View source for Source:Eyring:Reflections of a Scientist:46:If the only function of the scrolls was to awaken the Prophet to the idea of receiving such inspiration, they would have fulfilled their purpose

{{FME-Source
|title=Henry Eyring: "If the only function of the scrolls was to awaken the Prophet to the idea of receiving such inspiration, they would have fulfilled their purpose"
|category=Book of Abraham/Translation
}}
<onlyinclude>
==Henry Eyring: "If the only function of the scrolls was to awaken the Prophet to the idea of receiving such inspiration, they would have fulfilled their purpose"==
Henry Erying (Scientist, and father of Henry B. Eyring):
<blockquote>
An example of what I am talking about is the recent discovery of the papyrus scrolls from which Joseph Smith was presumed to have translated the book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price. Modern scholars, looking at the scrolls, found nothing they considered to be similar to that book. I remarked at the time that such a finding didn't bother me in the least. God doesn't need a crib sheet in the form of a papyrus scroll to reveal Abraham's thoughts and words to Joseph Smith, with any degree of precision He considers necessary for His purposes. If the only function of the scrolls was to awaken the Prophet to the idea of receiving such inspiration, they would have fulfilled their purpose. <ref>Henry Eyring, ''Reflections of a Scientist'', p. 46.</ref>
</blockquote>
</onlyinclude>
{{endnotes sources}}