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« on: February 09, 2015, 03:40:26 AM »

How accurate is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06jF1EG8o-Q
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« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2015, 08:46:55 PM »


It's hit and miss. Some of the details are accurate, but a lot of it is portrayed in a misleading way.

One detail that I noticed was horribly inaccurate is that the video claims that Joseph Smith was the only one who saw the golden plates. That's not true, there were eleven others (two groups, known as the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses respectively). And Joseph Smith's wife Emma.

Weren't all the "witnesses" of the golden plates family, friends or financial backers of Joesph Smith?
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« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2015, 10:50:44 PM »


It's hit and miss. Some of the details are accurate, but a lot of it is portrayed in a misleading way.

One detail that I noticed was horribly inaccurate is that the video claims that Joseph Smith was the only one who saw the golden plates. That's not true, there were eleven others (two groups, known as the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses respectively). And Joseph Smith's wife Emma.

Weren't all the "witnesses" of the golden plates family, friends or financial backers of Joesph Smith?

And a bunch of the original followers of Muhammad were his friends or family. Your point?

WTF? What does that have to do with anything? I'm not Muslim so what's your point? There is a lot of... issues surrounding Joesph Smith and how credible he is. I'm just asking questions and seeing how a Mormon responds. I'm not trying to be hostile or anything.

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According to the foreman in the printing office that produced the first Book of Mormon, he stated that Harris defined seeing the plates with his "spiritual eyes", not real eyes. Also, the typesetter for most of the book, said that he had asked Harris, "Martin, did you see those plates with your naked eyes?" he said that Harris "looked down for an instant, raised his eyes up, and said, 'No, I saw them with a spiritual eye."

There's actually a lot of accounts where Harris said he saw them with his spiritual eyes, not real eyes.


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