Mostrar código-fonte de Pergunta: Será que Martin Harris jamais negar sua testemunha do Livro de Mórmon, porque ele achava que Joseph Smith foi um profeta caído?

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==Pergunta: Será que Martin Harris jamais negar sua testemunha do Livro de Mórmon, porque ele achava que Joseph Smith foi um profeta caído?==
===Even after Martin Harris had left the Church and was openly criticizing Church leadership, he still held to his testimony of the Book of Mormon===

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When in England to preach for an LDS splinter group, Martin Harris was ejected from a meeting of Latter-day Saints.  He left, and began to loudly criticize the Church leadership.  Critics of Mormonism arrived quickly:

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When we came out of the meeting Martin Harris was beset with a crowd in the street, expecting he would furnish them with material to war against Mormonism; but when asked if Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God, he answered yes; and when asked if the Book of Mormon was true, this was his answer: "Do you know that is the sun shining on us? Because as sure as you know that, I know that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God, and that he translated that book by the power of God."<ref>{{JBMS-2-2-11}} citing George Mantle to Marietta Walker, 26 December 1888, Saint Catherine, Missouri, cited in ''Autumn Leaves'' 2 (1889): 141.</ref>
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An LDS author reported in 1870:

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On one occasion several of his old acquaintances made an effort to get him tipsy by treating him to some wine. When they thought he was in a good mood for talk they put the question very carefully to him, ‘Well, now, Martin, we want you to be frank and candid with us in regard to this story of your seeing an angel and the golden plates of the Book of Mormon that are so much talked about. We have always taken you to be an honest good farmer and neighbor of ours but could not believe that you did see an angel. Now, Martin, do you really believe that you did see an angel, when you were awake?’ ‘No,’ said Martin, ‘I do not believe it.’ The crowd were delighted, but soon a different feeling prevailed, as Martin true to his trust, said, ‘Gentlemen, what I have said is true, from the fact that my belief is swallowed up in knowledge; for I want to say to you that as the Lord lives I do know that I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel, and it was the brightness of day.”<ref>Letter of Elder Edward Stevenson to the ''Millennial Star'' quoted in William Edwin Berrett, ''The Restored Church'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1974), 57&ndash;58.</ref>
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And, at his death, Harris reported:

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The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I have heard. I have seen the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon is written. An angel appeared to me and others and testified to the truthfulness of the record, and had I been willing to have perjured myself and sworn falsely to the testimony I now bear I could have been a rich man, but I could not have testified other than I have done and am now doing for these things are true.<ref>George Godfrey, “Testimony of Martin Harris,” from an unpublished manuscript copy in the possession of his daughter, Florence (Godfrey) Munson of Fielding, Utah; quoted in Eldin Ricks, ''The Case of the Book of Mormon Witnesses'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1971), 65&ndash;66.</ref>
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[[en:Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet?]]
[[it:Domanda: Ha Martin Harris mai negare il suo Libro di Mormon testimone perché pensava che Joseph Smith era un profeta decaduto?]]