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− | |claim= | + | |claim=Why doesn't the church be honest when teaching the method to investigators or even its own members? |
+ | The short answer of course is that it would make the whole story sound unbelievable. No one would join the church if the missionaries plainly taught that Joseph put his face in a hat with a stone in it and translated the Book of Mormon when the plates were either covered so no one, including Joseph could see them or that the plates were hidden in the woods when he translated them. But that doesn't make it right to deceive innocent truthseekers, does it? | ||
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+ | *The whole story would "sound unbelievable?" You mean that the current story ''does''? It sounds ''so'' much more "believable" to tell investigators a story that Joseph saw God and Jesus Christ, saw an angel, found an ancient relic and plates, and looked at that relic to dictate a document over 500 pages long in approximately 90 days. | ||
+ | *Everybody in the early days of the Church knew about the stone and the hat, and ''they'' still joined the Church. | ||
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