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Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Treasure digging: Difference between revisions
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| Polygamy | A FAIR Analysis of: John Dehlin's "Questions and Answers" A work by author: John Dehlin
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Translation of the Book of Mormon |
- "As a youth and young adult Joseph Smith engaged in folk magic and treasure digging"
- "find buried treasure by placing a magic stone in a hat"
- "Joseph was still able to convince many people that he had special powers"
"As a youth and young adult Joseph Smith engaged in folk magic and treasure digging"
The author's unresolved question
"As a youth and young adult Joseph Smith engaged in folk magic and treasure digging"
"As a youth and young adult Joseph Smith engaged in folk magic and treasure digging"
Joseph Smith/Money digging/Was this a blot on his character
"find buried treasure by placing a magic stone in a hat"
The author's unresolved question
"find buried treasure by placing a magic stone in a hat"
"find buried treasure by placing a magic stone in a hat"
Response to the author's claim
Joseph Smith never referred to his seer stone as a "magic stone" - only critics of Joseph Smith call it that.
Joseph Smith used the same "rock in hat" seer stone for translating that he used for "money digging"
Jump to details:
- Gospel Topics: "As Joseph grew to understand his prophetic calling, he learned that he could use this stone for the higher purpose of translating scripture"
- Question: Why would Joseph Smith use the same stone for translating the Book of Mormon that he used for "money digging"?
- Question: What role did Joseph fill in the community as a youth?
- Question: Didn't Joseph's 1826 Bainbridge appearance before a judge prove that he had previously been using his stone for nefarious purposes?
- Question: Why would Joseph Smith not continue to use the sacred interpreters provided with the Nephite record?
- Question: Did Joseph use his seer stone to view the location of the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith say that it was not reasonable for Joseph Smith to use a seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Why is the "white stone" that we are to receive upon entry to the Celestial kingdom not discussed extensively in Sunday School?
- Brant A. Gardner, "Joseph the Seer—or Why Did He Translate With a Rock in His Hat?"
"Joseph was still able to convince many people that he had special powers"
The author's unresolved question
"Joseph was still able to convince many people that he had special powers"
"Joseph was still able to convince many people that he had special powers"
Response to the author's claim
How exactly was the young Joseph Smith able to "convince" people that he had "special powers?" Perhaps he really did?