you're kidding, right? He told people an angel with a flaming sword commanded him to sleep with adolescents and married women? He was a con artist and treasure digger. He made a racist book. There's a quote saying he's more important than Jesus. Other quotes are that people lived on the moon. Please go back to Dartmouth sometime, what an amazing school, and I will bet there's not a historian, archeologist, geologist, or Egyptologist who takes the BoM for anything but make believe.

@@lukegraven7839 nope. Show me where it says that. Where does it say he was commanded to “sleep” with these people? The Book of Mormon doesn’t speak of race, rather it uses the same symbolism of covenants as the Bible’s and ancient texts, but this is a modern ignorant take with a modern lens which stems out of Darwinism which is definitively rooted in racist ideology. There is no quote of anyone ever saying he did more than Jesus Christ, but there is a quote saying he did more than any man except for Jesus Christ. He was a very fertile man yet never had any children and there has never been any evidence of him having children with anyone other than his wife Emma. He was sealed to other women, who had no man who could care for their needs. Most of those who criticized Joseph were themselves guilty of everything they accused Joseph of. I have studied the criticisms against the church and Joseph my whole life and I still hear it everyday, the fact is you are wrong even in your accusations which just shows your ignorance in general. But you have more faith in Joseph Smith than any Latter-Day Saint, and far more has continued to surface which support the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith, no person today with any amount of highly educated teams could produce something as efficient as the Book of Mormon. If he was a con man, he was the most genius con man who never benefited from it, who died for it and has had more good come from this church than any other organization to date and no man has disproven anything, as those “proofs” against him have not held up over time. I dare you to do better.

@@lukegraven7839Luke, kindly go away.

Why do you even care?@@lukegraven7839

Joseph is a prophet of God and that is a firm testimony of mine. You can believe how you want, but just sharing hate or unproven facts doesn't make you very intelligent.@@lukegraven7839

Thanks! Deep info requires time. You can't learn calculus in 15 minutes.

At least an hour! I would listen hour 8 hours of his research!

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fairly certain there is no hill Cumorah, it's just a made-up place. I could be wrong but hundreds of thousands of people dying in New York would leave thousands of pieces of evidence. Let me know when there's any evidence- they're been searching for 200 years.

Please review Rod’s presentation "Hill Cumorah:Verifications and Realistic Archaeological Expectations" given to the cast members at the Hill Cumorah pageant and then presented again at the Expo. The DVD can be purchased in the Bookstore at www.bookofmormonevidence.org or you can watch it on the streaming website, along with 1,500 additional presentations by over 450 experts and scholars with your subscription.

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@@BookofMormonEvidence There's no evidence, and never will be, it's not gonna happen, sorry it's like an inside joke everyone knows but you....the BoM is just fantasy. hill Cumorah where God's chosen died or whatever didn't happen. I'm not being mean, it same if you believed in Star Wars and I had to tell you that too is fantasy.

Love you Cheryl. Keep the great information coming.

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I own a copy of the first and second edition. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also has a copy. Search for ‘LDS Church Catalog,’ then type in the full name: Louis Edward Hills and his three books will appear.

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That's because it is a true, actually history, so there is evidence to discover! Thank you!

I disagree with you about the Mesoamerican theory being the source of a lot of testimonies. One of the loudest fowl mouthed exposed on KZfaq has parents who are big Rod Meldrum fans and she and Rod fist bumped on Mormon Stories.

Always!

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Good point. Joseph led the School of the Prophets to study Hebrew while in Kirtland.

Yes, Hebrew is read right to left and from what we consider front to back of a book. Joseph said the Title page, which was the last leaf placed in the plates, which was at the top as he saw them.

Read the Mentinah Archive. You'll find out about Hagoth and much more. This record confirms everything that is in the Book of Mormon.

I confirms very little in my opinion.@@davidbenkert1062

That is a complex question which would take longer than space and time would permit here, but here are some short, incomplete answers to your question without the needed additional explanations. What constitutes a 'Sea?' Hebrew doesn't differentiate between oceans, lakes or even large rivers in some cases. The word for the Mediterranean Sea, the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee in Hebrew is the same word as to the body of water, yet one is a salt water ocean, another a salt lake, and yet another is a fresh water lake. The Nile river has also been called a sea, for example. There were at least 10 lakes formed or drained in the Heartland of America during the 1811-1812 sequence of earthquakes along the New Madrid fault system. They resulted in many areas subsiding by over 10 feet which caused water to rush into the depressions and forming massive lakes in a few hours, such as Reelfoot lake. Every observation made by the prophet Nephi at the time of Christ's death - 28 in all (see 3 Nephi 8-9) - were observed and experienced by those in the New Madrid region of America's Heartland during this sequence of over 2,000 earthquakes. Rod has a comprehensive 2 hour presentation on it in his 6 DVD series. The city of Moroni could have been in any one of those depressions and thus 'sunk into a sea' as it were. The Sea West in our model is Lake Michigan and Rod and others have addressed how the Great Lakes surface levels were higher anciently causing the upper Great Lakes to drain into the Ottawa River basin and out the St Laurence seaway into the Atlantic Ocean near Montreal, Canada today. From there we show that he could have voyaged almost anywhere, across to Europe and later through the Artic ocean to the Pacific, or they could have followed the routes of the 49ers who sailed around South America and then west to Polynesia. It's a deep dive to go through all of that, but that's the basics.

No, the Urim-and-Thummim had stones in the breastplate and white or clear stones in the eyepiece, but the seer or peep stones were definitely not the same thing.

@@BookofMormonEvidence Urim and Thummim are seer stones.

The Salt Lake City Spin Doctors have an answer for everything

Type in President Nelson stone in hat and it should bring you to a 52 seconds video of him demonstrating putting his head in a hat.

@@icecreamladydriver1606 that’s my issue, the video is saying they used the urim and thummim, and Joseph smith said he used the U & T. So why is the church saying he used the seer stone and hat

@@stephenhulbert3567We can sustain them and pray that they get inspiration to lead the church. But it is clear to me through study of history that they are incredibly clueless and often embarrassingly backwards. Our history is like a circus lead by the clowns. So many contradictions, flip flops, and inaccuracies taught by our leaders. Almost immediately upon their deaths, their teaching and life’s work begin to be reinterpreted, filtered, selectively remembered, and swept under the rug in order to support what Brigham called “the new order of things” Very sad.

@@stephenhulbert3567 I have a simple answer but I don't think that our two hosts would like it if I said what I think.

​@stephenhulbert3567 The confusion is because academics rely on statements from a few other people who said Joseph used a seer stone placed in a hat to block out light better to see into the stone. I'm sure President Nelson is just relying on the common academic theory. It's not his fault. But I do think that these hosts are correct that the urim and thummin was the main method used for translation.

I ordered them on Amazon

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It’s a tough one for me too. So odd how SITH gained/maintains momentum.

​​​​​​@@jordan-xe2yb Benjamin Winchester John Burnhisel Etc. This is Part 5. But, if you wanted, you could go back and see Part 4.

Scriptures don't lie as you read them with the spirit. Not one scripture says anything about a silly stone in a hat. JSH 1:35,52,62,75*; Mosiah 28:13, 20; Ether 3:22-23; 4:5; Alma 37:21, 24-25

The leaders of the church cannot do everything, so they must rely on others to provide them with good information. As President Nelson has said, good inspiration stems from good information (paraphrased), and information coming from church historians recommended a change in the history that had been accepted for over 150 years. The Brethren don't have time to fact-check everything and thus were incorrectly informed that he used the SITH.

The Urim-and-Thummim was in the stone box along with the plates, according to historical sources.

There are 11 references to Joseph's use of the Urim-and-Thummim in the revelations given in the D&C, compared with 0 references to his use of SITH (Stone In The Hat) in the translation of the plates.

JSH Ch 1 the Prophet stated he wrote down characters from the plates then translated them using the U&T. The footnote by Oliver Cowdery also states the U&T was used. He also stated the title page was a “literal translation,” from the last leaf of the plates.

@@sreed6220 oh, I agree that Joseph made it clear it was a literal translation, but the specifics on the method are vague. U & T are stones and many of the witnesses to the process say he put the stone/stones in his hat and Translated. Add D&C 7 to the mix and it is obvious that he didn't need to look at the plates to "translate" them. Now even 99 year old Russle M Nelson is looking into hats on video explaining that is the way it was done.

@@franklinanderson9687 Why are you relying on witnesses? There were no witnesses to the translation except for Oliver Cowdery. The Angel Moroni told Joseph Smith not to show the plates and the Urim and Thummim to anyone, unless commanded or he would be destroyed. That's basic Church History in the Pearl of Great Price. Oliver Cowdery was allowed the attempt to translate as noted in D&C 8 & 9 but failed because he didn't work it out in his mind before asking the Lord if it be correct. Thus the famous account on how to receive personal revelation. The headings to those sections states the translation was a revelatory process, not reading from a rock which would be a dictation. Pres. Nelson - in the video - stated that "there were some suggestions on how it was done," not that it was how it was done. Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery were accused of using a rock in a hat while they were living, and rejected it. Thus the footnote in JSH Ch 1 by Oliver Cowdery.

@@sreed6220excellent! Thank you 🙏🏼

Joseph Smith is and was a prophet of God.

Ignorant comment

​@@riannelson67he was a false prophet

​@danilobulseco1064 sorry your cage got rattled Snowflake