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| | #REDIRECT [[Question: Are the Book of Mormon witnesses unreliable because many of them were related?]] |
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| =={{Criticism label}}==
| | [[de:BMZeugen/alle miteinander verwandt]] |
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| Critics claim that because most of the witnesses are related to teach other, their witness is not to be trusted.
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| =={{Response label}}==
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| ===Relationships amongthe Three and Eight Witnesses===
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| Three of the witnesses were related to Joseph Smith:
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| * Joseph Smith, Sr. [father]
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| * Hyrum Smith [brother]
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| * Samuel H. Smith [brother]
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| Five of the eleven witnesses were sons of Peter Whitmer, Sr., who had provided Joseph and Oliver a place to translate:
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| * David Whitmer
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| * Christian Whitmer
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| * Jacob Whitmer
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| * Peter Whitmer, Jr.
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| * John Whitmer
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| Two of the witnesses married into the Whitmer family:
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| * Oliver Cowdery would marry Elizabeth Ann Whitmer in 1832.{{ref|oliver.marry}}
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| * Hiram Page married the oldest Whitmer daughter, Catherine, on 10 November 1825.{{ref|catherine.marry}}
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| The final witness was Martin Harris, who had funded the Book of Mormon's publication, and acted as the first scribe prior to the loss of the 116 pages.
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| Thus, the critics were certainly correct when they pointed out that most of the witnesses were related to one another.
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| ===Sectarian double-standard===
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| Sectarian critics are often guilty of a double standard on this score, since many of Jesus' apostles were likewise closely related:
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| ===An invalid standard===
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| =={{Conclusion label}}==
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| #{{note|oliver.marry}} {{Book:Ludlow:Encyclopedia of Mormonism|article=Oliver Cowdery|author=Richard Lloyd Anderson|pages=338|vol=3}}
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| #{{note|catherine.marry}} Susan Easton Black, ''Who’s Who in the Doctrine and Covenants'' (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1997), 208.
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