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Contents
- 1 Early reactions to the Book of Mormon
- 1.1 "Adding to or taking away"
- 1.2 New revelation not necessary
- 1.3 Clumsy or obvious forgery
- 1.4 Difficult to explain Book of Mormon before Spalding theory
- 1.5 Grammar and spelling errors
- 1.6 Joseph Smith as the obvious author
- 1.7 Joseph Smith obviously not the author
- 1.8 Joseph as author and proprietor
- 1.9 Joseph Smith's character
- 1.10 Joseph Smith's personality and temperament
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- 1.14 Heretical
- 1.15 Claims that no intelligent person could believe it
- 1.16 KJV plagiarism?
- 1.17 Sidney Rigdon
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- 1.19 Spalding theory
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- 1.21 All related, so not to be trusted
- 1.22 Character assaults
- 1.23 Spiritual or literal?
- 1.24 Marin Harris and spiritual eyes
- 1.25 "Supernatural"
Early reactions to the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon was met by a storm of criticism from early critics. This page archives examples of these early responses.