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- ...ersonally observed, since he has been willing to lie in order to discredit Joseph? *'''Examples:''' Further details are available [[Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"|here]], and44 KB (7,051 words) - 17:45, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah?== ...ry presume that because a few lengthy works have been written about Joseph Smith and kabbalistic ideas, this is sufficient grounds for presuming a connectio19 KB (2,997 words) - 21:55, 27 April 2024
- ...ents surrounding its publication lead to the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. The full text is provided below for study. ...davits will be published, to substantiate the facts alleged. Hereafter, no further Church proceedings will appear in our columns, except in the form of brief72 KB (12,886 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...as revealed to and taught, formally and officially, by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the Lectures on Faith is that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipre The saving truth, as revealed to and taught, by the Prophet Joseph Smith is that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. He knows all things60 KB (10,976 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...l. The challenge comes when Genesis is read as a scientific account. This reading is then contrasted with modern scientific data showing the diversity of pla Thus, with this reading the prophets said and meant "the enitre world" but they had a quite differe27 KB (4,474 words) - 22:01, 30 April 2024
- ...ham coincide nicely with what we find from ancient Abrahamic lore. Joseph Smith demonstrated extensive knowledge of these areas, which he then integrated i ...k of Abraham. References comparing the Book of Jasher and other books that Joseph may have had access to with the Book of Abraham can be found below.208 KB (32,568 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- |H=<em>Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith</em> or <em>Search for the Truth</em> DVD ...between the Bible and Joseph Smith's teachings one must wonder how Joseph Smith could claim that the Book of Mormon was another Testament of Jesus Christ."44 KB (7,529 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- |H=<em>Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith</em> or <em>Search for the Truth</em> DVD {{DVDHeadingBox|Joseph Smith's Character: Polygamy}}49 KB (8,019 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- |H=<em>Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith</em> or <em>Search for the Truth</em> DVD {{DVDHeadingBox|Joseph Smith's Character: The First Vision}}14 KB (2,321 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- |H=<em>Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith</em> or <em>Search for the Truth</em> DVD {{DVDHeadingBox|Joseph Smith's Character: The Translator}}12 KB (1,933 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- |H=<em>Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith</em> or <em>Search for the Truth</em> DVD ...clear that Joseph centered his life around lust, wealth, and power. Joseph Smith joins a long list of those who have used the name of Christ to enrich thems26 KB (4,387 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...th His Father, appeared to the boy Joseph Smith in the year 1820, and when Joseph left the grove that day, he knew more of the nature of God than all the lea ...efore, be polygamists lest we should fail in obtaining some earthly honor, character and office, etc,"—the man '''''that has that in his heart, and will c27 KB (4,448 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith |H=No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith13 KB (2,102 words) - 22:56, 11 May 2024
- ...nited States and Canada.-Some time in the month of March, President Joseph Smith jr. arrived with his family, accompanied by several brethren, from Kirtland ...ege they say that they killed a number of our people. They also turned one Smith Humphrey, and his wife and children out of doors when sick, and set fire to66 KB (11,467 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- |H=<em>Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith</em> or <em>Search for the Truth</em> DVD ...b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> Claim: According to Joseph, "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son al22 KB (3,787 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...n|DNA science error and misrepresentation]]—[[/Joseph had revelation|Joseph had revelation]]—[[/BYU criticized for teaching evolution|BYU critici ...cks, they claim things that are absolutely untrue in order to castigate my character.''9 KB (1,429 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- |A=George D. Smith ...att, Sidney Rigdon, and Ebenezer Robinson "declined to affirm Smith's good character"30 KB (4,298 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book" |H=Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book"33 KB (5,102 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |L1=Response to claim: 171 epigraph, 542n1 (HB) 540n1 (PB) - Joseph Smith said ""I combat the errors of the ages..." ...aim: 174, 541n17 (PB) - Did Brigham Young actually say that Joseph Smith's character "was easily on par" with Jesus Christ's?33 KB (5,140 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L=Question: Did Joseph Smith have a youthful struggle with unchastity? |H=Question: Did Joseph Smith have a youthful struggle with unchastity?10 KB (1,580 words) - 22:09, 5 May 2024
- ...Response to claim: 182 - The book refers to the "young and boastful Joseph Smith"]] ...cion by Mormon historians and non-Mormons"|Response to claim: 182 - Joseph Smith's statement that "no man knows my history" resulted in "endless suspicion b118 KB (18,356 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- * as prophesied by Joseph Smith * {{main|Joseph Smith prophecies/Civil War prophecy}}25 KB (4,401 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did Joseph Smith give a false prophecy by claiming that queens would pay respect to the Reli ===According to Joseph's own words, the prophecy is clearly conditional on the continuing righteou16 KB (2,652 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Jesus and Joseph Smith...[[../|Considering Joseph Smith in light of these tests]]: Jesus and Joseph Smith: Context and Perception |next=[[../Abuse of a Bible test|Abuse of a Bible Test for Joseph Smith: A Case Study]]9 KB (1,554 words) - 14:01, 13 April 2024
- ...OCTRINE OF CHRIST—THE RELIGIONS OF MEN, AND THE RELIGION OF GOD—JOSEPH SMITH—PERSECUTIONS, ETC. ...OCTRINE OF CHRIST—THE RELIGIONS OF MEN, AND THE RELIGION OF GOD—JOSEPH SMITH—PERSECUTIONS, ETC.17 KB (3,261 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- One trait I have had in my character from my boyhood, and that is, not to believe every story told me to be true ...thened upon this thing; but when I came to read the vision given to Joseph Smith upon a future state, as contained in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, I19 KB (3,627 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |A=George A. Smith |H=6: THE HISTORY OF MAHOMEDANISM by George A. Smith (28-37)32 KB (5,826 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...lass, who are so filled with piety, and the good old tone, came to Nauvoo, Joseph used forthwith to take a course to evaporate {{page break|67|top}} their sa ...ntroduced to the Prophet. In the meantime some person came up that brother Joseph would have a talk with, but while doing this he kept his eye upon the stran15 KB (3,018 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- I will read a revelation given to Joseph Smith, junior, and Sidney Rigdon. But previous to my doing so, and commencing upo It takes just such a character as the Savior, to preach one Gospel discourse; and this was commenced with60 KB (11,377 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...nd our God was to come here, {{page break|166|top}} or Jesus, or Peter, or Joseph, or brother Brigham, or any other man, he could not speak to this people an ...John; and brother Brigham and brother Heber, and brother Hyde sprang from Joseph; and you sprang from that authority now existing, did you not? Do you not s59 KB (11,521 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...once on a time, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and on a careful reading of that transaction, it will be discovered that no less a person than Jesus ...ll have among us, men who write back to the States glaring accounts of our character and conduct, and bitter compla[i]nts of our treatment toward them; but it w22 KB (4,043 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...d not as Masters—Self-confidence, and the Way to Obtain it—The Prophet Joseph not yet Resurrected—Preaching to the Spirits in Prison, etc.]] ...at there is a host of subscribers to The Deseret News, especially when the character of its matter is fairly considered, as also the fact that it is entirely ow12 KB (2,249 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...pulpit at the first dash. This does not particularly militate against the character of that man; but many of the Elders do not seem to understand how to gain t ...the people and help them, that he made me so sick that I could not go any further. I do not want any such influence exercised this spring, for I am going wit21 KB (4,011 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |A=George A. Smith |<=[[../2|Divine Mission of Joseph Smith—Stability of Mormonism—The Saints’ Enemies yet to Come to them for Su11 KB (1,930 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...s been just that tirade of abuse, lying, slandering, defaming the name and character of the Prophet and his associates, that there is at this day. It is no hott ...evealed to me, and not to another for me. They were not revealed to Joseph Smith for me. He had the keys to get visions and revelations, dreams and manifest23 KB (4,264 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |H=JOSEPH SMITH'S FAMILY—DETAILS OF GEORGE A. SMITH'S OWN EXPERIENCE, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 5: JOSEPH SMITH'S FAMILY—DETAILS OF GEORGE A. SMITH'S OWN EXPERIENCE, ETC.38 KB (7,244 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
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- |H=EXTENSIVE CHARACTER OF THE GOSPEL—COMPREHENSIVENESS OF DIVINE REVELATION |T=Journal of Discourses 6: EXTENSIVE CHARACTER OF THE GOSPEL—COMPREHENSIVENESS OF DIVINE REVELATION55 KB (10,368 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...and have been baptized for the remission of your sins, that you have then further duties to perform. To be continually repenting is not required of us. If th ...Four years ago, when the brethren came into this valley, brother George A. Smith delivered his first lecture upon the cannon, for there were no houses where29 KB (5,322 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../60|Light and Influence of the Spirit—Power of Evil—Character of the Will, Etc.]] ...Saviour seemed to be particularly impressed upon my mind, and I thought of reading the 13th chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew.28 KB (5,439 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...in Preston, {{page break|17|top}} Lancashire, and brother George commenced reading the Book of Mormon. After a little, he rose up and said, "The land of Ameri ...these last days, was begun by the Almighty sending an holy angel to Joseph Smith to reveal to him his will and establish the everlasting Gospel that was pre20 KB (3,897 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- |A=George A. Smith |S=Remarks by Elder GEORGE A. SMITH, made in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, May 11, 1862. REPORTED BY J.15 KB (2,787 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- |A=George A. Smith ...UNION AMONG THE PRIESTHOOD, AND ATTENTION TO TEMPORAL DUTIES by George A. Smith (59-64)21 KB (3,990 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...er you to the predictions and revelations given of the Lord through Joseph Smith. Brethren and sisters, the nation of them that afflicted Israel have now fo ...is, if we are attentive to the requirements of the Priesthood. Let me say further, that if we task our energies to the utmost of our capacity, there will the16 KB (3,056 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...in other words, I am a full believer in the mission and calling of Joseph Smith, Junr., as a Prophet of God to this world in this generation, and I wish th ...know the meaning of it as it was taught in the Bible and the revelations. Joseph enquired of the Lord and, in answer, received the revelation which you can24 KB (4,500 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...eresting revelation contained in the new translation by the Prophet Joseph Smith, which is found in the Pearl of Great Price. The revelation says: ...efore His birth. He Himself confirmed the correctness of the prediction by reading it in the ears of the people; and when He left the earth, after {{page brea34 KB (6,304 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...to the early Saints by Paul, was, that marriage was honorable in all, and further that it was typical of that union and headship held by Jesus to the Church, ...both tokens of divine acceptance and recognition, and we have not found in reading the history of Solomon that his conduct was condemned save in the fact that45 KB (8,022 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- THE speaker commenced by reading from the 1st chapter of Genesis—from the 25th verse to the end of the cha ...King James' translation. In the inspired translation by the Prophet Joseph Smith, it is written that in the beginning the Gods created the heavens and the e49 KB (9,074 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...OF CHRIST—"MORMONISM" IS A RESTORATION OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY—JOSEPH SMITH A TRUE PROPHET—PLURAL MARRIAGE PRACTICED BY MEN OF GOD IN MIS-CALLED DARK ...OF CHRIST—"MORMONISM" IS A RESTORATION OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY—JOSEPH SMITH A TRUE PROPHET—PLURAL MARRIAGE PRACTICED BY MEN OF GOD IN MIS-CALLED DARK42 KB (7,641 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- I will read a portion of a revelation given through the Prophet Joseph Smith, previous to the organization of the Church, dated April, 1829: "Oliver Cow ...essed it would be convinced of the truth of it, and would say, "We have no further opposition to this work, because we behold the fulfillment of the predictio28 KB (5,080 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024