Search results

Page title matches

Page text matches

  • {{Navigation:Joseph Smith}}{{blankline}} ==Was Joseph Smith illiterate?==
    4 KB (737 words) - 22:15, 19 May 2024
  • =How did Emma Hale Smith react to Joseph's practice of plural marriage?= ==Emma was aware of Joseph's plural marriage and sometimes gave permission, but did much to try and th
    36 KB (6,146 words) - 21:44, 18 May 2024
  • ...wer of the priesthood comes only one way, and, as the revelation to Joseph Smith states, men do not have any right to either confer it, or prevent it from b ...ministration” or “being a legal administrator.” As we will soon see, Joseph used such expressions and indicated that such rights were absolutely essent
    43 KB (7,106 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: Could Joseph have used a Bible during and simply dictated from it during Book of Mormon ===Nobody ever reported seeing a Bible, because Joseph was looking at the stone in the hat in full view of witnesses===
    3 KB (579 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: Did Joseph know what the italics in the Bible meant?== ===Joseph didn't even know that Jerusalem had walls around it. His basic knowledge of
    2 KB (339 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
  • {{Navigation:Joseph Smith}}{{blankline}} = What is the nature of the Joseph Smith Translation (JST)? =
    102 KB (16,629 words) - 01:57, 20 May 2024
  • ==Question: Are there any known parallels between elements of Joseph's interpretation of Facsimile 3 with other ancient texts?== ...d be an ‘impossible occurrence.'”<ref>Robert C. Webb, pseud., ''Joseph Smith as Translator'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1936), 113.</ref> Bu
    27 KB (4,412 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages?== ===DNA research has, so far, ruled out most who were suspected of being Joseph's children through polyandrous marriages===
    7 KB (1,090 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
  • Whitmer was interviewed by Joseph Smith III, in the presence of others, not all of whom were disposed to believe his ac ...ub=1082&index=3 Chapter 2], {{sofr}}|author=Daniel C. Peterson|article=Not Joseph's, and Not Modern}} Also quoted in Richard Lloyd Anderson, ''Investigating
    3 KB (418 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
  • ...which he did for the space of half an hour or more, when he returned it to Smith, who placed it in its former position, alledging that the book was in the c ...s of Joseph Smith III, cited in Mary Audentia Smith Anderson, Joseph Smith III and the Restoration (Independence, MO: 1952), pp. 311-12. Cited in {{Invest
    3 KB (560 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
  • ===Joseph did not need the plates physically present to translate, since the translat Much is made of the fact that Joseph used a seer stone, which he placed in a hat, to dictate the text of the Boo
    4 KB (668 words) - 15:39, 13 April 2024
  • ...f name="strangplatesfabricated">Letter from Chauncy Loomis to Joseph Smith III, [http://latterdaytruth.org/pdf/100202.pdf “Experience on Beaver Island w Chauncy Loomis, in a letter to Joseph Smith III dated 10 Nov. 1888 and published in the ''Saint's Herald'', talked of a con
    10 KB (1,718 words) - 15:31, 13 April 2024
  • ...estion: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?== ...from whence they sprang. <ref>{{TS1|author=Anon.|article=History of Joseph Smith (continued)|vol=3|num=12|date=15 April 1842|start=753}} [italics added]</r
    13 KB (2,175 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
  • ...n Canada?|url=https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/why-did-joseph-smith-attempt-to-secure-the-book-of-mormon-copyright-in-canada|number=556}} ...in wrote about the journey to Canada.<ref>William McLellin to Joseph Smith III, September 8, 1872. See Vogel, ''Early Mormon Documents'', Vol. 5, page 32
    5 KB (843 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: Did Joseph Smith identify any elements of Facsimile 2 that are in agreement with what Egypto ...g with creation and birth. So, it is enlightening to note that the Prophet Joseph begins his explanation of this figure as "the first creation, nearest to th
    77 KB (12,789 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
  • ''CES Letter: "Joseph did not use the gold plates for translating the Book of Mormon."'' '''Answer:''' The gold plates were essential to Joseph Smith's work of bringing forth the Book of Mormon.
    8 KB (1,075 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
  • ==Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone?== ...Urim and Thummim with the assumption that it is always the instrument that Joseph recovered with the plates. Only those familiar with the sources will realiz
    16 KB (2,511 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
  • ...ary to a later redactor/copyist working on the Book of Abraham. The Joseph Smith papyri date to this time (around 200 B.C.) and founding myths such as these B) Acknowledge the anachronism, but assign it to Joseph Smith as a translator’s anachronism, which does not in and of itself compromise
    11 KB (1,900 words) - 15:25, 13 April 2024
  • He-In Joseph Smith's house; he had them there. He-No. At that time Joseph showed the plates to us, we were four persons, present in the room, and at
    2 KB (399 words) - 15:07, 13 April 2024
  • ==John A. Widtsoe (apostle, 1943): "That Joseph Smith actually was the person who introduced plural marriage into the Church and John A. Widtsoe, "Did Joseph Smith Introduce Plural Marriage?", ''Evidences and Reconciliations'':
    11 KB (1,799 words) - 14:27, 13 April 2024
  • =What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife Fanny Alger?= ==There are no first-hand accounts of the relationship between Joseph Smith and Fanny Alger==
    20 KB (3,340 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2024
  • ==Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death?== ...n account&mdash;that made by Joseph Smith himself&mdash;says that it was ''Joseph'' who would be destroyed if he showed the plates to any other person unless
    9 KB (1,525 words) - 15:15, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: Could Joseph Smith have hypnotized the witnesses to the Book of Mormon?== ...lly the victims of 'hallucination' or 'hypnosis' induced in them by Joseph Smith.
    5 KB (726 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: Did William Smith claim that a religious revival led to the Joseph's "first vision" of an angel in 1823?== ===William Smith conflates Joseph's First Vision with Moroni's visit in his 1883 biography===
    5 KB (802 words) - 22:45, 28 April 2024
  • ...es''' and I heard with these ears! I know whereof I speak!'" (Joseph Smith III, et al., Interview, July 1884, Richmond Missouri, in Lyndon W. Cook, David ...f people that he was a witness of the Book of Mormon. "He knew his brother Joseph had the plates, for '''the Prophet had shown them to him''', and he had han
    5 KB (823 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
  • ...tter-day Saints (then called The Church of Christ) was established, Joseph Smith received the following divine manifestation: ===Beginning in 1902 President Smith began institutional reforms to require greater adherence to the Word of Wis
    13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:38, 13 April 2024
  • #REDIRECT[[1844 Succession to Joseph Smith]] [[es:Pregunta: ¿Prometió Brigham que José Smith III acabaría por hacerse cargo de la Iglesia?]]
    321 bytes (49 words) - 19:02, 2 March 2023
  • ...enty for grey hairs, at eighty for special strength. …” See also David Smith, ''Life and Letters of St. Paul'', p. 30f.</ref> especially if, as many sch ...is ministry. Eusebius,<ref>Eusebius Pamphilius, Ecclesiasical History Book III, Chap 30, in Nicene and post-Nicene Fathers Series 2, Volume 1 (NPNF2-01: C
    5 KB (872 words) - 15:28, 13 April 2024
  • ...Don] Carlos would empty it out of the window.<ref>McLellin to Joseph Smith III, July 1872; cited in ''McLellin Papers'', 493&ndash;494.</ref> ...ed to[o] much also. But let the curtain fall!!...But no ''power'' in Jos. Smith's dedication...If it was not transgression, what was the cause of so much d
    14 KB (2,390 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
  • ...ting Saints, though these movements quickly disbanded. Later, Joseph Smith III, with the assistant of William Marks, assumed leadership of another group o ...nother of Joseph Smith Jr.'s sons. Though Brigham Young himself hoped that Joseph's sons would one day become leaders in the Church, he acknowledged they had
    2 KB (224 words) - 23:08, 30 April 2024
  • ==Question: Did Joseph Smith set up a bar to sell liquor in Nauvoo?== Joseph's hotel would likely see many travelers who would be non-members, and he ma
    10 KB (1,745 words) - 13:07, 1 May 2024
  • |L2=Response to claim: "isn't it somewhat disturbing that Joseph would say that this pagan god with his exposed penis is our Heavenly Father ...one of the sections of papyrus was clearly the Egyptian writing from which Smith claimed to 'translate' the Book of Abraham"
    32 KB (4,871 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: Did Joseph Smith derive the idea of "three degrees of glory" from Emanuel Swedenborg's book, ...ource is a late one, and was not even mentioned by those who disliked both Joseph and Swedenborg, and knew both works===
    13 KB (2,160 words) - 14:42, 30 April 2024
  • ...or hyeroglyphics. By placing the spectacles in a hat, and looking into it, Smith could (he said so, at least,) interpret these characters.<ref>{{CriticalWor ...ved hieroglyphics. By placing the spectacles in a hat and looking into it, Smith interprets the characters into the English language.[”]<ref>{{CriticalWor
    35 KB (5,522 words) - 15:31, 13 April 2024
  • ...easons to portray the LDS in a negative light.<ref>Kelley to Joseph Smith, III, letter, 26 June 1875.</ref> Kelley also reported that DeWitt carried a rev
    13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:28, 30 April 2024
  • ...tongue could tell the glorious scenes that were presented to them. Joseph Smith was there and Oliver Cowdery and himself--Martin Harris did not come as exp ...and sat down on a log and talked awhile. We then kneeled down and prayed. Joseph prayed. We then got up and sat on the log and were talking, when all at onc
    9 KB (1,560 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
  • ...al appearance of the plates....<ref>David Whitmer, reported by Thomas Wood Smith to the Editor, ''Fall River'' (MA) ''Herald'', 28 March 1879; reprinted in ...so great that the angel, the guardian of the plates, gave the plates up to Joseph for a time, that those eight witnesses could see and handle them.<ref>David
    5 KB (909 words) - 15:43, 13 April 2024
  • ...which he did for the space of half an hour or more, when he returned it to Smith, who placed it in its former position, alledging that the book was in the c ...[the seer stone] to my eyes but could see nothing through it. I have seen Joseph, however, place it to his eyes and instantly read signs 160 miles distant a
    36 KB (6,431 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
  • ...ne>true</underline> henceforth and forever."<ref>John Whitmer to Herman C. Smith, 11 December 1876, Artificial Collection, Community of CHrist Library-Archi ...stated that he had often handled the identical ''golden plates'' which Mr. Smith received from the angel...."<ref>"I.C. Funn," [John Whitmer Testimony], ''K
    8 KB (1,412 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024
  • ...true. I was not called to bear testimony to the mission of Brother Joseph Smith any farther than his work of translating the Book of Mormon, as you can see ...and truthfulness of the man<ref>David Whitmer, Interview with Joseph Smith III and others on 4 April 1882, ''Saints' Herald'' 29 (1 May 1882): 141; cited
    11 KB (2,005 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
  • ...ne>true</underline> henceforth and forever."<ref>John Whitmer to Herman C. Smith, 11 December 1876, Artificial Collection, Community of CHrist Library-Archi He-In Joseph Smith's house; he had them there.
    2 KB (406 words) - 14:27, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: What did William McLellin say about Joseph Smith and Fanny Alger's relationship?== ===William McLellin said that he discussed Joseph's relationship with Fanny Alger during a visit with Emma in 1847===
    10 KB (1,643 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: What was the relationship between William McLellin and Emma Smith?== ===McLellin committed offenses against Emma and Joseph's family while Joseph was in Liberty Jail===
    4 KB (685 words) - 15:36, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: What is the date of the Smith family's "removal to Manchester"?== ...o match Joseph's account with the 1823-1824 revival. This would contradict Joseph's statement that the First Vision occurred in 1820, in the "second year" af
    4 KB (669 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
  • ...hat these authors were distinct from each other and Oliver Cowdery, Joseph Smith, Jr., and Solomon Spaulding. These efforts were critiqued in Ernest H. Taves, ''Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon'' (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984), 225&ndash
    12 KB (1,893 words) - 15:33, 13 April 2024
  • The Articles of Faith used today in the Church are from Joseph Smith's "Wentworth Letter," but this does not mean that the other summaries were ...ntworth listing, had appeared prior to 1842. As early as June 1829, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery were committing to paper the "Articles and Covenants" of
    5 KB (817 words) - 15:24, 13 April 2024
  • ==Question: Why was Joseph Smith sealed to young women?== ===Joseph Smith's polygamous marriages to young women may seem difficult to understand or e
    18 KB (2,787 words) - 15:39, 13 April 2024
  • |L=Question: Were there sexual relations in Joseph's marriages to women with living husbands? |H=Question: Were there sexual relations in Joseph's marriages to women with living husbands?
    10 KB (1,545 words) - 20:36, 5 May 2024
  • ...irely error-free.<ref>The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, Section III, Paragraph e. The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy was produced at a Joseph Smith remarked, "I believe the Bible as it read when it came from the pen of the
    10 KB (1,750 words) - 18:04, 30 April 2024
  • ...hat there is historical evidence that Joseph Smith blessed his son, Joseph III that he would become his successor ...hat there is historical evidence that Joseph Smith blessed his son, Joseph III that he would become his successor==
    2 KB (358 words) - 14:13, 13 April 2024
  • ...of Joseph, and of a people who left the tower far, far before the days of Joseph, or a sketch of each, which had it not been for this, and the never failing ...this I do not wish to be understood as uttering aught [ought] against Mrs. Smith, (formerly Emma Hale.) She has most certainly evinced a decidedly correct m
    73 KB (12,878 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • ...account of the wickedness of the people, they were hid up; and that Joseph Smith was informed by a heavenly messenger where those plates were-was instructed The High Priest quorum, Hiram Kellogg, president, and John Knapp and Joseph Pine, as counsellors [counselors], were unanimously accepted by the confere
    71 KB (12,262 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • ...ruly saw my day and when he saw it he was glad." Moreover it is said, Gal. iii. 8, that the Gospel was preached unto Abraham. ..., forty years before God called him to lead Israel from Egypt.-(See Exodus iii. 1.) Moses married Jethro's daughter, and lived with him about forty years,
    76 KB (13,351 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • |L1=Death of General Don Carlos Smith. |L2=Lines, Written on the Death of Gen. Don Carlos Smith.
    73 KB (12,570 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • ...s Smith, in editing this paper; by his pen was the obituary notice of Bro. Smith, published in our last, written, in apparent good health. Just 20 days from Ascribe to Pres't. Joseph Smith, he discharged
    74 KB (12,998 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • ...f our sins, that we may lay claim to the promises of God. We find, in John iii, that "Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, to inquire concerning these things ...y resisting the truth, they become reprobate concerning the faith, [2 Tim. iii. 8,] and are abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobat
    72 KB (12,631 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • ...proof we cite to the following passages of scripture. Matt. iii. l6, John, iii.5 Acts. viii, 38. Rom. vi. 4. Col. ii. 12. ...s, and apostles, (See Isa. xxiv, 5; 2d Thes. ii,3; 1st Tim. iv, 1; 2d Tim. iii, 5, and iv. 3, 4. 2d Pet. ii, 1)
    69 KB (11,978 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • ...ing corrected in this thing, the Apostle Peter afterwards informs us (Acts iii.) that the heavens must receive Jesus Christ until the times of restoration Br. Joseph Brotherton is laboring near Bedford; there is a good work going on there, a
    75 KB (13,537 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Volume III. No. 24.]
    76 KB (13,451 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • ...ould come upon the inhabitants of the earth, called upon my servant Joseph Smith jr. and spake unto him from heaven, and gave him commandments; and also gav Joseph Smith jr. might have power to translate through the mercy of God, by the power of
    73 KB (12,675 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • | Volume III. No. 6.] ...confirmed upon Joseph and upon Ephraim the crown, or top of the head of - Joseph, for God's good will towards them.
    72 KB (12,766 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • ...ith the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."-2 Pet. iii, 8. According to the above the seventh thousand years will be the seventh d ...suant to adjournment. Brother Gaylord delivered a lecture from 2d Timothy, iii: 16: by which the saints were much edified. Conference then adjourned until
    73 KB (12,990 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • ...h joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.-Zeph. iii. 8-17. It is evident from the above;-first, that when the nations are assem ...resurrection of the House of Israel, and the coming forth of the stick of Joseph (Book of Mormon) and its being united with the stick of Judah (the bible;)
    70 KB (12,482 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • | Vol. III No. 9.] ...ars before Christ. They were principally Israelites, of the descendants of Joseph. The Jaredites were destroyed about the time that the Israelites came from
    69 KB (12,301 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • |L5=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Vol. III No. 10]
    77 KB (13,972 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • |L8=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Vol. III. No. 11.]
    81 KB (14,680 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Vol. III. No. 12.]
    76 KB (13,590 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • |L4=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. |L5=THE MORMONS-A LEAF FROM JOE SMITH.
    75 KB (13,434 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • |L4=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. |L12=THE MORMONS-JOE SMITH, THE PROPHET.
    75 KB (13,271 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Vol. III. No. 16.]
    78 KB (13,970 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Vol. III. No. 17.]
    73 KB (12,811 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
  • |L2=FROM W. W. PHELPS TO JOSEPH SMITH: |L7=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH
    76 KB (13,473 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • |L3=History of Joseph Smith The editor, as well as some others, "thinks that Jo Smith has his match at last," because Mr. Redding certifies that he has seen the
    80 KB (14,262 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • |L2=History of Joseph Smith, ===History of Joseph Smith,===
    79 KB (14,050 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
    80 KB (14,813 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
    79 KB (14,370 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • |L6=History of Joseph Smith. ...ing the future with increasing courage, and redoubled hope. Such is Joseph Smith the chosen of the Lord, and such the soul and hear revealed in his every fe
    80 KB (14,131 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • |L7=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ...ve had power to ordain others, as he did when he ordained the twelve (Mark iii:14) to take a part in the ministry which he had received of his father: als
    81 KB (14,405 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • ...od day and night, in expectation of the promise made to their fathers, and Joseph says they still live, and are yet expecting the promise to be fulfiled [ful ...ions. but we think that a prophet ought to be what he has described Joseph Smith to be, "sociable, easy, cheerful, kind and obliging, and VERY HOSPITABLE."
    81 KB (14,255 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH===
    78 KB (13,862 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
    80 KB (14,483 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
    79 KB (14,482 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • ...ut also through the work of historian Michael G. Reed.<ref>See John Hilton III, ''Considering the Cross: How Calvary Connects Us With Christ'' (Salt Lake We’ll use a recent article by John Hilton III as the basis of our response. The article is an adaptation from the first c
    24 KB (3,946 words) - 22:40, 23 March 2023
  • |L1=Did Joseph Smith consult Thomas Taylor’s translation of The Six Books of Proclus on the Th ==Did Joseph Smith consult Thomas Taylor’s translation of The Six Books of Proclus on the Th
    45 KB (7,251 words) - 13:12, 1 May 2024
  • '''2005''' Kerry Shirts, "Joseph Smith as Egyptologist," Sunstone Symposium, July 30, 2005. '''2005''' Hugh Nibley, ''The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment'', 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and
    25 KB (3,600 words) - 14:02, 13 April 2024
  • Critics of the Book of Mormon claim that Joseph Smith could have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from either ma The argument typically starts with the Captain Kidd stories. Joseph is supposed to have known about stories regarding Captain Kidd and either d
    57 KB (9,248 words) - 01:18, 19 May 2023
  • ==Who were possible successors to Joseph Smith?== ...ng=eng&id=3-4#p3 Doctrine and Covenants 43:3–4]). Before he died, Joseph Smith appointed his successor, but "he had not announced a clear plan for success
    4 KB (599 words) - 23:08, 30 April 2024
  • # King James phrases were exceedingly common in the speech and writing of Joseph's day. ...e a "translation." Therefore, the language used is that of Joseph Smith. Joseph could choose to render similar (or identical) material using King James Bib
    40 KB (4,788 words) - 22:50, 30 April 2024
  • ...who testified that they had seen the [[Golden Plates]] from which [[Joseph Smith]] said the Book of Mormon had been translated. {{propaganda|Pomroy Tucker felt that Martin had been deceived by Joseph Smith. The description of Martin that he gives here was published 28 years ''afte
    44 KB (6,506 words) - 06:18, 15 May 2024

View (previous 100 | next 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)