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• Question: Did Brigham promise that Joseph Smith III would eventually take over the Church?
  #REDIRECT[[1844 Succession to Joseph Smith]] [[es:Pregunta: ¿Prometió Brigham que José Smith III acabaría por hacerse cargo de la Iglesia?]]
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• Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries
  ...osed transcript of a blessing given by the Prophet to his son Joseph Smith III in 1844 declaring his son to be his rightful successor as head of the Churc ...hurch when these documents were publicized saying it was clear that Joseph Smith’s testimony concerning his visions was false or that they could no longer
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• Question: Why did Emma Smith and Brigham Young dislike one another?
  |L=Question: Why did Emma Smith and Brigham Young dislike one another? |H=Question: Why did Emma Smith and Brigham Young dislike one another?
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• Times and Seasons/2/5
  |L1=PROPOSALS, BY DON CARLOS SMITH, ===PROPOSALS, BY DON CARLOS SMITH,===
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• Primary sources/Nauvoo Expositor Full Text
  ...ents surrounding its publication lead to the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. The full text is provided below for study. ...that the religion of the Latter Day Saints, as originally taught by Joseph Smith, which is contained in the Old and New Testaments, Book of Covenants, and B
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• Question: Does Jesus already know who will be returning to God's presence?
  ...of the Talmudist Gersonides (Levi Ben Gershon, 1288-1344; Milhamot Adonai, III, 6) and, with some modifications, of Charles Hartshorne and process philoso ...ns since the post-New Testament period, and it is one doctrine that Joseph Smith didn't seem to question, as there are no revelations that address it. Indee
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• Question: Why are there different versions of the Articles of Faith?
  ...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 ...er-day Saint beliefs prior to the Wentworth Letter include one prepared by Joseph Young for publication by John Hayward in ''The Religious Creeds and Statist
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• Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Known forged documents
  ...on transcript'', purportedly reformed Egyptian characters copied by Joseph Smith from the Book of Mormon gold plates in 1828. (See Ensign, Jun. 1980, July 1 ..., May 1981.){{link|url=https://www.lds.org/ensign/1981/05/the-joseph-smith-iii-document-and-the-keys-of-the-kingdom?lang=eng}}
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• Evidences that support the Book of Abraham
  ...ham coincide nicely with what we find from ancient Abrahamic lore. Joseph Smith demonstrated extensive knowledge of these areas, which he then integrated i ...k of Abraham. References comparing the Book of Jasher and other books that Joseph may have had access to with the Book of Abraham can be found below.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri
  ...of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri |H=Response to "By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri"
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• Question: Why does the Church continue to use the KJV instead of the JST as its official bible?
  ...ad tampered with the JST text and that it didn't accurately reflect Joseph Smith's original translation. Given that the Utah Church could not verify the tra ...the JST could cause a stumbling block for converts. The doctrine of Joseph Smith, modern prophets, and modern books of scripture are already difficult for m
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• Accuracy of Church art
  ...ew of Emma Smith by her son Joseph Smith III, "Interview with Joseph Smith III, 1879," {{EarlyMormonDocs| vol=1|start=541|end=542 }}</ref>
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• Topical Guide/Church history/Prophetic Succession
  ...be after his death. Some claim that Joseph Smith designated his son Joseph III as his successor.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 2
  ...The author states that "LDS documents" are "strangely silent" about Joseph Smith's activities between 1820 and 1823 |L3=Response to claim: 25 - The author states that the angel that appeared to Joseph was originally named "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 3
  |>=[[../Chapter 4|Claims made in "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book"]] |L1=Response to claim: 41, 500 n2-4 (HB) - Joseph used at least two seer stones
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• Question: Do the Latter-day Saint "Three Degrees of Glory" have a basis in the Bible?
  |L1=It is clear that Joseph Smith went beyond the information found in the Bible concerning the degrees of gl ===It is clear that Joseph Smith went beyond the information found in the Bible concerning the degrees of gl
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• Times and Seasons/1/3
  ...shall come," and then he gives his reasons why they will be so. 2nd. Tim. III, 5 first verses. Elders, Joseph T. Ball, Josiah Ells.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 1
  |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 1: Joseph Smith as Translator/Revelator" ...to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Chapter 1: Joseph Smith as Translator/Revelator"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 6
  ...Harris participated in his own "treasure adventures" after meeting Joseph Smith ...esponse to claim: 178, n9-10 - Martin Harris said that he "informed Joseph Smith about the gold plates" and that he could see the gold plates through a clot
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 8
  ...- "The Book of Commandments...contains nothing on such important events as Joseph's first vision" ...ook of Commandments states that it was the Book of Mormon that constituted Joseph's call to the work
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Use of sources
  |A=George D. Smith ...they are only "briefly" and "obliquely" mentioned. It even mentions Joseph Smith's first plural wife: Fanny Alger.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 3
  ...ters years earlier, and having faced impending death at various junctures, Smith sensed rightly that events in Nauvoo would be the grand finale of his life" |L4=Response to claim: 25 - Joseph had himself ordained "king" during the time that he was running for Preside
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• Journal of Discourses/2/49
  |A=George A. Smith ...MENTS OF MODERN CHRISTIAN SECTS AGAINST THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS by George A. Smith (323-334)
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Recorded accounts of the vision
  ...tter Day Saint movement]] evolved over time. There is little evidence that Smith discussed the First Vision publicly prior to 1830. *{{Detail|Joseph Smith's First Vision/No reference to First Vision in 1830s publications}}
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy
  |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy |H=An analysis of Wikipedia article "Joseph Smith"
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• Journal of Discourses/4/43
  ...t is one reason why I know; and another is—the Lord said, through Joseph Smith, "I delight in a glad heart and a cheerful countenance." That arises from t ...the same is my brother, and my sister, and father and mother." —St. Mark iii.
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• Journal of Discourses/6/40
  |A=Joseph Smith |S=Synopsis of an Address delivered by President JOSEPH SMITH, in Commerce, Illinois, Tuesday, June 2, 1839.
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• Journal of Discourses/6/65
  ...lined armies and mercenary allies of the foolish and tyrannical George the III, King of Great Britain. ...? It was by the agency of that same angel of God that appeared unto Joseph Smith, and revealed to him the history of the early inhabitants of this country,
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• Journal of Discourses/26/8
  ...of him that hath his shoe loosed." (See Deut. xxv, 5 to 10. See also Ruth iii and iv.) ...t Lake Stake; Warren N. Dusenberry, Probate Judge of Utah County; Elias A. Smith, Probate Judge of Salt Lake County; Jonathan S. Page and A. D. Holdaway, Se
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• Journal of Discourses/26/32
  ...e Father came forth from the heavens with His Son and spoke to the Prophet Joseph—then a boy only about fourteen years old, and told him that all the peopl ...Malachi, charged them with robbing Him, even their whole nation." (Malachi iii, 9.)
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• Journal of Discourses/26/38
  III. The zeal, energy and competency of the resident surgeon, as vouched for by ...r Wells here was appointed a Lieut. General, and then myself and George A. Smith were appointed his counselors—(laughter), if anybody knows what that is i
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• Journal of Discourses/21/27
  ...originators of the principles we believe in; neither was Joseph nor Hyrum Smith, nor Prest. Brigham Young, nor the Twelve; neither was any individual nor a ...am, or first father, through the fathers unto me." Times and Seasons, vol. iii, p. 704. His father however was an idolater; but had probably possessed a r
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• Journal of Discourses/14/10
  ...t we should believe such a thing; but the Scriptures inform us, in Genesis iii., 22, that the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become as one of us, to ...re is, and the wicked world as well as the Saints prove this. Since Joseph Smith received revelations from God, Spiritualism has taken its rise, and has spr
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• Journal of Discourses/19/3
  |A=Joseph F. Smith |<=[[../2|Revelation Gradual—Hyrum Smith’s Experience—The Lord has not Shut Down the Gates of Revelation—The C
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• Journal of Discourses/19/31
  |A=Joseph F. Smith |S=DISCOURSE BY ELDER JOSEPH F. SMITH, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 3
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• Journal of Discourses/24/13
  ...acquiesced in by Charles IX, then King of France, and when his ally Philip III, of Spain heard of it he laughed, the only time he was known to laugh in hi ...tion, skepticism, infidelity and priestly hypocrisy must yield, for Joseph Smith, the Prophet of the Almighty came as a forerunner and teacher of true faith
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• Question: What is the historic church's concept of the Trinity and why do Mormons reject it?
  ...remove any hope of a Mormon ever achieving godhood, but it also undermines Smith's first vision and subsequent teachings regarding a multiplicity of deities ...have stated that Father, Son and Holy Ghost cannot be numerically one, if Joseph saw two personages===
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years/051909
  |uplink=[[../|Joseph Smith, Jr.]] =An analysis of Wikipedia article "Joseph Smith, Jr." (Version 19 May 2009)=
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839/051909
  |uplink=[[../|Joseph Smith, Jr.]] =An analysis of Wikipedia article "Joseph Smith, Jr." (Version 19 May 2009)=
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844/051909
  |uplink=[[../|Joseph Smith, Jr.]] =An analysis of Wikipedia article "Joseph Smith, Jr." (Version 19 May 2009)=
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death/051909
  |uplink=[[../|Joseph Smith, Jr.]] =An analysis of Wikipedia article "Joseph Smith, Jr." (Version 19 May 2009)=
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy/051909
  |uplink=[[../|Joseph Smith, Jr.]] =An analysis of Wikipedia article "Joseph Smith, Jr." (Version 19 May 2009)=
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• Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Ensign list of Hofmann documents
  ...thon transcript, purportedly reformed Egyptian characters copied by Joseph Smith from the Book of Mormon gold plates in 1828. (See ''Ensign'', Jun. 1980, Ju ...en by the Prophet Joseph Smith on 17 January 1844 to his son, Joseph Smith III, to the effect that this son was his appointed successor. (See ''Ensign'',
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• Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Dallin H. Oaks 6 August 1987 remarks on Hofmann
  ...h Smith’s treasure-hunting letter to Josiah Stowel, and the Joseph Smith III blessing—were all made public by the Church many months before the bombin ...re embarrassing to the Church—specifically, that it was Alvin Smith, not Joseph, who found the golden plates. This was the basis for the critics’ reasoni
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 3
  |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 3 |T=No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 12
  |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 12 |T=[[../../|No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith]]
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 24
  |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 24 |T=[[../../|No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith]]
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 27
  |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 27 |T=[[../../|No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith]]
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• Reference templates/Specific works/B
  ...k:Barr:Mormonism iii|pages=xxx}} || [[Template:CriticalWork:Barr:Mormonism iii|edit]] ...His Mormon Empire|pages=xxx}} || [[Template:CriticalWork:Beardsley:Joseph Smith and His Mormon Empire|edit]]
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• Reference templates/Reference works/L
  ...unius:Joseph Smith III|pages=xxx}} ||[[Template: Book:Launius:Joseph Smith III|edit]] ...DS:Joseph Smith Papers Project 1|pages=xxx}} ||[[Template: Book:LDS:Joseph Smith Papers Project 1|edit]]
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• Reference templates/Old style/Page 1
  ===Answers to Gospel Questions (5 vols) (JF Smith, 1967)=== ...e ANF can have different citations or specifying information (books I, II, III; 1st vision, 2nd, etc.), we use the "citation" field to add any specifying
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• Reference templates/Old style/Page 2
  ===Guide to Joseph Smith Papyri (Gee)=== ===History of Joseph Smith by His Mother===
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• Book of Mormon/Translation/Method/1846-1900
  ...he 116 pages] had been done in the recess of a dark artificial cave, which Smith had caused to be dug in the east side of the forest-hill near his residence ...which he was favored to write direct from the mouth of the Prophet Joseph Smith. He said that the Prophet possessed a seer stone, by which he was enabled t
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/3
  ...have the word of the Lord, that these Indians are a remnant of the seed of Joseph, I certainly shall write truth, on another point, when I call it THE LAND O ==THE GOSPEL. No. III.==
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/12
  ...s of the last days, and at once connected with the angel's visit to Br. J. Smith jr. In fact, it may, in one sense, be called the foundation, or starting po ...s!" &c. For all any charge or law suit, they have preferred against Joseph Smith jr. he remains unharmed, and like one of the children cast into the fiery f
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/2
  ...but in singleness of heart, fearing God."—Colocians [Colossians], Chapt. III. from the 18th to the end of the 22d verse. JOSEPH SMITH, jr.
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/9
  ...efore unto Abraham, saying in thee shall all nations be blessed," see Gal. iii:8. This gospel is called "the word of truth" Eph. i:13. "ye heard the word The venerable Patriarch of our church Joseph Smith, sen. and Elder John Smith set out on a mission from this place, May 10th, to visit some of the branch
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/2
  | Volume III. No. 2.] ...ontrary to sectarianism, saying, that there is another prophet, one Joseph Smith like unto Moses, whom the Lord hath chosen to lead his people out of the wi
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/3
  | Volume III. No. 3.] Mr. Joseph W. White,
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/4
  | Volume III. No. 4.] ...of Mormon, first Book of Nephi, where a remnant of the branches or seed of Joseph are represented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North a
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/5
  | Volume III. No. 5.] ...of Adam, Enoch, Noah, Elijah, Daniel, Lehi, Alma, Moroni, Jesus, Paul and Joseph, and until "He reigned, whose right it is to reign."
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/6
  | Volume III. No. 6.] David Dort Elias Smith*
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/7
  | Volume III. No. 7.] Joseph Smith jr. rose and spoke on the subject of the Priesthood. The Melchisedec High p
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/8
  | Volume III. No. 8.] ...is unchangeable, and consequently his gospel is unchangeable. See Malachi III:6, "For I am the Lord, I change not, therefore ye sons of Jacob are not con
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/9
  | Volume III. No. 9.] ...than I am. I would however observe, that an holy angel appeared to Joseph Smith, Jr. and revealed those plates to him; and that he translated them by the g
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/10
  | Volume III. No. 10.] Brother Joseph Rose writes us under date of July 27th from Huntersville, Tippacanoe Co. Ia
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/11
  | Volume III. No. 11.] The JOURNAL will be edited by Joseph Smith Jun. and printed once a month on a superroyal sheet, and followed in form f
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/12
  | Volume III. No. 12.] ...rtland has, therefore, required at the hand of our beloved brethren Joseph Smith jun. and Sidney Rigdon; (men who have not thought their lives dear unto the
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/20
  ====FAITH OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THESE LAST DAYS. NO. III.==== The Conference came to order, and JOSEPH SMITH JR. was chosen Moderator, and FREDERICK G. WILLIAMS and OLIVER COWDERY, wer
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• Times and Seasons/4/21
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/3/15
  |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. |L4=LETTER TO MRS. EMMA SMITH.
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• Times and Seasons/3/23
  |L3=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. |L5=LETTER FROM JOSEPH SMITH.
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• Times and Seasons/6/20
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/4/4
  |L2=THE RELEASE OF GEN. JOSEPH SMITH. |L3=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.
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• Times and Seasons/4/22
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/5/8
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 3
  ...o scribe to the translation process (Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris or Emma Smith) was ever allowed to see the plates. Emma only felt the plates through a cl |L2=Response to claim: "Why wouldn’t Joseph want anybody to see the plates?"
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• FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson fifteen
  ...ript of the Book of Mormon identified the first page of Mosiah as 'Chapter III' before it was changed to Chapter I. ...he writer. This sort of careful planning is incompatible with the image of Joseph as a con man who was just winging it, making it up as he went along.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Polygamy
  |<=[[../Joseph Running with the Plates|Joseph Running with the Plates]] |L9=Response to claim: "Joseph's first polygamous marriage was before the sealing authority was given"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon
  |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon |H=Response to MormonThink page "Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon?"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Sources and links
  **''Emma Smith Bidamon Interview with Joseph Smith III'', February 1879, cited in Vogel, ''Early Mormon Documents'', Vol. 1. p. 54 *{{SourceQuotePhrase|Smith's wife Emma supported Harris's and Whitmer's versions of the story}}
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Source quotes without commentary
  #Emma Smith Bidamon Interview with Joseph Smith III, February 1879, cited in Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, Vol. 1. p. 541. *Source text: "Emma Smith Bidamon Interview with Joseph Smith III, February 1879," cited in ''Early Mormon Documents'', Vol. 1. (ed. Dan Voge
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon/Source quotes without commentary
  ...eph Smith have written the Book of Mormon|T=[[../|MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon]] ...such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle&mdash;keeping awake while he did
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• Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest
  *John W. Welch, "How long did it take Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon?" [https://www.lds.org/liahona/1989/09/ques *John W. Welch and Tim Rathbone, "Translation of the Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=51&chapid=449
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• 1 Nephi
  *Robert F. Smith, "Book of Mormon Event Structure: The Ancient Near East" [http://maxwellins *Margaret Barker, "Joseph Smith and Preexilic Israelite Religion" [https://byustudies.byu.edu/showtitle.asp
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• Alma
  **Robert F. Smith, "The Land of Jerusalem: The Place of Jesus' Birth" [http://maxwellinstitut **Joseph Thomas Hepworth, "Watermelons, Alma 32, and the Experimental Method" [https
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• FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest
  *John W. Welch, "How long did it take Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon?" [https://www.lds.org/liahona/1989/09/ques *John W. Welch and Tim Rathbone, "Translation of the Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=51&chapid=449
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• FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/1 Nephi
  *Robert F. Smith, "Book of Mormon Event Structure: The Ancient Near East" [http://maxwellins *Margaret Barker, "Joseph Smith and Preexilic Israelite Religion" [https://byustudies.byu.edu/showtitle.asp
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• FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Mosiah
  **John L. Sorenson, and Robert F. Smith, "Barley in Ancient America" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/ **John L. Sorenson and Robert F. Smith, "Barley in Ancient America" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/
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• FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Alma
  **Robert F. Smith, "The Land of Jerusalem: The Place of Jesus' Birth" [http://maxwellinstitut **Joseph Thomas Hepworth, "Watermelons, Alma 32, and the Experimental Method" [https
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The First Vision/Source quotes without commentary
  ...mmarize what has been said so far, it is apparent that the story of Joseph Smith's first vision <span style="color:blue">was not given general circulation i |quote=none of the available contemporary writings about Joseph Smith in the 1830's, none of the publications of the Church in that decade, and n
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• Primary sources/David Whitmer/An Address to All Believers in Christ
  ...the Book of Mormon being the sacred record of the Nephites (descendants of Joseph, the son of Jacob), who inhabited the western continent, or this land of Am ...is arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." '' They looked to Joseph Smith as lawgiver; we look to ''Christ alone'', and believe only in the religion
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Kinderhook Plates/Source quotes without commentary
  #History of the Church by Joseph Smith, Vol. 5, pp. 372-79 ...tale be true---during his life time. .... How easy to have covered Joseph Smith and his followers with ridicule by proclaiming the hoax as soon as they acc
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• FAIR Study Aids/Book of Abraham
  ...hsmithpapers.org/intro/introduction-to-book-of-abraham-manuscripts (Joseph Smith Papers)] *David E. Bokovoy, "Joseph Smith and the Biblical Council of Gods" [http://www.fairlds.org/wp-content/upload
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• Times and Seasons/2/3
  |L1=RISE OF THE CHURCH. LETTER III. |L2=THE GOSPEL, NO. III
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• Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness
  |L5=Response to claim: "Joseph Smith received a revelation, through the peep stone in his hat, to send Hiram Pag ==Response to claim: "Joseph Smith received a revelation, through the peep stone in his hat, to send Hiram Pag
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• Joseph Smith's education
  {{Navigation:Joseph Smith}} |L=Joseph Smith's education
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• John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo/Nancy Rigdon
  ...rah Pratt episode, Sidney Rigdon's daughter Nancy was approached by Joseph Smith regarding plural marriage. |L5=The Rigdon Family Version of Joseph's Proposal
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Claims about priesthood ordination
  ...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
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• Question: Could Joseph have used a Bible during and simply dictated from it during Book of Mormon translation?
  ==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===
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• Question: Did Joseph know what the italics in the Bible meant?
  ==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
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• Question: Why are many of the quotes from Isaiah in the Book of Mormon identical to those in the King James Bible?
  ===Witnesses to the translation process are unanimous that Joseph did not have any books, manuscripts, or notes to which he referred while tr There are several problems with the idea that Joseph simply copied passages from the Holy Bible.
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• Question: What message does the Book of Mormon translation painting convey?
  ===The translation was carried out openly—Joseph had no opportunity to hide notes or books=== [[File:Joseph rock hat 2.png|thumb|550px|center| Image from video "Seer Stones and the Tr
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• Question: Are there any known parallels between elements of Joseph's interpretation of Facsimile 3 with other ancient texts?
  ==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
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages?
  ==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===
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• Question: What are the Hofmann forgeries and the Salamander Letter?
  ...osed transcript of a blessing given by the Prophet to his son Joseph Smith III in 1844 declaring his son to be his rightful successor as head of the Churc ...s/Transcripts/Devotionals/2013_9_24_Christofferson.htm "The Prophet Joseph Smith,"] Brigham Young University-Idaho Devotional (24 September 2013).</ref>
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• David Whitmer (1884): "I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears"
  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
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• Question: How did newspaper accounts describe the nature of the witnesses experience?
  ...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
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• Question: Why were the gold plates needed at all if they weren't used directly during the translation process?
  ===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
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• Question: What are the differences between the Strangite witness statements and those of the Three and Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon?
  ...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
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• Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"?
  ...ely ''did'' have the effect of "raising up seed"...just not through Joseph Smith. <blockquote>Joseph Smith dictated what is now Doctrine and Covenant section 132 on July 12, 1843. Th
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• Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball
  |L=Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball |H=Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball
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• Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
  |L=Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph? |H=Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
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• Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?
  ...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
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• Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time?
  ...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
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith identify any elements of Facsimile 2 that are in agreement with what Egyptologists say they represent?
  ==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
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• Witnesses in the CES Letter
  ''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.
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• Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone?
  ==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
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• Question: Is the mention of Egyptus anachronistic to the time of Abraham?
  ...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
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• P. Wilhelm Poulson (1878): John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us"
  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
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• John A. Widtsoe (apostle, 1943): "That Joseph Smith actually was the person who introduced plural marriage into the Church and that he practiced it himself are amply proved by existing facts"
  ==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'':
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• Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn?
  |L=Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn? |H=Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn?
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death?
  ==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
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• Question: Could Joseph Smith have hypnotized the witnesses to the Book of Mormon?
  ==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.
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• Question: Did William Smith claim that a religious revival led to the Joseph's "first vision" of an angel in 1823?
  ==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===
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• Question: Did Brigham Young insert the reference to Joseph's First Vision into Lucy Mack Smith's history?
  ...Brigham Young insert the reference to Joseph's First Vision into Lucy Mack Smith's history?== ===Brigham Young did not insert the reference to Joseph Smith's First Vision into Lucy's book&mdash;this was done by Orson Pratt===
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• Question: Did no one ever actually see the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?
  ...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
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• Plural marriage/Twentieth century LDS publications on plural marriage
  |S=Some have claimed that the Church suppressed the fact that Joseph Smith taught plural marriage, or other details. This selection of books published Eliza R. Snow, ''Biography of Lorenzo Snow'', 69 [Joseph Smith teaches plural marriage to Lorenzo Snow]
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• Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services?
  ...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
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• Question: Did Brigham promise that Joseph Smith III would eventually take over the Church?
  #REDIRECT[[1844 Succession to Joseph Smith]] [[es:Pregunta: ¿Prometió Brigham que José Smith III acabaría por hacerse cargo de la Iglesia?]]
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• Question: Was the Apostle Paul married?
  ...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
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• Question: How did Emma Hale Smith react to Joseph's practice of plural marriage?
  |L=Question: How did Emma Hale Smith react to Joseph's practice of plural marriage? |H=Question: How did Emma Hale Smith react to Joseph's practice of plural marriage?
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• Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent?
  ==Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent?== ===Emma was warned about the possibility that Joseph could take wives even without her consent===
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• Question: Did William McLellin ever mention drinking in association with the Kirtland Temple?
  ...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
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• Which groups dissented from leadership of the Quorum of the Twelve?
  ...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
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith set up a bar to sell liquor in Nauvoo?
  ==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
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Book of Abraham
  |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"
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith derive the idea of "three degrees of glory" from Emanuel Swedenborg's book, ''Heaven and its Wonders and Hell''?
  ==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===
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• Question: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process?
  ...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
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• Question: Did Aaron DeWitt, an ex-Mormon in Utah, receive threats to his life from the Church?
  ...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
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• Question: Did David Whitmer believe his witness experience was "only a vision"?
  ...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
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• Source: David Whitmer literal experience quotes
  ...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
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• Source:David Whitmer Three Witness statements
  ...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
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• Source:John Whitmer Eight Witnesses statements
  ...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
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• David Whitmer reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon
  ...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
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• John Whitmer reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon
  ...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.
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• Question: What did William McLellin say about Joseph Smith and Fanny Alger's relationship?
  ==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===
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• Question: What was the relationship between William McLellin and Emma Smith?
  ==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===
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• Question: What is the date of the Smith family's "removal to Manchester"?
  ==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
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• Question: What do wordprint studies say about the Book of Mormon?
  ...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
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• Question: Is it true that there used to be fourteen Articles of Faith?
  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
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• Question: Why was Joseph Smith sealed to young women?
  ==Question: Why was Joseph Smith sealed to young women?== ===Joseph Smith's polygamous marriages to young women may seem difficult to understand or e
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• Question: Were there sexual relations in Joseph's marriages to women with living husbands?
  |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?
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• Question: Do Latter-day Saints consider the Bible "insufficient?"
  ...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
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise/Chapter 3
  ...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==
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children
  |L=Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children |H=Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children
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• Times and Seasons/2/13
  ...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
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• Times and Seasons/2/17
  ...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
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• Times and Seasons/2/19
  ...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,
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• Times and Seasons/2/20
  |L1=Death of General Don Carlos Smith. |L2=Lines, Written on the Death of Gen. Don Carlos Smith.
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• Times and Seasons/2/21
  ...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
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• Times and Seasons/2/22
  ...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
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• Times and Seasons/3/1
  ...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)
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• Times and Seasons/3/2
  ...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
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• Times and Seasons/3/24
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Volume III. No. 24.]
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• Times and Seasons/3/5
  ...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
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• Times and Seasons/3/6
  | 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.
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• Times and Seasons/3/7
  ...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
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• Times and Seasons/3/8
  ...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;)
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• Times and Seasons/3/9
  | 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
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• Times and Seasons/3/10
  |L5=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Vol. III No. 10]
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• Times and Seasons/3/11
  |L8=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Vol. III. No. 11.]
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• Times and Seasons/3/12
  |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Vol. III. No. 12.]
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• Times and Seasons/3/13
  |L4=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. |L5=THE MORMONS-A LEAF FROM JOE SMITH.
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• Times and Seasons/3/14
  |L4=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. |L12=THE MORMONS-JOE SMITH, THE PROPHET.
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• Times and Seasons/3/16
  |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Vol. III. No. 16.]
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• Times and Seasons/3/17
  |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. | Vol. III. No. 17.]
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• Times and Seasons/4/6
  |L2=FROM W. W. PHELPS TO JOSEPH SMITH: |L7=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH
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• Times and Seasons/4/8
  |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
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• Times and Seasons/4/9
  |L2=History of Joseph Smith, ===History of Joseph Smith,===
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• Times and Seasons/5/17
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/5/19
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/4/11
  |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
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• Times and Seasons/4/1
  |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
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• Times and Seasons/4/15
  ...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."
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• Times and Seasons/4/20
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH===
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• Times and Seasons/4/23
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Times and Seasons/4/24
  |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. ===HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.===
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• Old Question: Why should Latter-day Saints not wear crosses?
  ...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
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• Thomas Taylor’s The Six Books of Proclus on the Theology of Plato
  |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
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• Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (2004-Present)
  '''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
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• Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from stories he read as a youth, maps that he would have had access to, or other people within his local vicinity?
  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
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• Who were possible successors to Joseph Smith?
  ==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
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• Question: Why does the Book of Mormon contain 'New Testament' language and phrases?
  # 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
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