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A FairMormon Analysis of Wikipedia: "Golden plates" A work by a collaboration of authors (Link to Wikipedia article here)
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[L]et not my reader suppose that because I shall pursue another topic for a season that we stopt our labor and went <at> trying to win the faculty of Abrac drawing Magic circles or sooth saying to the neglect of all kinds of bu[i]sness we never during our lives suffered one important interest to swallow up every other obligation but whilst we worked with our hands we endeavored to remmember the service of & the welfare of our souls.
—Lucy Mack Smith, making it clear that the family did not stop their labor in order to pursue the "faculty of Abrac."
—Lucy Mack Smith, making it clear that the family did not stop their labor in order to pursue the "faculty of Abrac."
Lucy Mack Smith later remembered that the family did abandon its labor "to win the faculty of Abrac, drawing magic circles, or sooth saying to the neglect of all kinds of business...."
—Wiki editor John "Foxe," a real-life historian and Free Presbyterian, who twists meaning of the source in order to make it sound as if Lucy's family had spent their efforts up until that point engaged in "the faculty of Abrac...to the neglect of all kinds of business..."
—Wiki editor John "Foxe," a real-life historian and Free Presbyterian, who twists meaning of the source in order to make it sound as if Lucy's family had spent their efforts up until that point engaged in "the faculty of Abrac...to the neglect of all kinds of business..."
The sins forbidden in the ninth commandment are, all prejudicing the truth, and the good name of our neighbors, as well as our own, especially in public judicature;...
—Westminster Larger Catechism, Question 145. The Larger Catechism is one of three Westminster Standards adhered to by Free Presbyterians.
—Westminster Larger Catechism, Question 145. The Larger Catechism is one of three Westminster Standards adhered to by Free Presbyterians.
Introduction
Origin and historicity
Story of the golden plates
- Story
- Background
- Finding the plates
- Unsuccessful retrieval attempts
- Receiving the plates
- Translating the plates
- Reputed location of the plates during translation
- Returning the plates