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| + | |sublink1=Response to claim: 1 - Joseph claimed to translate the Kinderhook plates | ||
| + | |sublink2=Response to claim: 1 - Illustrations show Joseph Smith translating the plates directly | ||
| + | |sublink3=Response to claim: 2 - Joseph Smith used a seer stone that he placed in his hat | ||
| + | |sublink4=Response to claim: 2-3 - The plates were often not nearby while Joseph translated them | ||
| + | |sublink5=Response to claim: 6 - It is claimed that Oliver attempted to translate using a divining rod | ||
| + | |sublink6=Response to claim: 6 - Oliver would ask questions of his divining rod in faith and it would move | ||
| + | |sublink7=Response to claim: 7 - Alterations in a different handwriting on the 116 pages would have been readily apparent | ||
| + | |sublink8=Response to claim: 8 - Joseph was brought to court three times for stone gazing | ||
| + | |sublink9=Response to claim: 9 - Peter Ingersoll reported that he heard Joseph acknowledge to Isaac Hale that he was never able to see anything in his seer stone | ||
| + | |sublink10=Response to claim: 9 - After he lost the manuscript, Joseph is claimed to have become more vague regarding the method of translation | ||
| + | |sublink11=Response to claim: 9 - Joseph is claimed to have altered the Book of Mormon to modify the description of God and Jesus to be separate beings | ||
| + | |sublink12=Response to claim: 10 - It is claimed that scholars have determined that Joseph consulted an open Bible during translation | ||
| + | |sublink13=Response to claim: 10 - The book claims that Joseph copied errors from the King James Bible | ||
| + | |sublink14=Response to claim: 11 - The author claims that none of Joseph's changes to the Bible have been supported by manuscript finds | ||
| + | |sublink15=Response to claim: 12 - Joseph is said to have evolved his concept of the Father and Son | ||
| + | |sublink16=Response to claim: 12 - The hieroglyphics next to facsimile 1 state that Hor is the deceased man lying on the altar | ||
| + | |sublink17=Response to claim: 12 - Joseph is claimed to have used this papyrus as his source for Abraham 1 through 2:18 | ||
| + | |sublink18=Response to claim: 13 - Near facsimile 3, Hor's name appears at the top and bottom | ||
| + | |sublink19=Response to claim: 17 - Joseph is claimed to have expanded Abraham's curse to include denial of priesthood ordination to blacks | ||
| + | |sublink20=Response to claim: 19 - Joseph's interpretations have been shown by Egyptologists as a mis-reading of the papyri | ||
| + | |sublink21=Response to claim: 21 - From 1820 to 1834 Joseph is claimed to have believed in one God | ||
| + | |sublink22=Response to claim: 21 - The astronomical concepts in Abraham were common in Joseph Smith's environment | ||
| + | |sublink23=Response to claim: 22-24 - Joseph's theology was said to have been influenced by Thomas Dick's ''Philosophy of a Future State'' | ||
| + | |sublink24=Response to claim: 31 - Kinderhook plates | ||
| + | |sublink25=Response to claim: 34-35 - Joseph is claimed to have translated a Greek psalter | ||
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Contents
Index to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
| A FAIR Analysis of: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins A work by author: Grant Palmer
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Use of sources |
This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within FairMormon Answers.
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