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Are the Eight Witnesses unreliable because they were related?

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Overview: Summary Three Witnesses: Character/stability Faithful? Real gold plates? Hypnosis? Strangite parallels? God told David Whitmer to leave? View of the plates: Literal? "Eye of faith"? "Spiritual eye"? Result in death? Eight Witnesses: Eight witnesses Supernatural power? Other Witnesses: Other witnesses
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Critics claim that because many of the witnesses are related, this means they are not to be trusted.

To see citations to the critical sources for these claims, click here

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