by Dan Wees | Aug 12, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd, Cumorah, and Moroni… “Folktales of the treasure feats of Captain William Kidd (1645-1701), and their likely influence upon Joseph Smith Jr., have previously been argued and written during the last several decades. While the topic is...
by Dan Wees | Aug 12, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Q[uestion]. After the Church of Christ fled from earth to heaven, what was left? “A[nswer]. A set of wicked Apostates, murderers, and idolaters, who, after having made war with the saints, and overcome them, and destroyed them out of the earth, were left to...
by Dan Wees | Aug 12, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a...
by Dan Wees | Aug 12, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“This class of men, calling themselves Christian, uniting with the various forms of the pagan religion, adopting many of their ceremonies and institutions, became very popular, and finally some of the pagans embraced Christianity and were placed, as it were, upon the...
by Dan Wees | Aug 12, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“This great apostacy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now. A short time after the death of the last of the Apostles, the Christian Church, what few of them remained, were...
by Dan Wees | Aug 12, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[W]ho, in his right mind, could, for one moment, suppose the Bible in its present form to be a perfect guide? Who knows that even one verse of the whole Bible has escaped pollution, so as to convey the same sense now that it did in the original?” Orson Pratt, The...
