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- ==Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to th ===Whitmer's account is at variance in several ways with Hiram Page’s account===3 KB (416 words) - 15:22, 13 April 2024
- ...s assumption this was written to James T. Cobb. See page 334 for relevant statements concerning the Mission to Canada.</ref> ===In 1886, David Whitmer mentions the trip to sell the copyright for the first time===5 KB (843 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- ...what seemed like failure. Historians have relied upon statements of David Whitmer, Hiram Page, and William McLellin for decades but have not had the actual t5 KB (833 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
- It is clear from the author's statements online (shown below) that he went to MormonThink and online discussion boar ...ang=eng <span style="color:blue">He [Elder Russell M. Nelson] quotes David Whitmer's testimony of rock in the hat translation method.</span>7 KB (1,092 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- *[[The witness of David Whitmer]] ...the fact that contradict and cast doubt on the specific claims made in the statements contained in the preface of the Book of Mormon."''8 KB (1,075 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ...in the Book of Mormon. They also do not generally cite the numerous other statements in which, to the end of his life, he declared the Book of Mormon to be a di Roberts then refers to a statement in David Whitmer, ''To All Believers in Christ'', about the translation of the Book of Mormo27 KB (4,505 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...lated by the gift and power of God, and not by any power of man.<ref>David Whitmer, ''An Address to All Believers in Christ'' (Richmond, Mo.: n.p., 1887), 12; ...New Witness'', 196.</ref> Despite the fact that elements of Harris’s and Whitmer’s story were consistent with each other, Kirkham simply refused to accept16 KB (2,511 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- ...king he had seen an angel and the plates. Joseph Smith III remembered when David was such accused, and said: ...to thinking he saw" the angel and the plates. Joseph III's recollection of Whitmer's response is quoted above. See Memoirs of Joseph Smith III, cited in Mary5 KB (726 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ===David Whitmer is not told that the hill from which Joseph received the record was called ..., asking for help to transport Joseph and Oliver from Harmony to the Peter Whitmer home in Fayette:11 KB (1,887 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
- ===Statements made by Joseph Smith clearly indicate that his thinking regarding the actua ...umption after the publication of the Book of Mormon. In a interview, David Whitmer said:7 KB (1,168 words) - 14:50, 30 April 2024
- Question: Did no one ever actually see the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?===The claim is nonsense: Statements by the Book of Mormon witnesses do not lend support to these interpretation ====David Whitmer====5 KB (823 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
- ...pied from the original manuscript by Oliver Cowdery, including the witness statements=== Critics of the Church also fail to note that David Whitmer, in fact, made a point of affirming that his testimony was true ''just as i2 KB (347 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What did James Henry Moyle say about his visit to David Whitmer?== Moyle interviewed Whitmer and soon after wrote in his diary:11 KB (1,928 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ===David Whitmer=== ...men, and to Him belongs all the honor, the power and the glory."<ref>David Whitmer, interview with James H. Hart on 10 March 1884, Letter to ''Deseret News''3 KB (479 words) - 14:07, 13 April 2024
- ==Oliver Cowdery statements as one of Three Witnesses== ...hn laid their hands and confer[r]ed the Holy Melchisedic Priesthood.' <ref>David H. Cannon, Autobiography, 13 March 1917, p. 5; cited in {{EMD|vol=5|pages=29 KB (1,466 words) - 15:07, 13 April 2024
- ==Martin Harris statements as one of the Three Witnesses== ...ur inches, and each of the plates was thicker than the thickest tin." <ref>David B. Dille, statement, 15 September 1853, "Additional Testimony of Martin Har14 KB (2,478 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024
- ==David Whitmer statements as one of the Three Witnesses== * "D[avid] Whitmer then arose and bore testimony to having seen an Holy Angel who had made kno36 KB (6,431 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ==John Whitmer statements as one of the Eight Witnesses== ...k of Mormon."<ref>John Whimter to Mark H. Forest [Forscutt], 5 March 1876, Whitmer Papers, Community of Christ Library-Archives; in {{EMD|vol=5|pages=243}}</r8 KB (1,412 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024
- ==David Whitmer reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon== David Whitmer was the most long-lived witness, and we have by far the most material from11 KB (2,005 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ...Source:Oliver_Cowdery_Three_Witness_statements|l1=Extensive Oliver Cowdery statements}} ...n|Source:Martin_Harris_Three_Witness_statements|l1=Extensive Martin Harris statements}}6 KB (922 words) - 23:23, 1 May 2024