by Dan Wees | Dec 20, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Jo[seph Smith, Jr.] claimed he could tell where money was buried, with a witch hazel consisting of a forked stick of hazel. He held it one fork in each hand and claimed the upper end was attracted by the money.” C. M. Stafford – 23 March 1885, Naked Truths...
by Dan Wees | Dec 20, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“In 1987 I also spoke to several Mormon women in Utah who give predictive and healing blessings, some employing mechanisms such as crystals, auras, and cards.” Ian G. Barber, from Maxine Hanks’ Women and Authority, “Mormon Women as ‘Natural’...
by Dan Wees | Dec 20, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“It may be admitted that some of them [Smith’s ancestors] believed in fortune telling, in warlocks and witches … Indeed it is scarcely conceivable how one could live in New England in those years and not have shared in such beliefs. To be credulous in such things was...
by Dan Wees | Dec 20, 2019 | Miscellaneous
On 20 March 1826, Joseph Smith appeared in a New York Court on charges of being a “Disorderly Person and an Imposter” and a “Glass Looker.” Although reports of this event have been circulating since 1831 (and dismissed by LDS authorities as being false) it wasn’t...
by Dan Wees | Dec 19, 2019 | Miscellaneous
LDS scripture teaches God approved of and/or encouraged the practice of lying. In the Pearl of Great Price we read that God told Abraham to lie concerning his wife. The Bible teaches that it was Abraham who told his wife to tell the lie, not the Lord. “And it came to...
by Dan Wees | Dec 19, 2019 | Miscellaneous
The notion that the word Lucifer means either Satan or the Devil is not something which happened until many years after the Bible was written. The original meaning has nothing to do with Satan. Lucifer is a Latin word found in the Hebrew text of Isaiah’s writings. It...
