by Dan Wees | Jul 28, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The pedagogical posture of the CES [Church Education System] has become increasingly anti-scientific and anti-intellectual, more inward-looking, more intent on the uniqueness and exclusiveness of the Mormon version of the gospel as opposed to other interpretations,...
by Dan Wees | Jul 28, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Ezra Booth had been a popular Methodist minister before going to Kirtland, Ohio with John and Alice (Elsa) Johnson in 1831. After witnessing Joseph Smith healing Elsa’s arm, Booth became a convert and was baptized and ordained an elder in May 1831, and later was...
by Dan Wees | Jul 27, 2018 | Miscellaneous
It must be assumed, based on the size of the plates & the difficulty in hand inscribing characters into metal, that space and words should have been condensed in every instance. The Book of Mormon is replete with the opposite & redundancy is in full sway. One...
by Dan Wees | Jul 27, 2018 | Miscellaneous
It must be assumed, based on the size of the plates & the difficulty in hand inscribing characters into metal, that space and words should have been condensed in every instance. The Book of Mormon is replete with the opposite & redundancy is in full sway. One...
by Dan Wees | Jul 27, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Professor John Smith (1752-1809), of Dartmouth College, was directly related to Joseph Smith, Sr. He was the cousin of Asael Smith – one of Joseph’s paternal grandparents. Professor Smith’s theological lectures are summarized in the following twenty points...
by Dan Wees | Jul 27, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Mormon Apostle to Jews: Your ‘Empty Chair’ for Elijah is Foolish…...