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==Pergunta: Será que o fato de que Oliver Cowdery e Joseph Smith primos distantes significa que Oliver foi uma testemunha pouco confiável para o Livro de Mórmon?== | ==Pergunta: Será que o fato de que Oliver Cowdery e Joseph Smith primos distantes significa que Oliver foi uma testemunha pouco confiável para o Livro de Mórmon?== | ||
===Oliver was indeed a distant cousin of Joseph Smith, but they had never met before the Book of Mormon was translated=== | ===Oliver was indeed a distant cousin of Joseph Smith, but they had never met before the Book of Mormon was translated=== |
The accusation that Oliver being a distant cousin of Joseph Smith makes him an unreliable witness to the Book of Mormon is what is known as a "ad hominem" attack on the witnesses' character. The term "ad hominem" is defined, according to Merriam-Webster, as:
One can see that accusations that Oliver is an unreliable witness because he is related to Joseph Smith applies both of these definitions:
More to the point, if Oliver was covering up a fraud on the part of Joseph Smith when he acted as a scribe during the translation of the Book of Mormon simply because he was related to Joseph Smith, or if he was covering for Joseph when he acted as one of the Three Witnesses, then why didn't Oliver expose the fraud after he fell into disagreement with Joseph Smith and was excommunicated from the Church? This would have been the perfect opportunity to expose a fraud.
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