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...etails of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known. Yet we do have a few precious insights"== .... Thus the Book of Mormon was translated by the gift and power of God, and not by any power of man.” (David Whitmer, ''An Address to All Believers in Chri ...

==="Ziff" is not an anachronism. Better yet, there is a Hebrew meaning for the word that makes sense=== ...he approximate weight of the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?]|date=December 1986|start=64}}</ref> ...

==Question: Since John the Apostle and the three Nephites did not die, then how could there have been a "complete apostasy" on the earth?== ===Latter-day Saints believe these men were "translated," meaning that their bodies were changed to a higher state, preliminary to ...

...ephite Interpreters and his own seer stone during the translation process, yet we only hear of the "Urim and Thummim" being used for this purpose. ...at was the part that Martin Harris lost, after that he used a small stone, not exactly, black, but was rather a dark color.”<ref>"Emma Smith Bidamon to Em ...

===If Anthon did not validate the characters, then why did Martin Harris immediately return home ...were true characters, and that the translation of such of them as had been translated was also correct. I took the certificate and put it into my pocket, and wa ...

...erpart. Modern Bible translations use similar expressions or phrases, and yet remain translations of ancient documents. ...n, then the use of (say) 19th-century language tells us merely that Joseph translated it in the 19th century. ...

...us that the record of Lehi, was contained on the 116 pages that were first translated and subsequently stolen, and of which an abridgement is given us in the fir ...says, they shall be cut off from among the people, for the rebellious are not of the seed of Ephraim. And there is a passage in the Book of Mormon which ...

Anachronisms in the Book of Abraham may not be everything that critics think they are. It may simply indicate that the # Deny that the anachronism exists and assert that, although it has not yet been attested in an extant source, the posited characteristic does indeed d ...

...tly taught the plurality of gods....Why didn’t Joseph correct this when he translated the Bible" |L6=Response to claim: "Each time linguists make a new Bible translation....not one to date has confirmed any of Joseph Smith's inspired version passages" ...

We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God." ...Latter-day Saints believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly seems to shake some persons' confidence in The Church of Jesus Ch ...

...ously, or supernaturally beheld. I sought for evidences, and such as could not be disputed, of the existence of this bible of golden plates. But the answe ...as a synonym for "miraculous," not an attempt to argue that the plates do not literally exist, since "their words" are intended as "evidences...for its e ...

...mith's day. Hugh Nibley's 1952 observation seems quite prescient: "it will not be long before men forget that in Joseph Smith's day the prophet was mocked ..."<ref>{{Nibley5|start=105|end=6}} Nibley mentions these plates, which were not deciphered until 1985.</ref> ...

A) Deny that the anachronism exists and assert that, although it has not yet been attested in an extant source, the posited characteristic does indeed d ...m, but assign it to Joseph Smith as a translator’s anachronism, which does not in and of itself compromise the Book of Abraham as a translation of an anci ...

...complete, Smith said he returned the plates to the angel, although he did not elaborate about this experience. *{{WikipediaCITE}} The cited source does ''not'' state definitively that the plates were returned to a cave inside the Hil ...

*{{Detail_old|/To copy or not to copy|l1=To copy or not to copy?}} ...ote taken from the book: " These he [Lindhorst] wishes to have copied [and translated] properly..." ...

|L1=Question: Since the papyri from which the Book of Abraham was translated date to the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, does this mean that the ==Question: Since the papyri from which the Book of Abraham was translated date to the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, does this mean that the ...

...oseph Fielding Smith said that the "Inspired Version" was never completed, yet Joseph Smith stated that he completed the translation of the Bible |L12=Response to claim: 393 - Joseph's "Inspired Version" of the Bible does not restore any of the "lost books" of the Bible ...

...points in issue. He was some what spiritual in his explanations[.] He was not as materialistic in his descriptions as I wished. ... Mr D[avid] Whitmer Sen did not handle the plates. Only seen <saw> them, says Martin Haris and Cowdry did s ...

|L6=Response to claim: "We regret that we could not find this issue discussed on the Church's official website" |L11=Response to claim: "if he really translated the Book of Abraham from Egyptian papyri then he would know what Egyptian c ...

...hurch in 1838 and were hostile, at least for a time, against Joseph Smith. Yet, they clung to their witness and continued to affirm it=== ...l, according to his testimony in that book. I asked him, if so, how did he not stand by Joseph? He answered, in the days when Joseph received the Book of ...