View source for Question: Did Joseph Smith receive a revelation instructing him to to sell the copyright to the Book of Mormon in Canada and later claim that the revelation was false?

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==Question: After receiving the revelation to attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright in Canada, did Joseph Smith later claim that the revelation was false?==
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===David Whitmer, years after he left the Church, claimed that Joseph said that the revelation did not come from God===

David Whitmer claimed that Joseph Smith received a revelation and prophesied that Oliver Cowdery and Hiram Page should go to Canada where they would find a man willing to buy the copyright to the Book of Mormon. When they failed to sell the copyright, Whitmer states that Joseph admitted that the revelation had not come from God.

===David Whitmer was not a participant in the trip to Canada===

The primary evidence supporting the negative aspects of the Canadian Mission story comes from David Whitmer, who was ''not'' a participant in the event, and who had left the church many years before. With the discovery of the Hiram Page letter of 1848 showing that the ''actual'' participants involved in the trip felt that Joseph Smith delivered an accurate revelation of what would transpire on the Mission, and in fact even found the event uplifting rather than negative, it is evident that no individual contemporary to the event felt that this represented a false prophecy by Joseph Smith. What we do see is excellent evidence in fulfillment of the teachings of Deuteronomy 12 and 18 that Joseph Smith was perceived as a true prophet of God by those involved in the Mission to Canada in early 1830.
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[[es:Pregunta: ¿José Smith recibió una revelación instruyéndole a vender los derechos de autor del Libro de Mormón en Canadá y reclamación posterior que la revelación era falsa?]]
[[pt:Pergunta: Será que Joseph Smith recebe uma revelação instruindo-o a vender os direitos autorais do Livro de Mórmon no Canadá e mais tarde alegação de que a revelação era falsa?]]
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