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Claims made in "Chapter 1: Vagabond Visionaries" | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Richard Abanes
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Claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet" |
Claims made in "Chapter 2: Moroni, Magic, and Masonry"
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23 (HB) |
The author claims that "LDS documents are strangely silent about their prophet's activities during the three years immediately following his 1820 First Vision." |
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25 (HB) |
The angel was originally named "Nephi" instead of "Moroni." |
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26, 492n19-20 (HB) |
Oliver Cowdery said that the First Vision took place in 1823 when Joseph was in his 17th year. |
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26, 492n21 (HB) |
Joseph's brother William associates Moroni's visit with a revival. |
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27, 493n23 (HB) |
George A. Smith merged the First Vision and Moroni's visit. |
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27, 493n24 (HB) |
Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph's mother, said that the First Vision was of the angel in 1823. |
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27 (HB) |
Joseph engaged in "ritual magic and divination." |
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28 (HB) |
Joseph was a "money digger" | ||
28 (HB) |
Joseph used a "peep stone" to search for treasure. |
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29, 494n30 (HB) |
Joseph's father was "a firm believer in witchcraft and other supernatural things; and had brought up his family in the same belief." |
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29, 494-5n33-34 (HB) |
Martin Harris said that Joseph was associated with a company of money diggers. |
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29, 495n36 (HB) |
Joshua Stafford said that Joseph's family "told marvelous stories about ghosts, hob-goblins, caverns, and verious other mysterious matters." |
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29-30, 495n37 (HB) |
"Most of the residents" of Palmyra and Manchester considered the Smith family a "close-knit clan of occultists." |
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30, 495n38 (HB) |
William Stafford stated that Joseph used a seer stone to see "the spirits in whose charge these treasures were, clotehd in ancient dress." |
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30, 495n40 (HB) |
Joseph Capron stated that Joseph encouraged others to participate in money digging in order to obtain wealth. |
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31, 495n41 (HB) |
Rev. John Sherer said that Joseph Smith was a "juggler" (i.e. a "con-man") |
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31, 495n42 (HB) |
William Stafford stated that Joseph believed that the state of the moon determined the best time to obtain treasures. |
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31, 495n43 (HB) |
Joseph Smith made animal sacrifices to "appease whatever spirits might be guarding the buried treasure." |
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31, 496n44 (HB) |
Hiel Lewis claimed that dogs, cats and other animals were sacrificed. |
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33, 495n48 (HB) |
Joshua Stafford said that Joseph showed him a piece of wood from a box of money that had "mysteriously moved back into the hill." |
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36, 497n63 (HB) |
LDS historian Reed C. Durham stated that "virtually all aspects of the Royal Arch Freemasonry legend of Enoch 'seem transformed into the history of Joseph Smith, so much that even it appears to be a kind of symbolic acting out of Masonic lore.'" |
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36 (HB) |
Joseph Smith adapted Masonic rituals for the temple endowment. | ||
40 (HB) |
The Book of Mormon denounces Freemasonry by condemning "secret combinations," "secret signs," and "secret oaths." |
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{{To learn more box:responses to: 8: The Mormon Proposition}} | To learn more box:responses to: 8: The Mormon Proposition | edit |
{{To learn more box:''Under the Banner of Heaven''}} | To learn more about responses to: Under the Banner of Heaven | edit |
{{To learn more box:responses to: Robert Price}} | To learn more about responses to: Robert Price | edit |
{{To learn more box:responses to: Ankerberg and Weldon}} | To learn more about responses to: Ankerberg and Weldon | edit |
{{To learn more box:responses to: Ashamed of Joseph}} | To learn more about responses to: Ashamed of Joseph | edit |
{{To learn more box:responses to: Beckwith and Moser}} | To learn more about responses to: Beckwith and Moser | edit |
{{To learn more box:responses to: Beckwith and Parrish}} | To learn more about responses to: Beckwith and Parrish | edit |
{{To learn more box:responses to: Benjamin Park}} | To learn more about responses to: Benjamin Park | edit |
{{To learn more box:responses to: Bible versus Joseph Smith}} | To learn more about responses to: Bible versus Joseph Smith | edit |
{{To learn more box:responses to: Bible versus Book of Mormon}} | To learn more about responses to: Bible versus Book of Mormon | edit |
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