Joseph Smith/Money digging

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Joseph Smith Articles

Life and Character

• Joseph Smith's status in Latter-day Saint belief
• Joseph Smith's family as trustworthy and hard-working
• Joseph Smith's education
• Joseph Smith's character
• Joseph Smith's alleged narcissism
• Joseph Smith and money digging
• Joseph Smith and magic or the occult
• Death of Joseph Smith

Revelations

• Joseph Smith's use of seer stones as a youth
• Joseph Smith's First Vision
• Book of Mormon
• Joseph Smith's inspired revision of the Bible
• The restoration of the priesthood
• Prophetic statements of Joseph Smith

Society

• Joseph Smith and legal issues
• The Kirtland Safety Society
• Joseph Smith's campaign for President of the United States
• Joseph Smith and plural marriage (or polygamy)

Treasure seeking, money digging and Joseph Smith, Jr.

Summary: Was Joseph Smith's engagement in "money digging" or looking for buried treasure a blot on his character?

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• Joseph Smith's money digging activities and how it relates to his character
• Joseph Smith's family and "folk magic"

Joseph Smith's money digging activities and how it relates to his character

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• Question: Was Joseph Smith's participation in "money digging" as a youth a blot on his character?
• Question: Did Joseph Smith "retrofit" his "treasure seeking" to have a religious explanation?
• Question: Was "money digging" Joseph Smith, Jr's primary source of income during his early years?
• Question: Did Joseph Smith and his contemporaries believe in supernatural entities with real power?
• Question: Was Joseph Smith commanded by the Lord to go to Salem, Massachusetts to hunt for treasure in the cellar of a house?
• Question: Did Joseph Smith sacrifice a dog while treasure seeking?

Joseph Smith's family and "folk magic"

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• Question: Does Lucy Mack Smith's mention of the "faculty of Abrac" and "magic circles" evidence that "magick" played a strong role in the Smith family's early life?
• Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"?
• Question: Did early members of the "Mormon" Church believe in witchcraft?
• Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant?
• Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah?
• Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death?
• Stephen Robinson: "In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place"
• Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman?
• Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete?
• Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"?
• Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"?
• Question: Did Joseph Smith's family own "magic parchments" which suggest their involvement in the "occult"?
• Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith?
• Question: Does the Book of Mormon’s reference to “slippery treasures” stem from Joseph Smith’s involvement in money digging and the occult?