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| ===Claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet"===
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| |41, 500 n.2-4||Joseph used at least two seer stones.||[[Joseph Smith and seer stones]]||
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| *D. Michael Quinn, ''Early Mormonism and the Magic World View'', 245.
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| *E.W. Vanderhoof, ''Historical Sketches of Western New York'', quoted in Quinn, 43.
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| *Quinn, 43.
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| |42, 500 n.7||Issac Hale, Emma's father, disapproved of Joseph because of his money digging activities.||[[The Hurlbut affidavits#Isaac Hale|The Hurlbut affidavits—Isaac Hale]]||
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| *Isaac Hale, cited in Howe ''Mormonism Unvailed'' 262-263.
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| *Martin Harris, ''Tiffany's Monthly'', August 1859, vol. 5, 164.
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| |44||Joseph was pronounced "guilty" of performing illegal activities with the stone.||[[Joseph Smith's 1826 glasslooking trial]]||
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| *A.W. Benton, ''Evangelical Magazine and Gosepl Advocate'', April 9, 1831, New Series 2, 120.
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| |46, 503 n.18||Hugh Nibley said, "If this court recored is authentic, it is the most damning evidence in existence against Joseph Smith.||[[Joseph Smith's 1826 glasslooking trial]]||
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| *Hugh Nibley, ''The Myth Makers'', 142.
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| |46, 503 n.20||Francis Kirkham claimed that "If any evidence had been in existence that Joseph Smith had used a seer stone for fraud and deception, and expcially had he made this confession in a court of law as early as 1826, or four years before the ''Book of Mormon'' was printed, and this confession was in a court record, it would have been impossible for hism to have organized the resorted Church.||[[Joseph Smith's 1826 glasslooking trial]]||
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| *Francis Kirkham, '' A New Witness for Christ in the America'', 386.
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| |47, 503 n.22||Joseph realized that "money-digging alone was bringing in ony about $14 a month, which was not nearly enough to support a family."||[[Joseph Smith and money digging]]||
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| *''History of the Church'' 3:29
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| |47, 503 n.23||Joseph initially "attached no religious significance" to the "golden book" that he told people he would be retrieving. He instead "touted it as a book that would 'tell him how to get money that was buried in the ground.'"|| ||
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| *Parley Chase, letter to James T. Cobb, April 3, 1879 quoted in Wyl, ''Joseph Smith, the Prophet, His Family, and His Friends'', 276.
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| |48, 503 n.25||Joseph decided to convert his book into a saga about America's ancient inhabitants as a money making scheme.|| ||
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| *{{CriticalWork:Brodie:No Man Knows|pages=83}}
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| *The author simply repeats Brodie's supposition. There is no actual evidence that this was the case.
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| |503 n.25||Joseph tried to sell the copyright of the Book of Mormon in Canada.||[[Did Joseph Smith attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright?]]||
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| *Hiram Page, letter to William McLellin, February 2, 1848.
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| *David Whitmer, ''An Address to All Believers in Christ'', 30-31.
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| |48, 503-4 n.29-32||One of Joseph's early descriptions of Moroni was of a bloody ghost with his throat cut.|| ||
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| *Hiel Lewis, ''Amboy Journal'', April 30, 1879, quote in Wesley P. Walters, "The Mormon Prophet Attempts to Join the Methodists," reprinted in Wyl, ''Mormon Portraits'', 79-80.
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| *Fayette Lapham, reprinted in Vogel, ''Early Mormon Documents'', vol. 1, 459.
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| |50-51, n.34-36||"The Smiths eventually changed Joseph's 'dream' of a ghost to a 'vision' of a spirit (but not yet an angel)...A 'toad-like' creature 'assumed the appearance of a man' and struck Joseph on the side of his head, telling him that it was not yet time to retrieve the plates."||[[The Hurlbut affidavits#Willard Chase|The Hurlbut affidavits—Willard Chase]] ||
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| *Willard Chase, cited in Howe, ''Mormonism Unvailed'', 242.
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| |51||"A subsequent version of Smith's ever-changing tale..."|| ||
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| *No source given.
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| *The author wishes to portray all of these stories as successive evolutions.
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| |51||"Until well into the late 1800s it was widely understood that Smith found the golden plates not by a dream, or a ghost, or a vision—but by looking into his peep-stone and seeing where they had been deposited.||[[One Nation Under Gods#Absurd claims|Absurd claims]] ||
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| *Orasmus Turner, ''History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase, and Morris Reserve. (1852)
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| *Hosea Stout, ''On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout'', vol. 2, 593.
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| *Martin Harris, ''Tiffany's Monthly'', vol. 5, 163, 169.
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| *Widely understood?? The author cites several second-hand sources...from the 1850s!
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| |51||"all of the ''religious'' aspects of Smith's adventures came much later."|| ||
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| *Orasmus Turner, 214.
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| *Hiel Lewis.
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| |52||Joseph Smith claimed that the moon was inhabited.||[[Joseph Smith and moonmen]]||
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| *Oliver B. Huntington, "The Inhabitants of the Moon," ''Th eYOung Woman's Journal'', 1892, vol. 3, 263-264.
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| |52||Joseph taught the doctrine of "Caucasians advancing to godhood"|| ||
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| *No source provided.
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| |52||Joseph taught the notion that "Blacks, Indians, and other people of color are cursed spirits."||[[Lamanite curse]]||
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| *No source provided.
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| |53, 505-506n47 (HB)<br>53, 503-504n47 (PB)||"After all, no one had actually seen the plates, nor would anyone''ever'' see them"||[[One Nation Under Gods#Absurd clams|Absurd claims]]<br>[[../Use of sources/Seeing the Plates|Use of sources: Seeing the Plates]] ||
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| *Testimony of the Three Witnesses
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| *Testimony of the Eight Witnesses
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| |505 n.47||The witnesses only saw the plates through "visionary experiences."|| ||
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| |505 n.47||The eight witnesses only saw the plates as long as they were covered with a cloth of some kind.|| ||
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| *No source provided.
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| |505 n.47||Martin Harris said that none of the eight witnesses ever saw the plates, and that he only handled them in a box or under a cloth.|| ||
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| *Stephen Burnett, letter to Br Johnson, April 15, 1838, Joseph Smith Papers, Letterbook, April 20, 1837-February 9, 1843, 64-66 cited in {{CriticalWork:Tanner:Changing World|pages=108}}.
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| |505 n.47||Joseph Smith claimed that the Three Witnesses saw the plates in a vision.|| ||
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| *Joseph Smith, "History of Joseph Smith—Continued", ''Times and Seasons'', September 1, 1842, vol. 3, no. 21, 897-898.
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| |505 n.47||David Whitmer "agreed that neither he, nor the other Three Witnesses, ever physically saw or handled the plates.|| ||
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| *David Whitmer, interview recorded by P. Wilhelm Poulson, c. early 1878, reprinted in ''Deseret Evening News'', August 16, 1878.
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| *{{CriticalWork:Brodie:No Man Knows|pages=77-80}}
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| *{{CriticalWork:Tanner:Mormonism Shadow|pages=50-55}}
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| |508 n.59||"Mormons often try to discredit Anthon by pointing out an alleged discrepancy between his letters, but there exists no such discrepancy.|| ||
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| *Persuitte, 303-304, endnote#19.
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| |55, 508n60 (HB)<br>55, 506n60 (PB)||Scholars have declared that there is no language called "Reformed Egyptian."||[[Book of Mormon anachronisms/Reformed Egyptian|Reformed Egyptian]]<br>[[../Use of sources/Reformed Egyptian|Use of sources: Reformed Egyptian]]||
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| *John A. Wilson, letter to Marvin Cowan, March 16, 1966 quoted in {{CriticalWork:Tanner:Changing World|pages=144}}
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| |55, 508 n.62||Joseph used his "peep-stone" to translate the Book of Mormon.||[[Book of Mormon translation method]]||
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| *Hiel Lewis, "Review of Mormonism: Rejoinder to Elder Cadwell." ''Amboy Journal'', June 4, 1879, quoted in {{CriticalWork:Quinn:Magic World View|pages=172}}.
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| |56, 508 n.63-65||Emma Smith and David Whitmer said that Joseph translated using his seer stone in a hat.||[[Book of Mormon translation method]]||
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| *Emma Smith Bidamon, Interview with Joseph Smith, III, February 1879, reprinted in Vogel, ''Early Mormon Documents'', vol. 1, 539.
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| *Martin Harris, Interview with Anthony Metcalf, c. 1873-1874. Quoted in A. Metcalf, ''Ten Years Before the Mast...'', reprinted in Vogel, ''Early Mormon Documents'', vol. 2, 346-347.
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| *David Whitmer, ''An Address to all believers in Christ'', 12.
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| ===Claims made in "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book"=== | | ===Claims made in "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book"=== |