by Dan Wees | May 17, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I replied, I was opposed to hanging, even if a man kill another, I will shoot him, or cut off his head, spill his blood on the ground, and let the smoke thereof ascend up to God; and if ever I have the privilege of making a law on that subject, I will have it so.”...
by Dan Wees | May 17, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Did God lie to Moses about visiting Abraham first? “And he [God] said to him [Abram], I am The LORD who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees,” Genesis 15:7 (AKJV-1769 edition) -VERSUS- “And I [God] appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of...
by Dan Wees | May 17, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Joseph Smith, Jr. inserted numerous near-verbatim chapters from the Authorized King James Version of Isaiah into the early Book of Mormon. For example, 1 Nephi 20 and 21 closely mirror Isaiah 48 and 49, including repeated references to the ‘isles of the...
by Dan Wees | May 16, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Both Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife. ...
by Dan Wees | May 16, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land. And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died…” Fifth Plague, Exodus 9:5-6 (AKJV) -VERSUS- “And the hail smote throughout all the land...
by Dan Wees | May 16, 2018 | Miscellaneous
While dictating to Oliver Cowdery, Joseph Smith, Jr. occasionally lost his place in the narrative—an understandable lapse, given that he likely memorized large portions of text beforehand. His intense concentration, aided by placing his face in a hat to block out...
