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|summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Joseph Smith and Money-Digging" (64–89) | |summary=Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Joseph Smith and Money-Digging" (64–89) | ||
+ | |sublink1=Response to claim: 67-70 - Joseph Smith was convicted of "glass looking" in 1826 | ||
+ | |sublink2=Response to claim: 72 - Hugh Nibley is claimed to have said that "...if this court record is authentic it is the most damning evidence in existence against Joseph Smith" | ||
+ | |sublink3=Response to claim: 75 - Joseph Smith was "deeply involved in money-digging" | ||
+ | |sublink4=Response to claim: 79 - Joseph said that the angel told him to "quit the company of the money-diggers" | ||
+ | |sublink5=Response to claim: 80 - The author proposed that Joseph fastened two of his seer stones together to make his "Urim and Thummim" | ||
+ | |sublink6=Response to claim: 80 - Joseph's father-in-law Isaac Hale claimed that Joseph's occupation was "pretending to see by means of a stone placed in his hat" | ||
+ | |sublink7=Response to claim: 82 - Joseph Fielding Smith "admitted" that the "seer stone" was sometimes called the Urim and Thummim | ||
+ | |sublink8=Response to claim: 83 - Mormon apologists have difficulty explaining Joseph's use of seer stones | ||
+ | |sublink9=Response to claim: 84 - The plates didn't even have to be present while Joseph was translating | ||
+ | |sublink10=Response to claim: 84 - Joseph Smith originally wanted to obtain the plates in order to get rich, and he was rebuked by the angel | ||
+ | |sublink11=Response to claim: 85 - The authors say that Brigham Young claimed that a chest of money "moved by itself" into the bank | ||
+ | |sublink12=Response to claim: 86 - Joseph is claimed to have attempted to "cover up" Oliver Cowdery's alleged work with a divining rod by changing a revelation | ||
+ | |sublink13=Response to claim: 87 - Joseph went to Salem, Massachusetts to look for money hidden in a cellar | ||
+ | |sublink14=Response to claim: 89 - Joseph Smith is claimed to have had a "Jupiter Talisman" in his possession at the time of his death | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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