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Response to claims made in "Chapter 12: Master of Languages"
170
Claim
- Joseph did not originally intend to translate the papyri "by inspiration as in the past," and instead attempted to formulate an Egyptian alphabet and grammar.
Response
171
Claim
- Joseph picked up the idea that there were plural gods when he learned in Hebrew class that Elohim was plural.
Author's source(s)
- Author's opinion.
- Thomas Dick, Philosophy of a Future State.
Response
171 - Joseph developed the concept in the Book of Abraham that the earth was organized out of existing matter from Thomas Dick's Philosophy of a Future State
The author(s) of No Man Knows My History make(s) the following claim:
Joseph developed the concept in the Book of Abraham that the earth was organized out of existing matter from Thomas Dick's Philosophy of a Future State.Author's sources:
- Author's opinion.
- Thomas Dick, Philosophy of a Future State.
FAIR's Response
Question: Could Joseph Smith's theology as described in the Book of Abraham have been influenced by Thomas Dick's book The Philosophy of a Future State?
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171 - Joseph developed the idea that matter was "eternal and indestructible" from Thomas Dick's work
The author(s) of No Man Knows My History make(s) the following claim:
Joseph developed the idea that matter was "eternal and indestructible" from Thomas Dick's work.Author's sources:
- Author's opinion.
- Thomas Dick, Philosophy of a Future State.
FAIR's Response
Question: Could Joseph Smith's theology as described in the Book of Abraham have been influenced by Thomas Dick's book The Philosophy of a Future State?
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172
Claim
- Joseph's concept of Kolob being "near the throne of God" and its control of the reckoning of time came from Thomas Dick.
Author's source(s)
- Author's opinion.
- Thomas Dick, Philosophy of a Future State.
Response
173
Claim
- Joseph wrote the Book of Abraham in order to justify denying the priesthood to Blacks.
Author's source(s)
Response
173
Claim
- Joseph criticized the abolitionist movement.
Response
FAIR WIKI EDITORS: Check sources
174
Claim
- Joseph taught that "one third of the spirits had been neutral" in Heaven.
Author's source(s)
- Orson Hyde, "Speech before the High Priests," Nauvoo, April 27, 1845 printed as a pamphlet by the Millennial Star office, July 1845, p. 27.
Response
174
Claim
- Joseph taught that his family was directly descended from Ephraim.
Author's source(s)
- History of the Church, Vol. III, p. 380.
Response
FAIR WIKI EDITORS: Check sources
175
Claim
- The Book of Abraham facsimiles are ordinary funeral documents.
Response
179
Claim
- It was reported that some of the men were drunk during the dedication of the Kirtland Temple.
Response