Pregunta: ¿Cómo intentan los críticos de la Iglesia descartar la experiencia de los Ocho Testigos del Libro de Mormón?

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Pregunta: ¿Cómo intentan los críticos de la Iglesia descartar la experiencia de los Ocho Testigos del Libro de Mormón?

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Plantilla:Epigraph

Some have tried to argue that the Eight witnesses only claimed a 'spiritual' or 'visionary' view of the plates, not a literal, physical one

Critics of the Church attempt to dismiss the experience of the Eight Witnesses by claiming that their view of the plates was not literal. The critics attempt to argue that the witnesses only 'saw' the plates in a spiritual state, and then were allowed to heft a covered box. This flatly contradicts their own reports, and those of others. Richard Anderson has collected eight accounts of John Whitmer's that confirm the reality of his handling of the plates. The critics ignore much documentary evidence in John Whitmer's case alone, simply because his witness is inconvenient for their speculations.

William Smith summarized the matter well when he said of all the Eight witnesses

that they not only Saw with their eyes but handled with their hands the said record . . . nor has either or any one of these witnesses ever to my knowledge Counteracted the testimony as given above Concerning the real existence of these Mormon tablets.

The Eight witnesses consistently affirmed the accuracy of their published testimony, and the physical reality of their experience. The critics will have to seek elsewhere to support their speculations.