormons: Book of Mormon Witnesses"8 KB (1,223 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did David Whitmer say that his encounter with the angel Moroni was not an actual visitation?== ...ed testimony, and insists that the Book of Mormon was true and that he saw the angel===3 KB (593 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ...avid Whitmer ever refute his testimony of the Book of Mormon after he left the Church?== ===David Whitmer bore witness of the Book of Mormon even when threatened with death===7 KB (1,135 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- |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 (13,451 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=MISSION TO ENGLAND,76 KB (12,888 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=AN EPISTLE OF THE TWELVE.75 KB (13,445 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.76 KB (13,652 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L2=To the Editor of the Times and Seasons.80 KB (13,985 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=Prospectus of a Weekly Newspaper, called The Nauvoo Neighbor.76 KB (13,271 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |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 (14,072 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
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- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=LETTER OF J. S. FULLMER.80 KB (14,217 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L2=THE JEWS81 KB (14,405 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=TRIAL OF JOSEPH SMITH85 KB (15,171 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |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 (14,482 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: How can one address arguments from reliability against the use of spiritual experiences in Latter-day Saint epistemology?== ===Introduction to the Criticism===27 KB (4,241 words) - 21:34, 12 April 2024
- ...at there be only three witnesses to the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?== ===Introduction to Criticism===26 KB (4,296 words) - 15:19, 13 April 2024
- ...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints give for their possession of God’s priesthood?== ===Introduction to Question===23 KB (3,505 words) - 21:46, 12 April 2024