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|sublink1=Question: What are the Kinderhook Plates? | |||
|sublink2=Question: Why does History of the Church say that Joseph Smith said "I have translated a portion of them..."? | |||
|sublink3=Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates? | |||
|sublink4=Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?" | |||
|sublink5=Question: What does Joseph's attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates tell us about his "gift of translation?" | |||
|sublink6=Question: Why is the statement in History of the Church written as if Joseph said it? | |||
|sublink7="‘President Joseph Has Translated a Portion’: Solving the Mystery of the Kinderhook Plates" | |||
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So, a larger conclusion that we can draw is that we’ve got both the smoking-gun – the GAEL that he uses to translate, and we’ve got an eyewitness. We know exactly how Joseph Smith attempted to translate from the Kinderhook plates and obtain the content that Clayton says he did. A larger conclusion, then, that we can draw is that Joseph Smith translated from the Kinderhook plates not by revelation, but by non-revelatory means.
To see citations to the critical sources for these claims, [[../CriticalSources|click here]]
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