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Contents
- 1 Early reactions to the Book of Mormon
- 1.1 Other early reaction to the Book of Mormon
- 1.2 "Adding to or taking away"
- 1.3 New revelation not necessary
- 1.4 Clumsy or obvious forgery
- 1.5 Difficult to explain Book of Mormon before Spalding theory
- 1.6 Grammar and spelling errors
- 1.7 Heretical
- 1.8 KJV plagiarism?
- 1.9 Sidney Rigdon
- 1.10 Lazy Smiths?
- 1.11 Spalding theory
- 1.12 All "interested," so not to be trusted
- 1.13 All related, so not to be trusted
- 1.14 Character assaults
- 1.15 Spiritual or literal?
- 1.16 Marin Harris and spiritual eyes
- 1.17 "Supernatural"
Early reactions to the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon was met by a storm of criticism from early critics. This page archives examples of these early responses. Book of Mormon/Early reactions to/Joseph Smith the author