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|sublink1=Response to claim: 175 - The author claims that the Book of Mormon witnesses had a "magical mindset" and believed in "second sight" | |||
|sublink2=Response to claim: 175-176, n2-4 - The witnesses believed in the ability to see spirits and their dwelling places within the local hills | |||
|sublink3=Response to claim: 178, n7-8 - Martin Harris participated in his own "treasure adventures" after meeting Joseph Smith | |||
|sublink4=Response to claim: 178, n9-10 - Martin Harris said that he "informed Joseph Smith about the gold plates" and that he could see the gold plates through a cloth | |||
|sublink5=Response to claim: 179 - The author claims that the Whitmers all believed that they could see things with stones and dowsing sticks | |||
|sublink6=Response to claim: 179, n11-12 - The author claims that Oliver Cowdery was a treasure hunter and "rodsman" before he met Joseph Smith | |||
|sublink7=Response to claim: 179, n13 - Oliver Cowdery and Martin Harris saw the plates in a vision before meeting Joseph Smith | |||
|sublink8=Response to claim: 181 - David and possibly John Whitmer owned seer stones | |||
|sublink9=Response to claim: 186 - According to the author, Brigham Young heard from the Smiths and believed all his life that "these treasures that are in the earth are carefully watched" | |||
|sublink10=Response to claim: 186 - The Smith's often told neighbors stories about treasures Joseph found in the earth | |||
|sublink11=Response to claim: 188 - Joseph claimed to know the location of Captain Kidd's treasure | |||
|sublink12=Response to claim: 191 - A number of witnesses saw a cave in the Hill Cumorah when the plates were returned to the angel | |||
|sublink13=Response to claim: 194 - Martin Harris said that marvelous things appeared to Hyrum, Joseph Sr. and Joseph Jr. while they were treasure hunting | |||
|sublink14=Response to claim: 194-195 - The gold plates that the "witnesses" saw are said to have disappeared when placed on the ground at the hill Cumorah | |||
|sublink15=Response to claim: 195 - The witnesses believed that there was a toad that turned into something else hiding in the box that held the plates | |||
|sublink16=Response to claim: 197, n57 - The author claims that the testimony of the Three Witnesses was of a vision rather than an actual visit by an angel | |||
|sublink17=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 | |||
|sublink18=Response to claim: 198, n62-64 - Martin Harris claimed to see the plates with "the eye of faith" | |||
|sublink19=Response to claim: 200, n72-73 - David Whitmer is said to have claimed that he handled the plates in vision, but not physically | |||
|sublink21=Response to claim: 204, n83 - The author claims that the testimony of the Eight Witnesses does not actually describe a physical incident | |||
|sublink22=Response to claim: 206 - The Eight Witnesses are claimed to have "hesitated to sign" their testimony because their experience was not physical | |||
|sublink23=Response to claim: 206, n89 - The author claims that the plates were able to sink and glide through the ground and made noise as they were "rumbling" through the hill | |||
|sublink24=Response to claim: 206-207, n90 - Viewing the gold plates "too soon" would cause physical death | |||
|sublink25=Response to claim: 207, n91 - According to the author, declarations of the witnesses "sounded more physical than was intended" | |||
|sublink26=Response to claim: 207 - "These ideas may have been Joseph's inspiration for making a plate-like object to persuade belief" | |||
|sublink27=Response to claim: 211, n94 - Joseph is claimed to have appointed James Strang as his successor | |||
|sublink28=Response to claim: 208, n95 - James Strang also produced witnesses to metal plates | |||
|sublink29=Response to claim: 212, n105 - All the living witnesses except Oliver Cowdery accepted James Strang's leadership | |||
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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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