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| ==Question==
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| Critics claim that Joseph Smith teach that the moon was inhabited, and that this is proof he was a false prophet.
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| ===Source(s) of the criticism===
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| *Jay Jacobson, "Three Reasons Not to Become a Mormon," p. 7.
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| ==Response==
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| The source for this claim is not Joseph Smith himself; the first mention comes in 1881 in Oliver B. Huntington's journal, who claimed that he had the information from Philo Dibble. So, we have a late, third-person account of something Joseph is supposed to have said.{{ref|vanhale1}} Hyrum Smith{{ref|hyrum1}} and Brigham Young{{ref|by1}} both expressed their view that the moon was inhabited.
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| A patriarchal blessing given to Huntington also indicated that "thou shalt have power with God even to translate thyself to Heaven, & preach to the inhabitants of the moon or planets, if it shall be expedient."{{ref|blessing1}}
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| Huntington later wrote an article about the concept for a Church magazine:
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| :As far back as 1837, I know that he [Joseph SmithJ said the moon was inhabited by men and women the same as this earth, and that they lived to a greater age than we d~that they live generally to near the age of a 1,000 years.
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| :He described the men as averaging nearly six feet in height, and dressing quite uniformly in something near the Quaker style.{{ref|ywj1}}
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| ''There is a news
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| ==Endnotes==
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| #{{note|vanhale1}}{{Sunstone1|author=Van Hale|article=Mormons And Moonmen|vol=7|num=5|date=September/October 1982|start=13|end=14}}
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| #{{note|hyrum1}}BYU Studies 18:177.
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| #{{note|by1}}{{JoD13|author=Brigham Young|title=X|date=Y|start=271|end=271}}
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| #{{note|blessing1}}''Patriarchal Blessings Books'' 9:294–295.
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| #{{note|ywj1}} ''Young Woman's Journal'' (1892) Vol. 3: 263. | |
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| ==Further reading==
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| ===FAIR wiki articles===
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| *[[Fallibility of prophets]]
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| ===FAIR web site===
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| *FAIR Topical Guide: [http://www.fairlds.org/apol/ai082.html Infallibility]
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| *FAIR Topical Guide: [http://www.fairlds.org/apol/ai258.html Personal beliefs of prophets]
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| ===External links===
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| *Stephen R. Gibson, [http://www.lightplanet.com/response/answers/moon.htm Didn't Joseph Teach the Moon was Inhabited?]
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| ===Printed material===
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| *{{Sunstone|author=James B. Allen|article=But Dick Tracy Landed On The Moon|vol=7|num=5|date=September/October 1982|start=19|end=20}}
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| *{{Sunstone|author=Van Hale|article=Mormons And Moonmen|vol=7|num=5|date=September/October 1982|start=13|end=17}}
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