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- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Citation abuse |H=Citation abuse in the original ''Letter to a CES Director''15 KB (2,337 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Are the Book of Mormon witnesses unreliable because many of them were related?== ===To imply that someone is unreliable simply because of who they are related to is a ''ad hominem'' attack===4 KB (730 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did the witnesses make clear statements regarding their testimonies?== ===The witnesses made very clear statements regarding their testimonies===3 KB (580 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ...itnesses disagree with their testimony after it was printed in the Book of Mormon?== ...nesses never refuted their testimony in the Book of Mormon. In fact, David Whitmer even affirmed it "as then made and published"===2 KB (331 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"?== ...ert, who printed the Book of Mormon, reported that Harris said that he saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"===3 KB (467 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
- ==David Whitmer (1878): "I saw them just as plain as I see this bed"== ...or example, he gave dramatic and emphatic testimony of his experience as a witness:2 KB (422 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ==David Whitmer (1884): "I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears"== ...the Personage, the Angel, the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the sword of Laban."3 KB (418 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ==David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!"== David Whitmer:916 bytes (157 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism?== ...leave Far West one month ''after'' he had already been excommunicated from the Church===4 KB (614 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- ...t David Whitmer as a valid Book of Mormon witness if God told him to leave the Saints?== ...force Whitmer to remain in the Church, He could take steps to ensure that Whitmer was safe from harm===2 KB (335 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: When did God tell David Whitmer to separate himself from the Latter-day Saints?== ===Whitmer claimed no revelation from God at the time that he was excommunicated===3 KB (533 words) - 15:36, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did David Whitmer tell John Murphy that the angel Moroni "had no appearance or shape" and that he saw "nothing"?== ===John Murphy quoted David Whitmer as saying that his witness experience was just a "feeling" or an "impression"===5 KB (940 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ..., denied that testimony...which has so long since been published with that book...It was no Delusion"== ...81, quoted in "David Whitmer Interview with John Murphy, June 1880," Early Mormon Documents 5:63.</ref>:3 KB (479 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ...d Whitmer) has been at the Hill Cumorah and seen the casket that contained the tablets and seerstone"== It was reported that David Whitmer had seen the stone box from which the plates were removed.1 KB (204 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What happened to the stone box in which gold plates were deposited?== ===David Whitmer reported seeing the stone box three times, but that it had broken apart and been destroyed===2 KB (251 words) - 15:33, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What material were the plates made from?== ...oy of a lighter metal, such as copper, which was covered with a thin layer of gold===3 KB (431 words) - 15:35, 13 April 2024
- ...d the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences?== ===The term "supernatural" is used as a synonym for "miraculous"===6 KB (969 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ...nt of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to those of the eyewitnesses?== ...ormoncentral.org/knowhy/why-did-joseph-smith-attempt-to-secure-the-book-of-mormon-copyright-in-canada|number=556}}3 KB (416 words) - 15:22, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time?== ...ormoncentral.org/knowhy/why-did-joseph-smith-attempt-to-secure-the-book-of-mormon-copyright-in-canada|number=556}}5 KB (843 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- ===William Lang, who apprenticed in Cowdery's law office long after he left the Church, knew him for many years=== ...for major state offices twice." <ref>{{InvestigatingWitnesses1|start=40}}; the following quotes on Oliver are also taken from Anderson.</ref>20 KB (3,233 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024