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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.
Response171
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.
171
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 source(s) - Author's opinion.
- Thomas Dick, Philosophy of a Future State.
171
Claim
- Joseph developed the idea that matter was "eternal and indestructible" from Thomas Dick's work.
Author's source(s) - Author's opinion.
- Thomas Dick, Philosophy of a Future State.
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.
173
Claim
- Joseph wrote the Book of Abraham in order to justify denying the priesthood to Blacks.
Author's source(s) - Author's opinion.
173
Claim
- Joseph criticized the abolitionist movement.
ResponseFAIR 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.
174
Claim
- Joseph taught that his family was directly descended from Ephraim.
Author's source(s) - History of the Church, Vol. III, p. 380.
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