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- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:John Whitmer:Supernatural power (view source)
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- Dallin H. Oaks (1987): "It should be recognized that such tools as the Urim and Thummim, the Liahona, seerstones, and other articles have been used appropriately in biblical, Book of Mormon, and modern times" (view source)
- David Whitmer (1878): "I saw them just as plain as I see this bed" (view source)
- David Whitmer (1881): "I do now again affirm the truth of all my statement, as then made and published" (view source)
- David Whitmer (1884): "I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears" (view source)
- David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!" (view source)
- Edward Stevenson (1870): Martin Harris said "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" (view source)
- Ensign (June 1994): "Highlights in the Prophet’s Life 20 Mar. 1826: Tried and acquitted on fanciful charge of being a “disorderly person,” South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York (view source)
- George Mantle (1888): Martin Harris said "Do you know that is the sun shining on us? Because as sure as you know that...he translated that book by the power of God" (view source)
- Godfrey: "Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone Joseph sometimes used in place of the interpreters and substituted it without the Prophet’s knowledge" (view source)
- Gospel Topics: "the Bible mentions other physical instruments used to access God’s power: the rod of Aaron, a brass serpent, holy anointing oils, the Ark of the Covenant, and even dirt from the ground mixed with saliva" (view source)
- John Whitmer (1876): "I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony that they have borne to the Book as published in the first edition of the Book of Mormon" (view source)
- Martin Harris: "Just as plain as you see that chopping block, I saw the plates" (view source)
- Martin Harris: "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" (view source)
- Oliver Cowdery: "My eyes saw, my ears heard...It was no dream, no vain imagination of the mind—it was real" (view source)
- Peterson (2005): The plates "are an indigestible lump in the throats of people...who contend that there were no Nephites but that Joseph Smith was nonetheless an inspired prophet" (view source)
- Peterson (2014): "It’s rather like someone to ascribe early Christian belief to the resurrection of Jesus to the supposed fact that ancient people, unlike us, hadn’t yet realized that dead people tend to stay dead" (view source)
- Question: Are the Book of Mormon witnesses unreliable because many of them were related? (view source)
- Question: Did Charles Anthon validate the characters that Martin Harris brought to him that had been copied from the Book of Mormon plates? (view source)
- Question: Did David Whitmer tell John Murphy that the angel Moroni "had no appearance or shape" and that he saw "nothing"? (view source)
- Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to "cover up" Oliver Cowdery's work with a divining rod by changing the wording of the revelation that became Doctrine and Covenants 8:6–8? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to "cover up" Oliver Cowdery's work with a divining rod by changing this revelation? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family and other Book of Mormon witnesses support James Strang's movement after Joseph's death? (view source)
- Question: Did Martin Harris change his religion five times prior to the Restoration? (view source)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"? (view source)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"? (view source)
- Question: Did one of the Book of Mormon witnesses actually only handle the plates while they were covered in a "tow frock"? (view source)
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses each add their own signature to the original Book of Mormon manuscript? (view source)
- Question: Did the witnesses disagree with their testimony after it was printed in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Did the witnesses make clear statements regarding their testimonies? (view source)
- Question: Didn't Hugh Nibley claim that a record of this trial would be "the most damning evidence in existence" against Joseph Smith? (view source)
- Question: Do Martin Harris's statements related to the "spiritual eye" or "eye of faith" contradict the reality of his witness? (view source)
- Question: Does Martin Harris' involvement with other faiths after the Restoration discredit him? (view source)
- Question: Does Martin Harris' involvement with the Shakers undercut his testimony? (view source)
- Question: Does the fact that Oliver Cowdery and Joseph Smith distant cousins make Oliver an unreliable witness to the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: How can we accept David Whitmer as a valid Book of Mormon witness if God told him to leave the Saints? (view source)
- Question: How did newspaper accounts describe the nature of the witnesses experience? (view source)
- Question: How did the apostle Paul describe spiritual experiences? (view source)
- Question: How do Church members assume that Joseph would have "used the plates" during translation? (view source)
- Question: How do the witnesses of the Book of Mormon compare to the witnesses of Philemon Stewart's ''A Holy, Sacred and Divine Roll and Book; From the Lord God of Heaven, to the Inhabitants of Earth''? (view source)
- Question: How was the wording of the "rod of nature" revelation that became Doctrine and Coveants 8:6–8 altered over time? (view source)
- Question: How was the wording of the "rod of nature" revelation that became Doctrine and Covenants 8:6–8 altered over time? (view source)
- Question: Is Wikipedia's portrayal of Martin Harris as a gullible, superstitious man accurate? (view source)
- Question: Is a man unreliable because he lived in the 19th-Century? (view source)
- Question: Is someone unreliable because they practiced "treasure hunting" and believed in the use of seer stones to find lost objects? (view source)
- Question: Of what did the Strangite witnesses testify? (view source)
- Question: Was "money digging" Joseph Smith, Jr's primary source of income during his early years? (view source)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's participation in "money digging" as a youth a blot on his character? (view source)
- Question: Was Martin Harris a gullible witness who would simply believe anything he was told? (view source)
- Question: What are the differences between the Strangite witness statements and those of the Three and Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character? (view source)
- Question: What did James Henry Moyle say about his visit to David Whitmer? (view source)
- Question: What did Martin Harris's non-Mormon associates say about his character? (view source)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery say about his witness experience after Joseph died? (view source)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery's associates say about his character? (view source)
- Question: What did critics of the Church during Joseph Smith's lifetime think of the 1826 court hearing? (view source)
- Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences? (view source)
- Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates? (view source)
- Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in Bainbridge? (view source)
- Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge? (view source)
- Question: What happened to Josiah Stowell? Did he conclude he had been defrauded after the court hearing? (view source)
- Question: What happened to the original Book of Mormon manuscript? (view source)
- Question: What if the "rod of nature" was indeed a physical object such as a divining rod? (view source)
- Question: What is "empirical evidence"? (view source)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"? (view source)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"? (view source)
- Question: What is the Book of Mormon "printer's manuscript" and why is it entirely in the handwriting of Oliver Cowdery? (view source)
- Question: When did God tell David Whitmer to separate himself from the Latter-day Saints? (view source)
- Question: Which method of translation was more "believable": seer stone or Nephite interpreters? (view source)
- Question: Who was James Strang? (view source)
- Question: Why was Joseph fined if he wasn't found guilty of anything? (view source)
- Question: Why was Joseph fined if he wasn't guilty? (view source)
- Question: Why were the gold plates needed at all if they weren't used directly during the translation process? (view source)
- Question: Why would Martin Harris use the phrases "eye of faith" or "spiritual eye" to describe his visionary experience? (view source)
- Revelations in Context on history.lds.org: "Cowdery was among those who believed in and used a divining rod" (view source)
- Stephen Burnett on Martin Harris: "But he never saw them only as he saw a city through a mountain" (view source)
- William Smith (1883): "he escaped to the house and brought the plates with him, wrapped up in a tow frock. He could not permit us to see them, because he said the angel told him not to do so" (view source)
- William Smith (1884): "When the plates were brought in they were wrapped up in a tow frock. My father then put them into a pillow case. Father said, 'What, Joseph, can we not see them?'" (view source)
- William Smith (1893): "I did not see them uncovered, but I handled them and hefted them while wrapped in a tow frock and judged them to have weighed about sixty pounds" (view source)
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