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Four Sources for Joseph Smith’s Plagiarisms

24 November

Exodus 20:16; “Thou shalt not steal.” The Lord’s directives are pretty straightforward. There’s no doubt Joe Smith didn’t get the memo, or he rationalized his ungodly behavior for the sake of himself and his god. Today we’re looking at a few of the books that were easily available to Smith when he lived in Palmyra, […]

Plagiarisms Saturate Smith’s 1st Vision

23 November

Romans 1:22; “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” Whether you call it a vision, or a theophany, the end result in many cases is very much the same. Today we’re looking at an interesting event that took place in the early nineteenth century at the beginning stages of America’s 2nd Great Awakening. After the […]

Book of Mormon Plagiarisms, Rewrites, Additions, Deletions, and a Few Coins

29 October

And thus, saith the Lord…or the LDS Church, and Joseph Smith anyway… Today and tomorrow we’re looking at one subject matter, and that’d be coins in the Book of Mormon. Coins in the Book of Mormon, however, is the cause of the three topics we’re looking at this time around. We’re pulling our resources from […]