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Contents
- 1 Early reactions to the Book of Mormon
- 1.1 "Adding to or taking away"
- 1.2 Blasphemy
- 1.3 Clumsy or obvious forgery
- 1.4 Difficult to explain before the Spalding theory
- 1.5 Grammatical or stylistic errors mean it cannot be inspired
- 1.6 Joseph Smith clearly the author
- 1.7 Joseph Smith clearly not the author
- 1.8 Heretical
- 1.9 No intelligent person could believe it
- 1.10 Plagiarized from the King James Bible
- 1.11 Sidney Rigdon
- 1.12 Spalding theory
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.