by Dan Wees | Jun 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
In Alma 19:28, Joseph Smith Jr. seems to forget the name of Abish—a saintly woman mentioned only twelve verses earlier. This oversight points to a likely pause in dictation, leaving Joseph foggy on details when resuming. The verse could have been concise: “… And while...
by Dan Wees | Jun 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Joseph Smith makes a weak poetic attempt to cover up an error; forgetting the plates were difficult to etch. Additionally, this kind of verbal hopscotch would have never found its way into a text purporting to have been written between 90 and 77 B.C.: “& thus we...
by Dan Wees | Jun 21, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Who will honor the name of Joseph Smith and accept the gospel restored through his instrumentality? “We answer: The same people who would have believed the words of the Lord Jesus and the ancient Apostles and prophets had they lived in their day. “If you...
by Dan Wees | Jun 21, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[T]he Book of Mormon… defends trickery where necessary for a good cause.” Dan Vogel, Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 30 April 2004), 249. I cannot begin to explain how many times I’ve seen the subtle (at times blatant)...
by Dan Wees | Jun 21, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Love did not create this LDS policy, and it won’t survive.” Julienna Viegas-haws, “Op-ed: Love did not create this LDS policy, and it won’t survive” (Salt Lake City, UT: Salt Lake Tribune, 18 December...
by Dan Wees | Jun 21, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Answers to the myths herein… https://www.facebook.com/unitedlatterdaysaints/videos/1177182662332437/?fref=nf 1) Mormons did not leave for Utah because of “Religious Persecutions.” They left (as they always did) because of the corruption of their leaders; in...
