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- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} ...{CriticalWork:Palmer:Insider|pages=10, 83}}; {{CriticalWork:Martin:Kingdom of the Cults|pages=205}}; La Roy Sunderland, “Mormonism,” ''Zion’s Watch198 KB (31,143 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ==Question: Did one of the Book of Mormon witnesses actually only handle the plates while they were covered in a "tow frock"?== ===William Smith, who was ''not'' one of the Three or Eight Witnesses, described handling the plates covered by a "tow frock" when Joseph brought2 KB (408 words) - 20:29, 1 May 2024
- ...that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"?== ...in Palmyra" told him that Harris said that he saw the plates with the "eye of faith"===5 KB (814 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
- ...did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates?== ===David Whitmer clarified the idea of "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates===6 KB (991 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ...e experience had visionary qualities contradict the claim that the Book of Mormon plates were real?== ...ts, "spiritual" does not imply something other or less than "material" or "literal"; it means something ''additional''.===3 KB (533 words) - 15:19, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did the three witnesses's experience of seeing the plates and the angel take place only in their minds?== ....org/content/why-were-three-key-witnesses-chosen-to-testify-of-the-book-of-mormon|number=267}}3 KB (489 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ...This flatly contradicts their own reports, and those of others.<ref>Many of the quotes collected here are found in {{JBMS-14-1-5}}{{NB}}</ref> Theodore ...ged all.<ref>"Theodore Turley's Memorandums," Church Archives, handwriting of Thomas Bullock, who began clerking in late 1843; cited in {{EarlyMormonDocs4 KB (596 words) - 15:57, 13 April 2024
- ...ch attempt to dismiss the experience of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon?== ...the heart, no man possessed of common reason and common sense, can doubt, or will be so vain as to dispute."3 KB (457 words) - 15:22, 13 April 2024
- ...nd but had trouble in keeping him on the points in issue. He was some what spiritual in his explanations[.] He was not as materialistic in his descriptions as I ...3] power of God (and was possibly [in the spirit] at least) he then spoke of Paul hearing and seeing Christ but his associates did not. Because it is on11 KB (1,928 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ...Gurley reported an interview in which David Whitmer described his witness of the plates as occurring “in the holy vision.” Some have attempted to make this an admission that the experience was not “literal” because there was a visionary aspect to it.9 KB (1,560 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ==Quotations from David Whitmer which demonstrate the literal nature of the Three Witness experience== ...ontents, here and there. He also described the size and general appearance of the plates....<ref>David Whitmer, reported by Thomas Wood Smith to the Edit5 KB (909 words) - 15:43, 13 April 2024
- ...stion: What are the criticisms related to the "gold plates" of the Book of Mormon?== ...ome metal plates out of tin, copper, or some other metal in order to trick witnesses into thinking he had gold plates.5 KB (816 words) - 15:30, 13 April 2024
- ...tries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Witnesses |H=Response to "Difficult Questions for Mormons: Book of Mormon Witnesses"8 KB (1,223 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILL. DEC. 1, 1841.71 KB (12,471 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L4=EFFECTS OF APOSTACY76 KB (13,473 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=History of Joseph Smith81 KB (14,291 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.81 KB (14,460 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Was Joseph Smith’s only mission to bring forth the Book of Mormon?== ...ok-of-commandments?lang=eng The Book of Commandments], which contains many of the revelations now canonized today as the [https://www.churchofjesuschrist18 KB (2,891 words) - 02:35, 17 May 2023
- ...RECT [[Template:Critical sources box:Book of Mormon/Witnesses/Spiritual or literal/CriticalSources]]105 bytes (13 words) - 22:03, 29 April 2024