by Dan Wees | Aug 13, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The dimensions, tolerances, composition and workmanship [of the Kinderhook Plates] are consistent with the facsimiles of an 1843 blacksmith shop and with the fraud stories of the original participants.” George Lawrence/LDS physicist, Report of a Physical Study of the...
by Dan Wees | Aug 11, 2019 | Miscellaneous
The dramatic words “the chains of hell” appear six times during the first third of Alma. While reflecting on their use in Alma 5, toward the end of Alma 12:11 Joseph Smith issues a clumsy passage to emphasize the captivity of the devil: “Now this is what is meant by...
by Dan Wees | Aug 11, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“What does it all add up to? Does it merely mean that one of the ‘finds’ which the Latter-day Saints believed supported the Book of Mormon does not support it, and that there is no real blow dealt to the prophetship of Joseph Smith? Not at all, for as...
by Dan Wees | Aug 11, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“I received your letter in regard to those plates, and will say in answer that they are a humbug, gotten up by Robert Wiley, Bridge Whitten and myself … We read in Pratt’s prophecy that “Truth is yet to spring out of the earth.” We concluded to prove the prophecy by...
by Dan Wees | Aug 11, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“A recent electronic and chemical analysis of a metal [Kinderhook] plate … brought in 1843 to the Prophet Joseph Smith … appears to solve a previously unanswered question in Church history, helping to further evidence that the plate is what its producers later said it...
by Dan Wees | Aug 9, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Isn’t it wonderful, the kind of inspiration you can find on the church’s website while studying the HOLY...
