by Dan Wees | May 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Changes made to A Book of Commandments… ORIGINAL – 1833: “[A]nd he [Joseph Smith, Jr.] has a gift to translate the book [of Mormon], and I have commanded him that he shall pretend to no other gift, for I will grant him no other gift.” A Book of...
by Dan Wees | May 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
How does one arrive at the idea that this painting represents a “Pioneer Girl”? Has the Church entirely lost its understanding of what pioneers actually endured—the hardships, struggles, and profound difficulties? To label this image as representative of...
by Dan Wees | May 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Discovering Joseph Smith’s Cave in Miner’s Hill, Manchester, New York...
by Dan Wees | May 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
The Book of Abraham was a product of Joseph Smith’s imagination, lacking any factual foundation. Even prominent Mormon historian B. H. Roberts acknowledged this scholarly challenge: “There were no Egyptian scholars in the church of the Latter-day Saints who...
by Dan Wees | May 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“No one ever suggested explanations like that—the idea that the papyri was a catalyst for inspiration or a mnemonic device— before November 1967 … They had to find new explanations to account for the Book of Abraham, after-the-fact explanations.” Stan Larson, as...
by Dan Wees | May 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I see no evidence that Joseph Smith had a correct conception of ‘Egyptian religious practices’ or that a knowledge of such was essential to the production of the Book of Abraham.” Stephen E. Thompson, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought – Volume 28, no. 1,...
