Posted: May 15, 2016 8:06 pm
by duvduv
I have gotten through about half of Grant Palmer's very interesting book. I frankly do not easily understand how Mormons or other Smithians can believe that this man had any spiritual powers when he totally made up his so-called translation of the so-called Books of Abraham and Joseph, and then he and his friends resorted to using Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews and Spaulding's book as the backdrop for the Book of Mormon. And of course we know how the so-called gold plates were not even used when Smith put his face in his hat and read out the book from the "seer stones" that he had used as part of his failed career as a treasure hunter. I mean, where do believers draw the line?
And the fact that all the so-called witnesses of the gold plates only claimed to have "seen" them spiritually?
And the so-called idea that he was an imperfect prophet is a true technique for allowing all the splinter groups who rejected this or that of Joseph Smith's ever-changing ideas. Heck, there were even Latter Day Saints who rejected Smith entirely as a prophet. So what's left? The image provided by Brigham Young or Joseph Smith III?