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- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.80 KB (14,156 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
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- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 3 |H=Response to "For my Wife and Children" ("Letter to my Wife"): Chapter 3 - The Witnesses23 KB (3,867 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Witnesses |H=Response to MormonThink page "The Witnesses"38 KB (6,208 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Sources and links |H=Source analysis of MormonThink page "Translation of the Book of Mormon"20 KB (2,816 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...ation of the Book of Mormon|T=[[../|MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon]] ...t the table close by him, he sitting with his face buried in his hat, with the stone in it, and dictating hour after hour with nothing between us.101 KB (17,238 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- {{MormonThinkNoCommentary|The Witnesses|T=[[../|MormonThink/The Witnesses]] |quote=The Testimony Of Three Witnesses33 KB (5,898 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Lying for the Lord |H=Response to MormonThink page "Lying for the Lord"27 KB (4,214 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Historical and doctrinal issues |H=An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Historical and doctrinal issues61 KB (9,677 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024
- Return to index [http://en.fairmormon.org/FAIR_Study_Aids/Book_of_Mormon_Resources_by ===The Plates and the Three, Eight, and Other Witnesses===47 KB (6,269 words) - 15:39, 26 December 2012
- ===The Plates and the Three, Eight, and Other Witnesses=== *Robert L. Marrott, "Law of Witnesses" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=51&c57 KB (7,530 words) - 09:36, 27 August 2013
- |link=/An Address to All Believers in Christ |subject=An Address to All Believers in Christ288 bytes (44 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- |section=An Address to All Believers in Christ ...ver&source=web&ots=urzg3TSazW&sig=wnhh_R4MyfhBmMnHydpfbF4-B0w ''An Address to All Believers in Christ''] in Google Books234 KB (43,989 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...ery's 1839 Defence in a Rehearsal of my Grounds for Separating Myself from the Latter Day Saints ...eged 1839 "Defence in a Rehearsal of my Grounds for Separating Myself from the Latter Day Saints"32 KB (5,508 words) - 14:24, 13 April 2024
- |L=Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness |H=Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness31 KB (5,073 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |L=Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration |H=Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration21 KB (3,338 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |L=Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses |H=Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses63 KB (10,061 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |L=David Whitmer/Interview with John Murphy in June 1880 ...ohn Murphy's June 1880 claims regarding his experience as a Book of Mormon witness2 KB (285 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |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
- ==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