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==Question: Did David Whitmer or Oliver Cowdery test Joseph's prophetic claims?== | ==Question: Did David Whitmer or Oliver Cowdery test Joseph's prophetic claims?== | ||
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− | : "He [Whitmer] said that 1st of June [1829] he received a letter from [Oliver Cowdery, asking him to come to Harmony, Pennsylvania]. The prophet looks into the seer stone [and is] told [the] names of each stopping place [David visited along the way]. O[liver] Cowdery, who made notes for every one [found them to be] just as the Prophet related. David said this strengthened his faith in the prophet and he was baptized the middle of June 1829....<ref>David Whitmer, Interview with Edward Stevenson, Journal, 28:123-130, entry of 2 January 1887, | + | : "He [Whitmer] said that 1st of June [1829] he received a letter from [Oliver Cowdery, asking him to come to Harmony, Pennsylvania]. The prophet looks into the seer stone [and is] told [the] names of each stopping place [David visited along the way]. O[liver] Cowdery, who made notes for every one [found them to be] just as the Prophet related. David said this strengthened his faith in the prophet and he was baptized the middle of June 1829....<ref>David Whitmer, Interview with Edward Stevenson, Journal, 28:123-130, entry of 2 January 1887, Church Archives (spelling, capitalization, and punctuation modernized); original cited in {{EMD|vol=5|pages=187}}</ref> |
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[[pt:Pergunta: Será que David Whitmer Oliver Cowdery ou testar as reivindicações proféticas de Joseph Smith?]] | [[pt:Pergunta: Será que David Whitmer Oliver Cowdery ou testar as reivindicações proféticas de Joseph Smith?]] | ||
[[es:Pregunta: ¿David Whitmer o Oliver Cowdery realizaron pruebas de las afirmaciones proféticas de José Smith?]] | [[es:Pregunta: ¿David Whitmer o Oliver Cowdery realizaron pruebas de las afirmaciones proféticas de José Smith?]] | ||
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David Whitmer reported how he and Oliver first tested Joseph's ability to see things with the seer stone:
Another account says:
Clearly, these two witnesses did not simply accept Joseph's word--they believed they had compelling evidence that Joseph knew things that no one else knew, save God.
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