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|L2=Pregunta: ¿Los tres testigos consideraron a José Smith como un "profeta caído" después de dejar la Iglesia? | |||
|L3=Pregunta: ¿Continuaron los testigos que abandonaron la Iglesia para mantener su testimonio del Libro de Mormón? | |||
|L4=Pregunta: ¿Alguna vez negó Oliver Cowdery a su testigo del Libro de Mormón porque pensó que José Smith era un profeta caído? | |||
|L5=Pregunta: ¿Qué hizo Oliver Cowdery decir sobre su experiencia como un Libro de Mormón testigo después de que José murió? | |||
|L6=Pregunta: ¿Qué dijo Oliver Cowdery sobre su experiencia como testigo después de que José murió? | |||
|L7=Question: Did David Whitmer ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? | |||
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|L9=Question: Did Oliver Cowdery privately admit to his law partner that the Book of Mormon was actually a hoax? | |||
|L10=Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses say about the faithfulness of other witnesses? | |||
|L11=Oliver Cowdery's alleged 1839 Defence in a Rehearsal of my Grounds for Separating Myself from the Latter Day Saints | |||
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Se afirma que algunos o todos los testigos se retractaron en relación con su testimonio | Se afirma que algunos o todos los testigos se retractaron en relación con su testimonio |
Richard Anderson described multiple accounts of all the Witnesses bearing testimony and reaffirming their published testimony:[1]
The three Smiths who formally gave their names as seeing and handling the plates were the Prophet's father, Joseph Smith, Sr.; the Prophet's older brother, Hyrum; and his immediately younger brother, Samuel Harrison. They sometimes joined the other Book of Mormon witnesses to reaffirm their testimony printed in the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon regarding lifting and turning the leaves of the plates. After quoting the published statements of the Three and Eight Witnesses, and describing the experience of the latter group, Lucy Smith relates, "The ensuing evening, we held a meeting, in which all the witnesses bore testimony to the facts as stated above."[2] Two years later, in the period of dynamic preaching of the early elders, a conference was held near Cleveland, Ohio, remembered by Luke Johnson as follows: "At this conference the eleven witnesses to the Book of Mormon, with uplifted hands, bore their solemn testimony to the truth of that book, as did also the Prophet Joseph."[3]
The Three Witnesses left the Church for a variety of reasons, among with was the initiation of the practice of polygamy. David Whitmer felt that Joseph had restored the true Church, but that he had ultimately taken the Church in directions that he shouldn't have. Yet, all three of the witnesses never denied their testimony of the plates and the angel.
Just following their excommunication from the Church, Thomas B. Marsh approached Cowdery and Whitmer about their witness. If there was any time for them to deny their witness, this was it:
I enquired seriously at David if it was true that he had seen the angel, according to the testimony as one of the witnesses of the Book of Mormon. He replied, as sure as there is a God in heaven, he saw the angel, according to his testimony in that book. I asked him, if so, how did he not stand by Joseph? He answered, in the days when Joseph received the Book of Mormon, and brought it forth, he was a good man filled with the Holy Ghost, but he considered he had now fallen. I interrogated Oliver Cowdery in the same manner, who answered me similarly.[4]
The witnesses had every reason to recant their experience, and no reason to lie to support either themselves, or Joseph Smith, with whom they were at odds for many years. The only compelling reason for persisting with their story was their essential honesty and honor, and their conviction that they had indeed seen the angel and the plates, and heard the voice of God.
The charge that the witnesses abandoned their testimonies is groundless: they did not recant their story, even when given ample opportunity to do so. There is abundant evidence that the witnesses remained faithful to their testimonies. It is even more impressive that all of them left the Church, and for many years expressed extremely bitter feelings toward Joseph Smith and the Church. Despite this, they continued to insist that their experience was real and undeniable.
Oliver would later return to the Church and seek rebaptism.
During his estrangement from the Church, he insisted upon his witness as true.
Martin Harris would later return to the Church and seek rebaptism.
During his estrangement from the Church, he insisted upon his witness as true, and sought to bear his witness often.
David Whitmer never returned to the Church, but left an extensive record validating his testimony. When Thomas B. Marsh, an excommunicated apostle, approached Whitmer and Cowdery to learn "the real truth" about the Book of Mormon (since they, like him, were now excommunicated and hostile to it) Marsh reported:
I enquired seriously at David if it was true that he had seen the angel, according to his testimony as one of the witnesses of the Book of Mormon. He replied, as sure as there is a God in heaven, he saw the angel, according to his testimony in that book. I asked him, if so, how did he not stand by Joseph? He answered, in the days when Joseph received the Book of Mormon, and brought it forth, he was a good man filled with the Holy Ghost, but he considered he had now fallen. I interrogated Oliver Cowdery in the same manner, who answered me similarly.[5]
Hiram Page never returned to the Church, but continued to bear his witness. Even when approached by the excommunicated William McLellin, Page replied:
As to the Book of Mormon, it would be doing injustice to myself, and to the work of God of the last days, to say that I could know a thing to be true in 1830, and know the same thing to be false in 1847.[6]
Jacob Whitmer never returned to the Church, but bore his testimony on his deathbed, with no record of denial.
John Whitmer never returned to the Church, but maintained his testimony as the second-longest lived witness (after his brother David Whitmer).
When asked how he could leave in view of his testimony of the plates' literal reality, John rationalized his choice to disbelieve the translation of the Book of Mormon (despite knowing that the plates were literal and physical):
I cannot read it, and I do not know whether it is true or not.[7]
Whitmer would not, then, deny what he had seen and hefted, even when estranged from Joseph and the Church.
After leaving the Church, John said:
It may not be amiss in this place, to give a statement to the world concerning the work of the Lord, as I have been a member of this church of Latter Day Saints from its beginning; to say that the book of Mormon is a revelation from God, I have no hesitancy; but with all confidence have signed my named to it as such; and I hope, that my patrons will indulge me in speaking freely on this subject, as I am about leaving the editorial department. Therefore I desire to testify to all that will come to the knowledge of this address; that I have most assuredly seen the plates from whence the book of Mormon is translated, and that I have handled these plates, and know of a surety that Joseph Smith, jr. has translated the book of Mormon by the gift and power of God, and in this thing the wisdom of the wise most assuredly has perished: therefore, know ye, O ye inhabitants of the earth, wherever this address may come, that I have in this thing freed my garments of your blood, whether you believe or disbelieve the statements of your unworthy friend and well-wisher.[8]
As a lawyer, while writing to Phineas Young, Oliver said:
I have cherished a hope, and that one of my fondest, that I might leave such a character, as those who might believe in my testimony, after I should be called hence, might do so, not only for the sake of the truth, but might not blush for the private character of the man who bore that testimony. I have been sensitive on this subject, I admit; but I ought to be so—you would be, under the circumstances, had you stood in the presence of John, with our departed Brother Joseph, to receive the Lesser Priesthood—and in the presence of Peter, to receive the Greater, and looked down through time, and witnessed the effects these two must produce,—you would feel what you have never felt, were wicked men conspiring to lessen the effects of your testimony on man, after you should have gone to your long sought rest.[9]
Surely Oliver's concern for his testimony included his testimony as a witness.
Eventually Oliver left the law practice he had started after leaving the Church, and journeyed to Kanesville, Iowa, with his wife and daughter and finally reunited with the Church in 1848. Before he was baptized he bore his testimony to the congregation that had gathered for a conference.
I wrote, with my own pen, the entire Book of Mormon (save a few pages) as it fell from the lips of the Prophet Joseph, as he translated it by the gift and power of God, by the means of the Urim and Thummim, or as it is called by the book, Holy Interpreters. I beheld with my eyes, and handled with my hands, the gold plates from which it was transcribed. I also saw with my eyes and handled with my hands the Holy Interpreters. That book is true. ...It contains the everlasting gospel, and came forth to the children of men in fulfillment of the revelations of John, where he says he saw an angel come with the everlasting gospel to preach to every nation, kindred, tongue and people. It contains principles of salvation; and if you, my hearers, will walk by its light and obey its precepts, you will be saved with an everlasting salvation in the kingdom of God on high.[10]
Oliver rejoined the Church and prepared to journey to Utah to unite with the main body of the Latter-day Saints but he died while living temporarily in Richmond, Missouri. Oliver Cowdery had contracted tuberculosis. In March 1850, while on his deathbed, Oliver used his dying breaths to testify of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. Lucy P. Young, his half-sister, was at his bedside and reported:
Oliver Cowdery just before breathing his last, asked his attendants to raise him up in bed that he might talk to the family and his friends, who were present. He then told them to live according to the teachings contained in the Book of Mormon, and promised them, if they would do this, that they would meet him in heaven. He then said, ‘Lay me down and let me fall asleep.’ A few moments later he died without a struggle.[11]
In November 1881, over 30 years after Oliver's death, his former law partner Judge W. Lang claimed in a letter that Oliver had admitted that the Book of Mormon was a fraud. Lang's letter claimed that the Book of Mormon was derived from the Spalding manuscript by Oliver, and that Sidney Rigdon and Joseph Smith approved the final draft. This claim cannot be considered credible for a number of reasons, among them the fact that the Spalding manuscript bears no resemblance to the Book of Mormon (something even the critics agree with), and the fact that Sidney Rigdon was never associated with Joseph Smith prior to the publication of the Book of Mormon. The basis for Lang's claim seems to be the standard Spalding theory of Book of Mormon authorship.
Como abogado, mucho después de que había dejado la Iglesia, y dos años después de la muerte de José, Oliver escribió lo siguiente a Phineas Young:
He acariciado una esperanza, y que uno de mis más preciados, para que dejase a un personaje, como aquellos que pueden creer en mi testimonio, después yo sería llamado por lo tanto, podría hacerlo, no sólo por el bien de la verdad, pero podría no ruborizarse por el carácter privado de un hombre que llevaba ese testimonio. He sido sensible en este tema, lo reconozco; sino que debería ser tan-que sería, en estas circunstancias, ¿había parado en la presencia de Juan, con nuestro difunto hermano José, para recibir el sacerdocio menor-y en presencia de Pedro, para recibir el mayor, y se veía a través del tiempo, y fue testigo de los efectos de estos dos deben producir,-se sentiría lo que nunca has sentido, eran hombres malvados conspiran para reducir los efectos de su testimonio en el hombre, después de que debería haber ido a su descanso tan buscado. [12]
Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? Question: Did David Whitmer ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? Question: Did Oliver Cowdery privately admit to his law partner that the Book of Mormon was actually a hoax? Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses say about the faithfulness of other witnesses?
Se afirma que algunos o todos los testigos se retractaron en relación con su testimonio
Sumario: Aunque este documento pretende haber sido publicado en 1839 por Oliver Cowdery, las copias más antiguas que existen son de fecha 1906. El documento fue "descubierto" por el reverendo RB Neal, quien fue un líder en la Asociación Americana Anti-Mormón. No hay referencias a este documento existe con anterioridad a 1906. Este documento se cree que es auténtico por muchos años, hasta que se descubrió que consiste principalmente en una selección de frases de Cowdery tomadas de varias ediciones del Messenger and Advocate las Día de los Santos de los Últimos que fueron retirados de su contexto original y colocado en un contexto diferente. Una serie de temas de conversación parece haber sido redactado de nuevo a partir de David Whitmer 1887 la dirección a todos los creyentes en Cristo. Los historiadores están de acuerdo en que este documento es una falsificación.
Sumario: Se afirma que Oliver Cowdery admitió a su pareja de hecho de que el Libro de Mormón era un engaño, y que se deriva a partir del manuscrito de Spalding.
Justo después de su excomunión de la Iglesia, Thomas B. Marsh se acercó Cowdery y Whitmer acerca de su testimonio. Si hubo algún tiempo para ellos negar su testimonio, éste lo era:
Los testigos tenían todas las razones para retractarse de su experiencia, y no hay razón para mentir a apoyar ya sea ellos mismos, o Joseph Smith, con quienes estaban en desacuerdo durante muchos años. La única razón de peso para persistir en su historia fue su honestidad y el honor esencial, y su convicción de que efectivamente habían visto al ángel y las planchas, y oyó la voz de Dios.
La acusación de que los testigos abandonaron sus testimonios no tiene fundamento: no abjurar de su historia, incluso cuando se les da una gran oportunidad para hacerlo. Existe abundante evidencia de que los testigos se mantuvieron fieles a sus testimonios. Es aún más impresionante que todos ellos salieron de la Iglesia, y por muchos años expresa sentimientos muy amargas hacia Joseph Smith y la Iglesia. A pesar de ello, continuaron insistiendo en que su experiencia era real e innegable.
Hay una gran cantidad de evidencia que demuestra que Oliver nunca negó su testimonio. Como abogado, mientras que la escritura a Phineas Young, Oliver dijo:
Seguramente la preocupación de Oliver por su testimonio incluido su testimonio como testigo.
Finalmente Oliver dejó la práctica de la ley que había comenzado después de salir de la Iglesia, y viajó a Kanesville , Iowa, con su esposa e hija y finalmente se reunió con la Iglesia en 1848. Antes de que él se bautizó él dio su testimonio a la congregación que se había reunido para una conferencia.
Oliver volvió a la Iglesia y se preparó para viajar a Utah para unirse con el cuerpo principal de los Santos de los Últimos Días, pero murió mientras vivía temporalmente en Richmond, Missouri. Oliver Cowdery había contraído tuberculosis. En marzo de 1850, mientras que en su lecho de muerte, Oliver utilizó su último aliento para dar testimonio de la veracidad del Libro de Mormón. Lucy P. Young, su media hermana, estaba junto a su cama e informó:
En noviembre de 1881, más de 30 años después de la muerte de Oliver, su ex pareja de hecho Juez W. Lang afirmó en una carta que Oliver había admitido que el Libro de Mormón era un fraude. La carta de Lang afirmó que el Libro de Mormón fue derivado a partir del manuscrito de Spalding de Oliver, y que Sidney Rigdon y José Smith aprobó el proyecto final. Esta afirmación no puede ser considerada creíble por una serie de razones, entre ellas el hecho de que el manuscrito de Spalding no tiene ninguna semejanza con el Libro de Mormón (algo que incluso los críticos están de acuerdo con), y el hecho de que Sidney Rigdon nunca se asoció con José Smith antes a la publicación del Libro de Mormón. La base para la afirmación de Lang parece ser la norma teoría Spalding del Libro de Mormón autoría. Para detalles adicionales con respecto a esta reclamación, ver: Hizo Oliver Cowdery a confesar a su pareja de hecho que El Libro de Mormón fue un engaño?.
Cuando en Inglaterra a predicar por un grupo disidente mormona, Martin Harris fue expulsado de una reunión de los Santos de los Últimos Días. Se fue, y comenzó a criticar fuertemente el liderazgo de la Iglesia. Los críticos del mormonismo llegó rápidamente:
Un autor SUD reportado en 1870 :
Y, a su muerte, Harris informó:
A lo largo de Richmond, Missouri, los no mormones sabía David Whitmer como un ciudadano honesto y digno de confianza. Cuando uno antimormón dio una conferencia en la ciudad natal de David, la marca de David como de mala reputación, el periódico local (no mormón) respondió con "una primera plana de espíritu editorial antipático con el mormonismo, pero insistente en 'cuarenta y seis años de ciudadanía privada por parte de David Whitmer, en Richmond, sin mancha ni defecto. '"[8]
Esta es la cuestión fundamental de la vida de David Whitmer. Durante cincuenta años en la sociedad no mormón, insistió con el fervor de su juventud que él sabía que el Libro de Mormón fue divinamente revelada. Relativamente pocas personas en Richmond podrían aceptar en su totalidad dicho testimonio, pero ninguno dudaba de su inteligencia u honestidad completa.[9]
David Whitmer-al igual que los otros testigos-habían sido acusados de ser engañado en el pensamiento de que había visto un ángel y las planchas. Un observador recuerda cuando David era tal acusado, y dijo:
Cuando otro antimormón publicó un artículo afirmando que David había negado su testimonio, David imprimió una "proclamación" testimonio de la veracidad del Libro de Mormón y reiterando el hecho de que nunca había negado ese testimonio. Él escribió:
Apóstata William E. McLellin escribió:
Después de su muerte el Richmond Conservator, escribió:
El Richmond Democras también añadió este comentario:
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