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Charles Anthon’s Transcript, and Joseph Smith’s Version of History

Posted in Charles Anthon, tagged , , , , , , on 12/08/2015| Leave a Comment »

Proverbs 10:9; “He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.”

Because nothing in Mormonism goes off without a hitch, so it is with this little soirée…

Mormonism Unvailed ED HoweJoseph Smith, Jr., the first prophet of Mormonism, was a charismatic type of guy. He found extra time in his day to ensure others heard about the miraculous translations he produced from the stuff he kept digging out of the ground. Although he had no formal education, when it came to Mormonism’s foundation (Book of Mormon), he had enough wherewithal to know his main attraction might receive more attention with the endorsement from those who did.

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Martin Harris’ False Prophecy

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , on 05/07/2015| Leave a Comment »

Mormon Decisions 10The Telegraph (Painesville, OH), March 15, 1831, v. 2, no. 39; “Martin Harris, another chief of the Mormon impostors, arrived here last Saturday from the bible quarry in New York. He immediately planted himself in the bar-room of the hotel, where he soon commenced reading and explaining the Mormon hoax, and all the dark passages from Genesis to Revelations…

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No U.S. President by 1836

Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , on 02/02/2015| 1 Comment »

salt lake mormon temple 2Martin Harris, quoted in Mormonism Unvailed, 1834, p 14; “Within four years from September 1832, there will not be one wicked person left in the United States; that the righteous will be gathered to Zion (Missouri,) and that there will be no President over these United States at that time…. I do hereby assert and declare that in four years from the date thereof [1832], every sectarian and religious denomination in the United States, shall be broken down, and every Christian shall be gathered unto the Mormonites, and the rest of the human race shall perish.” – E.D. Howe

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Mormon Dilemma 591

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Anthon Transcript

Mormon Decisions 10Joseph Smith History 1:64-65; “”I went to the city of New York, and presented the characters which had been translated, with the translation thereof, to Professor Charles Anthon, a gentleman celebrated for his literary attainments. Professor Anthon stated that the translation was correct, more so than any he had before seen translated from the Egyptian. I then showed him those which were not yet translated, and he said that they were Egyptian, Chaldaic, Assyriac, and Arabic; and he said they were true characters. He gave me a certificate, certifying to the people of Palmyra that they were true characters, and that the translation of such of them as had been translated was also correct. I took the certificate and put it into my pocket, and was just leaving the house, when Mr. Anthon called me back, and asked me how the young man found out that there were gold plates in the place where he found them. I answered that an angel of God had revealed it unto him.

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