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- #REDIRECT [[David Whitmer (1881): "I do now again affirm the truth of all my statement, as then made117 bytes (19 words) - 12:59, 19 October 2017
- ==David Whitmer statements as one of the Three Witnesses== * "D[avid] Whitmer then arose and bore testimony to having seen an Holy Angel who had made kno36 KB (6,431 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
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- {{:Question: Did David Whitmer or Oliver Cowdery test Joseph's prophetic claims?}} {{:Oliver Cowdery statements as one of Three Witnesses}}2 KB (248 words) - 13:15, 12 April 2024
- {{:Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character?}} {{:David Whitmer (1887): "We were in the spirit when we had the view...but we were in the bo1 KB (182 words) - 13:16, 12 April 2024
- ...eople, requires it at our hands. They are as follows, viz: Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmore, W. W. Phelps, John Whitmore, and Lyman E. Johnson, of whom we may ...rofesses to be much of a prophet, has no other dumb ass to ride, but David Whitmer or to forbid his madness, when he goes up to curse Israel; but this not bei66 KB (11,467 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...plates as long as they were covered with a cloth of some kind. . . . David Whitmer agreed that neither he, nor the other Three Witnesses, ever physically saw2 KB (253 words) - 14:16, 13 April 2024
- |L21=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Did David Whitmer say that none of the Three Witnesses ever actually physically saw or handle |L22=Response to claim: 508n59 (HB) - Latter-day Saint try to discredit statements of Charles Anthon27 KB (4,316 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L13=Response to claim: 366 - David O. McKay was "blocked" from granting Blacks the priesthood by Ezra Taft Ben |L14=Response to claim: 367 - When George Wallace asked President David O. McKay if Ezra Taft Benson could be his vice-presidential running mate, t28 KB (4,263 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...e to claim: 190 - It is claimed that there are "no contemporary pro-Mormon statements from reliable and informed sources who knew the Smith family and Joseph int ...an actual visitation by an angelic person"|Response to claim: 204 - David Whitmer is claimed to have said that "it was a vision and not an actual visitation118 KB (18,356 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L15=Response to claim: 463, 617n21 - Joseph Smith prophesied that David W. Patten would go on a mission "next spring...to testify of my name and be {{:Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to th31 KB (5,042 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L8=Response to claim: 181 - David and possibly John Whitmer owned seer stones |L17=Response to claim: 197-198, n58-61 - It is claimed that David Whitmer indicated that the visit of the angel was spiritual rather than real33 KB (5,205 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L6=Response to claim: 225, n22 - The Whitmer family and Oliver Cowdery accepted Hiram Page's revelations as authoritativ *David Whitmer never believed that an angel had given Joseph and Oliver the authority to b16 KB (2,431 words) - 14:11, 13 April 2024
- ...w neck of land.” Church leaders have also frequently used Book of Mormon statements about a promised land to include the United States specifically. This view ...umber of witnesses were allowed to see and feel them. Martin Harris, David Whitmer, and Oliver Cowdery (the “Three Witnesses”) were visited by an angel, w22 KB (3,753 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- |L4=Response to claim: 97 - David Whitmer said that God told him to separate himself from among the Latter Day Saints |L5=Response to claim: 97 - Joseph said that John Whitmer, David Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery and Martin Harris are "too mean to mention"33 KB (5,227 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...uld hear it. The result is given below; it having been decided to give the statements to the readers of the Herald, in view of the death of Sister Emma having oc Answer. I was residing at father Whitmer's when I first saw Sidney Rigdon. I think he came there.11 KB (2,071 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024
- ...that it was accomplished through the "gift and power of God." It was David Whitmer who claimed that Joseph saw actual words on the stone. ...ork]] where they continued to work at the home of Cowdery's friend [[Peter Whitmer]]. When the translation spoke of an institutional church and a requirement75 KB (11,044 words) - 20:10, 11 May 2024
- ...in Harris (Latter Day Saints)|Martin Harris]], [[Hiram Page]], and [[Jacob Whitmer]] (Book of Mormon witnesses), and [[Lyman E. Johnson]], [[John F. Boynton]] Smith bade his time writing contemplative statements directed mainly to Mormons.24 KB (3,091 words) - 20:13, 11 May 2024
- #{{Harvtxt|Abanes|2003|pp=174–75}} (noting statements by [[Heber C. Kimball]] and [[Brigham Young]] stating that Smith was one of ...vid Hyrum Smith|David]] also had claims, but Joseph III was too young and David was yet unborn.37 KB (5,298 words) - 20:12, 11 May 2024
- ...and they are dictated by the right spirit. I take pleasure in making these statements, and I would say in my heart, and my prayer is, that every man here may liv ...ation given in June 1829, to Joseph Smith, jun., Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer:—20 KB (3,954 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- |L9=Response to claim: 109 - David Whitmer claimed that none of the three witnesses ever denied the truthfulness of th |L10=Response to claim: 110 - David Whitmer was excommunicated from the Church39 KB (6,268 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- |L18=Response to claim: "In one interview, David Whitmer said that "about half" the book was unsealed; in 1881, he said "about one-t |L19=Response to claim: "Whitmer's 1881 statement is consistent with an 1856 statement by Orson Pratt"18 KB (2,780 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- *{{Detail|Book of Mormon/Witnesses/"Eye of Faith" and "Spiritual Eye" statements by Martin Harris}} ...uld be "an authorized witness." The sources state no such thing. These two statements have been conflated by the wiki editor to draw the conclusion given in the19 KB (2,893 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ...owdery, and David Whitmer, and then a group of eight—five members of the Whitmer family, Joseph Smith's father, and two of his brothers, Hyrum and Samuel— ...ss testimony regarding the existence of the plates. Critics discount those statements.16 KB (2,463 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ...his life of Joseph reading words off the stone. We do not know if this is Whitmer's assumption or whether Joseph told him this. ...on third-hand statements related to Martin Harris, while ignoring the many statements that Harris made in which he stated that he actually saw the plates with hi11 KB (1,805 words) - 16:36, 11 May 2024
- |L=David Whitmer |H=David Whitmer721 bytes (113 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...: Tuttle and Co., 1867) in ''EMD'', 1: 603-05.) which does not support the statements in the main text. The wiki article should note that this is Palmer's opinio ...had a difficult time with the rising influence of Rigdon, and authority of Whitmer. ''Encyclopedia of Mormonism'', "Cowdery, Oliver"; D. Michael Quinn, ''BYU46 KB (7,051 words) - 20:14, 11 May 2024
- |link=Book of Mormon/Witnesses/David Whitmer told to leave |subject=Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church?5 KB (872 words) - 14:24, 13 April 2024
- ...esponse to claim: 78 - The author claims that years after the event, David Whitmer embellished his story of seeing the gold plates {{misinformation|The witnesses own statements, when all of them are considered instead of a select few, tell a much more15 KB (2,397 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...ave been absent, and the Prophet evidently joined Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer on that occasion because of the absence of Harris; but whether or not the P *John Whitmer, ''History of the Church'', Chapter vii.13 KB (2,211 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...onse to claim: 217 - Sidney Rigdon wanted to have Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer cut off from the church in order to banish his rivals {{:Question: What statements have Latter-day Saints leaders made regarding the location of the Garden of8 KB (1,255 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- |L19=Response to claim: 64, 362n81-82 - Cowdery, Whitmer and Harris's statements that they actually saw the plates only refer to times that the plates were *John C. Whitmer, "The Eight Witnesses," published in Andrew Jenson, HR, Oct. 1888, vol. 7,44 KB (6,755 words) - 14:11, 13 April 2024
- ..."showing their age," "contained outdated information," "included erroneous statements" and "abandoned doctrines." Some of the revelations "revealed too much info #David Whitmer, ''An Address to All Believers in Christ''.11 KB (1,681 words) - 14:11, 13 April 2024
- |H=Statements on the Book of Mormon Translation method: 1846-1900 {{statements}}23 KB (3,922 words) - 14:06, 13 April 2024
- ...ll prove this. If the majority of mankind would give as much credit to the statements of their fellow beings who certify to the truth of this book, as they do to "Behold I say unto you, [Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and Martin Harris,] that you must rely upon my word, which if you do, with80 KB (14,517 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...e contrary to some of their wishes, and in connection with this to certain statements of some others of the inhabitants of that section of country. But in saying And now behold I give unto you, Oliver Cowdery, and also unto David Whitmer, that you shall search out the twelve who shall {{page break|205|top}}have70 KB (12,830 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- BROTHER WHITMER:— ...fore us, we feel like dropping a few ideas, in connexion with the official statements concerning the Indians, from the general Government.70 KB (12,665 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- :There David's greater Son<br> ...emed; and the yoke of bondage may begin to be broken off from the house of David, and the children of Judah may begin to return to the lands which thou dids69 KB (12,602 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...language to express my astonishment, that a teacher in Israel" should make statements so opposite to bible truth, as you have made, sire, in this case, and in so Lebbeus T Coons, David Clough67 KB (12,127 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- The Psalmist David says of Zion, in Psalms 48th Ps. and 2d ver. that she is beautiful, the joy Though the Messenger was conducted by bro. John Whitmer for ten months since the publication of the article referred to above, and70 KB (12,744 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...dward Partrage [Partridge], A. S. Gilbert, John Corril, Isaac Morley, John Whitmer, and W. W. Phelps, and demanded that we should immediately stop the publica Whereupon John Corril, John Whitmer, W. W. Phelps, A. S. Gilbert, Edward Partridge, and Isaac Morley, made no r78 KB (14,021 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...ly, while Messrs. Phelps, Partridge, Morley, Corril [Corrill], Gilbert and Whitmer, were in the hands of the mob, on the 23rd of July, last, two provisos were ...acquaintance with him; and we have no doubts as to the correctness of his statements, of that part which did not pass under his immediate inspection, having bee81 KB (14,720 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...hat the fruits thereof might be brought forth. We are told by the Psalmist David, that so completely did the Jews corrupt the kingdom of God which was among ...forth in the Resolutions of this conference. We are induced to make these statements that the innocent may not suffer wrongfully, and that the minds of our bret92 KB (16,716 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...igence from you, save a letter received by Brother Elliott from Elder John Whitmer, which informed us that he had wrote four letters since Elder Oliver Cowder ...ve this letter I wish you to write immediately, and direct your letters to David Elliott, Chagrin, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and put this mark X on the back of73 KB (12,691 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...d Partridge, W. W. Phelps, Isaac Morley, John Corrill, A. S. Gilbert, John Whitmer, and others:- ...the roof from one dwelling, and broke open another house, found the owner David Bennet, sick in bed, whom they beat most inhumanly [inhumanely], swearing t78 KB (13,863 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...rue state of affairs in Zion; for there seems to be some difference in the statements of Elder Phelps' letter, and that of Elder Hyde's communication to the edit ...ction was fought near Christian Whitmer's under the command of Elder David Whitmer. We had four wounded; they had five wounded and two killed, viz: Linville a79 KB (13,962 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- To Messrs. W. W. Phelps, Isaac Morley, John Whitmer, Edward Partridge, John Corrill & A. S. Gilbert. ...undred and fourteen signatures, viz: "Edward Partridge, John Corrill, John Whitmer, Isaac Morley, A. S. Gilbert, W. W. Phelps," &c. &c.80 KB (14,156 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...eding December to W. W. Phelps, E. Partridge, John Carrill [Corrill], John Whitmer, and A. S. Gilbert, or their order. On the 24th ult. Col. Lucas wrote and i ...ontinuation of warfare through the reign of the judges, and kings Saul and David had subsided, peace was restored to the land in the reign of Solomon, and w80 KB (14,552 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- DAVID WHITMER, JOHN WHITMER,78 KB (13,922 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...men as Oliver Cowdery. Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, David Whitmer, and many others, could speak frequently of the Spot where the Prophet Jose ...et Joseph Smith. It should be remembered that these letters in which these statements are made were written at the Prophet's request and under his personal super18 KB (3,157 words) - 11:49, 29 May 2012
- ...ere appointed to instruct the several branches of the church. Elders David Whitmer, and Reynolds Cahoon were appointed as two of the said committee, with the ...he conference at Orange, to Hiram, and as Oliver Cowdry [Cowdery] and John Whitmer were to start for Independence, Missouri, a special conference was appointe79 KB (14,213 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- |L8=Response to claim: John Whitmer "responded by saying 'I now say, I handled those plates...they were shown t ...aim: "Josephsmithpapers.org published the original source document for the statements by the 3 and 8 witnesses that are printed in the beginning of the Book of M23 KB (3,867 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...CriticalSources ||[[Template:Critical sources box:Book of Mormon geography/Statements/No revealed geography/CriticalSources|edit]] ...||[[Template:Critical sources box:Book of Mormon/Geography/Disdaining the statements of Joseph Smith/CriticalSources|edit]]167 KB (22,691 words) - 13:53, 11 May 2024