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- ==Question: What did Martin Harris's non-Mormon associates say about his character?== ...s|start=96|end=98}}</ref> Wrote the local paper on Harris' departure with the Saints:16 KB (2,770 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character?== ===Throughout Richmond, Missouri, the non-Mormons knew David Whitmer as an honest and trustworthy citizen===21 KB (3,608 words) - 15:31, 13 April 2024
- ...itmer (1887): "We were in the spirit when we had the view...but we were in the body also"== ...the “spiritual” vs. “natural” viewing of the plates. Responding to the interviewer who questioned Harris. Anthony Metcalf wrote:3 KB (434 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ...Were the Book of Mormon witnesses not neutral because they were members of the Church and believers in Joseph's mission?== ...had seen plates because they believed in the restoration; they believed in the restoration because they had seen plates===3 KB (589 words) - 15:30, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did David Whitmer ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet?== ...was very vocal about his testimony of the Book of Mormon up until the end of his life, even though he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet===6 KB (959 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ...e Three Witnesses consider Joseph Smith a "fallen prophet" after they left the Church?== ...Witnesses considered Joseph Smith to be a "fallen prophet" after they left the Church===3 KB (490 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- .... Below are links to various FAIR resources and other resources responding to each concern. ''CES Letter: "Joseph did not use the gold plates for translating the Book of Mormon."''8 KB (1,075 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ==Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon?== ...im that B.H. Roberts abandoned the Book of Mormon can be found in his last book, which he considered his masterwork===27 KB (4,505 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone?== ...mentioned occasionally in Church publications, but is rarely discussed in the 21st century in venues such as Sunday School===16 KB (2,511 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- ...ion: Did Joseph Smith begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God?== ...were not trinitarian, and understood God's embodiment and the identity of the Father and Son as separate beings very early on===17 KB (2,835 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
- Question: Did no one ever actually see the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?...stion: Did no one ever actually see the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?== ...s nonsense: Statements by the Book of Mormon witnesses do not lend support to these interpretations===5 KB (823 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
- ...rical record, but are included here as written as a reference for the type of discussions which continued regarding plural marriage. ...w, ''Biography of Lorenzo Snow'', 69 [Joseph Smith teaches plural marriage to Lorenzo Snow]522 KB (89,565 words) - 14:45, 24 September 2023
- ...record of Joseph Smith performing healings or other miracles by the power of Christ's priesthood?== ...day Saints are at least as well attested historically as those recorded in the Gospels===19 KB (3,384 words) - 15:19, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Could Moroni have been an "angel of Satan"?== ...h, the Book of Mormon, and the Church of Jesus Christ affirm that Jesus is the Christ, something that Satan cannot do===11 KB (1,826 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...of Mormon "printer's manuscript" and why is it entirely in the handwriting of Oliver Cowdery?== ...30-joseph-smith-papers-robin-jensen-1080p-eng.mp4 The Story of the Book of Mormon Printer's Manuscript], Robin Jensen, LDS.org.2 KB (347 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What did James Henry Moyle say about his visit to David Whitmer?== Moyle interviewed Whitmer and soon after wrote in his diary:11 KB (1,928 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Does Martin Harris' involvement with other faiths after the Restoration discredit him?== ===Harris's decision to oppose Joseph Smith in Kirtland led him into a series of theological adaptations===15 KB (2,342 words) - 15:19, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did David Whitmer believe his witness experience was "only a vision"?== ...which David Whitmer described his witness of the plates as occurring “in the holy vision.”9 KB (1,560 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ...tions from David Whitmer which demonstrate the literal nature of the Three Witness experience== ...to the Editor, ''Fall River'' (MA) ''Herald'', 28 March 1879; reprinted in the ''Saints' Herald'' 26 (15 April 1879): 128; cited in {{EMD|vol=5|pages=26}}5 KB (909 words) - 15:43, 13 April 2024
- ...tions from Martin Harris which demonstrate the literal nature of the Three Witness experience== {{Epigraph|"He believes in the visitation of angels '''in bodily form''', for he has seen and conversed with them, as he11 KB (1,922 words) - 15:43, 13 April 2024