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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 12
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Chapter 12: Master of Languages
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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. | ||
171 |
Joseph picked up the idea that there were plural gods when he learned in Hebrew class that Elohim was plural. |
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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. |
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171 |
Joseph developed the idea that matter was "eternal and indestructible" from Thomas Dick's work. |
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172 |
Joseph's concept of Kolob being "near the throne of God" and its control of the reckoning of time came from Thomas Dick. |
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173 |
Joseph wrote the Book of Abraham in order to justify denying the priesthood to Blacks. |
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173 |
Joseph criticized the abolitionist movement. | ||
174 |
Joseph taught that "one third of the spirits had been neutral" in Heaven. |
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174 |
Joseph taught that his family was directly descended from Ephraim. |
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175 |
The Book of Abraham facsimiles are ordinary funeral documents. | ||
179 |
It was reported that some of the men were drunk during the dedication of the Kirtland Temple. |