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*If Oliver was covering up a fraud on the part of Joseph Smith when he talked of receiving the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods, then why didn't he expose the fraud after he fell into disagreement with Joseph Smith and was excommunicated from the Church? | *If Oliver was covering up a fraud on the part of Joseph Smith when he talked of receiving the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods, then why didn't he expose the fraud after he fell into disagreement with Joseph Smith and was excommunicated from the Church? | ||
| + | *Why, in fact, did Oliver continue to insist that the events related to the restoration of the Priesthood actually happened? | ||
| + | *The author wishes to imply that Oliver was dishonest, yet his associates during the time that he was a lawyer ''after'' leaving the Church viewed his character as "irreproachable". Harvey Gibson, a political opponent of Oliver's, and another lawyer (whose statue now stands in front of the Seneca County courthouse) wrote: | ||
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| + | Cowdery was an able lawyer and [an] agreeable, irreproachable gentleman. ("Letter from General W. H. Gibson," Seneca Advertiser (Tiffin, Ohio) 12 April 1892.) | ||
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| + | *Webster's 1828 dictionary defines "irreproachable" as "That cannot be justly reproached; free from blame; upright; innocent. An irreproachable life is the highest honor of a rational being." | ||
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*Oliver wrote the following to Phineas Young two years after Joseph's death, well ''after'' he had left the Church: | *Oliver wrote the following to Phineas Young two years after Joseph's death, well ''after'' he had left the Church: | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions"
- Response to section: "Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834."
- Response to section: "Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery did not teach anyone or record anything prior to 1834 that men ordained to offices in the Church were receiving 'priesthood authority'" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery changed the wording of earlier revelations when they compiled the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants" [Work in Progress]