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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 4
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Chapter 4: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
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Joseph warned Martin Harris that God's wrath would strike him down if he examined the plates or looked at him while he was translating. |
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Harris once tried to trick Joseph by substituting an ordinary stone for the seer stone. |
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Lucy Harris stole the manuscript and "neither pleas nor blows could make her divulge its hiding place." |
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Joseph realized that he could not duplicate the 116 pages exactly. |
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55 |
Joseph's family was counting on sales of the Book of Mormon to prevent foreclosure on their farm. |
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Once Joseph had translated the small plates of Nephi, he could go back to the old plates and carry on. |
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58 |
The Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon were "chiefly those chapters from Isaiah mentioned in Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews." |
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58 |
Joseph was careful to modify primarily the italicized interpolation in the King James text. |
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Joseph incorporated one of his father's dreams into the Book of Mormon |
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59 |
Early in the writing Joseph vigorously attacked the Catholic Church as the "great and abominable church" and the "whore of all the earth" |
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62 |
Joseph Smith's lack of education is "a favorite thesis designed to prove the authenticity" of the Book of Mormon. |
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Joseph Smith borrowed many stories from the Bible. |
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63 |
Joseph's sentence structure in the Book of Mormon was "loose-jointed, like an earthworm hacked into segments that crawl away alive and whole." |
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65 |
The story of the Gadianton band reflects the anti-Masonic feelings in New York at the time that the Book of Mormon was produced. |
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