by Dan Wees | Jul 12, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Green Flake was a black slave, owned by a member of the Mormon Church named James Flake, drove Brigham Young’s wagon into the Salt Lake Valley on 24 July 24 1847. When his owner died, and his widow moved to the slave-free state of California, she paid the...
by Dan Wees | Jul 12, 2018 | Miscellaneous
In preparing their vessels to travel, the Jaredites… “…collected ‘deseret, which, by interpretation, is a honey bee’ (Ether 2:3). Why Moroni draws specific attention to the honey bee is intriguing. Perhaps Smith knew of the ongoing debate over the...
by Dan Wees | Jul 11, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The transportation of fresh-water fish [across the ocean – in a sealed barge] is particularly troubling, although the record indicates that they ‘did also prepare a vessel, in which they did carry them, the fish of the waters’ [Book of Mormon, Ether] (2:2). The...
by Dan Wees | Jul 11, 2018 | Miscellaneous
[T]he parallels between the two stories [in Ether and Mormon] are so striking, down to the last battle occurring at the same hill, that Mormon writer B.H. Roberts wondered: ‘Is all this sober history? …Or is it a wonder-tale of an immature mind, unconscious of...
by Dan Wees | Jul 11, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“And now I am prepared to say by the authority of Jesus Christ, that not many years shall pass away before the United States shall present such a scene of bloodshed as has not a parallel in the hystory of our nation pestalence hail famine and earthquake will sweep the...
by Dan Wees | Jul 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
How Mormons perceive the size of their church – vs- The actual size of the Mormon church in 2016 vs world...
