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  • The witness of Oliver Cowdery
    {{:Question: Did David Whitmer or Oliver Cowdery test Joseph's prophetic claims?}} {{:Oliver Cowdery statements as one of Three Witnesses}}
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  • The witness of David Whitmer
    {{: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 bo
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  • Times and Seasons/1/6
    ...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 bei
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Seeing the Plates
    ...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 saw
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 3
    |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 Anthon
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 16
    |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, t
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index
    ...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 visitation
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Appendix B
    |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 th
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 6
    |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 real
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 7
    |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 b
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  • Question: What is the Book of Mormon?
    ...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, w
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 5
    |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"
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  • Source:Last Testimony of Sister Emma
    ...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.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830
    ...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 requirement
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839
    ...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.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy
    #{{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.
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/76
    ...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:—
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 8
    |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 Church
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Sealed portion
    |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"
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Witness accounts
    *{{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 the
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity
    ...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.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Introduction
    ...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 hi
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  • David Whitmer
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/The Three Witnesses
    ...: 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, ''BYU
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  • Golden Plates
    |link=Book of Mormon/Witnesses/David Whitmer told to leave |subject=Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church?
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 5
    ...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 more
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 7
    ...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.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 15
    ...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 of
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 2
    |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,
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 3
    ..."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''.
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  • Book of Mormon/Translation/Method/1846-1900
    |H=Statements on the Book of Mormon Translation method: 1846-1900 {{statements}}
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/12
    ...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, with
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/1
    ...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}}have
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/4
    BROTHER WHITMER:— ...fore us, we feel like dropping a few ideas, in connexion with the official statements concerning the Indians, from the general Government.
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/6
    :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 dids
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/9
    ...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 Clough
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/3
    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, and
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/2/15
    ...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 r
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/2/16
    ...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 bee
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/2/23
    ...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 bret
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  • Times and Seasons/6/7
    ...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 of
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  • Times and Seasons/6/8
    ...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 t
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  • Times and Seasons/6/10
    ...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 a
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  • Times and Seasons/6/19
    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.
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  • Times and Seasons/6/21
    ...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 w
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  • Times and Seasons/6/23
    DAVID WHITMER, JOHN WHITMER,
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  • Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Twentieth century/Joseph Fielding Smith
    ...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 super
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  • Times and Seasons/5/7
    ...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 appointe
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 3
    |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 M
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  • Reference templates/Critical sources boxes
    ...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]]
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Witnesses
    |L2=Response to claim: "There are also several statements saying that the only time they saw the plates was when the plates were cove ...onse to claim: "why was 'a supernatural power' needed for the witness John Whitmer to be shown the plates?"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The First Vision
    ...s" anywhere in the area in which Joseph Smith lived in 1820. The following statements appear on this page: ...beginning, especially people like Martin Harris, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer. Why did ''none'' of these men notice what Palmer wants us to accept? Why
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon
    .......Together with the duplicity of Smith's associates Cowdery, Harris and Whitmer" {{:Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to th
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Source quotes without commentary
    |quote=Smith's wife Emma supported Harris's and Whitmer's versions of the story in recalling that her husband buried his face in hi #David Whitmer, ''An Address to All Believers in Christ'' (Richmond, MO: n.p., 1887), 12.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Lying for the Lord
    |L11=Response to claim: "Mormon histories are not forthcoming about the statements by the three and eight witnesses" ==Response to claim: "Mormon histories are not forthcoming about the statements by the three and eight witnesses"==
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  • Mormonism and culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Historical and doctrinal issues
    "David Whitmer wrote: ' '''Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his f ...ts/Blood atonement|blood atonement]], [[Mormonism and racial issues/Racial statements by Church leaders|racist teachings]].
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  • Primary sources/David Whitmer/An Address to All Believers in Christ
    DAVID WHITMER, BY DAVID WHITMER.
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  • Forgeries related to Mormonism/Oliver Cowdery's 1839 Defence in a Rehearsal of my Grounds for Separating Myself from the Latter Day Saints
    ...ontext. A number of talking points appear to have been reworded from David Whitmer's 1887 ''An Address to All Believers in Christ.'' Historians now agree that ...s that are not Oliver's, b) criticisms of Joseph Smith borrowed from David Whitmer's 1887 An Address to All Believers in Christ, and 3) original material (i.e
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  • Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses
    |L15=Response to claim: "Whitmer responded that the angel 'had no appearance or shape'" ...s directly attesting to the direct wording and claims of the manuscript or statements in the Book of Mormon"
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  • David Whitmer/Interview with John Murphy in June 1880
    |L=David Whitmer/Interview with John Murphy in June 1880 |H=David Whitmer's rebuttal to John Murphy's June 1880 claims regarding his experience as a
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  • Question: Did the witnesses make clear statements regarding their testimonies?
    ==Question: Did the witnesses make clear statements regarding their testimonies?== ===The witnesses made very clear statements regarding their testimonies===
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  • Question: Did the witnesses 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"=== ...their testimonies as printed in the Book of Mormon, and that the witnesses statements in the Book of Mormon manuscript are written and signed only by Oliver Cowd
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  • Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism?
    ==Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism?== ===God told David Whitmer to leave Far West one month ''after'' he had already been excommunicated fr
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  • Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences?
    ...P. Cowdry, in answer to my letter to Joseph Smith, Jun. Martin Harris, and David Whitmore—the believers in said bible of gold plates—which they affirm t ...did not see an angel, but he did say that he "handled those plates." Yet, Whitmer was also said by Theodore Turley to have described the plates as being show
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  • Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to those of the eyewitnesses?
    ==Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to th ===Whitmer's account is at variance in several ways with Hiram Page’s account===
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  • Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time?
    ...s assumption this was written to James T. Cobb. See page 334 for relevant statements concerning the Mission to Canada.</ref> ===In 1886, David Whitmer mentions the trip to sell the copyright for the first time===
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  • Question: Are there any eyewitness accounts of the events that resulted in the trip to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright?
    ...what seemed like failure. Historians have relied upon statements of David Whitmer, Hiram Page, and William McLellin for decades but have not had the actual t
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  • Question: Did FairMormon do "more to destroy" the testimony of the author of the "Letter to a CES Director" than any "anti-Mormon" source?
    It is clear from the author's statements online (shown below) that he went to MormonThink and online discussion boar ...ang=eng <span style="color:blue">He [Elder Russell M. Nelson] quotes David Whitmer's testimony of rock in the hat translation method.</span>
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  • Witnesses in the CES Letter
    *[[The witness of David Whitmer]] ...the fact that contradict and cast doubt on the specific claims made in the statements contained in the preface of the Book of Mormon."''
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  • Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon?
    ...in the Book of Mormon. They also do not generally cite the numerous other statements in which, to the end of his life, he declared the Book of Mormon to be a di Roberts then refers to a statement in David Whitmer, ''To All Believers in Christ'', about the translation of the Book of Mormo
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  • Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone?
    ...lated by the gift and power of God, and not by any power of man.<ref>David Whitmer, ''An Address to All Believers in Christ'' (Richmond, Mo.: n.p., 1887), 12; ...New Witness'', 196.</ref> Despite the fact that elements of Harris’s and Whitmer’s story were consistent with each other, Kirkham simply refused to accept
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  • Question: Could Joseph Smith have hypnotized the witnesses to the Book of Mormon?
    ...king he had seen an angel and the plates. Joseph Smith III remembered when David was such accused, and said: ...to thinking he saw" the angel and the plates. Joseph III's recollection of Whitmer's response is quoted above. See Memoirs of Joseph Smith III, cited in Mary
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God?
    ...ng) have missed vital evidence which must be considered.<ref>{{BYUS|author=David L. Paulsen|article=The Doctrine of Divine Embodiment: Restoration, Judeo-Ch ...f>F. Mark McKiernan, ''An Early Latter-day Saint History: The Book of John Whitmer'' (Independence, MO.: Herald Publishing House 1980), 67, punctuation correc
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  • Question: Where is the Hill Cumorah?
    ===David Whitmer is not told that the hill from which Joseph received the record was called ..., asking for help to transport Joseph and Oliver from Harmony to the Peter Whitmer home in Fayette:
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the Book of Mormon explained local legends associated with the "Mound Builders" of the Eastern United States?
    ===Statements made by Joseph Smith clearly indicate that his thinking regarding the actua ...umption after the publication of the Book of Mormon. In a interview, David Whitmer said:
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  • Question: Did no one ever actually see the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?
    ===The claim is nonsense: Statements by the Book of Mormon witnesses do not lend support to these interpretation ====David Whitmer====
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  • Plural marriage/Twentieth century LDS publications on plural marriage
    ...in Nauvoo, at about the time it was given, to which fact we have the sworn statements of the members of the High Council. As inquiries on this subject are becomi ...of plural marriage. Mr. Carter came to me and asked if I could answer the statements made by his friend. As Mr. Law was sitting in the hotel office, at the time
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  • Question: What is the Book of Mormon "printer's manuscript" and why is it entirely in the handwriting of Oliver Cowdery?
    ...pied from the original manuscript by Oliver Cowdery, including the witness statements=== Critics of the Church also fail to note that David Whitmer, in fact, made a point of affirming that his testimony was true ''just as i
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  • Question: What did James Henry Moyle say about his visit to David Whitmer?
    ==Question: What did James Henry Moyle say about his visit to David Whitmer?== Moyle interviewed Whitmer and soon after wrote in his diary:
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  • Book of Mormon/Witnesses/Denied knowledge of other witnesses recanting
    ===David Whitmer=== ...men, and to Him belongs all the honor, the power and the glory."<ref>David Whitmer, interview with James H. Hart on 10 March 1884, Letter to ''Deseret News''
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  • Oliver Cowdery statements as one of Three Witnesses
    ==Oliver Cowdery statements as one of Three Witnesses== ...hn laid their hands and confer[r]ed the Holy Melchisedic Priesthood.' <ref>David H. Cannon, Autobiography, 13 March 1917, p. 5; cited in {{EMD|vol=5|pages=2
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  • Source:Martin Harris Three Witness statements
    ==Martin Harris statements as one of the Three Witnesses== ...ur inches, and each of the plates was thicker than the thickest tin." <ref>David B. Dille, statement, 15 September 1853, "Additional Testimony of Martin Har
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  • Source:David Whitmer Three Witness statements
    ==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 kno
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  • Source:John Whitmer Eight Witnesses statements
    ==John Whitmer statements as one of the Eight Witnesses== ...k of Mormon."<ref>John Whimter to Mark H. Forest [Forscutt], 5 March 1876, Whitmer Papers, Community of Christ Library-Archives; in {{EMD|vol=5|pages=243}}</r
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  • David Whitmer reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon
    ==David Whitmer reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon== David Whitmer was the most long-lived witness, and we have by far the most material from
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  • Question: Did the Witnesses who left the Church continue to maintain their witness of the Book of Mormon?
    ...Source:Oliver_Cowdery_Three_Witness_statements|l1=Extensive Oliver Cowdery statements}} ...n|Source:Martin_Harris_Three_Witness_statements|l1=Extensive Martin Harris statements}}
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  • Source: Testimony of Three Witnesses
    [[Source:Oliver Cowdery Three Witness statements|Oliver Cowdery]]<br> [[Source:David Whitmer Three Witness statements|David Whitmer]]<br>
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  • Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses say about the faithfulness of other witnesses?
    ...k of Mormon."<ref>John Whimter to Mark H. Forest [Forscutt], 5 March 1876, Whitmer Papers, Community of Christ Library-Archives; in {{EMD|vol=5|pages=243}}</r ...hn laid their hands and confer[r]ed the Holy Melchisedic Priesthood.' <ref>David H. Cannon, Autobiography, 13 March 1917, p. 5; cited in {{EMD|vol=5|pages=2
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  • Question: Did the Book of Mormon witnesses hold to their published testimonies?
    ...em. Among these were David Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris and John Whitmer.
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  • Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe Jesus was born 1830 years before the Church's organization on 6 April 1830?
    ===D&C 20:1 was added later, probably by John Whitmer, and is not a revealed date of Jesus' birth=== ...wording of D&C 20, but was rather added at a later date—probably by John Whitmer, the Church's first historian—to reflect the date the Church was organize
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  • Question: Does the Church authoritatively identify the location of the Hill Cumorah?
    {{Main|Book_of_Mormon_geography:Statements|l1=Statements about Book of Mormon geography}} ...ing accepted by the Church as a whole as binding can clear up this point. Statements from Joseph Smith or others on geography are not binding on the Church, des
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  • Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Witnesses
    ...l of the witnesses (except Martin Harris) related to Joseph Smith or David Whitmer?"]] ...author only focus on statements which do not fit with the majority of the statements that Martin gave about seeing the plates?
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  • Question: Why did the author of the ''Letter to a CES Director'' feel the need to make a single hostile quote appear as if it were two separate quotes?
    ...es with his natural eyes only in vision or imagination, neither Oliver nor David & also that the eight witnesses never saw them & hesitated to sign that ins ...his natural eyes only in vision or imagination</span>, neither Oliver nor David & also that the eight witnesses never saw them & hesitated to sign that ins
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  • Times and Seasons/3/20
    ...h some of his family. In the beginning of the month of June, his son David Whitmer came to the place where we were residing, and brought with him a two horse .... They continued so, boarded and lodged us according to proposal, and John Whitmer, in particular, assisted us very much in writing during the remainder of th
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  • Times and Seasons/4/8
    David Ball. ...trines. Towards the latter end of August I (in company with John and David Whitmer, and my brother Hyrum Smith) visited the church at Colesville, New York. We
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  • Times and Seasons/4/11
    ...the idea of their smaller, and younger brother taking the field, and like David's brethren they thought that he was but a stripling, and that he would cert ...torious rascal and knave, not only for this circumstance, but from his own statements which were of such a nature that none could believe them but such as had an
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  • Statement of the Three Witnesses
    ===Statements regarding all Three Witnesses=== ...lifting and turning the leaves of the plates. After quoting the published statements of the Three and Eight Witnesses, and describing the experience of the latt
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  • Old Question: Why should Latter-day Saints not wear crosses?
    ...shing the Cross: The Emergence of a Momron Taboo'' (Independence, MO: John Whitmer Books, 2012); Michael De Groote, “[https://www.deseret.com/2009/9/10/2037 ...in this article&mdash;concluding that there is basis in scripture and the statements of Church leaders for Latter-day Saints to adhere to this norm.
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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?
    ...ef>Grant Palmer, "Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd, Cumorah, and Moroni," ''John Whitmer Historical Association'' vol. 34 no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2014): 50&mdash;57.</
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Martin Harris
    ...learly indicated that Harris's experience occurred separately from that of Whitmer and Cowdery. ...ri]]. Afterwards, Harris &mdash; along with [[Oliver Cowdery]] and [[David Whitmer]] &mdash; ordained a "traveling High Council" of twelve men that eventually
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