tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73577763943224701592024-02-19T07:30:06.354-08:00Book of Mormon Archaeological NewsIlluminating the credibility of the Book of Mormon through archaeological photographs.Book of Mormon Archaeology is real, authentic, scientifically researched, a proven fact. Claims Book of Mormon Archaeology is based upon scant evidence is deception for the masses. Ancient Israelites did come to America over 2400 years ago. Here you find the photographic, archaeological, and Biblical evidences. B.O.M.A.N. reveals hard evidences Jesus did came to another ancient people besides the Jews.James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-16542456540574772502020-10-11T12:28:00.000-07:002020-10-11T12:28:56.319-07:00Romans In Brazil Before Columbus<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Arial, Lucida, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #15447c; font-size: 12px;">An MIT Museum Collection reproduction photo of Bob Marx as he holds a clay storage jar resembling an ancient Roman amphora, found off the coast of Brazil in Gunabara Bay (near Rio de Janeiro) during underwater archaeological surveys in the early 1980s (1982?). Reproduction image. (CC)<br /><br /><br /></span>James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-29013751892019912432017-06-09T18:50:00.001-07:002017-06-19T19:31:48.899-07:00Proving God ExistsMost people cannot prove God exists, because they do not understand how their own spirits work. It took me years, and a lot of prayer, a lot of tears, and having to face myself,. I had to learn to be honest enough before I could see myself for what I was, before I could begin to see whom God Is. Without total honesty, I could not see God as I do today. But Before I could see God, I had to learn to begin to forsake my personal agenda for myself and the rest of the world. <br />
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Carnal, non-spiritual people, see with their physical eyes-spiritual people see with their inner spiritual eyes. But what does this mean?<br />
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Everybody has physical eyes. Everybody has spiritual eyes, or they should, but some, even many, are blind. They cannot use their inner eyes, to see the invisible God. <br />
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The inner eyes I speak of,is the ability of the heart to comprehend, and to feel what is going on in the invisible realm... A realm that is far more real than this temporal world we live in. <br />
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Many people, doubt the existence of God, because they cannot see, taste, or touch Him. Or they can see and hear Him internally, but don't understand It's God talking! Instead, they think it's their doughnut or spaghetti dinner speaking. <br />
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It's not easy to hear God! People are noisy by nature, and undisciplined! If people are hurting internally,they get noisier still, trying to drown out how they truly feel, and in doing so, they drown out that still small and peaceful voice that can cause the earth to shake - or give them personal counsel to solve their personal problems. If they would only listen...! <br />
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However in counterpoint,those same people, do not doubt the fact there is wind! They don't doubt that they cannot see where wind comes from, nor do they know where the wind goes. These same people accept the fact there is wind, and they do not question it's existence. <br />
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They can feel the wind upon their skins,as it rustles through their hair! They feel and see the wind kicking up dust devils. Wind, like God is invisible! You only see it carnally if it begins to move a temporal object. (dust as an example) <br />
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Sensing the presence of God is similar, you don't know where He comes from, nor do you know where it is He goes, but when His Spirit is present, you can feel Him. Only if we're listening, attentive, and interested in what He has to say. <br />
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It is by the feelings of our inner spirit, we can see, and feel the presence of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. <br />
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When a negative vibe, or spirit, is in a room, (family fight) or some such, everybody can feel it. They know if it's a bad feeling, and they know it's unhealthy. This is the fruit of the spirit of evil. <br />
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When God is in the room, I light up inside, I see my reality more clearly, the room feels more positive, quite, peaceful, and I feel I can overcome all things. I also feel a greater sense of love, and acceptance for my fellow man... I feel empowered! <br />
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God is a quite spirit, He is clean, organized, orderly, positive, affirmative, edifying, disciplined, and a functional Spirit... The Spirit of God often comes to men as a gut feeling or premonition. A feeling that counsels all men and women, to love each other, care and edify each other. A good spirit,(feeling) that counsels me to walk the extra mile with my neighbour. God is that internal urge that comes from deep inside me, counselling me to do right, do good, think clearly, calmly, and without fear.<br />
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God can also be a spirit if warning!<br />
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God is also that spirit, that chastises me for not doing good, for not helping or assisting my fellow man when He asked me to. For not feeding the hungry, or seeking to heal the sick, for not visiting my fellow man, whom may be in need of a friend. <br />
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God is a perfect gentleman, because He believes in free choice, he has no favourite persons and He is amazingly humble, He is lowly, approachable, and willing to listen. The question always is, "Am I willing to listen"? <br />
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My God, is invisible, but His presence is everywhere. He is in all and though all. <br />
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The only people who cannot feel him, are those who never bothered to exercise within themselves,their ability to begin to listen. They never bothered to look for a God they cannot see. <br />
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Like scientists looking for viruses in a Microscope, unless people believe enough to begin looking first, they will never find or ever see the invisible God who made the viruses they look for... He is so huge, so big, so obvious, He is right in front of us with a big smile on his face, just waiting for His creation to begin to understand. To understand that seeing any reality, even the invisible reality to the naked eye, starts with the internal belief that one can begin to see the invisible world, of the invisible God. <br />
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All man has to do to prove God to themselves, is to use the right internal magnifying glass, the right microscope, and to learn to ask the right questions of themselves and of God. If they will do this, they can prove if there is a God to themselves...<br />
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God is real, and I have found Him... How about you? James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-11597864500238695592014-09-15T15:30:00.000-07:002016-07-09T09:23:33.021-07:00Camels In America - Evidence for Book of Mormon <br />
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in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The fossil represents one of
the oldest mammals from Panama. Scientists at the Florida Museum of
Natural History on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville,
Fla., are working with the Panama Canal Authority and researchers from
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camel, ancient marlins, turtles and horses, during construction to widen
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It is with glee I announce Scientific support for Book of Mormon Camels! <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A</span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">s of April 25, 2014,<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2014/04/25/what-lies-beneath-248159.html"> <b>News Week</b></a> published a story supporting Book of Mormon claims of Camels in the Americas. Interesting to note, <b><u>the Smithsonian Institute, working in Panama</u></b>, has discovered camel bones in the Panama Canal. The Chinese have been widening the canal, making it ready for the ever larger super ships and container vessels to pass through to it's respective destination oceans. </span></span></span></span><br />
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What makes this story funny and sad, is the white people of America, "Gentiles", to whom in part the Book of Mormon was given, have scoffed and laughed it to scorn. It's taken the ancient Asian connection, as mentioned by the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon to once again bring life to the Book of Mormon story. The Chinese Government, in renovating the Panama Canal, have without intent, unveiled Book of Mormon evidences as mentioned by the Book of Mormon. <br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">If Camels originated in North America, or if they just migrated here, it does not matter. The argument invalidating the Book of Mormon as not being a historical book of the Americas, needs to be re-examined. </span></span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">How Joseph Smith 180 years ago could have hit the nail on the head so accurately in the face of theological and scientific adversity, is more than shear chance. It's a shear miracle. Those who believe the Book of Mormon does not have a historical or scientific basis are definitely up a creek without a paddle. <br /><br /><br />For the Daniel Nelson Question and My Answer...<br /><br /><br />Ancient fossils are important. The Book of Mormon, a "supposed ancient record" of the Americas' can only be proven an ancient and accurate record, if it speaks about how conditions were in ancient times. <br /><br />The Book of Mormon speaks of Horses, Elephants, and Camels in the Americas. That the ancient peoples living in the Americas, used those animals to aid them in their daily labours to survive. We know in other ancient cultures, these facts were so. Why would it be any different in America?<br /><br />I'm a professional Horseman, Trainer, Farrier and Showman. I know a good bit about the history of horses in general, and horses in America. What is amazing to me is that science is proving that the other Book of Mormon animals existing as a pure fact!<br /><br />Let's look at Book of Mormon claims and see if the ancient fossils are recorded in the Book of Mormon. Let's look at today’s science headlines, and see if what the Book of Mormon claims to be so, is proven as possibly correct, scientifically. <br /><br />The Surprising History of America's Wild Horses<br />http://www.livescience.com/9589-surprising-history-america-wild-horses.html<br /><br />"Modern horses, zebras, and asses belong to the genus Equus, the only surviving genus in a once diverse family, the Equidae. Based on fossil records, the genus appears to have originated in North America about 4 million years ago and spread to Eurasia (presumably by crossing the Bering land bridge) 2 to 3 million years ago." <br /><br />Book of Mormon-Book of Enos<br /><br />Enos 1:34 And it came to pass that the people of Nephi did till the land, and raise all manner of grain, and of fruit, and flocks of herds, and flocks of all manner of cattle, of every kind, and goats, and wild goats, and also many horses.<br /><br />Book of Mormon-Book of Alma<br />Alma 12:79 Now when King Lamoni heard that Ammon was preparing his horses and his chariots, he was more astonished, because of the faithfulness of Ammon, saying,<br /><br />Are North America’s wild horses native? <br />http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2014/10/07/north-americas-wild-horses-native/#axzz4DvTY5qI7<br /><br />Are wild horses native to the U.S.? A federal court seeks the answer<br />http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/06/wild-horses-nevada-blm-native-species.html<br /><br />Elephants in America-<br /><br />Book of Mormon-Book of Ether<br />Ether 4:21 And they also had horses, and asses, and there were elephants, and cureloms, and cumoms: all of which were useful unto man, and more especially the elephants, and cureloms, and cumoms.<br /><br />Gone But Not Forgotten: Bring Back North American Elephants<br />https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990607154315.htm<br /><br />Lions, Elephants to Roam the U.S. Plains?<br /><br />Fast forward fifty or a hundred years. The ultimate vision is of a vast ecological history park that contains free-roaming elephants, predators, and other large mammals that all, we hope, would serve as proxies for the large vertebrates that were here 13,000 years ago. <br /><br />http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0817_050817_animal_park_2.html<br /><br /><br />The idea that these animals multi millennia ago, before the existence of man, is straightly contradicted by the Bible and Book of Mormon. If the honest researcher wants to type the right key words, he or she can find that man and fabled extinct animals, existed together, and died together, even entombed together. <br /><br />Don't take my word for it, read, research the internet, listen to what all of science has to say. Become literate on the subject. <br /><br />I now the Book of Mormon speaks truly, because I've been reading, studying it, and proving it for years. Let it be known, I'm not a Salt Lake "Mormon" and because of the scripture in the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Inspired Version Bible, pertaining Salt Lake City and the LDS Church, I never will be. Brigham Young Started the Salt Lake Church-directly against Doctrine and Covenants commandment. (my cryptic explanation- if you want to know more, you're going to have to ask me) <br /><br />Pertaining Camels, we know science says Camels are in America. I'm a reader whom reads, but does not always take notes, so I'm going to have to find my Book of Mormon Camel reference for you. <br /><br />I will be getting back with you soon. But with what I've told you,you have enough to think about. What was written by Joseph Smith, a man with a third grade education over 180 years ago, is now<br /> being proven a fact by science.<br /><br />A lucky guess by Joseph Smith? 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<b>The above anti Book of Mormon propaganda DVD created by Living Hope Ministries ( of Utah) in a nutshell purports that there is no</b></div>
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<b>archaeological truth to the Book of Mormon. Having watched it, I laughed!</b></div>
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<b>It only served to strengthen my faith, as they gave me nothing by which to disbelieve the Book of Mormon. Indeed, the DVD and it's creators only confirmed to me the truth of the Book of Mormon. But then, I've read my Books of Mormon. (yes I've several of them) I am an avid Book of Mormon student. </b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does Native American DNA testing support the Book of Mormon? Surprisingly the answer is yes! But let's be practical about DNA... What does 100 generations of intermarriage, between Hebrews and other Native American DNA look like? And is there science to back the idea? For another matter, what did original full blood Hebrew DNA look like 2,400 years ago, when God commanded Israelites to flee Jerusalem shortly before it's destruction.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">And are there modern evidence to back the idea that, "some" Native Americans are of Israelite origins? </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="caption">In 1952 Ruz Lhuillier was excavating the staircase
of the Pyramid Temple when he found a sealed passageway that led to the
burial crypt and sarcophagus of King Pakul. This was the first burial
crypt found in Central America, let alone in a pyramid, and fueled a
debate that the Incas were in some way connected to Egypt. The lid of
the sarcophagus is the depiction of King Pakul.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The answers is yes, and yes again! But we need to do our homework, we each must come to our own conclusions. I'm reporting evidences of what critics and detractors say
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The link pertaining <a href="http://dnaconsultants.com/_blog/DNA_Consultants_Blog/post/Anomalous_Mitochondrial_DNA_Lineages_in_the_Cherokee/">Anomalous Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in the Cherokee</a>. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">A fantastic research read,DNA Consultants of Phoenix Arizona clinical findings soon makes evident many Native American ancestors, and even our white Caucasian ancestors from Europe, originally came from a well known area of the world called the Middle East. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Other words exist to describe Middle East. Words like the Near East, East Asia, and the real intellectual kicker, the little heard geographical term, Euro Asia. All just another way of saying as many as "1/3 of all Native Americans" came from the Israel Palestine area. (quoting National Geographic.) </span></span></b>To read more:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>What's so strange about Indians coming from Jerusalem? Caucasians, or white people or white people as we know them today, came from the Caucasus Mountains also known as Georgia (Europe). The same land once known as ancient Persia.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The first Persians were white. So why not White Indians from Jerusalem? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">This U.S. Government web page documents possible findings that the first Native Americans were of Caucasian ancestory. </span> </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have compiled the news headlines, sources and links which substantiate the Book of Mormon and the Bible story combined. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Key research words for study is Haplogroup X. Other Notables words are Haplogroup T. Both which come from Lebanon, or Egypt. Both Haplogroups, X and T can be found in many Native American Tribes. Other notable key words of reference are Native American Jew, Cherokee Jew and as many as you can imagine. The evidences are in, the Book of Mormon is legit, it has been proven by science. But Science has been to busy to note the Book of Mormon said the same 180 years prior many of these discoveries.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">What is lacking is man's will to admit to the Biblical and scientific proofs. All of which confirm Book of Mormon claims.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">It should also be noted the very same year the anti Book of Mormon DVD was published by Living Hope Ministries, <b>DNA Versus the Book of Mormon</b> in 2007, the </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>American Journal of Human Genetics also in 2007, </b>reported that there was indeed evidences Native Americans came from the Middle East.</span></span><br />
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<b>The results of this study point to the following conclusions. First,
haplogroup X variation is completely captured by two ancient clades that
display distinctive phylogeographic patterns—X1 is largely restricted
to North and East Africa, whereas X2 is spread widely throughout West
Eurasia. Second, it is apparent that the Native American haplogroup X
mtDNAs derive from X2 by a unique combination of five mutations. Third,
the few Altaian (Derenko et al. <sup><a class="bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip jig-ncbipopper" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180497/#RF16" id="__tag_121514910" role="button">2001</a></sup>)
and Siberian haplogroup X lineages are not related to the Native
American cluster, and they are more likely explained by recent gene flow
from Europe or from West Asia. Fourth, the split between “African” X1
and “Eurasian” X2 subhaplogroups of X is phylogenetically as deep as
that within the branches of haplogroup U that also differ profoundly in
their phylogeography. Thus, subhaplogroup U6 is largely restricted to
North Africa (as X1), whereas subhaplogroup U5 is widespread in West
Eurasia (as X2). The phylogeographic patterns and the coalescence times
that we obtained here suggest that the basic phylogenetic structures of
the mtDNA haplogroups in West Eurasia and North Africa are as ancient as
the beginning of the spread of anatomically modern humans in this
region. Finally, phylogeography of the subclades of haplogroup X
suggests that the Near East is the likely geographical source for the
spread of subhaplogroup X2, and the associated population dispersal
occurred around, or after, the LGM when the climate ameliorated.</b> <b><u>The
presence of a daughter clade in northern Native Americans testifies to
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<b>Blog Authors Note:</b> <i>The White Indian "Nephite" connection as spoken in the Book of Mormon, the one and same people discovered in Mayan murals, has quite possibly been discovered in DNA Testing. The below DNA Test Report explains... </i><br />
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of Native American mtDNAs belong to one of four major founding mtDNA
lineages, designated haplogroups "A"-"D." It has been proposed that a
fifth mtDNA haplogroup (haplogroup X) represents a minor founding
lineage in Native Americans. Unlike haplogroups A-D, haplogroup X is
also found at low frequencies in modern European populations. To
investigate the origins, diversity, and continental relationships of
this haplogroup, we performed mtDNA high-resolution RFLP and complete
control region (CR) sequence analysis on 22 putative Native American
haplogroup X and 14 putative European haplogroup X mtDNAs. The results
identified a consensus haplogroup X motif that characterizes our
European and Native American samples. Among Native Americans, haplogroup
X appears to be essentially restricted to northern Amerindian groups,
including the Ojibwa, the Nuu-Chah-Nulth, the Sioux, and the Yakima,
although we also observed this haplogroup in the Na-Dene-speaking
Navajo. Median network analysis indicated that European and Native
American haplogroup X mtDNAs, although distinct, nevertheless are
distantly related to each other. Time estimates for the arrival of X in
North America are 12,000-36,000 years ago, depending on the number of
assumed founders, thus supporting the conclusion that the peoples
harboring haplogroup X were among the original founders of Native
American populations. <b><span style="color: blue;">To date, haplogroup X has not been unambiguously
identified in Asia</span></b>, <u><b>raising the possibility that some Native American
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explorers discover America 1,300 years ahead of Christopher Columbus'
was the headline on page 25 of the DAILY MAIL for Thursday, 10
February 2000. On the same day THE EXPRESS ran a story on page
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Mystery <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">Mountain</span>, Los Lunas, New Mexico. That’s where a fascinating find was discovered with the Hebrew inscription of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">the Ten Commandments</span>. What is amazing about this find, is that the ten commandments
were <b><u>written in a Hebrew script that is so ancient,</u></b> it was last used
around and up to the Babylonian expulsion. This means it was probably
written between 2,500-3,000 years ago! How did this script, as well as
the text of the ten commandments wind up in New Mexico, so many centuries ago? “<a href="http://members.aol.com/KHoeck777/Comstone.html">Over two thousand years before Columbus "discovered" America</a> there were people of semitic origin in New Mexico worshipping the God of Israel. </span></div>
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Adair extrapolated a belief that all Native Americans were the
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incredible story in his book Mikveh Yisrael. He relates a conversation
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The
explorer related how he made contact with the Native Americans but
after trying to communicate with them in every possible European
language, he had no success. Being a Jew, as was his first mate, these
two began to talk amongst themselves in Hebrew. To his utter
amazement, upon hearing him speak Hebrew to his first mate,
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Israeli researchers: Group of Colorado Indians have genetic Jewish roots</h1>
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<span class="date">Sheba Medical Center geneticists have found that a population of Indians
in the U.S. state of Colorado has genetic Jewish roots going back to
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Israel in all of Us? Research finds 'Jewish genes' in unusual places</h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is not a story of Lost Tribes, but of lost history–the
discovery of “Jewish genes” in Hispano Christian populations of the
American Southwest. <a href="http://www.jonentine.com/" title="Jon Entine website">Jon Entine</a>, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Abrahams-Children-Identity-Chosen-People/dp/0446580635">Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People</a>, reports. </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Did ancient Hebrews reach the shores of the North and South
American continents thousands of years before Christopher
Columbus? What evidence is there for Hebrew and Israelite
occupation of the Western Hemisphere even a thousand years
before the Messiah? Was trans-Atlantic commerce and travel
fairly routine in the days of king Solomon of Israel? Read here
the intriguing, fascinating saga of the TRUE DISCOVERERS
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Haplogroup X is found in approximately 7% of native Europeans,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_X_%28mtDNA%29#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> and <u>3% of all Native Americans from North America.</u><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_X_%28mtDNA%29#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup><br />
Overall haplogroup X accounts for about 2% of the population of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_East" title="Near East">Near East</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a>.<br />
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American Indian Sailed to Europe With Vikings?</h1>
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Centuries before Columbus, a Viking-Indian child may have been born in Iceland.</h2>
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James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-32313268877424399622012-09-15T20:56:00.001-07:002014-01-07T08:10:13.100-08:00Spiro Mound ( Sun Cross) Solar Cross<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dear Friends, </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I've not published much corroboratory information about the Book of Mormon lately. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In doing some online searching, I found this wonderful Native American (Sun Cross) Solar Cross. Taken from the Spiro Mound Complex, the artifact indeed confirms Native Americans new about the about the Cross long before Cortez and Columbus sailed to the New World. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To visit website where this picture came from, click below link. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/spiroshell.html" style="background-color: #f1c232;">http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/spiroshell.html</a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;"><br /></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><sup class="versenum" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;"><b>John 10:16 kjv</b></sup></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;"><br /></sup></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">16 </sup>And <u><b>other sheep I have</b></u>, which are <b><u>not of this fold</u></b>: <u><b>them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice</b></u>; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ezekiel 34:</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">6 </sup><b><u>My sheep wandered through all the mountains</u></b>, and upon every high hill: yea, <u><b>my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth</b></u>, and none did search or seek after them.</span></span><br />
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<span class="text John-10-24" id="en-KJV-26506"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">24 </sup><u>Then came the Jews round about him</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text John-10-25" id="en-KJV-26507"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">25 </sup><u>Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text John-10-26" id="en-KJV-26508"><sup class="versenum" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">26 </sup><u style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, as I said unto you.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Engraved conch shell gorget with a "sun circle" design decoration. This specimen was first published by Brown and Hamilton (1965:Plate 4); Brown (1996:594, Figure 2-134j) illustrates this specimen as a type 3 gorget and reports that it measures 16.35 cm in length. The green discoloration on the lower right and upper left corner of the gorget is the traces of a copper stain. Phillips and Brown (1984: Plate 338A) and Brown (1996:594) assign this gorget to Craig C style. Described and published by Brown and Hamilton (1965: 55, Figure 4) as an oblong gorget with the "cross-in-circle" motif.</span></span>James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-60921008281587408742012-05-05T20:44:00.000-07:002012-05-06T19:23:20.775-07:00LDS Versus RLDS Church<br />
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By: Presiding Patriarch, 1938-1958</div>
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Elbert A. Smith</div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Chapter 1 - Introduction</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Question of Uniting</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Restoration - A Belief Common to Both Churches</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Revelation - A Point of Divergence</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Gospel Agreement and Differences</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Zion - Different Perceptions</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Chapter 2 - Conflicting Views Concerning God</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Dogma: “As Man Is, God Once Was”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Brigham Young’s “Adam God” Doctrine</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Two Vastly Different Philosophies</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Doctrine in Contrast</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Chapter 3 - The Question of Polygamy</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Controversy in the Early Years</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Attempt to Implicate Joseph Smith</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Proclamation of the Doctrine by Brigham Young</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Reasons the RLDS Church Will Not Accept the Doctrine</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Polygamy - Not a “Dead Issue”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Polygamy in Practice</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Polygamy: The Bible</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Book of Mormon</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Doctrine and Covenants</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Chapter 4 - Secret Temple Rites</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Rule Under Joseph the Martyr</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Temple Secrecy</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Gospel - Open and Free</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Marriage to the Dead</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Baptism for the Dead</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Chapter 5 - Prophetic Succession and Leadership</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Joseph Smith III Succeeded His Father</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Joseph’s Setting Apart</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Civil Court Rulings</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Joseph Smith III as a Prophet:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">-His Foresight</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">-His Revelations</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">-His Stand on Polygamy</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Were They Prophets?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">-Brigham Young</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">-His Successors</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Doctrine and Covenants - Differences in Continuing Revelation</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Results of Not Keeping the Laws of the Land</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Chapter 1 - Introduction</span></b></div>
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Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Amos 3:3</div>
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There is no question that our relations with the Utah Mormon Church are more amicable than in</div>
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years gone by. Without doubt religious neighbors should endeavor to promote mutual good will and</div>
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minimize ill will.</div>
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<b>A Question Asked Us</b></div>
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Out of this situation has arisen some speculation: as for instance, on numerous occasions members</div>
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of the Utah Mormon Church have asked us if there is any probability or possibility of the two churches</div>
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uniting. There has been absolutely no official approach to this matter such as has been rumored from time</div>
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to time, but the question seems to be teasing the minds of a number of people.</div>
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It would be a bold prophet who would say there is any probability of such a union. On the other</div>
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hand, to say that it is forever impossible might bring pause for reflection to the thoughtful. The time may</div>
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have arrived, however, when the beliefs we have in common and the persistent obstacles that divide us may</div>
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be canvassed fairly without the argumentative heat that formerly accompanied such discussion.</div>
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<b>Back to the Beginning</b></div>
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Seeking first for points of agreement: when we go back in imagination to the historic date of</div>
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organization, April 6, 1830, and walk up the path to the home of Peter Whitmer, members of the two</div>
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churches may sit down at the table as one people - in imagination. But after the meeting of organization, we</div>
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do not travel down the road of time and history even two decades until our paths diverge. In other words,</div>
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when seeking points of agreement we find them first in our mutual belief in the restoration movement.</div>
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Catholics believe in succession, and claim to trace their authority and organic church structure</div>
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back in unbroken succession to the days of Saint Peter. Protestants aver that there came an apostasy and as</div>
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a result they turned their backs on the Catholic hierarchy and pinned their faith on reformation. Latter Day</div>
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Saints believe in restoration. So the two churches under consideration have this in common as</div>
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distinguished from all other so-called Christian denominations - a belief in “the Restoration”.</div>
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<b>The Revelations?</b></div>
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We both believe in the authenticity of the Book of Mormon - though we differ radically in our</div>
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understanding of some of its teachings. We both accept and publish many of the revelations given through</div>
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the Prophet Joseph Smith in our respective versions and editions of the Doctrine and Covenants.</div>
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Divergence comes here at two points. First, the Mormons include in their book some sections,</div>
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most notably a purported revelation on celestial marriage (Section 132) that we challenge. Secondly, our</div>
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Doctrine and Covenants continues to us as an open canon of Scripture and we have added and continue to</div>
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add revelations as they come to us from time to time through the prophet of the church; while the Mormons</div>
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have added nothing to their book of revelations that has been received by them since they set foot on the</div>
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soil of Utah (with the possible exception of the “Manifesto” which was not published as a revelation).</div>
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<b>The Gospel?</b></div>
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On the surface, both churches believe in and affirm the fundamental principles of the gospel,</div>
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commonly referred to as the “first principles.” Both make these the basis of pioneer missionary preaching</div>
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and the basis of their statements of faith and doctrinal belief.</div>
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A difference develops soon when the Mormons set forth the doctrine of “celestial” marriage,</div>
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including polygamy, as an added revelation of doctrine, a “new and everlasting covenant,” through which</div>
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salvation and exaltation are assured - whereas we hold that the principles of the gospel referred to are</div>
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themselves quite adequate to assure salvation and any degree of exaltation possible ever to achieve through</div>
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righteous living in obedience to the will of God.</div>
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<b>Zion?</b></div>
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Probably both churches have a major objective designated by the word “Zion.” Perhaps both</div>
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churches have rather hazy perception of all that is included in that objective. We have come to differ over</div>
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the question of location, at least temporarily so. Ever since their migration to Utah, the Mormons have</div>
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designated it as Zion. We have held to the position that Missouri was designated as Zion, with</div>
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Independence as the central gathering place, and that the revelation is specific: “Zion shall not be moved</div>
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out of her place, notwithstanding her children are scattered” (Doctrine and Covenants 98:4 ; Utah edition,</div>
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101:17).</div>
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It is only fair to add that without doubt both peoples look beyond the immediate horizon to a time</div>
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when Zion shall be established in Missouri. At present and for a long time in the past the Mormons have</div>
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seemed content to entrench themselves in Utah as far as their spiritual headquarters and commercial</div>
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interests are concerned and have talked of it and thought of it as their Zion, while we have given immediate</div>
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attention to gathering in the place designated in the law as Zion and endeavoring there to develop the</div>
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conditions designated as Zionic.</div>
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Thus it will be seen that there is a starting point of common beliefs, with quickly developing</div>
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differences. In subsequent chapters, we shall discuss some of the “differences that persist.”<br />
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<b>Chapter 2 - Conflicting View Concerning God</b><br />
“Eternity will never reveal God’s seal af ixed to two sides of a controverted issue.” - Dr. Joseph Luff<br />
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When we canvass differences, ordinarily we think first of our disagreement on the marriage</div>
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question; but that difference grows out of other differences quite as fundamental. One of these is in our</div>
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understanding of the character of God. The two churches join in the initial statement of the Epitome of</div>
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Faith drafted by Prophet Joseph: “ We believe in God the Eternal Father.” But at the very start when we</div>
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endeavor to interpret the character of God there comes the widest imaginable divergence in views.</div>
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<b>The Dogma: “As Man Is, God Once Was.”</b></div>
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We think of God as eternally unchangeable, and commonly assume that there can scarcely be any</div>
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other view taken. But our Mormon friends do take a very different view. In this we by no means wish to</div>
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misrepresent their position or to indulge in too much argument: our purpose is to fairly set forth the</div>
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differences.</div>
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There has been an axiom current among Mormons for many years: “As man is, God once was; as</div>
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God is, man may become.” Authoritative statements from the pens of responsible church representatives</div>
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published under the direction of high church officials carry this doctrine on down to current times. In a</div>
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book entitled The Articles of Faith (Doctor James E. Talmage, author), published in 1901 from the Deseret</div>
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News Press, Salt Lake City, and bearing on the title page the statement, “prepared by appointment, and</div>
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published by the church,” this appears: “We believe in a God who is himself progressive. ...In spite of the</div>
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opposition of all other sects, in the face of direct charges of blasphemy, the church proclaims the eternal</div>
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truth, ‘As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become’” (pages 442,443).</div>
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In a book entitled Rational Theology, by John A. Widtsoe, published “for the use of the</div>
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Melchisedec priesthood, by the General Priesthood Committee,” Salt Lake City, 1915, this doctrine is</div>
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reiterated: “As man is, God once was” (page 25).</div>
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<b>Brigham Young’s Theology</b></div>
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In Brigham Young’s theology the particular man who progressed to the stature and power of God</div>
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was Adam:</div>
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When our father Adam came into the Garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve,one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is Michael, the Archangel, the Ancient of Days, about whom holy men have written and spoken - he is our father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do. <b>- Brigham Young, in Journal of Discourses, Volume 1, page 50.</b></div>
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<b>Heber C. Kimball, associated in the presidency with Brigham Young, said:</b></div>
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I have learned by experience there is but one God that pertains to this people, and he is the God that pertains to this earth - the first man. - <b>Journal of Discourses, Volume 4, page 1.</b></div>
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This statement might have passed as peculiar to Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball had not</div>
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others espoused it. Their spokesmen in later years, B.H. Roberts, defended that doctrine and expressed</div>
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surprise that anyone <i>“should be so lean of intellect, should have such paucity of understanding as to call it </i><i>into question at all.”</i> “That,” he said, “is what our change of countenance means - not shame for the</div>
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doctrine Brigham Young taught” (B.H. Roberts, in The Mormon Doctrine of Deity, pages 42,43).</div>
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<b>Has God Climbed Up From Man’s Estate?</b></div>
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Not attempting now to hold them to Brigham Young’s doctrine of “Adam God” (unless they wish</div>
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to defend it) we confine our attention to the Mormon position that God is progressive and has climbed up</div>
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from man’s stature and station. As we view the matter this would argue that at one time he was an</div>
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experimenting, blundering personality. Has he passed that stage? Such a process of evolution would also</div>
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carry with it a fair presumption of the possibility of an ensuing process of devolution. Will he presently</div>
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begin a process of decline in power and wisdom?<br />
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<b>Two Vastly Different Philosophies</b></div>
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It might be assumed that it matters little what view we take of the question, since we cannot change</div>
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God’s nature, whatever it may be; but to the contrary, it matters very much. Our whole religious thought</div>
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and life and philosophy of conduct are shaped by our fundamental beliefs concerning God. Two such</div>
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divergent views as those held by the two churches inevitably result in two vastly different systems of</div>
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theology.</div>
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If we think of God as progressive, possibly feeling his way at times through eternity, his personal</div>
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attitudes and his laws may to our mind undergo radical and irreconcilable changes. On the other hand, if we</div>
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believe in an unchangeable God, we expect his law always to correspond with itself and not deviate from</div>
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fundamental principles, and his conduct to be always consistent with itself.</div>
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Our Mormon friends may reconcile their positions to their own satisfaction; but to illustrate our</div>
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own thought: having accepted the law on marriage, for example, as stated in the Book of Mormon and early</div>
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revelations to the church, we cannot accept as coming from the same source the subsequent alleged</div>
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revelation on polygamy.</div>
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<b>Doctrine in Contrast</b></div>
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Note now the conflict between Utah Mormon doctrine on this supremely important matter and the</div>
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Utah Mormonism: “As man is, God once was.”</div>
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Bible: “I am the Lord, I change not.” - Malachi 3:6</div>
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Doctrine and Covenants: “There is a God in heaven...from everlasting to everlasting the same unchangeable</div>
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God.” - Doctrine and Covenants 17:4; Utah edition, 20:17.</div>
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Book of Mormon: “He changeth not, if so, he would cease to be God.” - Book of Mormon 4:82; Utah</div>
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edition 9:19.</div>
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<b>The “New Covenant” of “Celestial Marriage”</b></div>
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Again, correlated with the view of a progressive God is a certain theology concerning the</div>
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progression and exaltation of men. This has been assumed by individual Mormons to include the passing to</div>
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other planets, there to organize and create new worlds and people them, under the law and rule of polygamy</div>
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and celestial marriage.</div>
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Passing by any such uncertain speculations of individuals that the Mormons generally might not</div>
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approve, we go to a source that must be accepted as representing that church; i.e., the statement found in thesection on “celestial marriage” in their edition of the book of Doctrine and Covenants. This alleged</div>
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revelation stipulates that if a man marry a woman according to this law and this “new covenant” and do not</div>
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commit murder, “to shed innocent blood,” they shall come forth in the next world to inherit thrones, and</div>
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kingdoms, and dominions, and I quote: “They shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to</div>
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their exaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fullness</div>
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and a continuation of the seeds for ever and ever” (Utah Doctrine and Covenants 132:19).</div>
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<b>Our Faith Is In The Old Gospel Covenant</b></div>
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This idea of human progression through and under the law of “celestial marriage” and polygamy is</div>
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correlated with the idea of a progressive God and has roots in the document on "celestial marriage" and</div>
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polygamy accepted by the Mormons as a divine revelation. It has no roots at all in our law and theology.</div>
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We hold that men may develop in righteousness into any degree of glory, including the celestial glory,</div>
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through obedience to the fundamental gospel principles which were revealed and in full force in the socalled "new covenant" in the document on celestial marriage.</div>
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Between the idea of a progressive God on the one hand and on the other that of an unchangeable</div>
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God, there seems to be no compromise. Until one church or the other is converted from its present position</div>
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there will remain an insuperable theological barrier between them. It need not be debated with any degree</div>
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of heat or enmity--but it is inescapably there.<br />
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<b>Chapter 3 - The Question of Polygamy</b></div>
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<b>The Beginning of the Controversy</b></div>
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Between the Reorganized Church and the Utah Mormons there has existed a long-drawn-out and</div>
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sometimes heated controversy regarding the doctrine and practice of polygamy. This controversy began</div>
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about the middle of the nineteenth century and the positions of the two churches are strongly set forth in two</div>
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statements dating back to about that time. The first of these was made by Brigham Young when he</div>
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introduced the alleged revelation sanctioning the doctrine to his people during their conference in Salt Lake</div>
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City, August 29, 1852, as follows:</div>
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"You heard Brother Pratt state, this morning, that a revelation would be read this afternoon, which was given</div>
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previous to Joseph's death. It contains a doctrine a small portion of the world is opposed to; but I can deliver a prophecy upon it. Though that doctrine has not been practiced by the elders, this people have believed in it for years....The revelation will be read to you. The principle spoken upon by Brother Pratt, this morning we believe in. And I tell you--for I know it--it will sail over and ride triumphantly above all prejudice and priestcraft of the day; it will be fostered and believed in by the more intelligent portions of the world, as one of the best doctrines ever proclaimed to any people.--<b>Supplement to Millennial Star, Volume 15, page 31.</b></div>
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The second statement is from a revelation given to the pioneer workers of the Reorganized Church at a conference in January, 1853:</div>
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Polygamy is an abomination in the sight of the Lord God: it is not of me; I abhor it....Be ye strong; ye shall</div>
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contend against this doctrine; many will be led into it honestly, for the Devil will seek to establish it, and roll it forth to deceive. They seek to build up their own kingdoms, to suit their own pleasures, but I countenance it not, saith God. I have given my law: I shrink not from my word. My law is given in the book of Doctrine and Covenants, but they have disregarded my law and trampled upon it, and counted it a light thing, and obeyed to not; but my word is the same yesterday as today, and forever.--<b>Church History, Volume 3, page 215</b></div>
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Between these two positions there could be no compromise. There was none. Both could not be</div>
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true. But time has modified feelings to as extent. Our position is now better recognized by the public. The</div>
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issue can be discussed dispassionately. The present attitude of the Mormon authorities in forbidding the</div>
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practice of polygamy has simplified the matter, as that is at least an approach to our own position as</div>
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previously quoted: "Ye shall contend against this doctrine."</div>
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However, they still hold to a belief in the divinity of the doctrine while renouncing its present</div>
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practice, so that the matter still remains a live issue.</div>
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<b>The Question Involving the Prophet Joseph</b></div>
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The controversy between the two churches has involved the question as to whether or not the</div>
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alleged revelation sanctioning the doctrine actually came through the Prophet Joseph Smith. We have</div>
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challenged the claim that he ever practiced polygamy; however, that question is secondary in importance</div>
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and does not directly involve the main issue. As Joseph Smith III said in his pamphlet on The Origin of</div>
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American Polygamy: </div>
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The chief contention of the sons of the Prophet Joseph Smith, however, is not that their father was not a</div>
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polygamist, but that whether he was or not, the dogma and practice are contrary to Scripture, ancient and modern, and are wrong, being contrary to the laws of both God and the United States. That being contrary to the fundamental and organic laws of the church, neither the dogma nor the practice could in any sense become legitimately the faith and practice of the church. No matter who the human author of the doctrine may have been, it was unlawful in every sense of the word, and is yet.--The Origin of American Polygamy, page 4.</div>
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The differences that still persist between the two churches involve, first the introduction of the</div>
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doctrine, and second, its true character, the latter being the more important of the two.</div>
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<b>Proclamation of the Doctrine</b></div>
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Brigham Young promulgated the doctrine of polygamy publicly in Salt Lake City in 1852. It is</div>
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clearly in evidence that the church as an organization during the days of Joseph Smith had never officially</div>
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received or sanctioned the doctrine or practice of polygamy. When, eight years after Joseph's death,</div>
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Brigham Young brought this doctrine before his people he asserted it was predicated on a revelation given</div>
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to Joseph Smith, July 12, 1843. He claimed to have kept this document secretly after the death of Joseph</div>
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Smith until he chose to make it public. He said:</div>
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This revelation has been in my possession many years, and who has known it? None but those who should</div>
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know it. I keep a patent lock on my desk, and there does not anything leak out that should not.--<b>Supplement to Millennial Star, Volume 15, page 31</b></div>
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Unable to produce the original document, he declared that Emma Smith had burned it <b>(Millennial</b></div>
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<b>Star Supplement, Volume 15, page 30)</b>. To this Emma Smith replied that she had never seen such a</div>
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document, and added concerning the story that she had destroyed the original:</div>
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It is false in all its parts, made out of whole cloth, without any foundation in truth.--<b>Church History, Volume </b><b>3, page 352 (The student will do well to read her entire testimony.)</b></div>
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Reorganized Church representatives have vigorously maintained the following facts:</div>
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1. That no word from the pen of Joseph Smith favorable to polygamy is found in any authentic publication</div>
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representing the church prior to his death.</div>
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2. That, to the contrary, the teachings of the Standard Books of the church all enjoin monogamy. These</div>
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books include the Book of Mormon, translated by Joseph Smith; the Doctrine and Covenants, containing</div>
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revelations given through him; and the Inspired Version of the Bible, as corrected by him. These he left to</div>
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the church as its constitutional law, presumably representing his own mind and will as well as the mind and</div>
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will of God. Furthermore, the official organ of the church, the Times and Seasons, shortly before his death,</div>
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contained his signed denunciation of polygamy and notice of expulsion from the church of one who had</div>
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advocated it <b>(Times and Seasons, Volume 5, page 423, see also Volume 5, page 474; Volume 5, pages</b></div>
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<b>490,491).</b></div>
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3. That his wife, Emma, of outstanding reputation for veracity, in her dying testimony denied that her</div>
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husband ever had any other wife or ever sanctioned polygamy. She testified: "No such thing as polygamy,</div>
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or spiritual wifery, was taught, publicly or privately, before my husband's death, that I have now, or ever</div>
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had any knowledge of.... He had no other wife but me; nor did he to my knowledge ever have" <b>(Church</b></div>
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<b>History, Volume 3, pages 355,356).</b> Under the terms of the so-called revelation Joseph could not have</div>
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taken another wife without Emma's knowledge.</div>
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4. That there is no public record of progeny born to Joseph Smith excepting by this on wife, Emma. Judge</div>
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John F. Philips of the Circuit Court of the United States in his Temple Lot decision (1894) commented in</div>
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that fact: "No such marriage ever occurred under the rules of the church, and no offspring came from the</div>
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imputed illicit intercourse, although Joseph Smith was in the full vigor of young manhood and his wife,</div>
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Emma, was giving birth to healthy children in regular order" <b>(Decision of Judge Philips in the Temple Lot</b></div>
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<b>Case, pages 42,43; Federal Reporter, 60:937-959)</b>. </div>
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During July, 1933, Inez Davis, then of the Church Historical Department, prepared a list of the direct posterity of Joseph and Emma Smith. At that time there were 159 living and 31 dead, making a total of 190 descendants born to Joseph Smith through the line of his one wife Emma Hale Smith, and to date no posterity ever in evidence is credited to him from any of the numerous alleged plural wives; 190 to 0 is a heavy score against a system allegedly set up to produce posterity.</div>
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5. That testimony of women who claimed they were his wives shows evidence of fraud and collusion and it</div>
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does not "stand up in court." Two of them, thought to have clearer cases than others, actually did appear in</div>
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person in the Temple Lot Suit and Judge Philips discredited their testimony in his decision (see Decision,</div>
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pages 42,43).<br />
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6. That the motive for deception on the part of Brigham Young and his immediate associates is found in the</div>
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fact that on the twenty-ninth day of August, 1852, when they first brought the alleged "revelation" to light</div>
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they were deeply involved in polygamy and desired to claim the sanction of heaven for their marital</div>
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ventures. No one of them was a prophet. Brigham Young never claimed to be the legal (rightful) prophetic</div>
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successor to Joseph Smith (see page 42 of this tract). Unless he was this rightful successor he had no</div>
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authority to present such a far-reaching revelation to the church. Consequently they invoked the name and</div>
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the memory of Joseph Smith who was revered by the church as a prophet; and at one stroke secured the</div>
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prestige of his and themselves came from under the onus of introducing the system which was destined to</div>
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bring so much grief. On that day in 1852 when Brigham Young introduced the doctrine publicly he was,</div>
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according to Utah biographers, the husband of twenty women. (See Pictures and Biographies of Brigham</div>
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Young and His Wives, copyrighted 1896, and endorsed by the presidency of the Utah church.) This was in</div>
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direct conflict with the constitutional law of the church. Something had to be done. Something was done.</div>
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<b>The Doctrine Not a "Dead Issue"</b></div>
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Repeatedly we are told that this is a dead issue--that polygamy has been renounced by the Mormon</div>
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authorities and the matter need be argued no further. It is not a dead issue, nor can it be so long as their</div>
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book of Doctrine and Covenants goes into all parts of the world bearing as alleged revelation which sets</div>
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forth polygamy (and with equal validity, concubinage) as the will of heaven and says that those who reject</div>
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this document will be damned.</div>
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This issue cannot be called dead so long as our friends among the Mormon missionaries</div>
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everywhere defend the doctrine when pressed in argument, and often when not even questioned about it.</div>
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It is to be noted, too, that beginning with the "Woodruff Manifest," issued September 24,</div>
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1890,which advised the Mormon people to discontinue the practice of polygamy, six successive times the</div>
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chief executives of their church have themselves publicly raised the issue through proclamations indicating</div>
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that the practice was still among their people. (These proclamations were first, the Woodruff Manifesto;</div>
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second, ten years later one by their president, Lorenzo Snow; third, one by their president, John Fielding</div>
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Smith, 1904; a fourth, another by the same president 1910; fifth, a proclamation from their presidency,</div>
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1911; sixth, another by Heber J. Grant and his counselors, 1933.)</div>
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Taking these statements at their face value as sincere, they make it quite clear that polygamous</div>
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tendencies among many of the members have continued with active manifestations sustained over a long</div>
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period of time and apparently beyond church control. Sporadic and isolated cases few in number could be</div>
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dealt with quietly and locally. The church seems unable to stamp this thing out. The matter seems by no</div>
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means to be a "dead issue."</div>
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<b>The Way Toward Better Agreement</b></div>
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It is not conceivable that we shall ever accept the alleged revelation and "new covenant." To</div>
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renounce it will be difficult for the Utah Mormons, because many of its teachings are woven into their</div>
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temple service and their theology. It stands as one of the great obstacles between the two churches. But we</div>
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do cherish the hope that presently it will be dropped from their Doctrine and Covenants and will gradually</div>
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disappear from among the items of difference with which we must reckon. Their present custom of</div>
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forbidding the practice of polygamy and at the same time sending out through the mails this revelation</div>
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which makes beliefs in polygamy mandatory under threat of damnation will involve them in continued</div>
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difficulties.</div>
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<b>Sad Record of Polygamy in Practice</b></div>
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Our Mormon friends (some of them at least) regard the doctrine reverently. We consider it was</div>
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bad in practice and in principle, contrary to the Scriptures. As to its sad effects in practice, we have</div>
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firsthand testimony from its chief exponents of years gone by.</div>
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President J. M. Grant, counselor to Brigham Young and father of President Heber J. Grant,</div>
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declared in a sermon September 21, 1856:</div>
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"If they could break asunder the cable of the church of Christ, there is scarcely a mother in Israel but would do it this day. And they talk it to their husbands, to their daughters, to their neighbors, and say they have not seen a week'shappiness since they became acquainted with that law, or since their husbands took a second wife.--<b>Journal of Discourses, Volume 4, page 50.</b></div>
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<b>Brigham Young in a sermon, September 21, 1856, said:</b></div>
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Men will say, "My wife , though an excellent woman, has not seen a happy day since I took my second wife"; "No, not a happy day for a year," says one; and another has not seen a happy day for five years....I am going to give you from this time to the sixth day of October next, for reflection, that you may determine whether you wish to stay with your husbands or not, and the I am going to set every woman at liberty, and say to them, Now go your way, my women with the rest, go your way. And my wives have got to do one of two things; either round up their shoulders to endure the afflictions of this world, and live their religion, or they may leave, for I will not have them about me. I will go into Heaven alone rather than have them scratching and fighting around me.--<b>Journal of Discourses, Volume 4, pages 55-57.</b></div>
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This is not the testimony of prejudiced men looking in from the outside. This is the testimony of</div>
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leaders and advocates of the system, the most accurate picture obtainable of what it was like in practice.</div>
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The foregoing is in full accord with the picture that Jacob drew in the Book of Mormon when</div>
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denouncing the polygamy of the Nephites: "Ye have broken the hearts of your wives,...and the sobbings of</div>
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their hearts ascend up to God against you" (Jacob 2:46).</div>
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Disastrous as was the experience in these polygamous homes, the effect upon the whole Mormon</div>
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church was no less grievous. In as official article published in the Deseret News, June 17, 1933, their</div>
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president, Heber J. Grant, reviewed the troubles that were brought upon them (not through persecution but</div>
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through governmental prosecution). I quote:</div>
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"During the entire period of the presidency of John Taylor, 1880 to 1887, relentless prosecution of men who</div>
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had entered into the relationship of plural marriage was intensified. Under the provisions of the Edmunds-Tucker law the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was disincorporated, the Perpetual Emigration Fund Company was dissolved and all property belonging to the church, with the exception of buildings used exclusively for religious worship, was escheated to the government. Hundreds of men who had contracted plural marriages were heavily fined and imprisoned. All persons who could not subscribe to a test oath which was provided especially for those who practiced or believed in the practice of plural marriage were disfranchised. It became obvious that no human power could prevent the disintegration of the church, except upon a pledge by its members to obey the laws which had been enacted prohibiting the practice of polygamy.</div>
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Out of such conditions, born of desperate inability to do otherwise, came the "Woodruff</div>
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Manifesto" renouncing the practice of polygamy. All of this domestic and church grief might have been</div>
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avoided had they heeded the commandment: "Thou shalt love thy wife with all thy heart, and shall cleave</div>
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unto her and none else" (Doctrine and Covenants 42:7; Utah edition 42:22). It might have been avoided</div>
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had they heeded the prophetic warning through the Reorganized Church concerning this doctrine: "You</div>
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shall contend against it."</div>
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<b>Polygamy in the Light of Scriptures</b></div>
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Let us consider this polygamy in the light of the Scriptures.</div>
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<b>The Bible</b></div>
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In years gone by a series of three brochures was published by three of the sons of the prophet</div>
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Joseph Smith: One Wife or Many, by Joseph Smith III; Polygamy: Was It an Original Tenet of the Church?</div>
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by Alexander H. Smith, and The Bible vs. Polygamy, by David H. Smith.</div>
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Joseph Smith III emphasized three outstanding facts from Book of Mormon and biblical history:</div>
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that when God moved directly and personally to people or repeople the earth or a large portion of it, he</div>
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three times began the work with one wife and not several for each man involved.</div>
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This secures a threefold cord of evidence. First; the creation, one man, one woman in marriage. Second; the</div>
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repeopling of the earth by Noah and his sons, each with one wife only. Third; the settling of a new land by Lehi and his family, each man with on wife.--<b>One Wife or Many, page 3.</b><br />
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In the light of these three divine precedents there seems little ground for the familiar argument that</div>
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polygamy in modern times was necessary in order to people the territory of Utah. David H. Smith in his analysis also cites first the historic precedent of Adam.</div>
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The earth was all before this people and needed cultivation, filling up with a goodly seed, and God chose</div>
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through the one-wife system to bring it about.--<b>The Bible vs. Polygamy, page 2.</b></div>
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The prophet Malachi commenting on that historic precedent says:</div>
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And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the Spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a</div>
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godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.-<b>-Malachi2:15</b></div>
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It is true that certain of the old biblical characters were involved in polygamy, and a case may be</div>
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built up in its defense until the instances cited are examined critically and are found to be of no value as</div>
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precedent. As for example:</div>
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Abraham's wife, Sarah, grew old without children and to remedy the situation she persuaded</div>
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Abraham to take a servant, Hagar, as consort (Genesis 16:1, 2). Afterward, when the bondwoman, Hagar,</div>
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had borne a child (Ishmael) Sarah became jealous and admonished her spouse to put the second woman</div>
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away: "Cast out this bondwoman and her son" (Genesis 21:10). Now for the first time in this whole matter</div>
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God speaks, and he admonishes Abraham to do as his wife has told him to do (Genesis 21:12). God did not</div>
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command Abraham to go into polygamy; he commanded him to come out of polygamy, if it might be called</div>
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polygamy. As a matter of fact while Sarah gave Hagar "to be a wife," God did not recognize her as a wife;</div>
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he commanded her to be put away and said her son should not be an heir equal to the son of the free woman <b>(Galations 4:30).</b></div>
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Hagar evidently was concubine, not wife. A poor precedent to follow.</div>
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The case of Jacob is cited as a classical precedent. In this case Jacob loved Rachael and served</div>
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seven years for her and evidently married her (Genesis 29:21,22). But her father, Laban, on the marriage</div>
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night, under cover of darkness, imposed upon him the older sister, Leah. Thus came Jacob into polygamy</div>
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by the duplicity of a godless but crafty father-in-law. Afterward, in jealous controversy, these two sisters</div>
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each gave him another woman to wife. God appears nowhere in the whole entourage. A sad precedent to</div>
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follow.</div>
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The examples of David and Solomon are cited. Of them the Book of Mormon says: "David and</div>
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Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord"</div>
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(Jacob 2:33). To believers in the Book of Mormon that pronouncement robs the precedent of virtue.</div>
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As a matter of fact, David and Solomon and other kings of like type were in violation of the</div>
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historic precedent set by the Lord in the case of Adam and Noah, and also in violation of the written law</div>
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governing the kings and priests of Israel. The law for the king was:</div>
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Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to</div>
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himself silver and gold.--<b>Deuteronomy 17:17</b></div>
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<b>Wives he was not to multiply at all.</b></div>
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<b>The Book of Mormon</b></div>
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The teachings of the Book of Mormon are definite and clear. The book of Jacob contains this</div>
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instruction as given to the Nephites:</div>
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For behold, thus saith the Lord, This people began to wax in iniquity; they understand not the scriptures: for</div>
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they seek to excuse themselves in committing whoredoms, because of the things which were written concerning David, and Solomon his son. Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord, wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph. Wherefore, I, the Lord God, will not suffer that this people shall so like unto them of old. Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it by one wife; and concubines he shall gave none: For I, the Lord God, delighteth in the chastity of women.--<b>Jacob 2:32-36; Utah edition, 2:23-28.</b></div>
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<b>The Doctrine and Covenants</b></div>
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Certainly in the beginning of the church in these later times the Lord sought "to raise up a righteous people." In fact he gave to them this instruction:</div>
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And that ye might escape the power of the enemy, and be gathered unto me a righteous people, without spot</div>
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and blameless: wherefore, for this cause I gave unto you the commandment, that you should go to the Ohio: and there I will give unto you my law.--<b>Doctrine and Covenants 38:7; Utah edition, 38:31,32.</b></div>
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This was given January, 1831. They were to go to the Ohio and there the Lord would give the law</div>
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that should enable them to raise up a righteous people, without spot and blameless. This was in accord with</div>
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the Book of Mormon statement: </div>
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"For if I will, saith the Lord of hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people: <b>(Jacob 2:39; Utah edition, 2:30). </b></div>
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They gathered to Ohio as commanded, and there the revelation of February, 1831 was given and on the marriage question it said: Thou shalt love they wife with all thy heart, and shall cleave unto her and none else.--<b>Doctrine and Covenants 42:7; Utah 42:22</b>.</div>
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This law is not capable of successful misrepresentation. It was very well understood. And with it</div>
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in mind the church in 1835 drafted and adopted the marriage covenant which requires this pledge to be</div>
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taken: </div>
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<i>"You both mutually agree to be each other's companion, husband and wife, observing the legal rights </i><i>belonging to this condition: that is, keeping yourselves wholly for each other, and from all others, during </i><i>you lives?"</i> <b>(Doctrine and Covenants 111:2. In Utah editions until 1876.)</b></div>
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This same document, approved by the General Assembly of 1835, made a further declaration:</div>
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<i>We declare that we believe that one man should have one wife: and one woman but one husband, except in </i><i>case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again.</i>--<b>Doctrine and Covenants 111:4.</b></div>
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This section remained in the Utah editions of the Doctrine and Covenants until 1876. It continues</div>
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its place in our Doctrine and Covenants as representing the law of the church from its beginning until now.</div>
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Still further instruction is found in the following:</div>
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"And again, I say unto you, that whoso forbiddeth to marry, is not ordained of God, for marriage is ordained</div>
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of God unto man; wherefore it is lawful that he should have one wife, and they twain shall be one flesh, and all this that the earth might answer the end of its creation; and that it might be filled with the measure of man, according to his creation before the world was made.--<b>Doctrine and Covenants 49:3; Utah edition, 49:15-17.</b></div>
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Conclusion</div>
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The preponderance of evidence is all in favor of one wife rather than many. No dubious precedents from the Old Testament can overthrow the clear-cut law that runs through the Tree Books. No modern revelation of dubious origin and clandestine introduction to the Saints should stand for a moment against the clear and clean law of the Lord.</div>
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<b>Chapter 4 - Secret Temple Rites</b></div>
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<b>In secret have I said nothing.--Jesus (John 18:20).</b></div>
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If they shall say unto you,...he is in the secret chambers, believe it not.--<b>Jesus (Matthew 24:26).</b></div>
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The two churches under discussion both believe in temple building but differ widely as to the</div>
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conditions under which temples may be built. We hold to the belief that a specific commandment from</div>
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heaven is required in each instance when a temple is to be erected to God. The Mormons hold that no such</div>
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specific revelation is required. Brigham Young claimed that none was needed when the famous temple in</div>
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Salt Lake City was built and none was received. At the time Brigham Young said:</div>
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"Some might query whether a revelation had been given to build a house to the Lord, but he is a wicked and</div>
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slothful servant who doeth nothing but what his Lord commandeth, when he knoweth his master's will. I know a temple is needed, and so do you: and when we know a thing, why do we need a revelation to compel us to do that thing? If the Lord and all the people want a revelation, I can give one concerning this temple. In a few days I shall be able to give a plan of the temple on paper, and then if all heaven, or any good man on the earth will suggest any improvements, we will receive and adopt them.--<b>Millennial Star, Volume 15, page 391.</b></div>
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<b>The Rule Under Joseph The Martyr</b></div>
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In contrast to his position it will be noted that when a temple was to be built at Kirtland and later in</div>
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Independence direct revelations commanding such building were received; similarly when one was to be</div>
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built at Nauvoo. When the Saints attempted to build a temple at Far West, Joseph stopped the work, and</div>
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Andrew Jensen, historical writer for the Utah church, gives the reason:</div>
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"When Joseph arrived he counseled that the building of that house should be postponed until the Lord should</div>
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reveal it to be his will to have it commenced".--<b>Historical Record, Volume 7, page 434.</b></div>
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Here we have an unbroken line of precedents, all of which accord with our interpretation of the law</div>
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regarding temple building: "My holy house, which my people are always commanded to build in unto my</div>
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holy name"<b> (Doctrine and Covenants 107:12; Utah edition 124:39).</b></div>
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The Kirtland Temple remains the one house of the Lord standing thus, built in obedience to direct</div>
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divine commandment as a temple to his service; and consistent with our position it has descended by legal</div>
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decision to the possession of the Reorganized Church as the successor in full accord with the teaching and</div>
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practices of the church under Joseph the Martyr.</div>
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<b>Temple Service</b></div>
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Probably there is as wide a divergence of views concerning the temple service as we have noted</div>
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regarding temple building. No "Gentile" is admitted to the temple in Salt Lake City, and members must</div>
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have duly accredited credentials to gain admittance. The temple ritual is secret.</div>
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In the Kirtland Temple of the Reorganized Church, there are no secret meetings of any kind, no</div>
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secret rites, ceremonies, oaths, or practices. All meetings are open to the public, and no parts of the</div>
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building are closed to the public; everything may be visited under guide service.</div>
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<b>The Gospel Open and Free</b></div>
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In the Reorganized Church the gospel is a thing open and free. Not one of the sacraments and</div>
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ordinances: baptism, confirmation, blessing, administration to the sick, marriage, and the sacrament of the</div>
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Lord's Supper, is secret. Their nature may be freely revealed to the world. They are not guarded by secret</div>
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oaths or obligations or secret covenants.</div>
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Even the covenant of marriage is set forth in its exact terms in the section on marriage published in</div>
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the Book of Doctrine and Covenants during the life of Joseph Smith, 1835 edition. This covenant was</div>
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approved by the church and published to the world, by approval of the prophet, with the specific</div>
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commandment that marriage should by solemnized in a "public meeting." Buy no means was it to be a secret</div>
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ceremony hidden from the knowledge of men.<br />
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We feel that secrecy is not and was not a part of the divine plan. Jesus taught his apostles certain</div>
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things privately, but sent them out under the specific commandment to teach these things to all men,</div>
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teaching them "all things whatsoever I have commanded you" <b>(Matthew 28:20).</b> Nothing secret! Nothing</div>
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hidden! As Paul said: "This thing was not done in a corner"<b> (Acts 26:26).</b></div>
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<b>Jesus Warned Against "Secret Chambers"</b></div>
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Jesus declared: "I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple,</div>
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whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing" <b>(John 18:20)</b>. (Even in the temple he had</div>
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nothing secret.)</div>
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Jesus himself gave us a direct warning to apply to us in the latter days: "Wherefore if they shall say</div>
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unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers: believe it not"</div>
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<b>(Matthew 24:26).</b></div>
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<b>Married To the Dead, Etc.</b></div>
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Concerning specific works done in the Mormon temple, there seems no prospect of reaching an</div>
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accord. For example, the sealing of men by proxy in marriage to a number of women deceased; and vice</div>
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versa, the sealing of a number of women by proxy to dead men. Without doubt in years gone by numbers of</div>
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women were thus sealed by proxy to Joseph Smith long after his death. All of this has no appeal to us--and</div>
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never will have. To put the matter very mildly, our reaction is decidedly adverse.</div>
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Heber J. Grant, onetime president of the Utah Mormon church, was born twelve years</div>
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after the death of Joseph the Martyr, and yet the Utah Mormons have soberly set forth the claim that he is a</div>
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son of the Martyr because his mother is alleged to have been "sealed" to the Martyr some ten years after his</div>
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(Joseph's) death. And so this astounding conclusion is reached regarding the Mormon church as under the</div>
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presidency of Heber J. Grant: "The church has a president who is the son of the prophet of God who was the First President of the church one hundred years ago" <b>(Comprehensive History of the Church, by Brigham H.Roberts).</b></div>
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Here seems to be a rather desperate and absurd effort to tie up to the doctrine of "lineage" and find</div>
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for their presidency a descendant of the prophet. Emma Smith, lawful wife of the prophet, left him a</div>
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posterity of more than one hundred and ninety souls; the numerous alleged polygamous wives that have</div>
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been ascribed to him left none--not one. The above-mentioned belated attempt to find for him a son in Utah</div>
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born out of due season through the mystical ceremonies of celestial marriage to occupy as president opens</div>
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up avenues of vague absurdities that we cannot enter.</div>
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Concerning baptism for the dead we would differ widely as to the conditions under which it might</div>
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be observed, and the procedure. Their procedure, as we are creditably informed, is to search out carefully</div>
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and methodically a man's genealogy, noting names of ancestors and relatives who died without having heard</div>
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and accepted the gospel. Then the individual or some other acting for him is baptized for these people, or</div>
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for other friends in whom he has had interest.</div>
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When we have asked if there is any certain knowledge that those gone on before have in each</div>
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instance accepted the gospel in the realms of the spirit world and actually desired to be baptized and</div>
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enrolled as members of the Mormon church, we have been told that there is no such certain knowledge, but</div>
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that if and when these individuals so accept the gospel the baptism will have been performed and on record</div>
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and its efficacy will be ready for them to lay hold upon. This does not appeal to our reason by virtue of any</div>
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adequate instruction found in the revelations from God; it rings no bell in our consciousness of the divine</div>
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approval upon human actions.</div>
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If the logic holds good for the dead it should hold good for the living; and a man might be baptized</div>
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for living relatives and friends without number who have not yet received or perhaps even heard the gospel</div>
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and if and when they did accept it the baptism would be a matter record and ready for their acceptance.</div>
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<b>Poles Apart in This Matter</b></div>
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With all due deference to the belief of our Mormon friends that their temple ceremonies are sacred</div>
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and approved of God, we cannot so regard them. The two churches are poles apart on these matters</div>
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<b>Chapter 5 - Prophetic Succession and Leadership</b></div>
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A long-standing controversy has existed between the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter</div>
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Day Saints and the Utah Mormons. That controversy involves the whole question of church organization</div>
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and priesthood but centers around the question of succession in the prophetic office of the president of the</div>
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church.</div>
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Following the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith the Saints were scattered in groups,</div>
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literally north, south, east, and west. Brigham Young with his followers migrated westward. En route, at</div>
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Winter Quarters, he was by vote of a group of his followers elevated to the presidency of their organization.</div>
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So far as we are able to learn he never claimed any revelation authorizing the call nor was there any</div>
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ordination to the office of president. It was a matter of election by the vote of his people. He himself said:</div>
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Who ordained me to be the First President of this church on earth? I answer, it is the choice of this people,</div>
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and that is suf icient.--<b>Millennial Star, Volume 16, page 442.</b></div>
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In marked contrast to the foregoing is his own statement regarding the calling of Joseph Smith:</div>
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"Who called Joseph to be a prophet? Did the people or God? God, and not the people called him"</div>
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<b>(Church History {Utah}, Volume 5, page 521).</b></div>
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<b>President Joseph Smith Succeeded His Father</b></div>
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Joseph Smith III, eldest son of the Martyr, came to the presidency of the Reorganized Church in</div>
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1860. Previously there had been an acting or provisional president. <b>(See Church History, Volume 3, pages </b><b>209, 213, 233.)</b> he came as successor to his father in line with the following:</div>
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The president of the church, who is also president of the council [High Council], is appointed by revelation,</div>
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and acknowledged, in his administration, by the voice of the church.--<b>Doctrine and Covenants 99:6; Utah edition 102:9.</b></div>
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And now I say unto you, as pertaining to my boarding house, which I have commanded you to build, for the</div>
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boarding of strangers, let it be built unto my name, and Let my name be named upon it, and let my servant Joseph and his house have place therein, from generation to generation; for this anointing have I put upon his head, that his blessing shall also be put upon the head of his posterity after him; and as I said unto Abraham, concerning the kindreds of the earth, even so I say unto my servant Joseph, In thee, and in thy seed, shall the kindred of the earth be blessed.--<b>Doctrine and Covenants 107:18; Utah edition 124:56-58</b>.</div>
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<b>Set Apart By His Father</b></div>
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During the lifetime of his father, President Joseph Smith had by his father been blessed and set</div>
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apart as his successor and had been presented to the church at Nauvoo by the father and declared to be his</div>
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successor. Following is the testimony of James Whitehead of honorable repute, onetime secretary to Joseph</div>
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the Martyr, and for many years in later life a resident of Lamoni, Iowa. It is a sworn statement made during</div>
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the Temple Lot Suit before Judge Philips:</div>
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I recollect a meeting that was held in the winter of 1843, at Nauvoo, Illinois, prior to Joseph Smith's death, at which the appointment was made by him, Joseph Smith, of his successor. His son Joseph was selected as his successor. Joseph Smith did the talking. There were present Joseph and Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, and some other who also spoke on the subject; there were twenty-five I suppose at the meeting. At that meeting Joseph Smith, the present presiding officer of the complainant church, was selected by his father as his successor. He was ordained and anointed at that meeting. Hyrum Smith, the Patriarch, anointed him, and Joseph his father blessed him and ordained him, and Newell K. Whitney poured the oil on his head, and he was set apart to be his father's successor in office, holding all the powers that his father held. I cannot tell all the persons that were present, there was a good many there. John Taylor and Willard Richards, they were two of the "Twelve," Ebenezer Robinson was present, and George J. Adams, Alpheus Cutler, and Reynolds Cahoon. I cannot tell them all; I was there too.--<b>Plaintiff's Abstract, Temple Lot Suit, page 28.</b></div>
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To this is added the testimony of John H. Carter of Provo, Utah, during the same Temple Lot Suit:<br />
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Joseph Smith came on the stand [in Nauvoo] leading his son, young Joseph, and they sat him down on a</div>
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bench at the prophet's right hand, and Joseph got up and began to preach and to talk to the people, and the question he said was asked by somebody, "If Joseph Smith should be killed or die, who would be his successor?" And he turned around and said, pointing to his son, "There is the successor," and he went on and said, "My work is pretty nearly done," and that is about all he said in regard to his son. He said in answer to a question that was asked as to who should be his successor in case he should be killed or die, and he pointed to his son, young Joseph, who was sitting there, at his side, and said: "There is your leader."--<b>Plaintiff's Abstract, pages 180,181.</b></div>
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This was similar to the blessing previously pronounced at Liberty jail, of which Joseph III bore</div>
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witness, his testimony being supported by that of Lyman Wight. The following is from the pen of "Young"</div>
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Joseph:</div>
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In Liberty jail the promise and blessing of a life of usefulness to the cause of truth was pronounced upon our</div>
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head, by lips tainted by dungeon damps, and by the Spirit confirmed through attesting witnesses.</div>
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This blessing has by some been called an ordination, from the usual predilection to confound names and</div>
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terms. The blessing which marked Moses as the deliverer from Egyptian bondage, was not that which Jethro</div>
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pronounced upon his head. Subsequent to our baptism in 1843, upon two occasions was the some blessing confirmed by Joseph Smith, once in the council room in the brick store on the banks of the Mississippi, of which we have not a doubt there are witnesses who would confirm the present testimony; once, in the last interview Joseph Smith held with his family before he left Nauvoo to his death. A public attestation of the same blessing was made form the stand in the grove in Nauvoo, some time prior to the murder in Carthage.--<b>True Latter Day Saints'Herald, Volume 14, page 105.</b></div>
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<b>Sustained in Civil Courts</b></div>
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The question of succession has twice come before the civil courts and in both instances the</div>
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Reorganized Church has been sustained as the successor to the original church presided over by the martyr,</div>
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Joseph Smith. Briefly quoting from the decision in the Kirtland Temple Suit, 1880:</div>
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And the Court do further find that the Plaintiff, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,</div>
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is the True and Lawful continuation of, and successor to the said original Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, organized in 1830, and is entitled in law to all its rights and property.--<b>Court of Common Pleas, Lake County, Ohio (see journal entry, February term, 1880).</b></div>
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The other decision was rendered in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District</div>
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of Missouri in the Temple Lot Suit, 1894. In general terms it accords with the decision quoted above.</div>
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We are not now concerned with a detailed discussion of the legal or technical questions involved</div>
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in succession. They were ably argued between Brigham H. Roberts for the Mormons and Heman C. Smith</div>
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We wish to examine some phases of the question of succession in the prophetic office by other tests.</div>
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<b>Tests of Prophetic Prescience</b></div>
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The prophet does not alone foretell future events. His mission is to reveal, interpret, and teach the</div>
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will of God. Brigham Young it is claimed was an able leader and organizer in commercial and business</div>
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matters. He amassed wealth himself and developed a remarkable community. His achievements as an</div>
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"empire builder" are often pointed to as an evidence of prophetic leadership. We would not in any way</div>
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belittle his record in that matter; but it has been equaled if not surpassed more than once by pioneer "empire</div>
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builders" who made no claim to divine leadership. Judged by political power, holdings of land and wealth.</div>
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and business acumen, the Catholic Church outranks us all--but is the pope a prophet of God? A prophet is</div>
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tested by other standards than these--fortunately for John the Baptist and Jesus, the one owning a robe of</div>
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<b>President Joseph Smith Led Back To Zion</b></div>
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Joseph Smith III never amassed wealth nor gave his time or powers to that task. He did lead his</div>
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driven. He did this in direct fulfillment of the Lord's promise and commission:</div>
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Zion shall not be moved out of her place, notwithstanding her children are scattered, they that remain and are</div>
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pure in heart shall return and come to their children, with songs of everlasting joy; to build up the waste places of Zion.--<b>Doctrine and Covenants 98:4; Utah edition 101:17,18.</b></div>
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<b>His Revelation</b></div>
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In the place appointed for the gathering he so revealed, interpreted, and taught the will of God, that</div>
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He was the prophet, but first of all he was the Christian gentleman and the good citizen. As such he lived, as such he died, as such he will be remembered by all outside the household of his faith.... Kindly, cheerful, loyal to his own creed, tolerant of those of others, standing for modesty, simplicity, good citizenship, embodying in his private and public life all the virtues which adorn a character worthy of emulation--such</div>
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is the revelation which Joseph Smith leaves to the world, as the real interpretation of an ecclesiastical message translated into terms of human character.--<b>Kansas City Journal, December 12, 1914.</b></div>
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He left no great estate, founded no vast commercial enterprises. He did fulfill the prophetic</div>
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promise of the return to Zion. He brought his people back, organized them, began the work of final</div>
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redemption; and in the land where his people formerly could not dwell on penalty of death he cleared the</div>
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good name of the church, redeemed the reputation of his father, and in his own personal life gave such a</div>
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"revelation" of the "ecclesiastical message" of the Restoration that he won from a formerly hostile</div>
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community the tribute just quoted.</div>
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<b>The Prophetic Test On A Great Moral Issue</b></div>
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Very early there developed the widest imaginable difference in prophetic teaching and leadership</div>
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between Brigham Young and Joseph Smith III on a great moral issue.</div>
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That issue need not be discussed again at this time. Suffice it to say that on the marriage question</div>
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Brigham Young declared that polygamy was of God and would ride triumphantly above all the prejudice</div>
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and priestcraft of the day <b>(Supplement of Millennial Star, Volume 15, page 31).</b></div>
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President Joseph Smith from the beginning of his ministry repudiated that doctrine and adhered always to the revelation given to his people:</div>
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Polygamy is an abomination in the sight of the Lord God: it is not of me; I abhor it....Be strong; ye shall</div>
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contend against this doctrine.--<b>Church History, Volume 3, page 215.</b></div>
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He was in full prophetic accord with the voice of the prophet Jacob in the Book of Mormon.</div>
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David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the</div>
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Lord.--<b>Jacob 2:33.</b></div>
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Which man stands vindicated as a prophet by the arbitrament of time? Today, in Utah, where</div>
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Brigham Young spoke the words previously quoted the practice of polygamy is condemned and forbidden</div>
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by his own church, his followers are excommunicated by his own consent if not at the instigation of his own</div>
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church leaders, declare polygamy to be a felony.</div>
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A prophet can afford to rate low in financial and commercial matters--he cannot afford to be wrong</div>
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on great moral issues.</div>
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<b>Were They Prophets?</b></div>
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Was Brigham Young the legal successor to Joseph Smith, and as such, the true prophet and leader</div>
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of the church? He had certain traits we may admire. One of them was a terse frankness. On the question at</div>
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issue he said tersely and frankly:<br />
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The brethren testify that Brother Brigham is Brother Joseph's legal successor. You never heard me say so. I</div>
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say I am a good hand to keep the dogs and wolves out of the flock.--J<b>ournal of Discourses, Volume 8, page 69.</b></div>
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With equal blunt frankness and with a touch of pathos, he said:</div>
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I do not profess to be a prophet. I never called myself so; but I actually believe I am, because people are all</div>
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the time telling me that I am.--<b>Journal of Discourses, Volume 5, page 176.</b></div>
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Still again with becoming humility, when a motion was pending to sustain him as "prophet, seer, and revelator," he declared:</div>
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I will say that I never dictated the latter part of the sentence. I make this remark because those words in that</div>
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connection always made me feel as though I am called more than I am deserving of. I am Brigham Young, an apostle of Joseph Smith, and also of Jesus Christ. If I have been profitable to this people I am glad of it. The brethren call me so; and if it be so, I am glad.--<b>Journal of Discourses, Volume 5, page 296.</b></div>
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We do not doubt that he had at one time been called to be an apostle, as he said--but we also doubt</div>
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not his confession that he did not honestly judge himself to be a prophet or the successor to Joseph the</div>
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Martyr. He felt out of line, and he was out of line of his original calling.</div>
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<b>Startling Admissions</b></div>
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At least one of the successors to Brigham Young is on record in his own words; namely, Joseph</div>
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Fielding Smith, their president from 1901 to 1918. (Joseph F. Smith was not a descendant of the Joseph</div>
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Smith who founded the church; he was a son of Hyrum Smith.) When he appeared before the United States</div>
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Senate committee of investigation in the Reed Smoot case (1903-1904) he went on record as follows,</div>
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Mr. Smith. - I have never pretended to nor do I profess to have received revelations. I never said I had a</div>
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revelation except so far as God has shown to me that so-called Mormonism is God's divine truth; that is all <b>(Volume 1, page 99).</b></div>
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<b>Senator Dubois.</b> - Have you received any revelation from God, which has been submitted by you and the</div>
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apostles to the body of the church in their semiannual conference, which revelation has been sustained by that conference through the upholding of their hands?</div>
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<b>Mr. Smith</b>. - Since when?</div>
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<b>Senator Dubois</b>. - Since you became president of the church.</div>
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<b>Mr. Smith.</b> - No, sir; none whatever <b>(Volume 1, page 483).</b></div>
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<b>Senator Dubois.</b> - Then you do not know whether you have received any such revelation as you have</div>
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described, or whether you have or not?</div>
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<b>Mr. Smith.</b> - Well, I can say this. That if I live as I should in the line of my duties, I am susceptible, I think,</div>
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of the impressions of the Spirit of the Lord upon my mind at any time, just as any good Methodist or any other good church member might be. And so far as that is concerned, I say yes; I have had impressions of the Spirit upon my mind very frequently, but they are not in the sense revelations <b>(Volume 1, page 484).</b></div>
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This strange confession was made under oath in the capital of the nation while the people of the</div>
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nation were watching the investigation of the Senate committee with the keenest interest. A more spectacular and public confession could hardly by imagined. It is obvious why the man under consideration could not be expected to receive revelation, neither he nor his successors in office-one reason being indicated in the following paragraphs.</div>
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During the hearing before the Senate committee, before referred to, Joseph F. Smith made the</div>
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<b>The chairman</b>.- Do you obey the law in having five wives at this time, and having them bear you eleven</div>
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<b>Mr. Smith.</b>- Mr. Chairman, I have not claimed that in that case I have obeyed the law of the land <b>(Volume 1, page 197).</b></div>
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<b>Senator Overman.</b>- Is there not a revelation that you shall abide by the laws of the state and of the land?</div>
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<b>Mr. Smith.</b>- Yes, sir.</div>
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<b>Senator Overman.</b>- If that is a revelation, are you not violating the laws of God?</div>
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<b>Mr. Smith.</b>- I have admitted that, Mr. Senator, a great many times here <b>(Proceedings in the Smoot Case, </b><b>Volume 1, pages 334, 335).</b></div>
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So far as the record shows the confession made by Joseph F. Smith that he had received no</div>
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revelation might also have been made by all of the other successive presidents of the Utah Church.</div>
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<b>The Book of Doctrine and Covenants</b></div>
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Today the Doctrine and Covenants as published by the Utah Mormon Church contains nothing</div>
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claiming to be a revelation coming through any of their presidents since they entered what is now the state</div>
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of Utah; of such it is sterile and barren.</div>
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A single exception might be the "Woodruff Manifesto" forbidding the practice of polygamy. At</div>
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the time it was published it was not put forth as a revelation - merely as an official "manifesto" issuing from</div>
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the president of the church. It was never to our knowledge approved by that church as a revelation.</div>
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However, if it is now claimed to be a revelation it is more in accord with the time-honored position of the</div>
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The book of Doctrine and Covenants as published by the Reorganized Church continues an open</div>
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canon of Scripture to which have been added the revelations that have come through the successive</div>
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presidents of the church in full accord with Latter Day Saint belief in continued revelation.</div>
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<b>Where Lay Prophetic Leadership?</b></div>
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Was it inspired and prophetic leadership that brought the Utah Church under Federal prosecution</div>
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at the turn of the century? We cannot believe it was. We cannot think of these events as persecution,</div>
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contrary to law, such as was encountered in Missouri and Nauvoo; thus we are compelled to feel was</div>
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prosecution, under the law - a thing vastly different.</div>
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The divine edict was clear, "Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of</div>
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God hath no need to break the laws of the land" <b>(Doctrine and Covenants 58:5; Utah edition 58:21).</b></div>
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Had these men kept the laws of the land and taught their people so to do, incalculable grief might</div>
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have been spared them, and great reproach been saved all people who believe in the Restoration movement.</div>
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Prophetic leadership lay with the presidents of the Reorganization. In both 1861 and 1905 the</div>
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prophetic leaders of the Reorganization warned the Utah church of the consequences of following</div>
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polygamous practices. It is a matter of congratulation today that although the doctrine has not been</div>
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abandoned by the Mormons their leaders are apparently backing the Government in an attempt to root out</div>
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the practice of polygamy. When President Frederick M. Smith issued his warning to them in 1905 their</div>
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leading men were under the hammer of prosecution; today they are forcing the prosecution of their own</div>
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followers who practice polygamy. Time vindicates the prophets! It brings reversal to those who heed not</div>
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the message of the prophets!</div>
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With charity for our Mormon friends, for many of whom we have come to feel admiration and</div>
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friendship, we believe on a thousand evidences and testimonies that God has expressed himself through the</div>
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Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and that through it has come the line of succession</div>
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in the prophetic office. There we stand - "God help us we cannot do otherwise!" And we invite our friends</div>
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of the Mormon church to consider carefully our message to them.</div>
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Each must decide for himself beyond dubiety of thought as to which side of these issues bears the</div>
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seal of divine approval: "Eternity will never reveal God's seal affixed to two sides if a controverted issue."</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">The Apostle Paul declares in Galatians 1:8 the sign of the Book of Mormons coming saying:<br /><br />" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed ".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><br /><br />Revelations 14:6 irrevocably says: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "charis sil" , "charis" , "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-30933" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">6</sup><u>And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,</u> and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "charis sil" , "charis" , "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anti Book of Mormon believers will often say there is no Bible scripture for the Book of Mormon in Bible Prophecy, that revelation from God is done away. But is this Biblical? Writes Isaiah in the 42 chapter verse </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "charis sil" , "charis" , "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">9 </sup>Behold, the former things are come to pass, and <u><b>new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.</b></u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "charis sil" , "charis" , "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u> </u> </b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: black;">Isa 28:13 The word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Isa 8:20 "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">The Prophet Isaiah, (29th chapter ) declares a sealed book shall come, called the " vision " the same book which the Lord God commanded the Prophet Daniel, chapter 12:4 saying, " </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book,<u> even to the time of the end</u>: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased ".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"> To which the Prophet Habakkuk, chapter 2:2-3 promises: " </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "charis sil" , "charis" , "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-22751" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">2</sup>And the LORD answered me, and said, <u>Write the vision</u>, and <u>make it plain upon tables</u>, <u>that he may run that readeth it.</u></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">The Book of Isaiah warns of men who would take the Book of Mormon and use it to start a false church. The Bible warns about these men, telling us the Book of Mormon is of God, but also warns about these men saying in Isaiah 29: 14-16</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><br />Because you cannot take my word for it, nor the word of any other man or woman. You must become your own authority. We each must be responsible for what we know. Many, many pastors, ministers, church leaders and membership have said the Book of Mormon cannot be found in Bible Prophecy. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">Sadly this is not the truth. But not the first time truth has been withheld from the masses. Remember Jesus and the running verbal battles with the Pharisees? This war of deception versus truth still goes on today. <br /><br />But you and I will be judged by God for what we accept of Him or reject of Him. We must allow men and the respect the world would shower on us, fall to the wayside, we must become ourselves responsible for what we each know. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">“<i><u>He denied that any ministry now exists which is </u></i></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><u>authorized to preach the gospel</u> to the impenitent, <u>or </u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><u>to administer the ordinances.</u> He believed that these </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">functions belonged to the apostolic race of ministers, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">w<u>hich was interrupted when the reign of Antichrist </u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><u>commenced.” </u></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">“<u>A reformation of popery</u> was attempted in Europe full </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">three centuries ago. It ended in a Protestant hierarchy, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">and swarms of dissenters. Protestantism has been reformed </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">into Presbyterianism, that into Congregationalism, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">and that into Baptism, etc., etc. Methodism has </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">attempted to reform all but has reformed itself into </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">many forms of Wesleyanism. . . . <u>They are at best a </u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><u>reformation of popery, and only reformations in part.”</u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">“Since the full development of the great apostasy foretold </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">by the prophets and apostles, numerous attempts </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">at reformation have been made . . . . Society, indeed, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">may be found among us far in advance of others in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">their progress toward the ancient order of things, but </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">we know of none that have fully attained to that model. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">. . . The practical result of all creeds, reformations, and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">improvements and the expectations and longings of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">society warrant the conclusion that some new revelation </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">or some new development of the revelation of God </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">must be made before the hopes and expectations of all </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">true Christians can be realized or Christianity can save </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">and reform the nations of this world. </span><b><u>We want the old </u></b><b><u>gospel back,</u></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"> and <u>sustained by the ancient order of </u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><u style="font-weight: 800;">things.”</u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">“But the preparation of a people for the coming of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Lord must be the result of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><u>restoration of the ancient </u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><u>gospel and order of things.”</u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">“The promise is that ‘</span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">at evening-time it shall be light.</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">’ </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">The primitive gospel, in its effulgence and power, is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">yet to shine out in its original splendor to regenerate </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">the world.” </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">“Some of this class of people, perceiving that such a church as they </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">had formed an idea of, would never be established by human means, indulged </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">the hope that <u><b>God himself would in his own time erect for himself</b></u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><u><b>a new church</b></u>, free from every blemish and impurity; and that he </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">would<u><b> raise up certain persons and fill them with heavenly light for the </b></u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><u><b>accomplishment of this great object.”</b></u></span></div>
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“<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Newton came to the conclusion, however, that the time </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">had not then arrived for the full light to shine, but looked </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">for clearer light to shine in future days, saying: ‘<u>About the </u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><u> <b>time of the end</b></u>, in all probability, <u><b>a body of men will rise up who </b></u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><u><b>will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their </b></u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><u><b>literal interpretation in the midst of much clamor and </b></u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><u><b>opposition.’”</b></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">“The gospel must be preached to all nations, before the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">great tribulation and the end of the world. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><u>An angel</u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>“The times which we have reason to believe are at </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>hand, (if they are not already begun) are what many </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>pious men have termed the <u>‘Latter Day glory’</u>. . . . </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>And yet the wise men of the world, men of eminence, </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>men of learning and renown, ‘cannot imagine what we </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>mean by talking of <u>any extraordinary work of God!</u>’ </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>They cannot discern the signs of these times! They see </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>no sign at all of God’s arising to maintain his own </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>cause, and set up his kingdom over the earth!” </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">"The old time Gospel, and the gifts thereof are <u>lost</u>. False doctrines prevail in <u>all the churches </u>on the face of the Earth. All we can do is exhort the people to be just, fear God, shun evil, and pray. Prayer and purity <u>may cause an angel to visit some deep depressed soul</u>. But I tell you that <u><b>within one hundred years,</b> God will have spoken</u>. He will <u>restore the church again</u>! I see a little band of people led by a Prophet and a faithful leader. Some will be persecuted and burned out and murdered. From every nation shall true believers be gathered by speedy messengers. And then shall the Almighty God speak to the disobedient nations with thunder and lightning, and destruction such as men have never known before." </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><i>**Christophilus Gratianus, (leader of the Swiss Pietism) <u>Die Hoffnug Zions</u> (Zion's Hope), [1756],** Translated by Henry Schaefer. Original work in University Library in Basil, Switzerland.</i><b>** See #16 below **</b></span><br />
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<b>Luther did not really know what his mission</b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b><sup><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9pt;">7</span></sup></b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.</span><b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-large;">An Angel To Speak To A Young Man</span></b></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Earth To Bear Record of Christ</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-30632" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">7</sup>For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Records Out Of The Ground</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 36pt;"><br />
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An Extraordinary Event To <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Take Place</st1:address></st1:street></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 28pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> Daniel 10:<br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><sup><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9pt;">14</span></sup></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Now I am come to make thee understand what shall <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>befall thy people in the latter days</u></b>: for yet <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the <u>vision is for many days.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14pt;">Daniel To Shut the Words and Seal the Book</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><br />
</span></u></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Daniel 12:</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><sup><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9pt;">4</span></sup></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">But thou, O Daniel, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>shut up the words</u></b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>seal the book</u></b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">even to the <u>time of the end</u></b>: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b><sup><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9pt;">8</span></sup></b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b><sup><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9pt;">9</span></sup></b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">for the words are closed up and <u>sealed till the time of the end</u></b>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b><sup><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9pt;">12</span></sup></b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>the book is delivered to him that is not learned</u></b>, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>he saith, I am not learned.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b><sup><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9pt;">14</span></sup></b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Therefore, behold<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people</u></b>, even a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>marvellous work and a wonder:</u></b> for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Ezekiel 37:</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> </span><b><sup><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9pt;">19</span></sup></b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>I will take the stick of Joseph</u></b>, which <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>is in the hand of Ephraim</u></b>, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah</u></b>, and make them <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>one stick</u></b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>they shall be one in mine hand.<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b><u><sup><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9pt;">3</span></sup></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "verdana";">For <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the vision is yet for an appointed time</b></span></u><span style="font-family: "verdana";">, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>at the end it shall speak, and not lie</u></b>: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "georgia";">When Lebanon Becomes Green:</b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "georgia";">Isaiah 29:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">“ The mixed population, as a whole, displays the usual characteristics of mountaineers... but it's ancient truculence has given way before strong government action <u><b>since the middle nineteenth century ( 1800's )</b></u> and the great increase of agricultural pursuits, to which the purely pastoral are now quite secondary. The culture of the mulberry and silk, of tobacco, of the olive and the vine, of many kinds of fruits and cereals, has expanded enormously, and <u><b>Lebanon is</b></u> now probably <u><b>the most productive region</b></u><u> </u>in Asiatic Turkey in proportion to its area.” </span></div>
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<b>Book of Mormon To Teach Doctrine</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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Jesus Christ is the Word of God</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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Every word includes Christ's Words.<br />
Christ came to bring judgment and redeem all men. <br />
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James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-11772034741257085582012-01-04T21:54:00.000-08:002012-01-31T20:56:59.389-08:00Temple of the Cross<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Temple of the Cross</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Information compiled </div><div style="text-align: center;">by</div><div style="text-align: center;">Brian Marshall</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Univers; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/Scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=38004&ContextInt=&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank">Alma <space(1)>21:45</space(1)></a></b> Yea, all those who were the true believers in Christ, took upon them, gladly, the name of Christ, or <b>Christian</b>s, as they were called, because of their belief in Christ, who should come; and therefore, at this time, Moroni prayed that the cause of the <b>Christian</b>s, and the freedom of the land might be favored.</span><br />
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Matthew 15:24</strong> </span></span><br />
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<b>Palenque Mexico's Temple of the Cross Tablet</b><br />
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</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Ever wondered of the Book of Mormon was fact of fiction? The ravings of a crazy man named Joseph Smith, who fabricated a book to start his own church, or could there be truth in what Joseph Smith claimed and the Book of Mormon story? </b><br />
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<b>Is there scientific evidence for the Book of Mormon? Evidence existing which shows Joseph Smith neither was crazy or raving when he wrote about a Native American Christian people who once existed upon the American Continent long before the advent of Hernando Cortez or Christopher Columbus.</b><br />
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<b>Here are photo's of Native American Crosses, from Native American Temples, Pyramids and other religious structrues of ancient time. Time which predates modern American History. Happy viewing!</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Smithsonian Depiction of Temple of the Cross<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>" other sheep I have not of this fold then also must I bring "</b> </span></b></span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-497hYxUhk0E/TwUbhDlM-vI/AAAAAAAAAx0/GlH9yxtbUW8/s1600/CrossTemple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-497hYxUhk0E/TwUbhDlM-vI/AAAAAAAAAx0/GlH9yxtbUW8/s320/CrossTemple.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Temple of the Cross, to coin the phrase, " is an inconvenient truth ", which many are not comfortable with. It means we don't know our history. It means somebody with lots of power has not been frank with the American people, someone has told us a lie concerning the Native American people, concerning their history, their origins and who they are. Jesus said, " <b><u style="font-size: 15px;">I am not sent but unto the LOST SHEEP</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> of the house of the </span><u style="font-size: 15px;">house of Israel</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">" Matthew 15:24... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Christ came to save the Lost Sheep of the house of Israel. While this is a simplistic view, if archaeolgists find Native American crosses, does this not make them descendants of the House of Israel?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wesleyan University Temple of the Cross Tablet</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><b><u>The Central Tablet of the Temple of the Cross</u></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"> records the birth of the deity Muwaan Mat, recounts the beginning of the present creation, records a dynastic list beginning with the legendary ruler U K'ix Kan, and concludes with the accession of the first Kan B'ahlam on 10 Eb' 0 Wo' (April 572).</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px;">The following transcription and translation correspond to the glyph blocks between A16-F17 and P1-U17 from the Central Tablet of the Temple of the Cross. Addition analysis and a transliteration will be available in the Spring of 2005.</div><br />
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Mexico City Dec. 27 - Remarkable parallels with the burial customs of ancient Egypt have been found in a newly discovered Mayan tomb at Palenque Mexico. The cover of the tomb with the cross and undeciphered hierglyphics pictured above is one solid slab, twelve feet long, seven feet wide, and one foot thick, estimated to weigh six tons. Palenque anciently had a population of more than 100,000. Palenque is the modern name; the ancient name of the city is not known. </div></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;">Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (27 January 1906 – 25 August 1979) was a Mexican archaeologist. He specialized in pre -Colombian Mesoamerican archaeology and is well-known for leading the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) excavations at the Maya site of Palenque, where he found the tomb of the Maya ruler, Pakal. Ruz Lhuillier is sometimes referred to as the "Hitchcock of Archaeology".</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mexico Native Version of Egyptian Coptic Cross</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-00VD5NUFOk4/TwUljElpKeI/AAAAAAAAA1A/WU2WeLV8nLk/s1600/fig05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-00VD5NUFOk4/TwUljElpKeI/AAAAAAAAA1A/WU2WeLV8nLk/s1600/fig05.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Monte Alban Mexico</b></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Manchester Kentucky Monogram Cross Petroglyph's</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tiIuaxdT8Ow/TwUvoIyisZI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/Ja5WaDz5LJA/s1600/redbird4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tiIuaxdT8Ow/TwUvoIyisZI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/Ja5WaDz5LJA/s1600/redbird4.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">" Jesus Christ, Son of the Father " </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<b>Excavation by Oklahoma University</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Notice the Rattle Snake Swastika? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Exodus 20:2–17</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Deuteronomy 5:6–21</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Thomas F. McDaniel, Ph.D.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Professor Emeritus</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> The Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Wynnewood, Pennsylvania</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> While much attention has been given recently to the legal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> battles from Alabama to Wisconsin over the presence of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> granite monuments and bronze plaques of the Decalogue on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> public property,1 little attention has been given to world’s</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> oldest Hebrew inscription of the Ten Commandments which</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> turned up in New Mexico in the nineteenth century—a replica</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> of which has yet to be made. This Decalogue was inscribed in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Hebrew (using a quasi-Phoenician script) on the flat face of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> a large basalt boulder on a mesa now known as “Mystery</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Mountain” or “Hidden Mountain,” three miles west of Los</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Lunas. Given its antiquity, the monumental bolder is of some</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> significance for early American history.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> In 1949, Robert H. Pfeiffer of the Harvard University recognized</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> that the inscription was an abbreviated form of the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Decalogue; and since then a number of other scholars, including</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Harvard Professor Barry Fell (1976: 310), have confirmed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> the identification. My inspection of the inscription on site in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 1983 and a comparison of the script used on the bolder</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> Decalogue with other early Northwest Semitic scripts led me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> to conclude that the “Mystery Mountain” inscription is not</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> just centuries old but could possibly be pre-Columbian or</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> even pre-Christian.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p><b style="background-color: white;">My Sister in law is a member of the Utah based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I am a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Both Churches believe in the Bible, Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants. </b></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p><b style="background-color: white;">Two churches who at first blush seem so similar, even in name, yet are almost diametrically apposed in doctrine and teaching. </b></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p><b style="background-color: white;">As you can imagine,there has been passionate discussion amongst us in-laws ( of my family) as to why we believe the way we do. How can two or more people believe differently from a doctrine or teaching coming from the same books of scriptures?<br />
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I have posted the Doctrine and Covenants scriptures dealing with baptism of the dead. Why the RLDS Church does not believe nor practice this doctrine. I have taken the liberty to post the LDS and RLDS scripture reference's. </b></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p><b style="background-color: white;">Aside from a few select scriptures which were added by the Utah LDS Church after Joseph Smith's death our Doctrine and Covenants are almost word for word identical. God Bless you and I hope you enjoy.</b></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="verse"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">29</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">For a baptismal font there is not upon the earth, that they, my saints, may be baptized for those who are dead—<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HoeflerText-Black;"><b style="background-color: white;">The RLDS Church does not argue IF baptism of the dead is of God. Our reason for not practicing baptism of the dead is due to D&C revelation given by Joseph Smith.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">“I command you, all ye my Saints, to</span></b><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">build a house unto </span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">me</span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">; and </span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">I grant unto you a </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Italic; font-size: 14pt;">sufficient time</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Italic; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">to build a house </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">unto me, and during this time your baptisms shall be </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">acceptable unto me. But, behold,</span></b><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Italic; font-size: 14pt;">at the end of this </span></u></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Italic; font-size: 14pt;">appointment</span></u></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">,</span></u></b><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;"> your baptisms for your dead <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>shall not be </u></b></span><b><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">acceptable unto me</span></u></b><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">;</span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> <span class="Apple-style-span">and</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> <u><b>if you do not these things</b></u></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">at </span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">the end of the appointment, ye shall be </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Italic; font-size: 20pt;">rejected </span></u></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Italic; font-size: 14pt;">as a </span></u></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Italic; font-size: 14pt;">church</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Italic; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">with your dead, saith the Lord your God.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p><b style="background-color: white;">What Abominations?</b></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20pt;">D&C 124 Prophecy </span></b><b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20pt;">Scattered Saints </span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20pt;">Shall </span></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: white;">baptism of dead revelation given January 19, 1841</i></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="verse"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">35</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And after this time, your baptisms for the dead,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">by those who are </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana;">scattered abroad,</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">are </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana;">not acceptable</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">unto me, saith the Lord.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="verse"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana;">36</span></u></b></span><b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana;">For it is ordained that </span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana;">in <st1:city w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Zion</span></st1:city></span></u></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">, and </span><b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana;">in her stakes</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana;">, and </span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana;">in</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20pt;"> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city></st1:place></span></u></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span">, those places which I have appointed for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/124?lang=eng"><b>refuge</b></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, shall be the places for your baptisms for your dead.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Italic; font-size: 14pt;">behold, verily I say unto you, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-BlackItalic; font-size: 14pt;">They shall not be<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b><i><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-BlackItalic; font-size: 14pt;">moved out of their place</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></u></b><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">But</span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">if</span></u></b><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;"> they will <b><u>not</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">blessed</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">,</span></u></b><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;"> because <u><b>they pollute mine holy grounds.</b></u>”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">LDS D&C 64:36 States</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Rebellious Scattered</span></u></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Saints are</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Not of blood of Epraim, whom shall be “plucked out”!</span></u></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">LDS D&C 64: 38 Inhabitants of <st1:city w:st="on">Zion</st1:city> ( <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Independence</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">MO.</st1:state></st1:place> ) </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Shall judge all thing pertaining <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Zion</st1:city></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hearken, O ye elders of my church saith the Lord your God, who have assembled yourselves together, according to my commandments</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">in this land</span></u></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">which is the</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">land of Missouri,</span></u></b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">which is the land which <b>I have </b></span><b><u><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">appointed</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and consecrated for the gathering of the saints: wherefore</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><u><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">this is the land of promise</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and the</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><b><u><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">place for the city of Zion</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">.</span></u><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">And thus saith the Lord your God, if you will receive wisdom here is wisdom. Behold, the place which is now called <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Independence</st1:city></st1:place>, is the center place, ...”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Italic;">Journal of Discourses</span></i><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;">, Vol. 4, p. 42.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: HoeflerText-Black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">before it was burned</span></u></b><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular; font-size: 14pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;"> <u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">but the Saints did not<o:p></o:p></span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;"><strong style="background-color: white;">1 Verily I say unto you, concerning your brethren who have been afflicted, and persecuted, and cast out from the land of their inheritance—</strong></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;"> 5 For all <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">those who will not endure chastening</span></strong>, but deny me, <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">cannot be sanctified</span></strong>. ( Warning to LDS and RLDS Church <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">together </span></strong>) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;"> 6 Behold, I say unto you, there were <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">jarrings, </span></strong>and <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">contentions</span></strong>, and <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">envyings,</span></strong> and <span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>strifes</strong></span>, and <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">lustful and covetous desires among them</span></strong>; therefore by these things they polluted their inheritances.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;">7 They were <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">slow to hearken unto the voice of the Lord their God;</span></strong> therefore, the Lord their God is slow to hearken unto their prayers, to answer them in the day of their trouble. ( Again Warning to LDS and RLDS Church combined )</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;">8 In the day of their peace <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">they esteemed lightly my counsel</span></strong>; but, <span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>in the day of their trouble, of necessity they feel after me.</strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;">9 Verily I say unto you, <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">notwithstanding their sins, my bowels are filled with compassion towards them</span></strong>. <strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">I will not utterly cast them off</span></strong>; and in the day of wrath<strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;"> I will remember mercy.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;">10 I have sworn, and the decree hath gone forth by a former commandment which I have given unto you, that I would let fall the sword of mine indignation in behalf of my people; and even as I have said, it shall come to pass.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;">11 Mine indignation is soon to be poured out without measure upon all nations; and this will I do when the cup of their iniquity is full.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular;">12 And in that day all who are found upon the watch-tower, or in other words, <span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>all mine Israel, shall be saved.</strong></span></span></div>
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James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-13362821351874789682011-10-04T05:16:00.000-07:002011-10-09T03:32:56.688-07:00Jesus Christ Gives Words of Counsel July 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Words of Counsel Introduction </span></strong></div><br />
As the High Priests met in quorum at the 2011 Seventy Missionary Family Reunion at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, Chuck Perry (president of the quorum) presented the letter below from Brother Kerry Lancaster to the quorum for prayerful consideration. <br />
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It was agreed in the quorum that the letter contains wise counsel, and a committee was formed to plan the means for following through with the counsel given. This call to fast to all the saints of the Restoration Movement is the result of these efforts. While we recognize there are many who will not regard the following as inspired or wise counsel from the Lord, we include it here as a means of further explanation. <br />
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While you may not agree with parts or all of this counsel, we hope you will understand and accept that we feel bound and obligated to diligently follow what we feel is the call of the Lord at this time for fasting and repentance, and forgiveness of our brothers and sisters, our families and friends, our enemies and strangers, and turn to the Lord for mercy. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Letter From Kerry Lancaster to the High Priests Quorum </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">July 1, 2011</span></strong></div><br />
Dear Brother Chuck, <br />
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In a burning and sober manner it has been heavily impressed upon me, more than I can bear, that it is time for the Saints to be on our knees in humble supplication to the Lord in repentance, seeking forgiveness and mercy. The conditions of the world today are rife with the signs we have studied and preached for generations - wars and rumors of wars, tumult in the nations, the Middle East in unrest and chaos, societies breaking down across the world, record droughts, record fires destroying the land, record floods as rivers burst their banks and levies, record tornadoes and hurricanes, record earthquakes and tsunamis, economic collapse and ruin, immoral and corrupt leaders in all the nations including ours, unemployment, huge institutions and businesses failing... the earth is groaning under the rampant sin and oppression covering her face. <br />
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And many are asking: “Where is the Lord?” <br />
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But the Lord responds: <u>“Where are My Saints, where is My storehouse, where is My Zion?” </u><br />
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As a church, we have suffered for decades in the wilderness as scattered and lost sheep. We have taken refuge in our own self-perceived righteousness by shunning the apostasy of the leadership of the RLDS / Community of Christ and casting ourselves off from their errs and deceptions. We rebuked and rejected the sons of Joseph because they stumbled and spoke falsely. <br />
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Yet look at us. We are scattered. We are beaten down. We are trodden underfoot in the world. We are weak. We have no voice to warn the world and prepare for the Lord’s return. And we have not asked ourselves what the Lord now asks us to examine and understand: if we are the righteous of the Church, then why did the Lord allow wicked servants to bring us to this captive state, in effectual bondage? <br />
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We have somewhat sought to forgive those who have done this to us (as individuals, but not corporately), but we have not examined ourselves to look to our own culpability. <br />
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“Thou shalt have no other gods before Me” declared the Lord. Yet we did raise up a god before Him... a god we thought was holy and good and worthy of being worshipped. Over the years, the RLDS had come to worship the Church, instead of the Lord. We worshipped its history, its structure, its holy places in Kirtland and Independence and Nauvoo, its quorums, its conferences, its councils, its stakes and districts and offices and missions. <br />
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The Church became our god, and the Lord took it from us to turn us back to Him. And we have been asking the Lord to give us back the Church, and give us a Prophet again. Yet the Lord asks: “Will you accept and hear My true prophets, or will you stone them and rend them in the courtyard like the children of Israel did?” <br />
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The Lord would have us humble ourselves and prepare ourselves to hear Him before we can receive and accept what He has to say. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ's Words of Counsel Given Through Elder Kerry Lancaster July 2011</span></div>“Sanctify a fast before Me,” says the Lord, “and turn from your pride, and humble yourselves. Yea, declare a fast, and forgive all who have wronged you, before seeking mercy and forgiveness from Me. Yea, seek to know and understand your own sins and transgressions which have led you to this state such that you can truly repent, and be forgiven. Uphold the sons of Joseph to Me in mighty prayer, that the covenant I swore in My righteousness to their father Joseph, and that was appointed unto and inherited therein by his son Joseph, and as was inherited in righteousness and truth also by his sons Frederick Madison, and Israel Alexander, and William Wallace, yea, and as was inherited therein also, because of My Covenant, with his son Wallace Bunnell, yea, uphold them to Me that the covenant I made with Joseph may be restored and fulfilled, even as I swore to him in My righteousness.” <br />
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“Yea, uphold the sons of Joseph in mighty prayer to Me, with much love and compassion and mercy and forgiveness, yea, even that same love and compassion and mercy and forgiveness that ye seek from Me, or I shall turn My face from you and reject your prayers for yourselves, as you bleat about aimlessly for safe pastures and the comfort of the Shepherd’s rod and staff.” <br />
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“Humble yourselves before Me, and cast off your pride and your righteousness, for it is as filthy rags before Me, and lest ye humble yourselves and repent, ye shall fade before Me as a dry leaf, and your iniquities, which I can no longer bear, shall take you away like the wind.” <br />
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“And seek earnestly to be reconciled one with another, for if ye are not one, even as I have commanded that ye be one, ye are not Mine, saith the Lord. Contend with no brother, but come together in prayer and fasting. Invite all to fast and pray before Me - even those who will not meet with you in conference, or even at the Lamb’s table. Your divisions and separations from each other over matters of organization are a stench to Me. It is the work of the adversary, and behold, he sifts you as he desires, for you have given yourselves over to him. Seek your brothers in prayer and fasting, and invite them all to pray and fast. Those who have My Spirit will hear My call to fast and pray, to repent, and to forgive. It is necessary that the Saints come together as My people in unity and single purpose of heart and mind, or I can in no wise minister unto you, or receive you unto Myself.” <br />
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“The time is at hand, saith the Lord, that My people come out of Babylon! Look! The signs are before you, and ye seek that I should redeem you before the end! How can ye be redeemed if ye repent not, if ye forgive not, if ye unite not as one? How can ye hear Me, if ye hear not My servants? If ye reject them, ye reject Me, and ye shall remain a hiss and a byword - salt that has lost its savor and is trodden under foot - spewed lukewarm from My mouth.” <br />
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“Repent! Declare a fast! Pray for the sons of Joseph, and for the sheep who remain scattered! Call everyone who will hear to repentance and humility. I speak this concerning all the Saints who love Me, yea, all the children of the work that was restored through My servant Joseph in 1830, for there are many who will hear and who will respond. Come together in prayer and fasting, in humility and meekness, in charity one for another, esteeming each other above yourselves. This is My word and My will. Ye who will hear, see that ye do. Amen.” <br />
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I would like to add a small contribution also. As I read these Words of Counsel, and as my family also read these words, we all agreed Jesus Christ spoke though Mr. Lancaster. Even my wife, who's 31 years of age, but a young Latter Day Saint also agreed.<br />
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I urge Latter Day Saint's of all stripes, Utah LDS/ Church of Christ Restored/ Church of Christ Temple Lot/ Community of Christ, ( formerly the RLDS Church ) and all All Latter Day Factions to united, drop your arguments of divison and hear the Word of the Lord who is Jesus Christ. It's time all Latter Day Saint's, or those that could be called Saint's to come together. It's now or never! Do or die. Litterally! For as Jesus Christ said " if ye are not one, ye are not mine". There is but one church, one baptism. Division over doctrine is of the devil.<br />
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Even as I speak the Lords people are being directed to prepare and be ready for His return. Not by man, but by Jesus Christ himself.<br />
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I would plead no man reject these Words of Counsel, but rather take them prayerfully into consideration. For the Spirit which is within me confirms they are the Words of Christ. Whoa unto any of us who deny these Words and do not do them!<br />
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Sincerely<br />
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Brian Marshall<br />
Priest<br />
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div>James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-58323153376153309272011-10-04T04:48:00.000-07:002011-10-05T04:19:29.774-07:00Jesus Christ Gives Words of Counsel 2008 through Elder Kerry LancasterDear Readers. <br />
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I submit and post these Words of Counsel from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. You be the judge as to their authenticity. My advice is pay attention to these words of counel. It's time for the Saint's to prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ. His coming may not be tommorow, but it will be sooner than people expect. <br />
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Brian Marshall <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Inspired Message Received through Elder Kerry Lancaster</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">April 8, 2008 - Words of Counsel to the Priesthood</span></div><br />
On the morning and afternoon of Monday, April 7, 2008 as I sat in the CRE presentations and deliberations at Waldo Avenue, the Lord impressed strongly on my heart the imagery of this message. On Tuesday, April 8, as I sat in the morning prayer and worship meeting with the Melchisedec Priesthood at the JCRB in the Truman Memorial building, the Lord impressed strongly on my heart the language of this message.<br />
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Because of my own fear and recognition of my unworthiness to be used by the Lord in such a solemn manner, I did not rise to bear my testimony then of the word of the Lord as we were deliberating the question of the setting apart of the four mentioned Seventy as Presidents of Seventy. I failed the Lord in that moment, and I ask the forgiveness of the Saints for having delayed my response to the Lord’s promptings when moved to do so.<br />
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Submitted in all prayerful humility,<br />
Elder Kerry Lancaster<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Jesus Christ's Words of Counsel</strong></span></div><br />
My children: How long shall you call Me "Lord," yet do not the things which I say? How long shall you call Me "Master," yet surrender not your will to Mine?<br />
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If you would be My disciples, did I not say you must take up your cross and follow Me? My children, when I was scourged and beaten and took up My cross, the path I trod led to Calvary, where My hands and feet were pierced for transgression’s sake, and where I was lifted up and mocked, and died for the sins of the world.<br />
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This was done not of My will, but according to the will of My Father in Heaven, for I petitioned My Father to let this cup pass from Me. Nevertheless, I surrendered My will to the will of My Father. So you must surrender your will to Me if I am to be your Lord and Master.<br />
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If you call Me Master, then yield to the promptings of My Spirit within you, which will lead you to all truth and knowledge. If you call Me Lord, then do that which I have commanded already, which was given for your benefit and blessing.<br />
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By taking up your cross and following Me, do so with the full understanding that your path, like Mine, shall lead to your own Calvary. Take up your cross, not according to your own will, but according to Mine. Walk, as I did, up that hill. Allow the nails to pierce your pride. Endure the pain of being raised stripped before your enemies. Accept the shame of being mocked. Suffer the agony of death upon your cross. And you shall be quickened by My Spirit and raised to new Life!<br />
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My promises are sure. My Word endures forever and shall not return to Me void. You have My word before you in Scripture, in testimony, in dreams and visions. Why do you seek more light when you have more than most who follow Me? What manner of confirmation is sufficient for you to move forward in faith on the path I have set before you?<br />
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O My children! How like My servant and cousin John you are, who, when he was cast into prison and facing his martyrdom at the hands of Herod's servants, sent messengers to Me asking for confirmation of Me, even though he had seen My glory before, and bore witness to the Jews that My Father sent Me into the world.<br />
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O My children! How like My servant Peter you are, who, when I appeared to him and other of My disciples in a manner they did not expect or comprehend, walking on the sea, called out to Me asking for confirmation, saying "Lord, if that is You, bid me come unto You!"<br />
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Have I come to you, too, in a manner you did not expect? Even so, I have bid you come unto Me. And you, like Peter, began in faith towards Me, but you have looked about and have beheld the boisterousness of the winds and the seas, and you have slipped beneath the waves.<br />
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Must I now reach down and pull you up to where I am, and save you from drowning in the waves stirred up by the adversary? Or can you resume your walk of faith as you once started?<br />
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O My children! How like My servant Thomas you are, who, upon hearing the witness of those among him who had seen me alive after the grave, refused their witness even though he had walked in faith with them along with Me in the days of My earthly ministry. You, like Thomas, say among yourselves you will not believe until you feel the prints in My hands and thrust your hands in My side! The pain at your lack of faith is like unto that which I endured which caused these ugly scars you seek to touch.<br />
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Will you settle for the blessing Thomas received in answer to his desire for confirmation, or will you reach for the blessing to be received by coming unto Me in faith, believing in that which is not seen?<br />
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Will you settle for the blessing Peter received when I reached down and pulled him up to where I was, or will you rise up in Faith and resume the walk you once started, in faith renewed?<br />
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Will you settle for the confirmation John received, having then to face his death and serve no more in the world in My name, or will you accept the testimony and witness you have already seen and heard?<br />
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What shall I do for you now, My children? Whatsoever you shall ask Me, that I will ask the Father for your sake. Be prepared to accept whatsoever comes as a consequence of that which you ask of Me.<br />
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Will you bear your own cross, no matter how unpleasant to bear, no matter how lonely the walk when friends desert you on the way (for not all whom you would will walk beside you all the way), no matter how painful the nails, no matter the consequence on the hill at the end of the path? If you will do so, My promise to you is the same as My Father's promise to Me: you shall be quickened and raised to new life and new service, victorious over the designs of the adversary!<br />
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Seek then either your own blessing and assurance, or seek the victory of being raised to new life and new service in a priesthood endowed in faith by My Spirit. I will ask the Father to do whatsoever you ask of Me together in faith, agreed in common consent among you.<br />
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Even so. Amen.James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-15286991476088790302011-05-07T06:45:00.000-07:002011-09-25T19:34:16.379-07:00Book of Mormon Iron Mines Discovered!<h3 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Book of Mormon Iron Mines Discovered!</span></h3><div style="text-align: center;">Many have doubted the Book of Mormon as an historical account because it mentions ancient America's inhabitants having wrought implements of iron. Critics have often used the lack of ancient iron artifacts in Native America as proof the Book of Mormon was a hoax. Until Purdue University and ( National Geographic Feb 11th 2008 ) reported the discovery of a 2000 year old Peruvian iron mine. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>The 5 Books In the Book of Mormon Making Claims of Iron</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>In Ancient America:</b></span><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Univers; font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">2 Nephi 4:21</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">And I did teach my people that <u>they should build buildings</u>, And that they should work in all manner of wood, and of iron and of copper, and of brass and of steel, and of gold and of silver, and of precious ores which were in great abundance. </span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GdbkXf0c788/Tn1I_yBg5DI/AAAAAAAAAs0/dtPsplVMf7o/s1600/Palenque_The_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GdbkXf0c788/Tn1I_yBg5DI/AAAAAAAAAs0/dtPsplVMf7o/s320/Palenque_The_Palace.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Critics of the Book of Mormon will staunchly declare the ancient American Indians did not have steal or iron.<br />
Yet they cannot explain how the Mayan Indian built fantastic squared stone structures. It takes steel or iron to square a stone.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Who carved the Temple of the Cross Tablet? A Mayan with a super hardened finger nail and wood chisel?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Or a Mayan with the finest set of iron stone carving chisels money could by around 690 A.D.? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Univers;"><b><b><a href="http://www.restoredcovenant.org/RCE.asp?CAT=RCE&DOC=1+Nephi&REF=Jarom+1%3A19" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Jarom <space(1)>1:19</space(1)></span></span></a></b> <span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">And we multiplied exceedingly and spread upon the face of the land, And became exceeding rich in gold and in silver, and in precious things, and in fine workmanship of wood, in buildings and in machinery, and also in <b>iron</b> and copper and brass and steel, Making all manner of tools of every kind to</span> till the ground, And weapons of war-</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_z62sWcDBqU/Tn1MGx9DreI/AAAAAAAAAtA/kMoJrmOh6sg/s1600/ft7x0nb536_00008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_z62sWcDBqU/Tn1MGx9DreI/AAAAAAAAAtA/kMoJrmOh6sg/s320/ft7x0nb536_00008.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">If the Ancient American Indian didn't have iron or steel, how did they do such intricately carved stone sarcophagus lids? When one bothers to think about the issue, it become very obvious the ancient Book of Mormon peoples had steel and iron, yes even Iron mines.</div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Univers;"><b><b><a href="http://www.restoredcovenant.org/RCE.asp?CAT=RCE&DOC=1+Nephi&REF=Mosiah+7%3A6" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Mosiah <space(1)>7:6</space(1)></span></span></a></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">And he laid a tax of one fifth part of all they possessed: A fifth part of their gold and of their silver, And a fifth part of their ziff and of their copper and of their brass and their <b><u>iron</u></b>, And a fifth part of their fatlings, And also a fifth part of all their grain;</span></b></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fMb_o8zoKFQ/Tn1OYGEugGI/AAAAAAAAAtE/Z2YZbokVrCo/s1600/4078069-Temple-of-the-Inscriptions-Palenque-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="253" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fMb_o8zoKFQ/Tn1OYGEugGI/AAAAAAAAAtE/Z2YZbokVrCo/s320/4078069-Temple-of-the-Inscriptions-Palenque-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Can you imagine building this structure without the aid of steel or Iron?<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Univers;"><b><b><a href="http://www.restoredcovenant.org/RCE.asp?CAT=RCE&DOC=1+Nephi&REF=Mosiah+7%3A11" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Mosiah <space(1)>7:11</space(1)></span></span></a></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">And it came to pass that King Noa</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Univers;"><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">h built many elegant and spacious buildings, And he ornamented them with fine work of wood, And of all manner of precious things- of gold and of silver, and of<u> <b>iron</b></u> and of brass, and of ziff and of copper;</span></b></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jgckBTWhWFM/Tn1O0WAerZI/AAAAAAAAAtI/X7eDSVg0PcQ/s1600/Temple+of+the+Inscriptions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="256" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jgckBTWhWFM/Tn1O0WAerZI/AAAAAAAAAtI/X7eDSVg0PcQ/s320/Temple+of+the+Inscriptions.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>What ever the Mayan Indians did not have, Iron and steel was not one of those <br />
things. Without iron, Book of Mormon peoples could not have built stone structures which scientists and archaeologists today freely admit rival and even surpass<br />
Egypt's great pyramids. </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Univers;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><a href="http://www.restoredcovenant.org/RCE.asp?CAT=RCE&DOC=1+Nephi&REF=Ether+4%3A71" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Ether <space(1)>4:71</space(1)></span></span></a></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">And they did work in all manner of ore, And they did make gold and silver and <b>iron</b> and brass and all manner of metals; And <u>they did dig it out of the earth</u>; Wherefore, they did cast up mighty heaps of earth for to get ore of gold and of silver and of <b><u>iron</u></b> and of copper;</span></span></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Univers;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><b>Now The Evidence </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><b>Headlines:</b></span></span></div></div><h3 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Archaeologist 'strikes gold' with </span></h3><h3 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">finds of </span></h3><h3 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ancient Nasca iron ore mine in Peru</span></h3><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span></div><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="14" class="tableborderzero" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><caption align="bottom"><b><small>Kevin J. Vaughn</small> <a href="http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2008/vaughn-peru.jpg" target="_blank"><small>Download photo</small></a><small> caption below</small></b></caption><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b>A Purdue University archaeologist discovered an intact ancient iron ore mine in South America</b> that shows how civilizations before the Inca Empire were mining this valuable ore.</span><br />
<div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"Archaeologists know people in the Old and New worlds have mined minerals for thousands and thousands of years," said Kevin J. Vaughn, an assistant professor of anthropology who studies the Nasca civilization, which existed from A.D. 1 to A.D. 750. "Iron mining in the Old World, specifically in Africa, goes back 40,000 years. And we know the ancient people in Mexico, Central America and North America were mining for various materials. There isn't much evidence for these types of mines.</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"What we found is the only hematite mine, a type of iron also known as ochre, recorded in South America prior to the Spanish conquest. </div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This discovery demonstrates that<u> <b>iron ores were important to ancient Andean civilizations."</b></u></div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In 2004 and 2005, Vaughn and his team excavated Mina Primavera, which is located in the Ingenio Valley of the Andes Mountains in southern Peru. The research team performed field checks and collected some samples in 2006 and 2007. The findings of the excavation are published in December's Journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The researchers determined that the mine is a human-made cave that was first created around 2,000 years ago. An estimated 3,710 metric tons was extracted from the mine during more than 1,400 years of use. The mine, which is nearly 700 cubic meters, is in a cliffside facing a modern ochre mine.</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Vaughn hypothesizes that the Nasca people used the red-pigmented mineral primarily for ceramic paints, but they also could have used it as body paint, to paint textiles and even to paint adobe walls. The Nasca civilization is known for hundreds of drawings in the Nasca Desert, which are known as the Nasca-Lines and can only be seen from the air, and for an aqueduct system that is still used today.</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Vaughn and his team discovered a number of artifacts in the mine, including corncobs, stone tools, and pieces of textiles and pottery. The age of the items was determined by radiocarbon dating, a process that determines age based on the decay of naturally occurring elements.</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"Archaeologists have a very good sequence of pottery from this region, so I can look at most pots from this region and determine a date within a century that is based on stylistic changes of the pottery," Vaughn said. "Even before the dating, we knew this was an ancient mine because of the ceramic pieces. These very small fragments, about the size of a penny, had distinct designs on them that are characteristic of the early Nasca civilization."</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The artifacts from the excavation are being curated by the Instituto Nacional de Cultura of Peru at its museum in Ica, Peru.</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Now that there is archaeological evidence that ancient cultures in the Andes were mining iron ore, it is important to give credit to New World civilizations, Vaughn said.</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"Even though ancient Andean people smelted some metals, such as copper, they never smelted iron like they did in the Old World," he said. "Metals were used for a variety of tools in the Old World, such as weapons, while in the Americas, metals were used as prestige goods for the wealthy elite."</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This excavation was part of Vaughn's Early Nasca Craft Economy Project, a multiyear National Science Foundation-funded study of Nasca ceramic production and distribution. The project's goal is to better understand the origins of inequality and political economy in this ancient culture.</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Vaughn says material scientists and engineers, as well as mineralogists, will be interested in this discovery.</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"This study of mining is a great example of how archaeology bridges the social and physical sciences," he said.</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The National Science Foundation and the Heinz Foundation funded the Mina Primavera excavation. Next, Vaughn will be excavating a habitation site that has a 4,000-year occupation in hopes of understanding the long-term settlement history of the region.</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"I hope to continue surveying for mines and mining-related sites in the region, and hopefully undertake additional excavations at the mine," he said.</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
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Kevin J. Vaughn, a Purdue assistant professor of anthropology, holds a pottery fragment he discovered at an excavation site in Nasca, Peru. The piece of pottery is from about the 5th century A.D., which is the same time period as other artifacts he uncovered at Mina Primavera. Vaughn hypothesizes the mine was the source of some of the iron ore pigments used to produce the vibrant colors as seen on this pottery. (Purdue News Service photo/David Umberger)</div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><em>A publication-quality photo is available at<a href="http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2008/vaughn-peru.jpg">http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2008/vaughn-peru.jpg</a></em></div><div class="FORMAT-BODY" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
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for <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;"><b>National Geographic News</b></a></div><div class="inlinedate" style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;">February 11, 2008</div><div class="intro" style="color: #343434; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>A 2,000-year-old mine has been discovered high in mountains in <a href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_peru.html" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;">Peru</a>. The find offers proof that an ancient people in the Andes mined hematite iron ore centuries before the Inca Empire, archaeologists say.</b></div><div class="intro" style="color: #343434; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><b>The mine was used to tap a vein of hematite, or ochre—the first such mine found in South America that <u>predates the arrival of Spanish conquistadors</u>, experts note.</b></span></div><div class="intro" style="font-style: normal; margin: 10px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><b>The discovery, reported by a U.S. archaeologist, was made in southern Peru in the region once inhabited by the ancient Nasca (often spelled "Nazca") culture.</b></span></div><div class="intro" style="font-style: normal; margin: 10px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span></b></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The rare find adds to a slim body of evidence about New World mining practices, said Kevin J. Vaughn, an anthropologist at Purdue University who reported the find.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Because mining is an extractive industry, it tends to destroy archaeological evidence," he said.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"There is very little evidence of this type of mine. It demonstrates that iron ores were important to ancient Andean civilizations."</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The discovery, reported by a U.S. archaeologist, was made in southern Peru in the region once inhabited by the ancient Nasca (often spelled "Nazca") culture.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The rare find adds to a slim body of evidence about New World mining practices, said Kevin J. Vaughn, an anthropologist at Purdue University who reported the find.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Because mining is an extractive industry, it tends to destroy archaeological evidence," he said.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"There is very little evidence of this type of mine. It demonstrates that iron ores were important to ancient Andean civilizations."</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The discovery sheds light specifically on how hematite was used by the Nasca, who flourished along the Pacific coast from about 100 B.C. to around A.D. 600.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The culture is known for etching <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1008_021008_wire_peruglyphs.html" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;">giant drawings in the Nasca desert</a>, as well as making textiles, designing irrigation systems, and creating colorful pottery adorned with images of plants, animals, and complex religious symbols.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Some evidence suggests that ancient Andeans smelted metals like copper to make "prestige goods" for the elite classes, but this was not the case for the ochre mined at the newfound site, Vaughn explained.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Our hypothesis is that the Nasca people used the red-pigmented mineral primarily for ceramic paints," Vaughn said.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Nasca artisans could have also used the hematite to paint textiles or adobe walls, or even use it as body paint."</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Vaughn's team is currently comparing the hematite from the mine to hematite pigment found on pottery samples, he added.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Its shaft is a <u>hand-dug cave </u>covering an area of some 700 cubic meters (24,720 cubic feet).</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The mine produced some 3,710 metric tons (8,179,066 pounds) of ore over about 1,400 years of use, according to the researchers.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The site also rendered artifacts—such as beads, corncobs, stone tools, pottery shards, and textiles—that have allowed Vaughn's team link the mine to the Nasca.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Most of the artifacts date to the first few centuries A.D.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>A paper describing the excavation appeared in the <i>Journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society</i>.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u>Donald Proulx, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts,</u> called the study "a major step forward in our understanding of the nature of Nasca ceramic production.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Vaughn and his colleagues are really the first to systematically look for the sources of clay and pigments used for Nasca pottery," he said.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"The discovery of the mine is extremely important, not only for showing us one of the major sources for the pigments, but also for demonstrating from the associated artifacts that the miners were members of the Nasca culture."</b></span></div><b><br />
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Archaeologists have discovered a 12,000-year-old iron oxide mine in northern Chile, making it the oldest mine yet discovered in all the Americas. The iron oxide mined by the Huentelauquen Indians was used as a pigment in dying cloth and in religious rituals, revealing an unexpected sophistication in what was previously considered a primitive group of people, University of Chile researcher Diego Salazar said.<br />
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The ancient mine was discovered near the town of Taltal, in the Antofagasta region, 1,100km north of Santiago, in October 2008, but its antiquity was not determined until tests were conducted this year in US and Polish laboratories. Named 'San Ramon 15', the mine was exploited heavily from 10,000 to 2,000 BCE. It yielded a total of 2,000 tonnes of pigment extracted from 700 cubic metres of rock.<br />
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Experts also found a treasure trove of stone and conch mining tools in the area. <strong><u>"We've found more than 1,000 hammers </u></strong>... but considering the amount of material we have yet to sift through, the <u><strong>real number could rise to several thousands,"</strong></u> said archaeologist Hernan Salinas. Before this find, the oldest mine in the Americas was 2,500 years old and located in the USA. The world's most ancient mine is in South Africa and is about 40,000 years old.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Book of Mormon Horses In America! </span></b></div>
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<b>Earthshaking discovery of Book of Mormon horses ( Hagerman Horse )</b></div>
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<b>What! Horses in North American before Hernado Cortez? Nah you gotta be kidding me! </b></div>
<b>This is the typical response many Book of Mormon believers face from skeptics.</b><br />
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<b>Yet if we search the Book of Mormon, we will find at least <u>13 verses</u> saying horses existed alongside mankind in Ancient America. Can this be true? </b><br />
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<b>Let's examine the 13 Book of Mormon passages which records horses living alongside Pre-Historic man, prior 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.</b><br />
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=33997&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">2 Nephi <space>8:23</space></span></a></b> <span style="color: black;">Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of <u><b>horses</b>,</u> neither is there any end of their chariots;</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=34072&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">2 Nephi <space>8:98</space></span></a></b> <span style="color: black;">Whose arrows shall be sharp, and all their bows bent, and their <u><b>horses</b>' </u>hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind, their roaring like a lion.</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=34931&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Enos <space>1:34</space></span></a></b> <span style="color: black;">And it came to pass that the people of Nephi did till the land, and raise all manner of grain, and of fruit, and flocks of herds, and flocks of all manner of cattle, of every kind, and goats, and wild goats, and also many <u><b>horses</b>.</u></span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=36950&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Alma <space>12:76</space></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> </span><span style="color: black;">And they said unto him, Behold, he is feeding thy <b><u>horses</u></b>.</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=36951&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Alma <space>12:77</space></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Now the king had commanded his servants previous to the time of the watering of their flocks, that they should prepare his <b><u>horses</u></b> and chariots, and conduct him forth to the land of Nephi:</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=36953&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Alma <space>12:79</space></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> N</span><span style="color: black;">ow when King Lamoni heard that Ammon was preparing his <b><u>horses</u></b> and his chariots, he was more astonished, because of the faithfulness of Ammon, saying,</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=36956&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Alma <space>12:82</space></span></a></b> <span style="color: black;">And it came to pass that when Ammon had made ready the <u><b>horses</b> </u>and the chariots for the king and his servants, he went in unto the king, and he saw that the countenance of the king was changed; therefore he was about to return out of his presence;</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=37062&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Alma <space>12:188</space></span></a></b> <span style="color: black;">Now when Lamoni had heard this, he caused that his servants should make ready his <b><u>horses</u></b>, and his chariots.</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=39371&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">3 Nephi <space>2:30</space></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> A</span><span style="color: black;">nd they had taken their <b><u>horses</u></b>, and their chariots, and their cattle, and all their flocks, and their herds, and their grain, and all their substance,</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=39385&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">3 Nephi <space>2:44</space></span></a></b> <span style="color: black;">And the Nephites being in one body, and having so great a number, and having reserved for themselves provisions, and <b><u>horses</u></b>, and cattle, and flocks of every kind, that they might subsist for the space of seven years,</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=39451&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">3 Nephi <space>3:1</space></span></a></b> <span style="color: black;">And now it came to pass that the people of the Nephites did all return to their own lands, in the twenty and sixth year, every man, with his family, his flocks and his herds, his <b><u>horses</u></b> and his cattle, and all things whatsoever did belong unto them.</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=39969&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">3 Nephi <space>9:101</space></span></a></b> <span style="color: black;">Yea, wo be unto the Gentiles, except they repent, for it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Father, that I will cut off thy <b><u>horses</u></b> out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots, and I will cut off the cities of thy land and throw down all thy strongholds;</span></b></div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/Context.asp?ScriptureID=40732&ContextInt=5&SubmitID=Submit" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Ether <space>4:21</space></span></a></b> <span style="color: black;">And they also had<u> <b>horses</b>,</u> and asses, and there were elephants, and cureloms, and cumoms: all of which were useful unto man, and more especially the elephants, and cureloms, and cumoms.</span></b></div>
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<b>Mainstream Christianity would have all Book of Mormon believers think Joseph Smith was a fraud, a liar or the devil in incarnate. Is this truly so? Upon what evidence should we convict Joseph Smith for perjury? Could Joseph Smith have been telling the <u>scientific truth</u> 180 years ago? </b></div>
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<b>Many Book of Mormon critics, have said horses didn't arrive in America till about 500 years ago, around the time of Hernando Cortez. This post dispels that myth by using recognized sources of authority.</b><br />
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<b>Years ago as a child and later a young man I was a horse nut! I rode, <u>read</u> and breathed anything horses. As you see above I did well in show competition! When I began to answer my priesthood calling in the RLDS Church, I began meeting people who didn't know horses originated from America... It took a while, but over time I remembered something I had read as a boy about horses. I couldn't put my finger upon it at first, but then I remembered reading a school text book about prehistoric horses in America. </b></div>
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<b>I've compiled this information into one post.... I hope you enjoy. Never let it be said, Joseph Smith was never a prophet, or that he was a liar.... Joseph Smith told the truth. But the worlds knowledge of Ancient American archaeology is just now beginning to catch up with what the Book of Mormon declared and Joseph Smith knew and announced to the world 180 years ago.</b><br />
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(Reuters) - Scientists excavating an ancient Wyoming sink-hole
containing a rare trove of fossils of Ice Age mammals have unearthed
hundreds of bones of such prehistoric animals as<b> <u>American cheetahs</u>,</b> a palaeontologist said on Friday.</div>
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The two-week dig by an international team of researchers led by Des
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Meachen said the extensive excavation that began late last month
uncovered roughly 200 large bones of animals like <b><u>horses</u></b> that roamed
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Aldo Rincón, STRI paleontology intern, unearthed a set of fossil teeth in the Panama Canal that Bruce MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the <b>Florida Museum of Natural History,</b> describes as belonging to Anchitherium clarencei Aldo Rincón, STRI paleontology intern, unearthed a set of fossil teeth in the Panama Canal that Bruce MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the <b>Florida Museum of Natural History</b>, describes as belonging to <b>Anchitherium clarencei, a three-toed browsing horse</b> the size of the modern donkey, living 15 to 18 million years ago.</div>
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Once processed, the fossil will return to Panama.Expanding the Panama Canal to make way for super-sized ships is providing geologists and paleontologists with rare finds. Carlos Jaramillo, STRI stratigrapher, has, in collaboration with the University of Florida and the Panama Canal Authority, organized a team of researchers and students who move in following dynamite blasts to map and collect exposed fossils.</div>
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"This is one of very few places in the tropics where we have access to fresh outcrops before they are washed away by torrential rains or overgrown by vegetation, and we expect the fossils that we have been salvaging to resolve some major scientific mysteries," said Jaramillo."What geological forces combined to create the Panama land bridge? Were the flora and fauna of Panama before the land bridge closed similar to those of North America, or did they include other elements?"</div>
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What makes the Hagerman Horse so important? First, the discovery from Hagerman is the largest sample of this extinct species from one locality. <b>Over two hundred individuals of both sexes and all ages were recovered by the Smithsonian. Included are complete skeletons as well as skulls, jaws and detached bones. </b>They were about the size of the present day Arabian horse, and had a single toe (hoof). Vertebrate paleontologists must often work with single, isolated bones or teeth. So it is often difficult to assign them to an already described species when differences in sex or age of an individual are taken into consideration. The large number of individuals recovered at the Hagerman Horse Quarry simplifies this problem here. </div>
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Despite the popular use of the name, Hagerman Horse, it is actually more closely related to the zebras. Although we don't have fossil evidence of stripes, the pattern of the chewing surfaces of the teeth and details of the skull and rest of the skeleton indicate that this animal was more closely related to the living Grevy's Zebra of Africa than to horses. So the next time you're at the zoo, take a good look at the zebras on display and you'll have an opportunity to see a close relative of one of the earliest residents of the Hagerman area.</div>
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Many different scientific names have been applied to this horse. James W. Gidley, the Smithsonian paleontologist, who led the initial excavations at Hagerman in 1929, felt that the horse being uncovered was different enough in its skeleton that it represented a new species distinct from any other known fossil horse. He proposed the name Plesippus shoshonensis. By placing the Hagerman horse in the genus Plesippus, he considered it to be closely related to another fossil species, Plesippus simplicidens, from Texas. Although another horse, Equus idahoensis, had been described from elsewhere in this region, Dr. Gidley considered his new species to be more primitive. Since the early work of Gidley, many other studies on fossil horses have been made and the consensus is that the horse at Hagerman does belong in the modern genus Equus and that it is the same as the extinct species from Texas, simplicidens. So today most paleontologists refer to the Hagerman Horse by the scientific name of Equus simplicidens.<br />
The Hagerman Horse also has the distinction of being the earliest record of Equus, the genus that includes all modern horses, donkeys, and zebras. </div>
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Did You Know?Hagerman Fossil Beds is one of only three units in the National Park system that contains portions of the Oregon National Historic Trail.</div>
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<i><b>Hillary Mayellfor National Geographic News<br />
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<b>Scientists have found the first definitive proof that early humans in North America hunted horses for their meat.<br />
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Prehistoric horses, which were much smaller than today's horses, standing about 4.5 feet (1.5 meters) high at the shoulder, became extinct about 10,000 years ago. Scientists considered it likely that hunting by humans was a factor in their extinction, but until now there was no hard proof.<br />
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The first conclusive evidence comes from spearheads tainted with the residue of horse protein. They were found along with other animal remains on the river plain of St. Mary's Reservoir in southern Alberta, Canada.<br />
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"In the past, we could really only attribute the demise of these ancient horses to climate and environmental changes," said Brian Kooyman, an archaeologist at the University of Calgary and the lead scientist at the dig.<br />
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"There has been suggestive evidence at other sites—Lubbock Lake in Texas, for instance—that early peoples were utilizing horses," he said. "But this discovery raises the very real possibility that overhunting by the Clovis people played a significant role in the extinction."<br />
European explorers reintroduced horses to the New World several thousand years after the ancient ones died out.</b></div>
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<b>The floor of the reservoir is covered with animal tracks of mammals, including wooly mammoths, camels, giant bison and helmeted musk oxen. "Clovis points," the spearheads associated with some of the first humans to reach the continent, found in the river plain have been dated to between 11,000 to 11,300 years old.</b></div>
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<b>"The area where the remains were found is large—3 to 4 square kilometers [1 to 1.5 square miles]," Kooyman said. "We uncovered the remains of a prehistoric horse with several smashed vertebrae and bones that bore evidence of butchering, and then two of our students found several Clovis points around 550 yards (500 meters) away."</b></div>
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<b>Laboratory analysis showed that the spearheads had the residue of horse protein on them; they apparently had been thrust into the horse.<br />
"It was a near miss," Kooyman said of the discovery. "We weren't going to bother testing them [for horse protein residue]. We'd had similar findings before and the points all came back from the lab clean. But the two graduate students kept insisting we send them in, and we're glad they did."</b></div>
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<b>As the ice began to retreat on the North American continent 14,000 to 12,000 years ago, humans made their way to the New World. A massive extinction of megafauna—animals weighing more than 100 pounds (45 kilograms)—occurred in North America about 10,000 years ago.</b></div>
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<b>The role of humans in the extinction is the subject of debate among scientists.<br />
"Retreating ice would cause changes in temperature, vegetation bands and probably a patchiness in vegetation and loss of habitat," said Paul McNeil, a Ph.D. candidate in paleontology at the</b></div>
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<b>University of Calgary who has been working the site. "This would stress the animal populations, and it wouldn't take much to push them over the edge to extinction."<br />
"Environment and climate change were definitely factors in the extinction event, but there had been numerous instances of glaciers advancing and retreating during the Pleistocene, and this is the only time we see a megafaunal extinction. The arrival of humans is the only real new factor," he said.</b></div>
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<b>The lakebed where the footprints, animal skeletons and artifacts were found is usually flooded. Currently, however, the region is undergoing a drought. St. Mary's reservoir is expected to fill with water again, perhaps soon, so the scientists are working feverishly—sometimes in the midst of brutal sandstorms—to document the tracks and continue the archaeological excavations.</b></div>
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<b>From a preservation standpoint, McNeil noted, the tracks are better protected under water. "One of the results of glaciations is a denuded countryside, with lots of dust and sand and silt. So when the wind blows it can be fierce enough to erode meters at a time," he said.</b></div>
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<b>The researchers are excited by their discoveries at the site and how they are helping to fill in details of the past. "It's an amazing sight, like a snapshot of what life was like in the late Pleistocene, 10,000 years ago," said McNeil.</b></div>
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<b>"The tracks represent living animals and a living ecosystem. In your mind you can see the animals cohabitating, gathering in the same place," he said. "We've found the only camel tracks we know of in North America—at one place you can see where five of them were walking next to each other."</b></div>
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<b>Threatened by the filling of the lake, Kooyman said: "Right now we're just scrambling to do the really critical things."</b></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">Horses were introduced into the Americas during the 16th Century by the Spanish Conquistadors. Escapees from the Spanish stocks thrived and quickly established large wild populations. The absence of these "noble animals" before the colonization of the New World and the horse's success thereafter were seen by some Europeans as one more bit of evidence that the American fauna was inferior to that of the Old World</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.ansp.org/museum/leidy/paleo/equus.php#one">(1)</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">The Old World pedigree of the horse was first challenged by the discovery of fossil teeth in South America which had been collected by a young Charles Darwin and examined by Richard Owen in 1840</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.ansp.org/museum/leidy/paleo/equus.php#two">(2)</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">There had been scattered reports of fossil horse teeth from the United States, but these were either dismissed or ignored by the European scientific community.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7357776394322470159&postID=2582783125560655962" id="3rd" name="3rd"></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">In 1848, Joseph Leidy settled the question of ancient horses in North American by publishing a systematic examination of Pleistocene (Ice Age) horse fossils from the collections at the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia and elsewhere</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.ansp.org/museum/leidy/paleo/equus.php#three">(3)</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7357776394322470159&postID=2582783125560655962" id="4th" name="4th"></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">The implication of ancient horses in the Americas was significant. After all, if wild horses were present during the Pleistocene (Ice Age) and thrived once they were re-introduced by the Spaniards, why were they missing when the Spaniards arrived? In 1848 Leidy wrote:</span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">Leidy provided detailed descriptions of these fossil horses and compared the anatomies of the different species. He noted patterns of increased crown height and structural complexity in horses teeth. Although most of the material at his disposal were teeth or jaw fragments, he was also aware that some ancient horses such as Hipparion had three toes rather than one. However, Leidy —ever reluctant to theorize— never published on the evolutionary relationships of horses.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7357776394322470159&postID=2582783125560655962" id="7th" name="7th"></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">That task would be acomplished by O. C. Marsh a few years after Leidy had abondoned paleontology. Marsh was guilty of oversimplification,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.ansp.org/museum/leidy/paleo/equus.php#seven">(7)</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">but his sequence of transitional fossils was a stunning achievement instrumental to the acceptance of Evolution among scientists and the public.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7357776394322470159&postID=2582783125560655962" id="one" name="one"></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">The idea of the inferiority of the New World's fauna was shared by many Europeans, including some scientists. The formalized by the great French scientist de Buffon (1707-1788) during the 1760s. He theorized that the lack of superior animals such as the horse, lion or elephant in the New World was caused by its harsher climate. Buffon de-emphasized the theory later in his long and productive career, but many Europeans continued to perceive an inferiority in the American fauna; a notion readily reinforced by comparisions with the Eurasian and African faunae. Fossil discoveries by Leidy, O.C. Marsh, E.D. Cope, among others, thoroughly discredited any notion of Old World monopoly on impressive animals. [</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.ansp.org/museum/leidy/paleo/equus.php#start">go back</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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Horses reached the Americas long ago, but eventually died out LIMA: Geologists have uncovered the most complete horse fossil in the Americas, expanding knowledge of an ancient species that had died out on the continent 10,000 years ago.A team from Peru's Natural History Museum told reporters on Friday they had discovered the preserved skeleton of an Equus (Amerihippus) santaeelenae in July 2002 in the arid region of Arequipa, about 1,000 km south of Lima.</div>
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The fossil, unearthed in an area of volcanic ash and mud flows, had its head arched back and its front legs splayed out in front of its body. It was to be put on public display in the capital Lima at the end of the month. "Without a doubt, this is the most complete horse fossil that exists in the Americas. Absolutely all the bones have been preserved," said Rodolfo Salas, head of the palaeontology department at the museum. Compared to today's horse, the Equus santaeelenae had a large head, a thick neck and short legs. "It was definitely a good runner ... and lived in open areas like savannahs or pastures," Salas said.</div>
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Horses are thought to have arrived in South America about 3 million years ago, making their way across the isthmus of Panama from North America. But its population dwindled and it became extinct about 10,000 years ago - about the same time humans are believed to have settled South America. They were re-introduced following the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and colonists in the 16th century."Horses were reintroduced to South America," he added. "With this (find) we hope to remind people this animal did exist here." Reuters Note for Blog Manager: So you see, the Book of Mormon could well be an inspired work after all!</div>
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</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><b></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They will prosper if they keep the commandments (1:72)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They will be kept from falling into the hands of their enemies (1:71)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They are aware that allowing contentions among them is to choose to obey the Evil one (1:73)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They will render all they have and are to the Heavenly Father (1:77)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They know that the Spirit can and will guide them in all things (1:79)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">6.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They know that going contrary to that which they have been taught and known, which is open rebellion, will cause that same Spirit to withdraw (1:79)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They understand that not repenting from rebellion will cause us to spend eternity away from God and die an enemy to him (1:83)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual (1:89)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">9.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They realize that there shall be no other name given, nor any other way nor means whereby salvation can come unto the children of men, only in and through the name of Christ (1:116)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">10.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They yield to the enticing of the Holy Spirit, and put off the natural man (1:120)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">11.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They know that little children will be found blameless before God (1:122)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">12.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They know that those accountable shall be judged for their works. (1:126)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">13.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They view themselves in their own carnal state, even less than the dust of the earth (2:2)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">14.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They pray for forgiveness and purity through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ (2:3)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">15.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who created heaven and earth (2:4)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">16.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They believe that redemption comes only through Christ (2:12)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">17.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They believe in God and believe he exists, and that he created all things both in heaven and in earth (2:13)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">18.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth (2:14)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">19.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They believe that man can not comprehend all things which the Lord can comprehend (2:15)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">20.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They believe that we must repent of your sins and forsake them, and in humility, ask to be forgiven (2:16)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">21.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They always retain in remembrance the greatness of God, and their own nothingness, and remember His goodness and long suffering towards them (2:20)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">22.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They call on the name of the Lord daily (2:21)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">23.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They stand steadfastly in the faith of that which is to come, knowing that in so doing they<span> </span>shall always rejoice, and be filled with the love of God, and always retain a remission of their sins (2:21)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">24.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They will continue to grow in the knowledge of the glory of him that created them (2:23)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">25.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They will not have a mind to injure one another, but to live peaceably, and to render to every man according to that which is his due (2:24)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">26.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They will not suffer their children, that they go hungry, or naked, or suffer them to transgress the laws of God, and fight and quarrel one with another<span> </span>(2:25)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">27.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They will teach their children to walk in the ways of truth and soberness (2:27)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">28.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They will help those that stand in need help; and will administer of their substance to those that standeth in need (2:28)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">29.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They will not suffer the petition of those in need to be ignored (2:29)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">30.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They know that withholding good to those in need brings condemnation, understanding that we all depend on the same God for all we have (2:37)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">31.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick, and administering to their relief, both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants (2:43)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">36.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They are willing to enter into a covenant with our God, to do his will, and to be obedient to his commandments in all things that he shall command us, all the remainder of our days (3:6)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-11982815169615881042011-05-06T04:57:00.000-07:002012-01-07T05:11:55.954-08:00Barley Found in the New World<div class="Text" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; text-decoration: none;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Barley Found in the New World</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b>by Raymond C. Treat</b></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>INTRODUCTION</b></div>Some very exciting and faith-rewarding news for Book of Mormon believers, the first discovery of barley in the New World, has been reported in the December issue of Science 83, pp. 28-37, under the title "Lost Ditch Archeology", by <b>Daniel B. Adams, a graduate student in paleontology at the <u>University of California, Berkely.</u></b><br />
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</u></b></div>This discovery constitutes one of the most important archaeological breakthroughs ever in support of the Book of Mormon. If this identification of barley is valid, and it appears to be, it will cause a major shift in the thinking of New World archaeologists, a shift which will be a giant step toward the ever growing physical validation of Book of Mormon history. The following analogy will help us to appreciate the importance of this discovery: Consider the Book of Mormon as a great reservoir of truth. Then envision a gigantic dam erected by tradition and unbelief to hold back this truth. As we shall see, the foundations of this dam have been weakening for some time. Taken in this context, the discovery of barley in the New World is the equivalent of an actual crack at the base of the dam sufficiently wide to allow water to start trickling through. Now that the trickle has started, it is only a matter of time before the complete collapse of the dam, which will allow the truth of the Book of Mormon to cover the earth as a flood.<br />
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</span></div>The barley was discovered in Hohokam deposits in Phoenix, Arizona as a result of excavations carried out by Arizona State University. The Hohokam Indians were present in the Phoenix area from about 300 B.C. to about A.D. 1450. They may have come from Mesoamerica since a number of Mesoamerican traits were present in their culture such as similar figurine styles, the use of cotton, their textile techniques, ball courts, platform mounds and copper bells. The Hohokam culture is famous in the Southwest for a number of things including the construction of a massive system of irrigation canals. Over 1000 miles of canals as large as 30 feet wide and seven feet deep were built by these industrious ancient people.<br />
Adams states in Science 83:<br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Perhaps the most startling evidence of Hohokam agricultural sophistication came last year when salvage archeologists found preserved grains of what looks like domesticated le , the first ever found in the New World. Wild barleys have a fibrous husk over each grain. Domestic barley locks this. So does the Hohokam barley. "It's debatable whether this is genetic or some extreme skill in processing," says Vorsila Bohrer, an ethnobotanist at Eastern New Mexico University. Nearly half the samples from one site yielded barley. (page 32)</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">BOOK OF MORMON: BARLEY IN THE NEW WORLD</span></b></div><br />
The Book of Mormon tells us that barley was cultivated in the New World from the time of the Jaredites. This quote from the Nephite period is about 120 B.C.:<br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">And behold, we at this time do pay tribute to the king of the Lamanites, to the amount of one half of our corn, and our barley, and even all our grain of every kind, and one half of the increase of our flocks, and our herds. Mosiah 5:35</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ARCHAEOLOGY: NO BARLEY IN THE NEW WORLD</span></b></div><br />
On the other hand, New World archaeology has always maintained that barley was not available in the New World. Probably the main reason for this belief is that it was not found in the New World at the time of European contact. Archaeologists thought that if it had been in the New World previously it certainly would not have disappeared before European contact. Since New World archaeologists "knew" that barley did not exist they did not look for it. This would help account for why it has not been discovered until now. We can expect more discoveries of barley to follow this initial discovery. The discovery of barley is important in itself but there is more to the story.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">BARLEY IS JUST THE BEGINNING</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Barley is not only an Old World cereal grain but is part of a larger Old World food production system which includes wheat sheep, goats, cattle, horses etc. The Book of Mormon tells us that all of these items were also in the New World:<br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">And in the space of sixty and two years, they had become exceeding strong, insomuch that they become exceeding rich, having all manner of fruit, and of grain, and of silks, and of fine linen, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious things, and also all manner of cattle, of oxen, and cows, and of sheep, and of swine, and of goats, and also many other kind of animals which were useful for the food of man: and they also had horses, and asses, and there were elephants, and cureloms, and cummoms: all of which were useful unto man ... Ether 4:19-21</span></blockquote><br />
This quote from Ether tells us that Old World groins and animals were brought to the New World by the Jaredites When the Nephites arrived, they tell about finding Old World animals in the wilderness. These would have been descendents of animals brought over by the Jaredites. The Nephites, too, brought grain.<br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">And it come to pass that we did begin to till the earth, and we began to plant seeds, yea, we did put all our seeds into the earth, which we had brought from the land of Jerusalem. And it came to pass that they did grow exceedingly; wherefore, we were blessed in abundance. And it come to pass that we did find upon the land of promise, as we journeyed in the wilderness, that there were beasts in the forests of every kind, both the cow, and the ox, and the ass, and the horse, and the goat, and the wild goat, and all manner of wild animals, which were for the use of men. I <b>Nephi 5:214-216</b></span></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">And we began to till the ground, yea, even with all manner of seeds, with seeds of corn, and of wheat, and of barley, and with neas, and with sheum, and with seeds of all manner of fruits; an we did begin to multiply and prosper in the land. <b> Mosiah 6:12</b></span></blockquote><br />
To summarize then, the Book of Mormon has been telling us since 1830 that the Old World food production system (e.g. barley, wheat, sheep, goats, cattle, horses etc.) was available in the New World for at least 2300-2400 years while archaeology has said it was never in the New World prior to European contact.<br />
Because one part of this system, barley, has now been found, we assume it is only a matter of time before the rest of the system is discovered. When this happens it will invalidate one of the main tenets of archaeology, namely, that New World civilization developed on its own, independent from the Old World. This would cause a major restructuring of archaeological thinking which would lead archaeology even closer to the discovery that the Book of Mormon is valid history The Book of Mormon tells us that New World civilization did come from the Old World by way of the Jaredites Nephites and Mulekites. The discovery of barley, therefore, is only the beginning of this latest process which certainly must be part of the Lord's timing in these last days.<br />
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It seems clear that the absence of the New World food system at the time of European contact was part of a divine plan to provide a greater witness in our day. The mystery remains as to how all these foods and animals died out. The answer may be found in either environmental or cultural factors or a combination of both.<br />
As mentioned, the barley has been found in Hohokam deposits from the Phoenix area. Arizona, along with the rest of the United States, is not part of Book of Mormon geography. However, most, if not all, Indian tribes in the United States are descendents of Book of Mormon peoples. The Book of Mormon took place in Mesoamerica (southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and parts of Honduras and El Salvador). Archaeologists recognize that several areas of the United States, including the U.S. Southwest, were influenced by Mesoamerica. It is therefore likely that Hohokam barley originated in Mesoamerica. Although barley has not been found in Mesoamerica yet, mainly because archaeologists have not been looking for it, it appears to be only a matter of time before it is found. The stage has already been set by recent developments in Maya archaeology (see Zarahemla Record #1 Classic Maya Population: An Example of Convergence) and by the fact that phytoliths can be used for identifying wheat and barley (see Zarahemla Record #2 Wheat and Barley: Problem or Opportunity).<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">BARLEY: PART OF A PATTERN OF DIVINE TIMING</span></b></div><br />
The discovery of barley in the New World is not an isolated event. It is part of a series of Book of Mormon related events which we can only conclude are part of a definite plan which God is carrying out in preparation for the establishment of Zion in our day (see Fig. 1). Eleven events have been identified so far in the last five years as being part of this plan: I in 1979, 3 in 1980, 2 in 1981, 2 in 1982 and 3 in 1983. Each is unique and each appears most certainly to be the beginning of an ongoing process.<br />
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The book, The Discovery of Genesis by Kong and Nelson was published in 1979. From this book, we learn that part of the history of the Jaredites has been preserved in the characters of the Chinese language. We learn that whoever first formulated the Chinese language had the story of Genesis. This is strong circumstantial evidence that it was the Jaredites who were responsible for the origin of the Chinese language since we believe they carried the original story of Genesis with them in the form of the Book of Remembrance. Other evidence from the Book of Mormon and from archaeology tells us that the Jaredites migrated from the Sumerian area of Mesopotamia across Asia and through China on their way to the New World. Through the work on the Chinese characters the Lord is beginning the process that will bring the knowledge of the Jaredites to the world. At one time they were the greatest civilization in the world. Such a people can not be hidden forever. Their history has been locked into the Chinese characters for about 4300 years. This information could have come forth long ago. We should assume, therefore, that its appearance in 1979 is due to divine timing (see Zarahemla Record #12 for more information on the Chinese characters).<br />
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</div>The discovery of the original Anthon transcript in 1980 must also be due to divine timing since this piece of paper, which has been preserved all these years, could have been discovered at any time in the lost 100 years or more. We now have, for the first time, an accurate copy of some of the characters from the Book of Mormon. This will facilitate comparison with known languages. More importantly, it is logical to assume that the appearance of the Book of Mormon characters is a prelude to the appearance of further Book of Mormon related records (see Zarahemla Record #9 and #11).<br />
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According to Jewish custom, a Year of Jubilee occurs every fifty years. All debts are cancelled and a new beginning is made. Such a year was 1980 as was 1830 certainly a time of new beginning. In 1980 a portion of the Book of Mormon in Hebrew was taken to Israel. Significantly, this portion included the part of the Book of Mormon from the Small Plates of Nephi. One purpose of the small plates is to provide a special witness to the Jews (see Zarahemla Record #11).<br />
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The fourth event, and the third one in 1980, was the publication of Ancient Mesoamerica, a map of Book of Mormon geography by Ralph Lesh (see Zarahemla Record #10). Again it is easy to see the theme of timing in the coming forth of this map because all of the information on the map comes from the Book of Mormon. This means that the map could have been produced any time since 1930. The map is part of the process that will eventually end in a complete Book of Mormon geography equal to if not better than that currently available for the Bible. The developments in the Book of Mormon geography are certainly part of the Lord's plan for our day and are a signal that a day of great spiritual power is soon to break upon us. Yes, 1980 was surely a time of new beginning for the Book of Mormon.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">1981</span></div><br />
The next year 1981' witnessed two events, the Joseph Smith III blessing one of five important Restoration documents that are a part of the eleven event series, and the publication of the book Chiasmus in Antiquity (see Zarahemla Record #17/18). The blessing is part of the process that will eventually demonstrate to the world that Joseph Smith Jr. wasa prophet of God and that the Book of Mormon is divine.<br />
The significance of the book Chiasmus in Antiquity, aside from revealing the chiastic nature of the Book of Mormon, is that it is one of the first, if not the first, books written mostly by secular non Book of Mormon related scholars in which there is a chapter dealing with the Book of Mormon as a valid book. The book is not for the general public. It was written by and for specialists in ancient languages. For a scholar to have his name associated with a book that has a pro Book of Mormon chapter in it is no light matter since his reputation ion may be at stake.<br />
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The discovery that the Book of Mormon, like the Bible, has a great deal of chiastic writing in it is very significant. Chiastic writing is found in a number of ancient languages, most prominently in ancient Hebrew. Not only does the identification of the chiasms in the Book of Mormon help us in our study and appreciation of the book but their presence demonstrates that neither Joseph Smith Jr. nor any other nineteenth-century author had the capability to write the Book of Mormon.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">1982</span></div><br />
In 1982 letters by Martin Harris, One of the three witnesses, and Lucy Mack Smith, mother of Joseph Smith Jr., were first made public (see Zarahemla Record #17/18). The Harris letter reaffirms his testimony about seeing the plates. Harris states: "... and lo there came a voice from heaven saying 'I am the Lord,' and that the plates were translated by God and not by men, and also that we should bear record of it to all the world, and thus the vision was taken from us." While the testimony of Martin Harris is not new, the discovery of this version of it in 1982, especially taken together with the other ten items, is a reminder to us that the Book of Mormon is indeed of divine origin since this letter could have been discovered earlier.<br />
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The Lucy Mack Smith letter is very significant. It is the earliest dated Restoration document and was written during the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. As such, it helps to verify Joseph Smith's account of the origin of the Book of Mormon. Critics have said that Joseph made up the account since he did not write it until several years later. They fail to point out that delayed reporting of important history is normal. Lucy's letter also gives us for the first time some information from the 116 lost pages. At the time that Lucy wrote the letter, January 23, 1829, this was the only portion of the Book of Mormon that had been translated. The information is that Ishmael was Sariah's brother. This helps explain why Ishmael and his family were willing to go with Lehi into the desert. Ishmael is also an Arabic name, which means that Ishmael and Sariah were at I east partly Arabic. Therefore, the Arabia people have a connection to the Book of Mormon. Lehi's first two sons, Laman and Lemuel have Arabic names. This is a clue that Lehi's early married life had a strong Arabic influence. Incidently, the next two sons, Sam and Nephi, had Egyptian names, showing that Lehi's interest had shifted. The Lost two sons, Jacob and Joseph, have House of Israel names reflecting Lehi's awareness of his lineage after reading the Plates of Brass and also his calling as a prophet of God. This letter also could have been discovered earlier, therefore, its appearance in 1982 suggests that its message too is part of a divine plan.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">1983</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></div>Another event concerning Book of Mormon geography occurred early in 1983. This was the discovery that a Maya hieroglyph provided information suggesting the exact location of a Book of Mormon city (see Zarahemla Record #19/20/21). Since Book of Mormon geography has been subject to a wide range of opinion for so many years, it is significant that the pieces of the puzzle are starting to fall into place. Serious students of this subject no longer argue about the general area where the Book of Mormon took place, which is Mesoamerica, but have advanced to discussions as to whereabouts in Mesoamerica various sites are located.<br />
In August, 1983, on announcement was made about the discovery of additional fragments from one of the original manuscripts of the Book of Mormon, the one that had been placed in the cornerstone of the Nauvoo House. Again, the focus here is not on any new information, although there is some to be gained, but on timing. The message here seems to be that we are approaching the time when some additional Book of Mormon records will be brought forth.<br />
Then, as described above, come the announcement of the discovery of barley in December, 1983. Eleven events have occurred in five years. if any of these events had occurred alone or with one or two other events we might not have considered them to be part of a deliberate divine plan. However, the occurrence of all eleven in the lost five years, especially since they are of a nature or quality the likes of which we have not seen since the Book of Mormon come forth, leads us to conclude that here indeed, is a divine message. Our concern should then be that we will be able to correctly interpret and respond to this message.<br />
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This article taken from <b>Recent Book of Mormon Developments</b>, vol. 1, p 15-18.James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-45702018019212034762011-05-06T04:28:00.000-07:002011-05-06T04:28:28.006-07:00Baptist Minister Embraces Book of Mormon<div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Baptist Version<br />
of<br />
The Book of Mormon</span></strong></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i><div align="center"><i><strong><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Protestant Doctrines<br />
within the Book of Mormon</span></strong></i></div><div align="center"><strong>by<br />
Lynn Ridenhour,</strong></div><i><div align="center"><strong>Southern Baptist Minister</strong></div><div align="center"><strong><br />
</strong></div></i><div align="justify">I’m a licensed Southern Baptist minister <i>and I embrace the Book of Mormon.</i></div><i></i><div align="justify">That is, I believe the truths recorded in it. No, I’m not a convert to the Mormon faith, nor am I a member of any particular "spin-off" restoration group such as the RLDS (Reorganized Latter-day Saints), Hedrikites, or Strangites. I’m still a Baptist minister. To be exact, I’m "charismatic Baptist." That is, I still embrace the "born again" experience. I still believe you’re saved by grace. By the shed blood of Christ. Salvation is by faith alone in His finished work on Calvary. I still believe in the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit. I believe and embrace those cardinal doctrines of Protestantism.</div><div align="justify">And you know what?…</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"> <i>I still believe the Book of Mormon too!</i></div><div align="justify"><i><br />
</i></div><div align="justify">I know. I can hear you now. <i>"…A charismatic Baptist minister who believes the Book of Mormon?! Impossible. That’s like a Protestant Pope…"</i> No, it’s not. It’s not a contradiction.</div><div align="justify">The two go hand in hand, really--Protestant doctrine and the Book of Mormon. They’re not at odds. <b><i>The Book of Mormon is filled with Protestant cardinal doctrines</i></b>, believe it or not. In fact, I discovered, the Book of Mormon is more "Baptist" than the Baptist hymnal in places. I know that’s hard to believe, but it’s so. I read the Book from cover to cover and found as a Baptist minister, there is absolutely nothing in it that contradicts the Bible.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">For example, the book uplifts the blood of Christ <i>(Mosiah 1:118),</i> declares that salvation is only by God’s grace <i>(2 Nephi 7:42),</i> defends the grand theme of salvation <i>(Mosiah 1:108),</i> and proclaims that salvation comes only through faith on the Lord Jesus Christ <i>(Mosiah 3:8,9).</i> Other themes such as repentance, atonement by Christ’s blood, redemption, and forgiveness run like a scarlet thread through the book as well <i>(Alma 3:86, Helaman 2:71, Alma 13:13, Mosiah 2:3,4)</i>. Thus, our "tongue ‘n’ cheek" title, <b><i>The</i></b> <b><i>Baptist Version of the Book of Mormon</i></b>. I’m telling you, the grand themes of Protestantism are found recorded through and through. From cover to cover.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">A Word About My Background…</span></b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">Reared in a small conservative Baptist church back in the hills of the Ozarks, I was taught with strong convictions that Mormons were no different from Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Scientists, or Armstrong followers. They all sooner or later knocked on your door. We were instructed by our parents to <i>"…let none of them in the house. And don’t buy their materials…" </i>All were cults. Certainly the Mormons were not within mainstream Christianity.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">I was taught that the Book of Mormon was a lie. We have the Bible and no man was to add to the scriptures lest his soul be damned. And I was taught that the rapture could occur any minute. Establishing a literal kingdom on this earth was pure nonsense. And I believe my convictions were typical. Most protestant/pentecostal Christians today share similar sentiments.</div><div align="justify">So what are we faced with concerning the Book of Mormon? Is it… </div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Adding to the Bible or Duped by the Canon</span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div></b><i></i><div align="justify"><i>"…You don’t really believe in that book, do you?" </i>Or<i> "…you surely don’t believe the Book of Mormon is equal with the Bible, do you?…"</i></div><i></i><div align="justify">These are questions my friends now ask me, wondering if I haven’t erred from the truth.</div><div align="justify">What’s my response?… </div><div align="justify">I have chosen to follow the style of the Master. When asked a probing question, He often responded with one. The Pharisees once asked Him about John the Baptist, and… </div><i><div align="justify">"…Jesus responded, ‘I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you…’" <strong>--Matt.21:24</strong></div><div align="justify"><strong><br />
</strong></div></i><div align="justify"><i></i>When my friends ask, <i>"…do you believe in the Book of Mormon?"</i> I respond, <i>"I will answer that, but first I would like for you to answer my question, ‘Why do you believe in the canon of scripture? Would you give me your reasons?’"</i></div><i></i><div align="justify">Most can’t. They’ve never thought it through.</div><div align="justify">That’s really the issue, you know—not whether or not I believe in the Book of Mormon, but <i>whether or not we as Christians are to embrace the concept of canonization</i>. For that’s the perception here—that by embracing the Book of Mormon I’ve violated scripture’s canon. My friends are convinced I’ve added to the Word of God. I’m convinced we’ve been duped by the canon.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">To get to the point—not many evangelical Christians realize (<i>I didn’t</i>), the concept of canonization became popular with the Church around the time of Constantine, a period when the Church became infiltrated with nationalism and worldly teachings. Closing the canon to 66 books was the outcome of man’s wisdom and man’s heresy. Canonization has its origin in worldly tradition, is not found in the Bible, and was not practiced by the early Church. And I’m aware—that’s a shocker.</div><div align="justify">A bit of trivia--God would not end His book with the numbers ’66.’ That’s one "six" short of 666—the number of the Anti-Christ. God’s number has always been "seven," not "six."</div><div align="justify">I have discovered, there are two extra-biblical teachings propagated by Protestantism that must be dealt with before most of us will take the Book of Mormon seriously: 1) the doctrine of canonization, and 2) the teaching of the rapture. Both are cardinal doctrines of Protestantism and both are extra-biblical teachings. That is, neither is supported by the Word of God.</div><div align="justify">The other Protestant myth… </div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><b></b><div align="justify"><b>The Rapture</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify"><i>"…Joseph Smith can’t be taken too seriously because he believed in a literal city of Zion." </i>I must say, that doesn’t sound so strange these days. Many evangelical Christians no longer embrace the rapture.</div><div align="justify">What about the rapture? Where did the doctrine come from? Did the early saints believe in it?</div><div align="justify">For eighteen hundred years the saints did not believe in the rapture, pre-tribulation, post-tribulation, or mid-tribulation. The teaching is new. In the light of church history, it’s new. Again, perhaps that’s a shock to some of us.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><b><i></i></b><div align="justify"><b><i>I find it very interesting—both the rapture theory and the restoration of the gospel came forth in the same year: 1830!</i></b> When the Lord moves in the earth, the Devil usually attempts his imitation of the real.</div><div align="justify">For instance, which does the Bible teach: <i>removal</i> or <i>restoration?</i></div><i></i><div align="justify">Joseph Smith, Jr. was called to restore primitive Christianity to the Church in 1830 and Margaret MacDonald, a fourteen year-old Scottish girl, went into a trance that same year. She described a vision where she saw the saints leaving the earth at the return of the Lord. Her "revelation" occurred while living in Port Glasgow, Scotland. The vision was recorded in two books written by R.N. Norton, M.D., and printed in London, England in 1861. Two Brethren ministers, Edward Irving and John Darby, popularized her vision. The Plymouth Brethren accepted the vision as valid and the rapture doctrine "took off" during prophetic meetings at Powerscourt House in Ireland.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">Irving’s views influenced C.I. Scofield, whose Bible notes popularized the new theory among fundamentalist/evangelical Christians in the West. The rest is history. However, as I said, many fundamentalist/evangelical Christians today have second thoughts about the doctrine, having re-evaluated their position. They no longer believe Christians will be "raptured out" of the tribulation.</div><div align="justify">There they are—two Protestant myths that must be dealt with before one is likely to take the Book of Mormon seriously: the doctrines of <i>canonization</i> and the<i>rapture</i>.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">Let’s suppose… </div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">…that God still speaks today—that the canon is still open—and that there’s not going to be a removal of the saints but a restoration of His creation (which includes His people), then perhaps the message of the Book of Mormon is not so "far fetched" after all.</div><div align="justify">Speaking of the message of the Book of Mormon, what exactly is its message? What is its central theme? <i>Restoration of the covenants in these latter days.</i> That surprised me, blessed me, and witnessed to me.</div><div align="justify">No, the book is not meant to be used as a tool to proselyte you into some weird sect or cult. No, it’s not meant to be used to "make a Mormon" out of you. The Book of Mormon is the <i>most nonsectarian book I’ve ever read</i>! It’s meant for Catholics, for Methodists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Charismatics, Seventh Day Adventists, for Baptists, Pentecostals…you name it. It speaks to all.</div><div align="justify">I’ll say it again. The central message of the Book of Mormon <i>is—restoration of the covenants in these latter days! </i>And that message is meant for all God’s children.</div><div align="justify">"…<i>For behold, they have taken away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and precious; and also <b>many covenants of the Lord have been taken away…" --I Nephi 3:168,169</b></i></div><div align="justify"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div align="justify"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b></b></span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Its Central Theme</span></b></b></i></div><div align="justify"><i><b><b><br />
</b></b></i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><b>Let’s explore the central theme of the Book of Mormon—restoration of the covenants. Somehow our generation has overlooked the obvious: <i>the Bible is a covenant document!</i></b></i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><b>And what’s a covenant?</b></i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><b>It’s the missing revelation among God’s children, among the church at large. That’s what it is. And how sad. Like Mephibisheth, the majority of today’s Christians do not know they have a covenant with the King. And as believers we don’t miss the covenant because we don’t know we have one. We have no idea—we were destined to sit at the table with the King.</b></i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><b>Like in King Josiah’s time <i>(II Kings 23),</i> "covenant" has been forgotten among us. I would say—since the early 1800s we’ve lost the revelation. We’re a generation without a covenant, without a mandate, without dominion. Yes, today’s Church, by and large, has taken away <i>"…many covenants of the Lord…",</i> has taken away from the gospel <i>"…many parts…"</i></b></i></div><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Let me give a brief prophetic history of the church age. John speaks of different ages in his book of Revelation. Seven churches represent seven approximate time periods. For example, Ephesus represents that period approximately <i>29 AD to 100 AD</i>. Smyrna represents <i>100 AD to 300 AD</i>. Pergamus, <i>300 to 350 AD</i>. Thyatira, <i>350 to 500 AD.</i> Sardis, <i>500 to 1500 AD</i>, the dark ages. Philadelphia, <i>1500 to 1830 AD,</i> the Reformation. And the Church at Laodicea, <i>1830 to present—the age of the lost and forgotten covenants of the Lord.</i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><br />
</i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Please consider that last point—we’re living in an age of <i>"…the lost and forgotten covenants of the Lord."</i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i>Selah</i>—ponder that for a moment.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">The Laodicean age—no real commitment to covenants and contracts. The fruit of the Reformation <i>(sectarianism</i>) changed the concept of biblical salvation "oh so" subtle among the majority of Protestants. And in the process, the covenants were lost. Protestantism for the past 150 years has preached salvation by <i>decision-making</i>, not <i>covenant-keeping</i>. That’s a <i>caricature </i>of the real thing. <i>"…Invite Jesus into your heart," "…Make a decision for Christ," </i>are buzz words of the modern Protestant movement. The problem is—you don’t make a "…decision for Christ." You enter into a covenant with Him. You make a covenant with the King of the universe that begins in time but lasts throughout eternity. There’s a world of difference between entering into a covenant and making a decision. One is binding throughout eternity; the other, more times than not, is mere mental gymnastics.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">You say, <i>"Ridenhour, you’re just playing with words…semantics."</i> No, I’m not. The implications are far deeper than a mere play on words.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">The Book of Mormon is a revelation of the covenants being restored among His people in these latter days. When a people sign a contract they act differently (especially if the contract is with God!). They weigh the consequences. In these latter days we will again begin to know what it means to sign a contract with the Lord of Hosts, and act accordingly. A revelation of biblical salvation will return to his people. Praise His name.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">In other words, the central message of the Book of Mormon is---to repent and come unto Christ, which means to establish a covenant with Him. And that message is coming to light in these latter days. And that’s why I embrace the Book of Mormon. Our generation knows very little, if anything, about establishing a covenant with Christ. Protestantism doesn’t teach it. Unfortunately, most of us are products of "cheap grace" and "decision-making" Sunday School preaching. Hosea described a people who were "…half baked" <i>(Hosea 7:8).</i> Like a cake not turned. Sadly, my generation fits the bill.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Listen to the words of the ancient prophet.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">"<i>…Behold, I [the Christ] have come unto the world to bring redemption unto the world, to save the world from sin; therefore whoso repenteth and<b>cometh unto me</b> as a little child, him will I receive; for of such is the kingdom of God." <b>--3 Nephi 4:51</b></i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><b></b></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">To make sure we understand… </div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Scriptural salvation is entering into a personal covenant with Him; thereby coming unto Christ for all our temporal and eternal needs and wants. The contract is binding throughout eternity while effectual in time.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Let’s go on…</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> Back to the title of our pamphlet, <b><i>"The Baptist Version of the Book of Mormon."</i></b> Setting aside the title’s "tongue ‘n’ cheek" tendency, there is an element of truth I’m getting at. As I said earlier, having read the Book of Mormon through as a Baptist minister, I was astonished at how often I kept running into Protestant themes. Themes such as: the plan of salvation, salvation by faith in Christ, salvation by grace alone, repentance, the gifts of the Spirit, the filling of the Spirit, sanctification, justification by faith, forgiveness and redemption. I could go on.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">I kept thinking as I was reading, <i>"…wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were some piece of writing available that listed all these themes from the Book of Mormon."</i> I searched and searched for such a work and never found it. (I’ve noticed, since becoming a part of this wonderful restoration movement, there are very little, if any, writings concerning the restoration written to "non-restoration" saints.) So I decided, I would write to non-restoration believers. Make available materials on the restoration to our Protestant, Pentecostal, Catholic brethren. Hence, another booklet.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">What I’m going to do for the remainder of this booklet is list various Protestant themes taken from Book of Mormon scriptures. If I seem a bit repetitious, it’s deliberate. I want you to get the full impact of the spirit of the wording. And my prayer is—<i>may the Spirit of God bear witness to your spirit as you read.</i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">First, Book of Mormon scriptures on the… </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">Born Again Experience</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div></span></b></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">I was delightfully surprised to find so many "born again" scriptures in the Book of Mormon. For example…</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><br />
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<dt align="JUSTIFY"><i>"…For, said he, I have repented of my sins, and have been redeemed of the Lord; behold, <b>I am born of the Spirit</b>. And the Lord said unto me, Marvel not that all mankind, yea, men, and women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, <b>must be born again</b>; Yea, <b>born of God</b>, changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness, being redeemed of God, becoming his sons and daughters; and thus they become new creatures; and unless they do this, they can in no wise inherit the kingdom of God…" <b>–Mosiah 11:186-188 </b>(all scriptures quoted from RLDS 1908 version) </i></dt>
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<dt align="JUSTIFY">That verse, I must say, sounds so "Baptist." And I believe every word of it.</dt>
</dl><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"…</span>And now I say unto you, that this is the order after which I am called; yea, to preach unto my beloved brethren; yea, and every one that dwelleth in the land; Yea, to preach unto all, both old and young, both bond and free; yea, I say unto you, the aged, and also the middle aged, and the rising generation; yea, to cry unto them that they must repent and <b>be born again</b>; Yea, thus saith the Spirit, Repent all ye ends of the earth, for the kingdom of heaven is soon at hand; yea, the Son of God cometh in his glory, in his might, majesty, power and dominion…" <b>–Alma 3:85-87</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Now I say unto you, that ye must repent, and <b>be born again</b>: for the Spirit saith, If ye are not <b>born again</b>, ye can not inherit the kingdom of heaven…"<b>--Alma 5:24</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…after wading through much tribulation, repenting nigh unto death, the Lord in mercy hath seen fit to snatch me out of an everlasting burning, and <b>I am born of God</b>…" <b>--Mosiah 11:190</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i>"…Yea, what shall I do <b>that I may be born of God</b>, having this wicked spirit rooted out of my breast, and receive his Spirit, that I may be filled with joy, that I may not be cast off at the last day?</i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> .." </span><b><i>--Alma 13:49</i></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…Yea, and from that time, even until now, I have labored without ceasing, that I might bring souls unto repentance; that I might bring them to taste of the exceeding joy of which I did taste; <b>that they might also be born of God</b>, and be filled with the Holy Ghost…" <b>--Alma 17:22</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…my limbs did receive their strength again, and I stood upon my feet, and did manifest unto the people that <b>I had been born of God</b>…" <b>--Alma 17:21</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…and now behold, O my son, the Lord doth give me exceeding great joy in the fruit of my labors; for because of the word which he has imparted unto me, behold, <b>many have been born of God…" --Alma 17:23</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Now my son, I would not that ye should think that I know these things of myself, but it is the Spirit of God which is in me, which maketh these things known unto me: for <b>if I had not been born of God, I should not have known these things…"</b> <b>Alma 18:6</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b><div align="justify">Author’s Comments:</div></b><div align="justify"><b></b>One of my favorite hymns of the early restoration saints is: <b>YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.</b></div><b></b><blockquote><b></b><div align="justify"><b></b>A ruler once came to Jesus by night,<br />
To ask Him the way of salvation and light;<br />
The Master made answer in words true and plain<br />
"Ye must be born again."</div><div align="justify">"Ye must be born again,<br />
Ye must be born again,<br />
I verily, verily say unto thee<br />
Ye must be born again."</div><div align="justify"><b>--W.T. Sleeper</b></div><b></b></blockquote><b></b></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">One other thing. I discovered, Joseph Smith meant exactly what I meant when he used the phrase "born again." He wasn’t saying one thing and meaning another; that is, he wasn’t playing with semantics. I found the above scriptures to be so comforting to my spirit. So believable. So "…plain and precious" to the soul.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Here’s another Protestant theme… </div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Plan of Salvation</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></b></div><i><div align="justify">"…he has made these things known unto us beforehand, because he loveth our souls as well as he loveth our children; therefore in his mercy he doth visit us by his angels, that <b>the plan of salvation</b> might be made known unto us as well as unto future generations. O how merciful is our God!…" <b>–Alma 14:38</b></div><div align="justify">"…For what could I write more than my fathers have written? For have not they revealed <b>the plan of salvation</b>?…" <b>–Jarom 1:3,4</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…if Adam had put forth his hand immediately, and partook of the tree of life, he would have lived for ever, according to the word of God, having no space for repentance; Yea, and also the word of God would have been void, and <b>the great plan of salvation</b> would have been frustrated…" <b>--Alma 19:85,86</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div></i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Plan of Redemption</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div></span></b><i><div align="justify">"…Now if it had not been for the <b>plan of redemption</b>, which was laid from the foundation of the world, there could have been no resurrection of the dead…<b>--Alma 9:42</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…if it were possible that our first parents could have gone forth and partaken of the tree of life, they would have been for ever miserable, having no preparatory state; And thus the <b>plan of redemption</b> would have been frustrated…" <b>--Alma 9:44,45</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…And they began from that time forth to call on his name; therefore God conversed with men, and made known unto them the <b>plan of redemption</b>, which had been prepared from the foundation of the world…<b>--Alma 9:49</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…God gave unto them commandments, after having made known unto them <b>the plan of redemption,</b> that they should not do evil, the penalty thereof being a second death, which was an everlasting death as to things pertaining unto righteousness; For on such <b>the plan of redemption</b> could have no power, for the works of justice could not be destroyed, according to the supreme goodness of God..." --<b>Alma 9:52,53</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b></i><div align="justify">What blessed scriptures. What a blessed theme—the plan of redemption!</div><i><div align="justify">"…But God did call on men, in the name of his Son, (this being <b>the plan of redemption</b> which was laid,) saying: If ye will repent, and harden not your hearts, then will I have mercy upon you, through mine only begotten Son…" <b>--Alma 9: 54</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…he expounded unto them <b>the plan of redemption</b>, which was prepared from the foundation of the world…" <b>--Alma 12:119</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…And Aaron did expound unto him the scriptures, from the creation of Adam, laying the fall of man before him, and their carnal state, and also <b>the plan of redemption</b>, which was prepared from the foundation of the world, through Christ, for all whosoever would believe on his name…" <b>--Alma13:45</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…I would declare unto every soul, as with the voice of thunder, repentance, and the <b>plan of redemption</b>, that they should repent and come unto our God, that there might be no more sorrow upon all the face of the earth…" <b>--Alma 15:53</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…therefore, only unto him that has faith unto repentance, is brought about <b>the great and eternal plan of redemption. </b>Therefore may God grant unto you, my brethren, that ye may begin to exercise your faith unto repentance, that ye begin to call upon his holy name, that he would have mercy upon you; yea, cry unto him for mercy; for he is mighty to save…" <b>--Alma 16:217,218</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div></i><div align="justify">What a verse!</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><i><div align="justify">"…I would that ye would come forth and harden not your hearts any longer; for behold, now is the time, and the day of your salvation; and therefore, if ye will repent and harden not your hearts, immediately shall <b>the great plan of redemption</b> be brought about unto you. For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God…" <b>--Alma 16:227,228</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…Is it not as necessary that <b>the plan of redemption</b> should be made known unto this people, as well as unto their children?.." <b>--Alma 19:26</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…And now remember, my son, if it were not for <b>the plan of redemption</b>, (laying it aside,) as soon as they were dead, their souls were miserable, being cut off from the presence of the Lord…" --<b>Alma 19:92</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b></i><div align="justify">And now we turn our attention to one of the most central and cardinal Protestant doctrines of all… </div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Salvation</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div></span></b><i><div align="justify">"…And then at that day, will they not rejoice and give praise unto their everlasting God, their rock and their <b>salvation</b>?.." --<b>I Nephi 4:20</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…And it came to pass that Alma said unto him, taking him by the hand, <b>Believest thou in the power of Christ unto salvation?</b> And he answered and said, Yea, I believe all the words that thou hast taught. And Alma said, If thou believest in the redemption of Christ, thou canst be healed. And he said, Yea, I believe according to thy words. And then Alma cried unto the Lord, saying, O Lord our God, have mercy on this man, and heal him according to his faith which is in Christ. And when Alma had said these words, Zeezrom leaped upon his feet, and began to walk…" <b>--Alma 10:95-100</b></div><b></b></i><div align="justify">What a powerful passage!</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><i><div align="justify">"…Yea, even that ye would have so much faith as even to plant the word in your hearts, that ye may try the experiment of its goodness; and we have beheld that the great question which is in your minds, is whether the word be in the Son of God, or whether there shall be no Christ. And ye also beheld that my brother has proven unto you, in many instances <b>that the word is in Christ, unto salvation</b>…" <b>--</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify"><b>Alma 16:203,204</b></div><div align="justify">"…these things shall be hid up, to come forth unto the Gentiles by the gift and power of the Lamb; And in them shall be written my gospel, saith the Lamb, and <b>my rock and my salvation…" --I Nephi 3:185,186</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…And then at that day, will they not rejoice and give praise unto their everlasting God, <b>their rock and their salvation</b>?…" <b>--I Nephi 4:20</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…Yea, and all the earth shall see <b>the salvation of the Lord</b>, saith the prophet…<b>--I Nephi 5:256</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…I know that thou art redeemed, because of the righteousness of thy Redeemer: for thou hast beheld, that in the fullness of time, <b>he cometh to bring salvation unto men</b>…" <b>--II Nephi 1:63</b></div><b></b>"…For the Spirit is the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever. And the way is prepared from the fall of man, and <b>salvation is free</b>…" <b>--II Nephi 1:65,66</b><br />
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<b></b><div align="justify">"…Rejoice, O my heart, and cry unto the Lord, and say, O Lord, I will praise thee for ever; yea, my soul will rejoice in thee, my God, and <b>the rock of my salvation…" –II Nephi 3:50</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Behold, <b>God is my salvation</b>; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord, JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore, with joy shall ye draw water out of <b>the wells of salvation</b>…" <b>--II Nephi 9:133,134</b></div></i><br />
<dl><dt>Sure sounds like Isaiah!</dt>
</dl><i><div align="justify">"…<b>For there is nothing which is good, save it comes from the Lord; and that which is evil, cometh from the devil. And now, my beloved brethren, I would that ye should come unto Christ</b>, who is the Holy One of Israel, <b>and partake of his salvation</b>, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and <b>as the Lord liveth, ye will be saved…" --Omni 1:45-47</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…For behold as in Adam, or by nature they fall, even so the blood of Christ atoneth for their sins. And moreover, I say unto you, that <b>there shall be no other name given, nor any other way nor means whereby salvation can come unto the children of men, only in and through the name of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent</b>…" <b>--Mosiah 1:115,116</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…But men drink damnation to their own souls, except they humble themselves, and become as little children, and believe that <b>salvation was, and is, and is to come, in and through the atoning blood of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent</b>: For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been, from the fall of Adam, and will be, for ever and ever; But if he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man, and becometh a saint, through the atonement of Christ, the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father. And moreover, I say unto you, that the time shall come, <b>when the knowledge of a Savior shall spread throughout every nation, kindred, tongue, and people</b>…" <b>--Mosiah 1:118-121</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div></i><div align="justify">Sounds like some good ole Baptist preaching to me!</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><i><div align="justify">"…For behold, if the knowledge of the goodness of God at this time, has awakened you to a sense of your nothingness, and your worthless and fallen state; I say unto you, if ye have come to a knowledge of the goodness of God, and his matchless power, and his wisdom, and his patience, and his long suffering towards the children of men, And also, the atonement which has been prepared from the foundation of the world, that thereby <b>salvation might come to him that should put his trust in the Lord…And there is none other salvation, save this which hath been spoken of; neither are there any conditions whereby man can be saved…" --Mosiah2:8-9,12</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…<b>There is no other name given, whereby salvation cometh</b>, therefore, I would that ye should take upon you the name of Christ, all you that have entered into the covenant with God…" <b>--Mosiah 3:11</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…And it came to pass that Alma said unto him, taking him by the hand, <b>Believest thou in the power of Christ unto salvation?</b> And he answered and said, Yea, I believe all the words that thou hast taught. And Alma said, If thou believest in the redemption of Christ, thou canst be healed. And he said, Yea, I believe according to thy words. And then Alma cried unto the Lord, saying, O Lord our God, have mercy on this man, and heal him according to his faith which is in Christ. And when Alma had said these words, Zeezrom leaped upon his feet, and began to walk…" <b>--Alma 10:95-100</b></div></i><div align="justify">Again, what a powerful passage!</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><i><div align="justify">"…Yea, behold, I say unto you, that as these things are true, and as the Lord God liveth, <b>there is none other name given under heaven, save it be this Jesus Christ of which I have spoken, whereby man can be saved…" --II Nephi 11:39</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…And I pray the Father in the name of Christ, that many of us, if not all<b>, may be saved in his kingdom</b>, at that great and last day…" <b>--II Nephi 15:15</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Lord Jesus Christ</span></b></b></div><div align="justify"><b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></b></b></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b>Like the Bible, the central theme of the Book of Mormon is the <i>Lordship of Jesus Christ</i>. There are over 160 passages in the Book of Mormon that speak of the Lord Jesus Christ. There were 22 men named in the Book of Mormon who saw Christ. Some form of Christ’s name is mentioned on an average of every 1.7 verses. The New Testament mentions a form of Christ’s name on an average of every 2.1 verses. The name of the Savior appears nearly 25 percent more frequently in the Book of Mormon than in the New Testament. When we realize that a verse usually consists of one sentence, we cannot on the average read two sentences in the Book of Mormon without seeing some form of Christ’s name.</b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i>"He is Lord"</i> rings loud and clear from its pages like a London cathedral choir harmonizing on a Sunday morning. The sound is resonant throughout the book’s pages. The Spirit’s witness is there. <i>That same Jesus I discovered in the Bible is also present in the pages of the Book of Mormon.</i> Praise be to His holy name!</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">I mention but a few of the many passages that speak of our blessed Savior.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…And according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, <b>his name shall be Jesus Christ, the Son of God</b>…" <b>--II Nephi 11:36</b></div><div align="justify">"…Yea, behold, I say unto you, that as these things are true, and as the Lord God liveth, <b>there is none other name given under heaven, save it be this Jesus Christ of which I have spoken, whereby man can be saved</b>…" <b>--II Nephi 11:39</b></div><div align="justify">"…And as I spake concerning the convincing of the Jews, that <b>Jesus is the very Christ</b>, it must needs be that the Gentiles be convinced also, <b>that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God;</b> and that he manifesteth himself unto all those who believe in him, by the power of the Holy Ghost…" <b>--II Nephi 11:78</b></div><b></b></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">What a blessed verse.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…<b>And the gospel of Jesus Christ</b> shall be declared among them; wherefore, they shall be restored unto the knowledge of their fathers, and also to <b>the knowledge of Jesus Christ,</b> which was had among their fathers. And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God…" <b>--II Nephi 12:82,83</b></div><div align="justify">"…I glory in plainness; I glory in truth; <b>I glory in my Jesus</b>, for he hath redeemed my soul from hell…" <b>--II Nephi 15:7</b></div><b></b></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">I have always liked this verse. One of my favorites, for sure.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…Wherefore, we search the prophets; and we have many revelations, and the spirit of prophecy, and having all these witnesses, we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that <b>we truly can command in the name of Jesus</b>, and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea…" <b>--Jacob 3:7</b></div><div align="justify">"…<b>And he shall be called Jesus Christ,</b> the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of all things, from the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary. And lo, he cometh unto his own, that salvation might come unto the children of men, even through faith, on his name…" <b>--Mosiah 1:102,103</b></div><div align="justify">"…<b>We believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God</b>, who created heaven and earth, and all things, who shall come down among the children of men…" <b>--Mosiah 2:4</b></div><div align="justify">"…And I say unto you, that <b>I know that Jesus Christ shall come</b>; yea, the Son, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace, and mercy, and truth. And behold, it is he that cometh to take away the sins of the world; yea, the sins of every man who steadfastly believeth on his name…" <b>--Alma 3:83,84</b></div><div align="justify">"…And according to the spirit of prophecy which was in him, <b>according to the testimony of Jesus Christ, the Son of God,</b> who should come to redeem his people from their sins…" <b>--Alma 4:10</b></div><div align="justify">"…And it came to pass that there were many who died, firmly believing that their souls were <b>redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ</b>; thus they went out of the world rejoicing…" <b>--Alma 21:74</b></div><div align="justify">"…O remember, remember, my sons, the words which King Benjamin spake unto his people; yea, remember that <b>there is no other way nor means whereby man can be saved, only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ</b>, who shall come; yea, remember that he cometh to redeem the world…" <b>--Helaman 2:71</b></div><div align="justify">"…I have reason to bless <b>my God and my Savior Jesus Christ</b>…that he hath given me and my people so much knowledge unto the salvation of our souls…" <b>--III Nephi 2:103</b></div><div align="justify">"…And then shall they know their Redeemer, who is <b>Jesus Christ, the Son of God</b>…" <b>--III Nephi 2:109</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…As many as were converted, did truly signify unto the people that they had been visited by <b>the power and Spirit of God, which was in Jesus Christ</b>, in whom they believed…" <b>--III Nephi 3:63</b></div><div align="justify">"…<b>Behold I am Jesus Christ, the son of God</b>. I created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are. I was with the Father from the beginning. I am in the Father, and the Father in me; and in me hath the Father glorified his name…" <b>--III Nephi 4:44,45</b></div></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i>That name which is above every name, <i>Jesus Christ, the Son of God</i>, is found throughout the pages of this blessed book—the Book of Mormon.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">On to another central Protestant doctrine… </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Repentance</div></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">"…<b>And he commandeth all men that they must repent</b>, and be baptized in his name, having perfect faith in the Holy One of Israel, or they can not be saved in the kingdom of God. And if they will not repent and believe in his name, and be baptized in his name, and endure to the end, they must be damned; For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, hath spoken it…" <b>--II Nephi 6:48-50</b></div><div align="justify">"…For behold, I say unto you, <b>That as many of the Gentiles as will repent, are the covenant people of the Lord;</b> and as many of the Jews as will not repent, shall be cast off; For the Lord covenanteth with none, save it be with them that repent and believe in his Son, who is the Holy One of Israel…" <b>--II Nephi 12:77,78</b></div><div align="justify">"…And <b>the Father said, Repent ye, repent ye</b>, and be baptized in the name of my beloved Son…" <b>--II Nephi 13:14</b></div><div align="justify">"…<b>Believe that ye must repent</b> of your sins and forsake them, and humble yourselves before God; and ask in sincerity of heart that he would forgive you…" <b>–Mosiah 2:16</b></div><div align="justify">"…Except they <b>repent, and turn to the Lord their God</b>, behold, I will deliver them into the hands of their enemies…" <b>--Mosiah 7:32</b></div><div align="justify">"…The time is at hand that he must <b>repent, or he can not be saved</b>…" <b>--Alma 3:55</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Preach unto all, both old and young, both bond and free; yea, I say unto you, the aged, and also the middle aged, and the rising generation; yea, to <b>cry unto them that they must repent and be born again…</b>" <b>--Alma 3:86</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Thus saith the Spirit, <b>Repent all ye ends of the earth, for the kingdom of heaven is soon at hand</b>; yea, the Son of God cometh in his glory, in his might, majesty, power and dominion…" <b>--Alma 3:87</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…The Spirit saith unto me, yea, crieth unto me with a mighty voice, saying, Go forth and say unto this people, Repent, for <b>except ye repent, ye can in no wise inherit the kingdom of heaven</b>…" <b>--Alma 3:89</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Now I say unto you, that <b>ye must repent, and be born again</b>: for the Spirit saith, If ye are not born again, ye can not inherit the kingdom of heaven…"<b>--Alma 5:24</b></div><b></b></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Sounds like Nicodemus and Jesus in John chapter three, doesn’t it?</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…Melchisedec having exercised mighty faith, and received the office of the high priesthood, according to the holy order of God, did <b>preach repentance unto his people. And behold, they did repent</b>; and Melchisedec did establish peace in the land in his days…" <b>--Alma 10:12,13</b></div><b></b></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i>"…And now it came to pass that when Alma had said these words unto them, he stretched forth his hand unto them and cried with a mighty voice, saying,<b>Now is the time to repent, for the day of salvation draweth nigh</b></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>…"</b> </span><b><i>--Alma 10:18</i></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…And we see that <b>his arm is extended to all people who will repent</b> and believe on his name…" <b>--Alma 12:180</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…And also, what is this that Ammon said<b>: If ye will repent ye shall be saved</b>, and if ye will not repent, ye shall be cast off at the last day?…" <b>--Alma 13:37</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…There was a time granted unto man, to repent, yea, a probationary time, <b>a time to repent and serve God…" --Alma 19:84</b></div><div align="justify">"…And it came to pass that they did repent, and <b>inasmuch as they did repent, they did begin to prosper…</b>" <b>--Helaman 2:49</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…<b>Blessed are they who will repent</b>, and hearken unto the voice of the Lord their God; for these are they that shall be saved…" <b>--Helaman 4:70</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…O all ye that are spared, because ye were more righteous than they, will ye not now return unto me, and <b>repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you</b>? Yea, verily I say unto you, If ye will come unto me, ye shall have eternal life. Behold, mine arm of mercy is extended towards you, and whosoever will come, him will I receive; and blessed are those who come unto me. Behold I am Jesus Christ, the son of God…" <b>--III Nephi 4:41-45</b></div><b></b></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">On to another central Protestant doctrine… </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><div align="justify" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Faith</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</div></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…And it came to pass after I, Nephi, having heard all the words of my father concerning the things which he saw in a vision; And also the things which he spake by the power of the Holy Ghost; <b>which power he received by faith on the Son of God</b>; And the Son of God was the Messiah who should come…" <b>--I Nephi 3:23-25</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Behold they are righteous for ever; for because of <b>their faith in the Lamb of God</b>, their garments are made white in his blood…" --<b>I Nephi 3:117</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…We are made alive in Christ, because of our faith…" <b>--II Nephi 11:46</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far, save it were by the word of Christ, <b>with unshaken faith in him</b>, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save; Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men…" --<b>II Nephi</b> <b>13:28,29</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…I have charity for my people, and <b>great faith in Christ</b>, that I shall meet many souls spotless at his judgment seat…" <b>--II Nephi 15:8</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Look unto God with firmness of mind, and <b>pray unto him with exceeding faith</b>, and he will console you in your afflictions…" <b>--Jacob 2:49</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Beloved brethren, be reconciled unto him, through the atonement of Christ, his only begotten Son. That ye may obtain a resurrection, according to the power of the resurrection which is in Christ, and be presented as the first fruits of Christ, unto God, <b>having faith, and obtained a good hope of glory in him</b>, before he manifesteth himself in the flesh…" <b>--Jacob 3:16,17</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…For he had said unto me, <b>Whatsoever thing ye shall ask in faith, believing that ye shall receive in the name of Christ, ye shall receive it</b>. And I had faith, and I did cry unto God, that he would preserve the records; And he covenanted with me that he would bring them forth…" <b>--Enos 1:24-26</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…And after I, Enos, had heard these words, <b>my faith began to be unshaken in the Lord</b>; and I prayed unto him with many long strugglings for my brethren, the Lamanites. And it came to pass, that after I had prayed, and labored with all diligence, the Lord said unto me, I will grant unto thee according to thy desires, because of thy faith…" <b>--Enos 1:17,18</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…There are many among us who have many revelations: for they are not all stiff-necked. And <b>as many are not stiff-necked, and have faith, have communion with the Holy Spirit,</b> which maketh manifest unto the children of men, according to their faith…" <b>--Jarom 1:8,9</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…Wo unto him who knoweth that he rebelleth against God; for <b>salvation cometh to none such, except it be through repentance and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ…" --Mosiah 2:4-6</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…We believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who created heaven and earth, and all things, who shall come down among the children of men. And it came to pass that after they had spoken these words, the Spirit of the Lord came upon them, and they were filled with joy, <b>having received a remission of their sins, and having peace of conscience, because of the exceeding faith which they had in Jesus Christ who should come…" --Mosiah 2:4-6</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…<b>Believe </b>in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things both in heaven and in earth; <b>Believe</b> that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; <b>Believe</b> that man doth not comprehend all things which the Lord can comprehend. And again: <b>Believe</b> that ye must repent of your sins and forsake them, and humble yourselves before God; and ask in sincerity of heart that he would forgive you: And now, if you <b>believe</b> all these things, see that ye do them. And again I say unto you as I have said before, that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God, or if ye have known of his goodness, and have tasted of his love, and have received a remission of your sins, which causeth such exceeding great joy in your souls, even so I would that ye should remember, and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God, and your own nothingness, and his goodness and long suffering towards you unworthy creatures, and humble yourselves even in the depths of humility, calling on the name of the Lord daily…" <b>--Mosiah 2:13-21</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…This day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that <b>your hearts are changed through faith on his name</b>; therefore, ye are born of him, and have become his sons and his daughters…" <b>--Mosiah 3:9</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, Have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts<b>? Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who created you? Do you look forward with an eye of faith</b>, and view this mortal body raised in immortality, and this corruption raised in incorruption, to stand before God, to be judged according to the deeds which have been done in the mortal body? I say unto you, Can you imagine to yourselves that ye hear the voice of the Lord, saying unto you, in that day, Come unto me ye blessed, for behold, your works have been the works of righteousness upon the face of the earth…" <b>--Alma 3:27-32</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…<b>And now as I said concerning faith: Faith, is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith, ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true.</b> And now, behold, I say unto you; and I would that ye should remember that God is merciful unto all who believe on his name; therefore he desireth, in the first place, that ye should believe, yea, even on his word…" <b>Alma 16:143,144</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…<b>If ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith; yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe</b>, let this desire work in you, even until ye <b>believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words. </b>Now we will compare the word unto a seed…" <b>--Alma 16:151,152</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Truly, one of my favorite passages in the Book of Mormon.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…Dispute not because ye see not, for <b>ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith,</b> for <b>it was by faith that Christ shewed himself</b> unto our fathers, after he had risen from the dead…" <b>--Ether 5:7</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">And now, perhaps the keystone doctrine of the Protestant reformation…<b><i> </i></b></span></b></div><div align="justify"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></b></div><div align="justify"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></span></i></b></span></b></div><div align="justify"><b><b><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Grace</span></b></i></b></b></div></i></span><i><b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…Redemption cometh in and through the holy Messiah: for <b>he is full of grace and truth…" --II Nephi 1:71</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i>"…How great the importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know that<b> there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the holy Messiah</b>, who layeth down his life according to the flesh, and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise. Wherefore, he is the first fruits unto God, inasmuch as he shall make intercession for all the children of men</i><span style="font-size: x-small;">…" </span><b><i>--II Nephi 1:73-76</i></b></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…O the wisdom of God! his mercy and <b>grace!</b> <b>--II Nephi 6:19</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…And remember after ye are reconciled unto God, that <b>it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved…</b>" <b>--II Nephi 7:14</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">The Book of Mormon, like the Bible, teaches that salvation is by grace through faith.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…<b>My soul delighteth in his grace</b>, and his justice, and power, and mercy, in the great and eternal plan of deliverance from death. And my soul delighteth in proving unto my people, that save Christ should come, all men must perish…" <b>--II Nephi 8:11,12</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…I say unto you, that I know that Jesus Christ shall come; yea<b>, the Son, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace</b>, and mercy, and truth. And behold, it is he that cometh to take away the sins of the world; yea, the sins of every man who steadfastly believeth on his name…" <b>--Alma 3:83,84</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…I have come, having great hopes and much desire that I should find that ye had humbled yourselves before God, and that<b> ye had continued in the supplicating of his grace,</b> that I should find that ye were blameless before him…" <b>--Alma 5:4</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">"…not many days hence<b>, the Son of God shall come in his glory; and his glory shall be the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace</b>, equity and truth, full of patience, mercy, and long suffering, quick to hear the cries of his people, and to answer their prayers…" <b>--Alma 7:40</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Blessed are they who will repent, and hearken unto the voice of the Lord their God; for these are they that shall be saved. And may God grant, in his great fullness, that men might be brought unto repentance and good works, <b>that they might be restored unto grace, for grace</b> according to their works. And I would that all men might be saved…" <b>--Helaman 4:70-72</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…The Lord spake unto me, saying, Fools mock, but they shall mourn; <b>and my grace is sufficient for the meek</b>, that they shall take no advantage of your weakness; and if men come unto me, I will shew unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness, that they may be humble; and <b>my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me</b>; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak thing become strong unto them…" <b>--Ether 5:27,28</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify">…May<b> the grace of God the Father, whose throne is high in the heavens</b>, and our Lord Jesus Christ, who sitteth on the right hand of his power, until all things shall become subject unto him, be, and abide with you for ever…" <b>--Moroni 9:28</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div><b></b><div align="justify">"…Come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is <b>his grace sufficient for you</b>, that <b>by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ</b>; and <b>if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ</b>, ye can in no wise deny the power of God. And again, if <b>ye, by the grace of God, are perfect in Christ</b>, and deny not his power, then are ye <b>sanctified in Christ by the grace of God</b>, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father, unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy without spot. And now I bid unto all, farewell. I soon go to rest in the paradise of God, until my spirit and body shall again reunite, and I am brought forth triumphant through the air, to meet you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah, the eternal Judge of both quick and dead. Amen." <b>--Moroni 10:29-31 The end.</b></div><div align="justify"><b><br />
</b></div></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i>I find it both uplifting and somewhat unique that the Book of Mormon ends by focusing on the themes of: <i>coming unto Christ, God’s grace, the shed blood of Christ, the power of God, sanctified in Christ, the covenant, and the remission of our sins.</i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><br />
</i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">How Protestant!</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">There you have it—<b>The Baptist Version of the Book of Mormon: <i>Protestant Doctrines within the Book of Mormon.</i></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i></i></b></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">…Born Again Experience<br />
…Plan of Salvation<br />
…Plan of Redemption<br />
…Salvation<br />
…The Lord Jesus Christ<br />
…Repentance<br />
…Faith<br />
…Grace</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">What a book!</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Perhaps the late John Henry Evans <i>(1872-1947</i>) said it best when he penned an overview of the Prophet’s life with typical nineteenth century eloquence:</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i>"…Here is a man,</i>" says Evan, "<i>who was born in the stark hills of Vermont; who was reared in the backwoods of New York; who never looked inside a college or high school; who lived in six States, no one of which would own him during his lifetime; who spent months in the vile prisons of the period; who, even when he has his freedom, was hounded like a fugitive; who was covered once with a coat of tar and feathers, and left for dead; who, with his following, was driven by irate neighbors from New York to Ohio, from Ohio to Missouri, and from Missouri to Illinois; and who, at the unripe age of thirty-eight, was shot to death by a mob with painted faces.</i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i>Yet this man became mayor of the biggest town in Illinois and the state’s most prominent citizen, the commander of the largest body of trained soldiers in the nation outside the Federal army, the founder of cities and of a university, and aspired to become President of the United States.</i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">He wrote a book which has baffled the literary critics for a hundred years and which is today more widely read than any other volume save the Bible…"<b><br />
--Joseph Smith, An American Prophet, </b>1933 preface</div></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i>Joseph Smith "…wrote a book which has baffled the literary critics…" So true.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">One other quote. Hear Henry A. Wallace, one of our late Vice Presidents:</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">"…Of all the American religious books of the nineteenth century, it seems probable that the Book of Mormon was the most powerful. It reached perhaps only one percent of the United States, but affected this one percent so powerfully and lastingly, that all the people of the United States have been affected." <b>--New York Times, </b>Nov.5, 1937</div></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><div align="justify" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Summary</span></div></b></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Let’s focus briefly on the man, Joseph Smith. What kind of man was he? The man whom God used to commence the restoration in these latter days. What did he have to say concerning truth and doctrine?</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Well, first of all, Joseph was extremely tolerant of sects, of those not sharing his Christian point of view. This is a side of Joseph that’s not well known even by those inside the restoration movement, let alone by those outside it.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">On one occasion, in a sermon, he said, "…<i>If I esteem mankind to be in error, shall I bear down on them? No. I will lift them up, and in their own way too, if I cannot persuade them my way is better. <b>I will not seek to compel any man to believe as I do</b>, only by force or reasoning, for truth will cut its own way. Do you believe Jesus Christ and the gospel of salvation which he revealed? So do I<b>. Christians should cease wrangling and contending with each other,</b>and cultivate the principles of union and friendship<b>. I am just as ready to die defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination." --Sermon, 1843</b></i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">That last statement especially was quite a statement; <i>"…I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian…"</i></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><br />
</i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i>"…Christians should cease wrangling and contending with each other…" </i>is also quite a statement.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">While mayor of Nauvoo, Joseph passed an ordinance "…<i>that the Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Latter-day Saints, Quakers, Episcopals…and all other religious sects and denominations whatever, shall have free tolerance and equal privileges in this city…"</i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">It was "against the law" not to show charity and tolerance toward those of other sects in the city of Nauvoo, the city Joseph built.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Again, what kind of man was he?… </div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">One Sunday morning—among a group of prominent politicians, Attorney Butterfield, Judge Douglas, Senator Gillispie, and others—these gentlemen wanted to know about Joseph’s Christian beliefs. Butterfield asked what the main difference was between his faith and that of other Christians.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Joseph responded,</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">"<i>…The most prominent difference is this: Sectarians all circumscribe by a peculiar creed, which deprives them of the privilege of believing anything not contained therein. The Latter-day Saints, on the contrary, have no creed, but stand ready to believe all true principles that exist, as they are made manifest from time to time."</i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">I thought that was well put. In other words, truth remains dynamic. Revelation of truth continues throughout our lifetime. Creeds, on the other hand, tend to become static and inflexible with time.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">One last anecdote…</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">The Prophet is appealing to the President of the United States on behalf of his people. Terrible atrocities have occurred back in Missouri. He had obtained a meeting with President Van Buren. While at the capital, the Prophet preached the gospel to bureacrats. One of the representatives, a certain Matthew S. Davis from New York state, tells about one of the meetings held in the capital by Joseph.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">This United States representative, who met Joseph Smith face to face, I believe answers our concerns (better than I could ever address them) in a letter he sent to his wife back home. The congressman writes…</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> "<i>…I went last evening to hear ‘Joe smith,’ the celebrated Mormon, expound his doctrine. I, with several others, had a desire to understand his tenants as explained by himself.</i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">He is not an educated man; but he is a plain, sensible, strong-minded man. Everything he says, is said in a manner to leave an impression that he is sincere. There is no levity, no fanaticism, no want of dignity in his deportment. In his garb there are no peculiarities; his dress being that of a plain, unpretending citizen. He is by profession a farmer, but is evidently well read.</div><div align="justify">During the whole of his address, and it occupied more than two hours, there was no opinion or belief that he expressed, that was calculated, in the least degree, to impair the morals of society, or in any manner to degrade and brutalize the human species. There was much in his precepts, if they were followed, that would soften the asperities of man towards man, and that would tend to make him a more rational being than he is generally found to be. There was no violence, no fury, no denunciation. His religion appears to be a religion of meekness, lowliness, and mild persuasion.</div><div align="justify">Towards the close of his address, he remarked that he had been represented to be a Savior. All this was false. He made no such pretensions. He was but a man, he said: a plain, untutored man, seeking what he should do to be saved.</div><div align="justify">Throughout his whole address, he displayed strongly a spirit of charity and forbearance. I have taken some pains to explain this man’s belief, as he himself explained it. I have changed my opinion of the Mormons. They are an injured and much-abused people."</div></i></span><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i>"…I have changed my opinion…" </i>said the U.S. representative.</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Concerning the Book of Mormon and the man, Joseph Smith, it is my prayer—so have you.<span style="font-family: Wingdings;">r</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">About the Author:</div></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i><div align="justify">Lynn Ridenhour grew up in the heart of Missouri near the Ozarks. A licensed Baptist minister for over 38 years, Lynn read the Book of Mormon and had a marvelous conversion experience to the restoration gospel as proclaimed by Joseph Smith.</div><div align="justify">Dr. Ridenhour has a Ph.D in literature with a specialty degree in composition theory from the University of Iowa. He has taught creative writing in both Christian and secular universities. Dr. Ridenhour has also pastored Baptist churches for years, has taught at Jerry Falwell’s university, and has been involved in the charismatic renewal since 1972.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">Lynn is the founder of <b>WinePress Publishing Co</b>., and has a heart for evangelism. Paperback copies of Dr. Ridenhour’s booklets may be purchased for $3 per copy.</div><div align="justify">Write: <b><br />
</b></div><div align="justify"><b>WinePress Publishing Co</b>.<br />
3601 S. Noland Rd., PMB 230<br />
Independence, MO 64055</div></i></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><i>Dr. Ridenhour’s email address is: </i><i><a href="mailto:htrails@solve.net">htrails@solve.net</a></i></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><em>Should you want Dr. Ridenhour to come and speak in your church, or organization, simply email him, giving him the details. Lynn travels extensively for speaking engagements, sharing his testimony and conversion.</em></div><div align="justify" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><em>Lynn, his lovely wife, Linda, and their teenage daughter, Lori, make their home in Independence, Missouri.</em></div></i></b></b></i></b></i></b></i>James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-68985869733769426262011-01-01T20:50:00.000-08:002014-11-24T08:07:44.292-08:00Word of Wisdom Sermon By Hyrum Smith<span lang="EN"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Word of Wisdom Sermon </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">by </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hyrum Smith</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Times and Seasons</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Truth will prevail.</span></div>
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<b>Vol. III. No. 15.] CITY OF NAUVOO, ILL. JUNE 1, 1842. [Whole No. 51</b></div>
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<b>THE WORD OF WISDOM</b></div>
We had a very instructive, impressive, and salutary discourse delivered us in the City of Nauvoo, last Sabbath on the above subject, to a large and attentive congregation, by Pres. Hyrum Smith.<br />
He stated that there <u><b>were many of the commands of God that seemed to be overlooked by this generation</b></u>, and he was fearful that many of the Latter Day Saints in this respect were following their old tradition, and former practices of spiritualizing the word of God, and through a vain philosophy departing from the pure principles of eternal truth which God had given by revelation for the salvation of the human family; but, that every word of God is of importance, whether it be the word contained in the Bible, in the Book of Mormon, or in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, for man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. <br />
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The principles that are taught in the Bible are pure, and ought to be adhered too; and if people adhere to that teaching it will prove their salvation. The principles that are taught in the Book of Mormon are also pure, and holy and righteous, and will if followed lead men to God. And the principles that are taught in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, are from God, they are principles of righteousness; they are given for a blessing to the human family, and the salvation, temporal and spiritual, of his saints; and <u><b>that man who wantonly departs from any of the revelations of Jehovah, and treats lightly the word of God, whether contained in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, the Book of Mormon, or the Bible, is void of understanding: he is not wise concerning the doings of the Lord, the plan of salvation</b></u>, the past dealings, present designs, or future purposes of the Amighty [Almighty]. <br />
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The God of the armies of Israel is a wise God, he comprehended the end from the beginning, and adapted his plans, his designs and teaching, to the peculiar wants, the local situation, the exigences [exigencies] of mankind; and the present and future good of the human family; and every thing that he has deigned to notice by way of instruction to the children of men, is given by infinite wisdom; by the intelligence of Jehovah; and if obeyed, when his designs shall be fully unravelled [unraveled], it will be seen that there was wisdom in it beyond the comprehension of man in his present state.<br />
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When God first made man upon the earth, he was a different being entirely to what he now is; his body was strong; athletic, robust, and healthy; his days were prolonged upon the earth; he lived nearly one thousand years, his mind was vigorous and active, and his intellectual faculties clear and comprehensive, but he has become degenerated; his life has dwindled to a span; disease preys upon his system; his body is enervated and feeble; and his mentle [mental] and intellectual faculties are impaired, and weakened; and man is not now that dignified, noble, majestic, honorable, and mighty being that he was when he first proceeded from the hands of his maker.<br />
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The Lord has in his wise designs revealed unto us his will; he has told us as he did his ancient prophets that the earth shall be redeemed that the curse shall be removed from it that the wolf and the lamb shall lie down together that the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and that they shall not hurt nor destroy that the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters covers the sea that man days shall be as the days of a tree, that he shall again live one thousand years on the earth this is the time of the restoration of all things, and this has got to be brought about by the wisdom and power of God, and the wisdom, obedience and faith of man combined.<br />
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Every thing has become degenerated from what it was in its primitive state; God made man pure, but he has found out many inventions: his vices have become innumerable, and his diseases multiplied; his taste had become vitiated, and his judgment impaired; he has fallen fallen fallen, from that dignified state that he once occupied on the earth; and it needs a restorative that man has not in his possession wisdom which is beyond the reach of human intellect; and power which human philosophy, talent and ingenuity cannot control. <br />
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God only is acquainted with the fountain of action, and the main springs of human events; he knows where disease is seated, and what is the cause of it; he is also acquainted with the spring of health; the balm of Gilead of life; he knows what course to pursue to restore mankind to their pristine excellency and primitive vigour [vigor], and health; and he has appointed the word of wisdom as one of the engines to bring about this thing, to remove the beastly appetites, the murderous disposition and the vitiated taste of man; to restore his body to health, and vigour [vigor], promote peace between him and the brute creation, and as one of the little wheels in Gods designs, to help to regulate the great machinery, which shall eventually revolutionize the earth, and bring about the restoration of all things, and when they are restored he will plant the tree of life, whose leaves shall be for the healing of the nations.<br />
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The Lord has told us what is good for us to eat, and to drink, and what is pernicious; but some of our wise philosophers, and <u><b>some of our elders too, pay no regard to it; they think it too little, too foolish, for wise men to regard fools!</b></u> where is their wisdom, philosophy and intelligence? from whence did they obtain their superior light? Their capacity, and their power of reasoning was given them by the great Jehovah: if they have any wisdom they obtained it from his: and have they grown so much wiser than God that they are going to instruct him in the path of duty, and to tell him what is wise, and what is foolish. They think it too small for him to condesend [condescend] to tell men what will be nutritious or what will be unhealthy. Who made the corn, the wheat, the rye, and all the vegetable substances? and who was it that organized man, and constituted him as he is found? who made his stomach, and his digestive organs, and prepared proper nutriment for his system, that the juices of his body might be supplied; and his form be invigorated by that kind of food which the laws of nature, and the laws of God has said would be good for man? <br />
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And has God made his food, and provided it for the use of man; and shall he be ashamed to speak of the work of his hands: has he become so fantastical, so foolish, so weak and effeminate, that it has become impolitic for him to tell what is the best distribution to make of the work of his hands? Oh shame! let it not be heard among the saints; let that man who inculcates such principles hide his face. We are told by some that circumstances alter the revelations of God tell me what circumstances would alter the ten commandments? they were given by revelation given as a law to the children of Israel; who has a right to alter that law? Some think that they are too small for us to notice, they are not too small for God to notice, and have we got so high, so bloated out, that we cannot condescend to notice things that God has ordained for our benefit? or have we got so weak that we are not fit to be called saints? for the word of wisdom is adapted to the capacity of all that are or can be called saints. Listen not to the teaching of any man, or any elder who says the word of wisdom is of no moment; for such a man will eventually be overthrown. These are principles that I have always acted upon; that I have always practiced; and they are what my family practices; they are what Brother Hyrum has always contended for, and what I now contend for; and I know that nothing but an unwavering, undeviating course can save a man in the kingdom of God.<br />
The Lord has told us that Strong drinks are not good, who is it that will say they are? when the Lord says they are not. That man who says I can drink wine or strong drink, and it will not hurt me, is not wise. But some will say, I know it did me good, for I was fatigued, and feeble, on a certain occasion, and it revived me, and I was invigorated thereby, and that is sufficient proof for me: It may be for you, but it would not be for a wise man, for every spirit of this kind will only produce a greater langor [languor] when its effects cease to operate upon the human body. But you know that you are benefited, yes, so does the man who has mortgaged his property, know that he is relieved from his present embarassments [embarrassments]; but his temporary relief only binds the chords of bondage more severely around him. The Lord has not ordained strong drink for the belly; but for the washing of your bodies. And again tobacco is not for the body, neither for the belly; and it is not good for man; but as an herb for bruises, and all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill. <br />
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Tobacco is a nauseous, stinking abominable thing, and I am surprised that any human being should think of using it for an elder especially to eat, or smoke it, is a disgrace to him; he is not fit for the office, he ought first to learn to keep the word of wisdom, and then to teach others. God will not prosper the man who uses it. And again hot drinks are not for the body, or belly; there are many who wonder what this can mean; whether it refers to tea, or coffee, or not. I say it does refer to tea, and coffee. Why is it that we are frequently so dull and languid? it is because we break the word of wisdom, disease preys upon our system, our understandings are darkened, and we do not comprehend the things of God; the devil takes advantage of us, and we fall into temptation. Not only are they injurious in their tendency, and baneful in their effects, but the importation of foreign products might be the means of thousands of our people being poisened [poisoned] at a future time, through the advantage that an enemy might take of us, if we made use of these things that are thus spoken of as being evil; <b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>and be it remembered that this instruction is given in consequence of evils that do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men.</u></span></b><br />
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And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome herbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature and use of man. Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof. All these to be used with prudence and thank giving [thanksgiving]. Yea, flesh also of beasts and of the fowls of the air, I the Lord hath ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving. Nevertheless, they are to be used sparingly; and it is pleasing unto me, that they should not be used only in times of winter or of cold, or famine. All grain is ordained for the use of man, and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man, but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all wild animals that run or creep on the earth; and these hath God made for the use of man only in times of famine, and excess of hunger.<br />
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Let men attend to these instructions, let them use the things ordained of God; let them be sparing of the life of animals; Ôit is pleasing saith the Lord that flesh be used only in times of winter, or of famineÕÑand why to be used in famine? because all domesticated animals would naturally die, and may as well be made use of by man, as not,<br />
All grain is good for the food of man, as also the fruit of the vine, that which yieldeth fruit, whether in the ground or above the ground Nevertheless wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks; as also other grain. And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, shall receive health in their naval, and marrow in their bones and shall find wisdom, and great treasures of knowledge even hidden treasures; and shall run and not be weary, and shall walk and not faint: and I the Lord give unto them a promise, that the destroying angel shall pass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen.<br />
Let these things be adhered to; let the saints be wise; let us lay aside our folly and abide by the commandments of God; so shall we be blessed of the great Jehovah in time and in eternity: we shall be healthy, strong and vigorous: we shall be enabled to resist disease; and wisdom will crown our councils, and our bodies will become strong and powerful, our progeny will become mighty, and will rise up and call us blessed; the daughters of Jesus will be beautiful, and her sons the joy of the whole earth; we shall prepare ourselves for the purposes of Jehovah for the kingdom of God for the appearance of Jesus in his glory; Òout of Zion the perfection of beauty, God will shine; Zion will be exalted, and become the praise of the whole earth. <br />
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Thus spake the man of God, fired with heavenly holy zeal, for the welfare of the saints of the most high, who were assembled around him, in breathless silence, listening to the gracious words that fell from his lips, which we feel ourselves utterly incapable of doing justice to, in this brief sketch; and can only say that with boldness and firmness he expatiated freely and fully upon those principles opposing vice and error in its various forms; we are pursuaded [persuaded] that his instructions will be indelibly engraven on the memories of thousands who listened to his discourse. Firm and unwavering in his principles, he has ever been the advocate of sterling integrity, righteousness and truth, and when we saw him exerting all his energies to impress upon the minds of the audience the importance of the thing that he advocated, it reminded us of the sayings of one of the ancient servants of God. I will declare thy righteousness in the great congregation.<br />
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So ends Hyrum Smith's Sermon on the Word of Wisdom.James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-82241467438537565792010-12-27T21:50:00.000-08:002017-10-03T17:33:45.353-07:00Brigham Young Versus Joseph Smith<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Revealing the Conspiracy Against Joseph.</b></div>
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<b>By Brian Marshall</b></div>
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<b>Have you ever wondered why the Restoration Movement started by Joseph Smith split?</b></div>
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<b>The LDS Church in Utah, the RLDS in Missouri, the Church of Christ/Hedrikites also in Missouri as well as the other 265 smaller splits? </b></div>
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<b>Well it all starts with a conspiracy prophesied by Isaiah the Prophet, which you will find confirmed by various Doctrine and Covenants sections and Bible, which confirm a rebellion broke out within the Restoration Movement. </b></div>
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<b>If you turn you page in your King James Bible or Inspired Version Bible, you will find evidence of Biblical prophecy confirming such conspiracy will come to pass in Joseph Smith's life time. The trick is discerning who were the conspirators, but with a little time and study of Restoration Church History, examination of the Bible, Book of Mormon, throw in a judicious scoping out of the Doctrine and Covenants, we can locate who the conspirators of yesteryear were, and know who they are today. </b></div>
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<i><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">14</span></sup>Therefore, behold, <span style="font-size: large;"><b>I </b></span>will proceed to do a<u><b> marvellous work among this people</b></u>, even a <u><b>marvellous work and a wonder</b></u>: for <b><u>the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. </u></b></i></div>
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<u><b>15Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD</b></u>, and <u>their <span style="font-size: large;"><b>works are in the dark</b>,</span> and they say, <b><span style="font-size: large;">Who seeth us? and who knoweth us</span></b>?</u> </div>
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T<b>o this day, all of Joseph Smith's descendants declare he was <u>NOT</u> a polygamist. </b><br />
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<b><i>"No such thing as polygamy, or spiritual wifery, was taught, publically or privately, before my husbands death,that I have now, or ever had knowledge of"</i></b> </div>
<b>( Emma Smith Feb 9, 1879, Church History Vol. 3, p.355. )</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Emma Smith and Eliza R. Snow Signed Affidavit Joseph Smith <u>NOT A Polygamist.</u></b></span><br />
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We the undersigned members of the ladies' relief society, and married females do certify and declare that we know of no system of marriage being practised in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints save the one contained in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants....</div>
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Emma Smith, President...<br />
Eliza R. Snow, Secretary.</div>
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(<span class="italic" style="font-style: italic;">Times and Seasons </span>3 [October 1, 1842]: 940)</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Joseph Smith's Grandson Defended Joseph Smith's Honor. </b></span><br />
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"Joseph Smith was the greatest victim of fraud and conspiracy of the last 500 years. Nothing like it in recorded history. He was simply lied about when something had to be done to justify ... Utah Mormon polygamy."<br />
<b><span style="color: black;">—President Israel A. Smith, grandson of Joseph the Martyr </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: black;">(Letter to Pamela Price,September 17, 1956</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>How Does One Judge a Man?</b></span><br />
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<b>Jesus said, " By their fruits ye shall know them "! </b></div>
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<b>Since Joseph Smith is not able to stand before us in defense of himself, that we may judge him according to what he says, how he acts, and by the spirit which he carries, how then can we know what standard and moral values Joseph stood for? I have found very revealing and enlightening to examine Utah Church History, and compare with what Joseph Smith wrote from the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and the Inspired Version Bible. Let us judge the fruits of Joseph Smith, versus the fruits of Brigham Young. </b></div>
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<b>" Joseph was not killed because he was deserving of it, or because he was a wicked man; <u>but because he was a virtuous man.</u> I know that to be so, as well as I know that the sun shines.</b><br />
<b>I know for myself that Joseph Smith was the subject of 48 law suites, the most of them I have witnessed with my own eyes; but not one action could ever be made to bear against him. <u>NO LAW OR <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT</span> DID HE EVER VIOLATE. HE WAS INNOCENT AND VIRTUOUS. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">HE KEPT THE LAW OF HIS COUNTRY</span>, AND <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">HE LIVED ABOVE IT</span></u>; out of 48 law suites, ( and I was with him in the most of them ) not one charge could be substantiated against him. HE WAS PURE, JUST, AND HOLY, AS TO THE KEEPING OF THE LAW"</b><br />
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<b>( Brigham Young, July 11, 1852. Millinial Star, Vol. 14, p. 675. )</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yet Bigamy/Polygamy was Federal Crime in Joseph Smith's lifetime. If Joseph Smith Was a Polygamist, How Could Joseph Smith Not Have Broken the law?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Would You believe Brigham Young who :</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“Then they shall be gods, because they have no end;therefore they shall be from everlasting to everlasting”</span> </b><br />
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<b>Doctrine & Covenants 132:20 (Utah only)</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Brigham Young Said Men Can Become God's?</b></span></div>
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Brigham Young's claim men can become God's was never taught by Joseph Smith. Nor did that teaching originate with Joseph Smith or even Brigham Young. It can be (<u>suggested)</u> the<u><b> teaching and idea originates from the King James Bible.</b></u> Joseph Smith stated: " <b>we believe the Bible to be the word of God<u> in as much as it has been translated correctly"!</u></b> Here is why Joseph Smith made that statement. Compare the King James text to the Joseph Smith Translation/Inspired Version Bible. Copywrites held by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. <br />
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-1687"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></b></sup>And the LORD said unto Moses, See,<u> I have made thee a<b><span style="font-size: large;"> god</span></b> to Pharaoh</u>: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. </div>
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And the Lord said unto Moses, See <u>I have made thee a <span style="font-size: large;"><b>prophet</b></span> unto Pharaoh</u>; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy spokesman.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">28</span></sup><u>Thou shalt not revile <span style="font-size: large;">the gods</span></u></b>, nor curse the ruler of thy people.</span></div>
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<b>28Thou shalt not revile <u><span style="font-size: large;">against God</span></u>, nor curse the ruler of thy people.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>13</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-size: small;">And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul,<u> <b>I saw <span style="font-size: large;">gods</span> ascending out of the earth. </b></u></span></div>
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<b>13And the king said unto her, Be not afraid; and the woman said unto Saul, <u>I saw the <span style="font-size: large;">words of Samuel acending out of the earth</span></u>. And she said, <u><span style="font-size: large;">I saw Samuel also.</span></u></b></div>
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<b>6And unto him ( Jesus Christ ) who loved us, be glory; who washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto<u><span style="font-size: large;"> God, his <span style="font-size: small;">( Christ's )</span> father</span></u>. To him be glory and dominion, forever and ever. Amen.</b></div>
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<b><i>When <span style="font-size: large;">" and "</span> is taken from the King James Bible Rev 1:6, we no longer see the implication <u>God our Heavenly Father has Himself a father</u>. We do see where Salt Lake Utah came up with plurality of Gods, or the idea men because God is their father, themselves will become a God. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>Joseph Smith corrected the idea men can become Gods. Joseph Smith also corrected the idea that there are other gods who existed besides God the Father.</i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Brigham Young knew this:</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>79 And Zeezrom saith unto him:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>80 And Amulek saith:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>"<span style="background-color: yellow;">Yea, there is a true and a living God."</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>81 Now Zeezrom saith:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>" Is there more than one God?"</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Brigham Young Said:</b></span></div>
“When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a<br />
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<u><b><span style="color: black;">He is our FATHER and our GOD, and the only God With whom WE have to do.”</span></b></u><br />
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<b>Brigham Young, April 9, 1852</b><br />
<b>Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1, p. 50.</b><br />
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“By these things we know that there is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>A</u></span><b><u> God</u></b> in heaven who is infinite and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting, the <u style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;"><b>same unchangeable God</b></span></u>, the framer of heaven and earth and all things which are in them, and that he created man male and female”<br />
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“The question has been . . . asked, who was it that begat the son of the Virgin Mary. . . . When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the Father had begotten him in his own likeness. <span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;"><b><u>He was NOT begotten by the Holy Ghost.</u></b></span> And who is the Father? He is the first of the human family; and when he [Jesus]took a tabernacle [physical body], it was begotten by his Father in heaven, after the same manner as the tabernacles of Cain, Abel, and the rest of the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve . . .”<br />
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<b>Brigham Young, April 9, 1852,</b><br />
<b>Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1, p. 50.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Joseph Smith, in the Book of Mormon, </span></b><br />
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“It is the word of the Lord, and I wish to say to you, and all the world, that if you desire with all your hearts to obtain the blessings which Abraham obtained,<u> you will be polygamists</u>. . . . This is as true as that God lives. . . . <span style="color: black;"><u><span style="background-color: yellow;">The only men who become Gods, even the sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy</span></u>.”</span></div>
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<b>Joseph, who was the editor of the <span class="italic" style="font-style: italic;">Times and Seasons </span>in 1842, published the Church's official law "On Marriage" in conjunction with the Relief Society's certificate to prove that polygamy was a crime and not a doctrine of the Church. Joseph published that,</b></div>
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<b>Inasmuch as this church of Christ has been reproached with the <u style="background-color: yellow;">crime</u> of <u>fornication, and polygamy</u>: we declare that we believe, that one man should have one wife; and one woman, but one husband, except in case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again.... <span class="italic" style="font-style: italic;">We have given the above rule of marriage as the only one practiced in this church.</span>(<span class="italic" style="font-style: italic;">Times and Seasons</span> 3 [October 1, 1842]: 939; italics added)</b></div>
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<b>As translated by Joseph Smith, calls polygamy an abomination and states the rule that <u>one man shall have one wife</u>, <u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">"and concubines he shall have <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">none</span>"</span></u> </b><br />
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<b>Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.</b></div>
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Joseph Smith's Teachings( fruits ) directly appose Utah Mormonism teachings. He even apposed Utah's claims about his being polygamist. Yet Protestant, Evangelical and LDS Christians today believe Utah Mormonism, not having read or tested the words written by Joseph Smith.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Brigham Young and </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: , sans-serif;"><b>Blood </b></span><span style="font-family: , sans-serif;"><b>Atonement</b></span></span></span></div>
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“Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a<br />
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Will you love that man or woman enough to shed their blood?”<br />
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“Let me suppose a case. Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them,<u><b> <span style="color: black;">you would be justified,and they would atone for their sins</span>,</b></u> and be received into the kingdom of God. I would at once do so in such a case; and under such circumstances,<u><b> <span style="color: black;">I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart.”</span></b></u><br />
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<b>Brigham Young, March 16, 1856</b><br />
<b>Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, p. 247.</b><br />
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<u><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: black;">But the sufferings and death of Christ <span style="font-size: large;"><b>atoneth for their sins</b></span></span></span></u> through faith and repentance ect.,<br />
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Yet today, few pay attention to what Joseph Smith actually wrote, taught or said in the <u>Times and Seasons, </u>his personal news paper. Instead most people listen to Utah LDS teaching, supposing the Utah LDS Church teach truthfully about Joseph Smith. Yet Joseph Smith's writings and words directly contradict Utah Mormonism <u><b>in almost every way.</b></u><br />
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James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-36899828947962847132010-06-27T05:08:00.000-07:002010-11-03T14:14:20.579-07:00Notice To All Veterans Subject: NOTICE TO ALL VETS<br />
I received this today from a friend and felt the need to pass it on.....<br />
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I had a doctors appointment at the local VA clinic yesterday and found something very interesting I would like to pass along. While going through triage before seeing the doctor, I was asked at the end of the exam, three questions:<br />
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The nurse then informed me, if I had answered yes to any of the questions, I would have lost my concealed carry permit as it would have gone into my medical records and the VA would have reported it to Homeland Security.<br />
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I am a Vietnam vet and 15 year cc permit holder. Looks like they are going after us vets. Be forewarned and be aware. The Obama administration has gone on record as considering veterans and gun owners as potential terrorists. If you are a veteran, you've been warned. If you know veterans, please pass this on to them.James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-84735063000927968592010-05-31T14:37:00.000-07:002011-01-30T21:07:01.863-08:00Yowah God of Arkansas Cherokee<div align="justify" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><div align="center"><b>To Confirm This Story Indeed Is Cherokee Click link</b></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.arkansascherokee.us/Spirituality.html">http://www.arkansascherokee.us/Spirituality.html</a></div><br />
<b>When the first Europeans came to this country, they saw our Cherokee people praying to the Sun, Moon, Stars, Trees, Plants, Wind, Lightning, Birds, Animals, Fish, Snakes and Rocks. They called us pagans, heathens and savages. For some strange reason they developed the idea that we did not believe in God, although in many different tribal languages there were references to a Great Spirit, the Great Creator, the Maker. The truth is that not only did the American Indians worship God, but they also respected and communicated with that which God had created. <span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: large;">The Cherokee generally referred to the Great Spirit as Yowah. </span></b></div><div align="justify" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><b>Nature communicates to all people. Maybe not all the time but at least some of the time. It appears, however, that most people are not aware of this communication going on around them. Some who notice it either do not believe it or they do not understand it. Profound encounters and messages are considered supernatural. Natural signs and omens are considered superstitions, and direct experiences are labeled hallucinations. Are we to believe that Nature itself is not real? Or have we just lost touch with the true reality? </b></div><div align="justify" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><b>Despite the forces of acculturation, traditional Native American Indians and the medicine men/women still understand the sacredness of Nature. They see the life-giving force of the Great Spirit flowing through all things in the Universe. Because of ancient beliefs, teachings and spiritual practices, they feel and maintain a direct kinship with all of Creation. According to traditional Native American belief systems, everything is a source of "power", and as a result it should be revered. The traditional Native American believes that each living thing in Nature has a spirit of its own, in addition to being connected to and part of the Great Spirit. That is why we pray and give thanks to the Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain and Wind. We also realize that they cannot live without our "relations". We also realize that they cannot live without us; hence there is a reciprocal relationship. Some of this ancient knowledge can still be found in the <i>Farmer's Almanac </i>today.</b></div><div align="justify" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><b>Our animal, bird and other Nature relations are imbued with extraordinary life-giving powers and knowledge that can help us to survive and succeed in life. But in order to use this knowledge we must also learn the laws of Nature. For example, there is what we call the law of cosmic duality, which means that everything in our Universe and Nature has two sides to it: the physical and spiritual. We also believe in the law of reciprocity. We just can't keep taking from Nature without replenishing or giving something back in return. Otherwise we break the sacred circle and become responsible for creating our own problems with Nature. </b></div><div align="center" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><b>Here's are some web sites that offer more information. </b></div><div align="justify" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><b><a href="http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/ceremony/colors.htm"><u>Sacred Colors </u></a></b></div><div align="justify" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><b>To learn more, subscribe to the <a href="http://www.arkansascherokee.us/Smoke%20Signal%20Newsletter.html"><u>Smoke Signal Newsletter</u></a>. </b></div><div align="justify" class="style33" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #38761d;"><b><span class="style6"><span class="style7"><a href="http://www.arkansascherokee.us/Home.html"><img align="top" alt="HOME PAGE" border="0" height="33" src="http://www.arkansascherokee.us/Medicine_clip_image001_0000.gif" width="167" /></a></span></span></b></div>James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-49526940759157137762010-01-26T05:34:00.000-08:002010-01-31T05:59:26.096-08:00Help for RLDS/Refiners Fire Ministeries Bending of Truth<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> </span><span style="font-size:180%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Geneva;">A Response to Paul Trask, <i style="">Part Way To Utah</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><b style=""><span style="font-family:Geneva;"><br />By B. Mildred Smith<br /><br /></span></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"><span style=""></span>I read the Paul Trask book, <i style="">Part Way To Utah</i>, at the request of Bob Bobbitt for the purpose of answering some of Trask’s charges that were not based on truth. Because of the length of the book and the many subjects treated, it would take volumes for me to answer every detail of the claims of the book. I have, however, documented answers to most if not all of his most serious errors. For my material to be of maximum value, one reading it should have the Trask book at hand for reference.<o:p></o:p></span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">In general, Trask follows the pattern of all such critics. He depends heavily on secondary and tertiary sources for information and uses extensive propaganda techniques. The propaganda techniques included are sometimes those he initiates and often the nature of the sources on which he depends. These sources include the works of the Tanners in Utah and of Fawn Brodie, the author of <i style="">No Man Knows My History</i>. Carol Hodges Hansen, author of<i style=""> RLDS Christian?</i>, read each of Trask’s chapters and offered “untiring encouragement”, according to his acknowledgements. He has used some of the same erroneous materials she used in her book, but has avoided making some of the glaring errors that she made. (*Approximately thirty pages of response to Carol Hodges Hansen’s book, <i style="">RLDS Christian? </i>are available on request to B. Mildred Smith, 315 Zion’s Ridge, Lamoni, Iowa 50140. The same material is now also on this web site.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask begins his dissertation with a fairly accurate story of the beginnings of the Restoration movement and of the differences between the Utah “Mormons”, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He does make a rather insignificant error in his introduction when he says, “the only difference between the names of the “Mormon” and the RLDS churches is the addition of the word, Reorganized.” Then on page 7 he makes the inexcusable error of designating Joseph Smith as the one who introduced “radical new doctrines such a polygamy, baptism for the dead and eternal progression.” This error he perpetuates throughout his work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask assumes the introduction of polygamy and baptism for the dead by Joseph Smith without documentation. He uses for his source for “eternal progression” (Adam-God Doctrine),<i style=""> Times and Seasons </i>5:613-614. This is a report of the King Follett sermon published after Joseph’s death from the statement of several men who supposedly reported it from longhand notes and memory. The report has been discredited by Russell Ralston in his book, <i style="">Fundamental Differences,</i> pp. 111-112, and by Aleah Koury in his <i style="">Truth and the Evidences</i>, pp. 27-29. In both books one finds documentation of the testimony of James Whitehead, Joseph Smith’s private secretary from 1842 until his death, declaring that there was no mention of such a doctrine in the sermon. Whitehead’s testimony was given under oath at the trial in which it was determined that the RLDS church was the rightful successor to the original church as organized in 1830. In both books (Ralston, Ibid. p. 112) one will find the caveat written in the Utah church history concerning the report as published saying such reports “are very likely to contain inaccuracies and convey wrong impressions.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s insistence that Joseph introduced polygamy in Nauvoo might be understandable if the “Mormon” view was the only one available to him; but in so doing he ignores:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> (1) the actions of Joseph and Hyrum in publishing against the doctrine (<i style="">Times and Seasons</i>, Vol. 5, p. 423, Feb. 1,1844, Reprinted in <i style="">RLDS Church History</i> Vol. 2, p.731 and in Ralston, <i style="">Fundamental Differences,</i> pp. 192-193);</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> (2) the action which removed from the church those who were teaching it (<i style="">Church History</i>, Vol. 2, p. 584 and pp. 781-782. Also Ralston, Ibid. pp. 192-193);</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> (3) the published statements of the Women’s Relief Society and of the Elders of Nauvoo denying that it was being taught or practiced with church approval <span style="font-weight: bold;">(</span><i style="font-weight: bold;">Times and Seasons,</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Vol. 3, pp. 939-940, October 1, 1842 quoted in </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">RLDS Church History,</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Vol. 2, pp. 597-598 </span>and, with further information, in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ralston, </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">Fundamental Differences</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">, pp. 190-191); </span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">(4) the statement on marriage, written because the church had “been reproached with the crime of fornication and polygamy” printed as <span style="font-weight: bold;">Section 101 of the 1835 </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">Doctrine and Covenants</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (now section 111 of the RLDS edition</span> and contained in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Utah edition until after their section 132 requiring polygamy was adopted); </span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">(5) the basic law of the church that provided for one wife only <span style="font-weight: bold;">(Section 13 of the 1835 edition, 42 of the present RLDS edition);</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> (6) the nefarious way in which the Utah <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants </i>Section 132, commanding polygamy as a divine institution and directly contradictory to the previous instruction, <span style="font-weight: bold;">was first introduced to the Utah membership in August, 1852,</span> more than eight years after Joseph’s death but attributed to him to gain its acceptance<span style="font-weight: bold;"> (Ralston, Ibid. p. 179)</span><i style="font-weight: bold;">;</i><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">(7) the very strong condemnation of the practice of polygamy found in the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">Book of Mormon </i><span style="font-weight: bold;">(Jacob 2:33-39 RLDS 1908 Edition).</span> In addition, Trask had access to the research of Richard and Pamela Price on the subject if he had chosen to investigate it. He was content to reference only the very prejudiced and untruthful conclusion of Fawn Brodie in her infamous book,<i style=""> No Man Knows My History</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">That Joseph did speculate on baptism for the dead is documented by two letters and one document that some considered a revelation. These were placed in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">1844 edition of the </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">Doctrine and Covenants </i><span style="font-weight: bold;">after Joseph was dead.</span> It is interesting to note that in the document considered by some to be a revelation,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><u style="font-weight: bold;">there is no command to teach or practice the principle</u>, but there are <u style="font-weight: bold;">definite limitations</u> on when and where it might be practiced. Neither was there indication of any benefit that might accrue to those who were involved. A more complete discussion of the subject is available in Russell Ralston<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">Fundamental Differences,</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> pp. 209</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Geneva;" >,</span><span style="font-family:Geneva;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">-265. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Joseph Smith’s involvement with the Masonic Lodge is a matter of history. Whether it had any relationship to the quotation that Trask used from Fawn Brodie is a matter of conjecture. It is my personal view that he made some very serious mistakes in this area as is indicated by his putting the completion of the Masonic Temple ahead of work on the Lord’s Temple, which was never completed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The contention on page 8 that Joseph left a leadership vacuum is supported only by Trask’s lack of understanding of the basic law of the church. The fact that Brigham Young violated that law does not justify placing the blame on Joseph or the law. For a full discussion of this subject, documented by 101 references, see Ralston, <i style="font-weight: bold;">Fundamental Differences,</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> pp. 14-75. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> Trask, Page 9 - says Brigham Young was voted in as president of the church. Brigham was voted in as the president of Brigham Young’s new church by his apostles only and was never the true successor to Joseph Smith, Jr. His assumption of leadership did not follow or even approximate the pattern set down in the law of the original church. See Ralston, <i style="font-weight: bold;">Fundamental Differences</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">, especially pages 30-32.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The discussion of the events leading up to the introduction of women into the Priesthood, the pronouncement of Wallace B. Smith that placed McMurray in the Presidency of the RLDS church, and other current events (pp. 12-14) is very perceptive. We have considered copying it for distribution among persons who cannot understand why we are in a Restoration congregation. It is when Trask begins to discuss the beginnings of the Restoration that he resorts to <u>propaganda</u> methods, <u>secondary and tertiary references</u>, <u>false testimony</u> and <u>innuendo</u> as the basis of his <u>erroneous conclusions</u>. His assertion, page 17, that the leadership of the churches have suppressed objective historical evidence and thus kept their membership in ignorance of the facts may have been true of the Utah Mormons, but does not fit the Reorganization, in spite of some current literature that erroneously indicates that it is factual. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> Norma Hiles in <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Gentle Monarch</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (Israel A. Smith)</span> which has been acclaimed by the Temple School and history department of the church, declares that during the early 1950s no one was allowed to see documents held in the Historian’s office that were not favorable to the prevailing understanding of the early history of the church. Delbert D. Smith was at Iowa State College, Ames, 1949-1951, doing his research for his thesis using the Nauvoo period as his focus. He received a letter from Sam Burgess, Historian of the church during the very period she indicates, inviting him to come to the church history department and research all that they had, <u>including those items that were “anti</u>”.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask calls the familiar story of Joseph’s early experiences and the coming forth of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> “myth” but has the story essentially correct. On page 19 he calls the difference in naming the angel in Joseph’s history “Nephi” and in the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i> “Moroni” a contradiction. I see it as a simple misstatement in the history, with all of the evidence pointing to Moroni as the correct name for the messenger.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 21- Trask validates Fawn Brodie as the author of the best work ever written on Joseph. He does so without taking into consideration that the documentation she used was largely from secondary and tertiary sources, many of them written by avowed enemies of Joseph and his work. Many testimonies she used were of persons who had adopted the aberrant lifestyle of the Mormon faith and now tried to recite events that occurred nearly a century before involving<span style=""> </span>those who were now dead and could no longer testify for themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"><span style=""> </span>Brodie says that no mention of those early events can be found in any family writings of that time period.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><u style="font-weight: bold;">That is absolutely not true</u><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> It seems very strange that Fawn Brodie and Paul Trask can find all the negative suppositions of the past but cannot find such an obvious piece of evidence as the letter Lucy Mack Smith wrote to her brother, Solomon Mack and his wife, January 6, 1831. That letter is published in the <i style="">Scrapbook of Mormon Literature</i>, published by Ben E. Rich, Vol. 1, pages 543-545, according to Inez Smith Davis. The quotation from the letter and its history are found on page 58 of Inez Smith Davis, <i style="font-weight: bold;">Story of The Church</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">, Seventh Edition, Herald Publishing House, Independence, Mo.,1964.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Brodie also tries to establish that there is no record of others in the area knowing anything about the events surrounding the coming forth of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> before the plates were actually found. Lucy Mack explains in her book,<i style=""> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joseph Smith and His Progenitors</span></i>, on page 91 of the volume republished in Lamoni, Iowa in 1912, that the family followed Joseph’s instruction to speak of the particulars only among themselves for the sake of safety. It is a matter of record, however, that it was during this time that Josiah Stoal (Stowel) heard something that caused him to come to Palmyra to hire Joseph to help him try to find a silver mine. Also Emma’s father heard tales that caused him to try to keep Emma from marrying Joseph<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">(RLDS History</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> p.17)</span>. Enemies have tried to show that these tales came from occult practices of the Smiths, but the evidence is that the tales were perverted reports of the actual experiences of Joseph with an angel who had told him of buried plates to which he would eventually have access. Joseph records that he told a trusted Methodist minister of his vision who denied that there was anything as visions and revelation in these days and called it all of the Devil. It was from that telling that persecution began. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(</span><i style="font-weight: bold;">RLDS Church History</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">, Vol. 1, p.10)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">After the plates were received, there is ample evidence that the fact was well known before the book was published. Francis W. Kirkham in his <i style="">New Witness for Christ in America,</i> documents newspaper reports of 1829 that give distorted descriptions of the plates and the instruments used for translating them. One was printed in the “Rochester New York Daily Advertiser and Telegraph”, August,1929, the month that the manuscript of the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>went to press. See Delbert D. Smith, <i style="">How The Plates of the Book of Mormon Were Translated</i>, Paragon Publications, Mt. Ayr, IA. 50854, 1996, pp. 14-15. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Mrs. Brodie’s conclusions quoted at the base of page 21 uses the typical language of a propagandist who has no proof of her conclusions. She says <u style="font-weight: bold;">apparently</u><span style="font-weight: bold;"> t</span>he events Joseph records did not fix themselves in the minds of his family members. (This flies in the face of the extensive reports of Joseph’s mother, Lucy Mack Smith, and of Joseph’s brothers and sisters whose writings were readily available to Brodie and to Trask but they chose not to consider them.) Brodie says Joseph’s vision was <u style="font-weight: bold;">probably</u><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>an elaboration of a dream or it <u style="font-weight: bold;">may have been</u><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>sheer invention. These terms, “apparently”, “probably”, “may have been” are all terms cherished by the propagandist who has no proof of his or her theories which he/she determines to promote even though they have no foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s criticism of the reports of the First Vision is adequately refuted by Bob Bobbitt’s examination of the subject and by Byrna Zerr’s <i style="">In Behalf of Joseph.</i> Consult them. It is interesting to note that Trask offers a sample of what he says is Joseph’s own writing in 1832, showing the bad spellings, awkward punctuations, strike overs, above the line insertions, etc. If this is really the extent of Joseph’s literary competence in 1832, three years after the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> was completed, how does he explain his contention that Joseph <u>wrote</u> the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> from his own knowledge?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 23 - Trask sees a conflict in D&C 83 and Joseph’s report of his vision. There is a great difference between a vision (A supernatural sight perceived through unusual means) and a physical meeting of two persons. Joseph saw two persons in a vision. Even if it had not been so, the power of Godliness and the authority of the Priesthood reside with God, and He can use that power to show Himself to whomever He chooses, even as He showed Himself to Jacob <span style="font-weight: bold;">(Genesis 32:30)</span> and to Moses <span style="font-weight: bold;">(Exodus 33:11)</span> and to others.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Geneva;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Geneva;"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 24 - Trask says Joseph’s claim to have seen the Father and the Son at the same time is at variance with orthodox theology and is a distorted concept of God. Who was the one John saw take the book out of the hand of God who was sitting on the throne in Revelation 5:7? Surely if John could see both God and Jesus in one setting, there is no reason God could not show them both to Joseph in the same manner. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 24 - Trask says Joseph and his family were steeped in the occult but then offers <u>no evidence</u> of his charge except to reference persons whose material is steeped in propaganda devices without factual evidence. For example, where did Pastor Walters find the unprinted portion of Lucy Mack’s book? No indication is given. And what did Lucy mean if she really wrote it? A tongue-in-cheek statement in response to unjust accusations would fit the situation perfectly! Walters’ footnote gives a clue to his lack of proof by his use of the propaganda device, “the Smiths <b style=""><u>may have been </u></b>encouraged” in occult lore. The statement has as much validity in fact as a statement of mine would have if I said Paul Trask may have been an infidel, except that the Smiths are dead and cannot defend themselves while Trask is alive and could.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">I have volumes of responses to charges of occultism that I garnered from the work of Carol Hodges Hansen and from materials sent to me by Apostle David Brock. In all of them, there was <u>not one iota of evidence</u> to support the contention of rampant occultism in Joseph or his family. (The responses to Hansen’s materials are at this web site and those provided Apostle Brock are available from Mildred Smith). One interesting fact is that Hyrum Smith was one of the <u>trustees of the school district</u> that hired Oliver Cowdery to teach (See Lucy’s book, p.151). This would not have been possible had the family been involved in the occult as Trask, the Tanners and Brodie assert!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 25 - The book attributed to Lucy Mack Smith was published less than two years before her death at the age of 79. Whether all her memories of dates and sequence of events are accurate cannot be verified. If, however, Joseph really did give the family details of the life of the Nephites before he received the plates, it must be remembered that he was instructed by Moroni one full night in 1823, again the next day and once a year every year thereafter until he received the plates in 1827. We do not know what Moroni told him, but he had ample time to reveal many details of life among the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> peoples in those conversations. That the conversations Mrs. Smith notes occurred in 1823-24 is an <u>assumption</u> not justified by the facts in her book.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s ignorance of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> is displayed in his statement (p. 26) that Joseph could concoct the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> story without help from the <u>brass plates</u>. Joseph <b style=""><u>did</u></b> translate the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> without help from <b style=""><u>brass plates</u></b>. He never claimed to have possessed or read or translated or received information about the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> peoples from <b style=""><u>brass plates</u></b>! The plates from which he translated had the <b style=""><u>“appearance of gold”</u></b>! The <u>brass plates</u> were carried from Jerusalem. They contained the scriptures and the genealogy of the people; but there is no indication <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>authors recorded anything on them. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">William Stafford’s account of Joseph sacrificing a sheep makes for a titillating story, but if it is true, invalidates all the other stories of the Smith family practicing the occult for profit. Stafford is reported as saying, that he believes, <u>this is the only time the Smith family ever made money digging a profitable business</u>. The suggestion that Smith called for human sacrifice is clearly fictitious. Such a demand would have brought immediate action on the part of authorities which action did not occur.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The Chase story (p. 27) comes from E. D. Howe’s, <i style="">Mormonism Unvailed</i>, which has long been shown to be full of contradictions, false and vindictive information, much of it provided by D. P. Hurlbut who had been evicted from the church. After confessing to “unchristian like conduct with the female sex”, declaring repentance and being forgiven, he went about bragging that he had fooled Joseph’s God, or the spirit by which he was activated! This led to his being expelled <span style="font-weight: bold;">(</span><i style="font-weight: bold;">Times and Seasons,</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Vol. 6, pp. 784-785 and </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">RLDS History </i><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vol. 1, pp. 294-296),</span> but most of all shows, by his own admission, that D. P. Hurlbut was a liar and a fraud. No serious Historian would accept stories from <i style="">Mormonism Unvailed</i> as credible history. Trask gives no evidence that Joseph retained Chase’s stone, or that there ever was such a stone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 27 - It is very interesting that Trask and those with whom he consorts, are willing to take one small portion of Lucy Mack’s testimony but intentionally <b style=""><u>leave their readers in the dark </u></b>about the rest of her statement, although it follows immediately in her book! On page 103 of her book as republished by the RLDS church, pages 91-92 in the edition from which Trask’s source quotes, Lucy does say that Mr. Stoal, who incidentally, was already digging for a rumored silver mine <i style="">(<span style="font-weight: bold;">RLDS History</span></i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Vol. 1, p.17)</span> was interested in Joseph because of what he had heard of his abilities to discern things invisible to the natural eye. What Tanners, Brodie and their ilk <b style=""><u>fail to let their readers know</u></b> is that Lucy’s <b style=""><u>next words</u></b> are, “Joseph endeavored to divert him from his vain pursuit, but he was inflexible in his purpose, and offered high wages to those who would dig for him .... After laboring for the old gentleman for about a month, without success, Joseph prevailed upon him to cease his operations; and<b style=""><u> it was from this circumstance</u></b> of having worked by the month at digging for a silver mine, that the <b style=""><u>very prevalent story arose of Joseph being a money-digger</u></b>.” It is unfortunate that well intentioned people like Paul Trask are deceived by persons whose material he has trusted, if that is what happened in this case.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Geneva;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Geneva;"></span><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Joseph says Stoal’s hiring occurred in October,1825 (<i style="">Times and Seasons</i>, Vol. 3 and reported in <i style="">RLDS History</i>, Vol. 1, p. 17). Instead of being evidence of Smith family occultism, the <b style=""><u>whole story is evidence</u></b> that Joseph’s story of the angel’s visit was known in 1825 even if in perverted form. Of course the Tanners, Fawn Brodie and others like them do not want you to know the whole story, so they give a prejudicial and partial quote! <o:p></o:p></span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask further distorts the facts by saying that Joseph dug for the silver mine for Stoal for several months, and then was arrested on a warrant from Stoal’s nephew. Both Lucy and Joseph say it was about a month before the silver mine project was given up, but Joseph<b style=""><u> continued to be employed by Stoal, and was so employed as late as January 1827</u></b>, the date of his marriage to Emma Hale, in whose home he was a boarder while employed by Stoal. (Ibid. p.17). The purported arrest and conviction Trask reports occurred in March of 1826. It is very strange that Mr. Stoal <b style=""><u>continued to employ</u></b> one arrested, jailed, brought to trial and convicted of a crime perpetrated against him <b style=""><u>for almost a year</u></b> after that conviction. It is also strange that when Mr. Stoal was really called to testify against Joseph in 1830, he submitted no evidence to convict him (<i style="">RLDS History</i>, Vol. 1, pp. 94-103). If there was such a trial in 1826, it is only right that Joseph would truthfully admit to having been “employed in looking for mines”, for that was the avowed reason for Stoal employing him in the first place. As for the rest of the “confessions” they have all the marks of being fraudulent! It is clear that Mr. Stoal did not consider Joseph’s actions criminal or his employment would have been terminated immediately!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 28 - Trask says historical evidence indicates that Joseph actually used a peep-stone to find the plates. In evidence, he places an interview Martin Harris was supposed to have given <i style="">Tiffany Monthly</i> in 1859. If Martin Harris gave that purported interview, and it was reported correctly, he contradicted his testimony given to Joseph Smith in 1829 <i style="">(RLDS History</i>, Vol. 1 p. 19) and repeated in September 15, 1853 when he was interviewed by D.B. Dille whose letter was published in the <i style="">Millennial Star</i>, reprinted in the <i style="">Myth of the Manuscript Found </i>and again in the <i style="">RLDS History</i>, Vol. 1 pp. 51-53. In both accounts Martin Harris, while recounting the facts of the occasion on which he took a transcript of characters of the plates to professor Anthon of New York, says that when Anthon asked how the young man knew the plates were there, Martin said <b style=""><u>an angel of God</u></b> had shown them to him. The Tiffany account further states that Joseph and his family had told Martin that the stone from Mason Chase’s well had been used to find the plates. That is a <b style=""><u>fabrication </u></b>the evidence of which I challenge anyone to produce!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask then gives an entry from Hosea Stout’s diary which, if authentic, is <b style=""><u>only hearsay</u></b>. Trask says Stout said of the stone, <b style=""><u>“It is said to be ... .”</u></b> If he had seen such a stone, he would have said, <b style=""><u>“It is ... .”</u></b> The account of Joseph’s arrests and trials of 1830 is correctly referenced in <i style="">RLDS History</i>, Vol. 1, pp. 94-103. That is why it seems strange that Trask gave such incorrect information about them. Trask is mistaken in the number of trials and the number of witnesses called against Joseph. It was not one but two trials and not 12 witnesses but many more, so many that neither Joseph nor Mr. Reed, one of the non-members who defended him, even tried to list them all. The charge was not of having claimed to have found the plates by use of a peep-stone, but of “being a disorderly person; of setting the country in an uproar by preaching the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>,” etc., etc. During the trial he was accused of being a “money digger”. They called <b style=""><u>Josiah Stoal, two of Mr. Stoal’s Daughters,</u></b> Jonathan Thompson, Newel Knight, and numerous others to witness against Joseph but could find no evidence on which to convict him. Joseph was <b style=""><u>exonerated of all charges</u></b><u>,</u> and it is worth one’s time to read the reports of the court procedures as found in the <i style="">RLDS History</i> cited above, especially the report of Mr. Reed found in <i style="">RLDS Church History</i>, Vol. 1, pp. 101-103. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Note that this is the exact reference given by Trask who then so grossly misrepresents the information given there. This is one of the most frequently used techniques of the propagandist. They site a correct source of information then distort what it says to suit their purposes feeling confident their readers will trust them enough that they will not consult the reference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">It was a young Presbyterian named Benton who swore out the first warrant against Joseph. Whether Dr. Benton whom Trask quotes is the same Benton or even a relative is not indicated. Where Dr. Benton gets his statement that “during the trial it was shown that the <i style="">Book of Mormo</i>n was brought to light by the same magic powers by which he pretended to tell fortunes, discover hidden treasures, etc.” is not reflected in the judgement of the court and can only refer to the fact that there was the power of God involved in the book’s coming forth that Benton and others who tried unsuccessfully to convict Joseph could not understand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Pages 29-33 - The effort to prove that the <i style="">Book of Mormo</i>n was not translated from metal plates by the use of the Urim and Thummim depends heavily on Jim Lancaster’s <i style="">Saints’ Herald</i> article of 1962 which is dependent on secondary, tertiary and uncreditable witnesses and deplorable scholarship. It is largely answered in Delbert D. Smith, <i style="">How The Book of Mormon Was Translated</i> previously noted. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">For an example, the quote at the bottom of page 30 says “a woman” wrote to Emma. Two questions arise: (1). What woman? Anonymous letters are not considered valid evidence. (2). Was Emma’s supposed response genuine or another forgery? <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">There is at least one forged letter reported. The December 9,1845 <i style="">New York Sun</i> printed a letter over what was supposed to be Emma’s signature in which she is supposed to have renounced faith in Joseph and doubted his claims. Emma promptly wrote the paper flatly denouncing the letter as a forgery. Her letter to the <i style="">Sun</i> was printed in <i style="">Times and Seasons</i>, January 15,1846, p.1096 and reprinted in <i style="">RLDS Church History</i>, Vol. 4, p. 267. The letter to which Trask refers, which Lancaster used as evidence, does not even carry a name. It could well be such a forgery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">If, on the other hand, the letter Emma is supposed to have written to “a woman” is authentic, then Emma was mistaken. Although she handled the plates while they were covered with a cloth and assisted by writing as her husband translated, she was not permitted to see the instruments of translation. The evidence is in the testimony of the primary witnesses who actually saw and handled the instruments used in the translation process. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The fact that Trask says the Urim and Thummim were never returned to Joseph shows that Trask is ignorant of, or chooses to ignore the truth as James Lancaster did. Joseph described specifically how and when the Urim and Thummim were returned to him by a heavenly messenger after which he received Section 2 of the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i> (See <i style="">Times and Seasons</i>, Vol. 3, p. 785 referenced in <i style="">RLDS Church History</i>, Vol. 1, p. 24). The instruments were again taken and returned, and section 3 was received in which he is told that the gift has been restored to him again and he is to finish the translation, “as you have begun.” (<i style="">Times and Seasons,</i> Vol. 3, p. 786 referenced in <i style="">Church History</i>, Vol. 1, p. 25). He had begun using the Urim and Thummim.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">In April 1829 Oliver Cowdery came to be Joseph’s scribe, and the work of translating was resumed. Joseph says (<i style="">Times and Seasons</i> Vol. 3, p. 832) that during this time he inquired of the Lord through the Urim and Thummim and received revelation. Joseph specifically states in <i style="">Times and Seasons,</i> Vol. 3, pp. 853, 885, 897 that while translating the plates, he also used the Urim and Thummim to receive revelations recorded as Sections 7,12,13,14,15. Joseph and Oliver Cowdery, who were the ones involved in the translation process, both declared the instruments were used throughout the translation process. Joseph states unequivocally that when the translation of the plates was completed, <b style=""><u>the plates, the Urim and Thummim and the breastplate</u></b> were returned to the angel (<i style="">Times and Seasons</i> Vol. 3, p. 772). <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The fact that Trask uses the <i style="">Chicago Inter-Ocean</i> report as the basis for David Whitmer’s testimony shows that he is either ignorant of or chooses to ignore David Whitmer’s protest against the <i style="">Saints’ Herald </i>reprinting that account. David said the reporter had misunderstood and misquoted his statements and therefore he did not want the report given as his. (<i style="">Saints’ Herald,</i> Number 33, pp. 764-765). David’s real testimony is recorded in <i style="">Saints’ Herald,</i> Number 26, p. 128 in an interview with Apostle T. W. Smith, verified in <i style="">Saints’ Herald,</i> Number 27, p. 13, to which he did not object. In it he declared that he saw Joseph translate by aid of the Urim and Thummim.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">When Apostle T. W. Smith’s interview was published in the <i style="">Saints’ Herald, </i>Number<i style=""> </i>26, p. 128, J. L. Traughber, Jr. challenged Apostle Smith’s report. He said Whitmer had said Smith translated by means of “one dark colored, opaque stone” (<i style="">Saints’ Herald,</i> Number 26, p. 341). Lancaster reported Traughber’s statement as evidence without even referring to Apostle Smith’s report to the contrary. In addition he tried to validate Traughber’s statement by saying Traughber was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">When those of us investigating Lancaster’s article saw Traughber’s statement in the form of a letter to the editors, we knew there must have been something to which he was responding. We found the Apostle’s report in a previous<i style=""> Herald</i>. Then we realized that the Apostle would not let such an effort to refute his report stand without clarification, so we looked ahead. There we found Apostle Smith’s response in <i style="">Saints’ Herald,</i> Number 27, pp.13 and 67. The Apostle repeated his assertion that David Whitmer had described the interpreters to him, and to a reporter of the <i style="">Chicago Times</i> who was present at the interview, as “shaped like a pair of spectacles only much larger.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">It is strange scholarship for an author such as Lancaster to lift a negative response from a publication as evidence without even alerting his readers to the genesis of the negative report. It is amazing scholarship that the author would try to validate the negative report by saying its author was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ when the positive report to which the challenger was responding was not only a member of that church but an Apostle in the same! Perhaps Trask cannot be faulted for trusting such deplorable scholarship, but that does not validate it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 32 - Contradictions in Martin Harris’ testimony have already been addressed. Oliver’s statement that the plates were not in sight only confirms Joseph’s testimony that he was not to show them to any one until the book was completed and the Lord instructed him to whom they were to be shown. It does not even hint that Joseph was not using them. When Joseph described the title page as, “... a literal translation , taken from the very last leaf, on the left hand side of the collection or book of plates ... “ (<i style="">RLDS History</i>, Vol. 1, p. 74) he verified the fact that he had translated from the plates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 33 - The “strong evidence” that Trask says shows that the eleven men who gave their testimonies that they did see the plates were in fact “persuaded by Joseph to sign those statements” is not shown by Trask because it <u>does not exist</u>! Those men were not liars! They confirmed their statements to the day they died, even those who were no longer associated with Joseph and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The accusation is slanderous and should never have been made by anyone or used as evidence by the author of this work. Bearing false witness is breaking one of God’s commandments!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">In the reference to William Smith, William was testifying to the facts that prevailed before the translation of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> was completed, the facts of which have always been the testimony of all of the family. That fact is obvious to anyone who loves the truth by William’s last statement that the family did not care to have Joseph break the commandment and suffer as he did before. In this, William was referring to the loss of the plates and Urim and Thummim when Joseph allowed Martin Harris to take the 116 pages of translated material. After the translation was completed and those shown the plates whom the Lord had commanded, Joseph returned the plates and Urim and Thummim to the angel (See documentation above). He had no more control of them and hence no more commandment not to show them because he did not have them to show!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">If Martin Harris said that he saw the plates with his spiritual eyes, that statement would be easy to understand when one reads the testimony of the three witnesses. It was an <b style=""><u>angel who showed them</u></b> to David, Oliver and Martin and the <b style=""><u>voice of God who spoke</u></b> to them. Any normal person would view such an experience as a spiritual experience. But it was an experience so real and valid that all three men continued to bear witness to it as long as they lived, even when alienated from the church that Joseph organized. If Joseph had “persuaded” them to give that testimony, they would certainly have revealed him and it as a fake instead of affirming it to their graves. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Martin’s statement concerning the 8 witnesses, if he really made such a statement, could only be <b style=""><u>hearsay </u></b>at the best since he was not one of the eight. Here Trask is pitting the supposed negative statement of one <b style=""><u>hearsay</u></b> witness against the positive witness of 8 men who maintained that witness to their deaths. On one hand Trask has one supposed witness who <b style=""><u>says he heard</u></b> another <b style=""><u>hearsay</u></b> <b style=""><u>witness</u></b> say that the 8 witnesses did not see the plates and were persuaded by Joseph to lie. On the other hand we have the positive statement of 8 men who said they did see, examine, handle, heft the plates, who described what they saw, felt and knew, and maintained their testimony until death. The hearsay testimony pales in the face of the positive witness as would be held in any reasonable court.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 35 - False premises lead to false conclusions! This summary is such a fallacious document!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">(1). Joseph’s six or seven accounts of his first vision do not conflict. Different portions are emphasized under different circumstances and with different audiences, but the substance is always the same. And it was not 18 years after it was experienced in 1820 that he began to share it! As noted above, sharing it with a trusted Methodist minister soon after the event was the cause of persecution that followed him from that early date. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">For accurate documented information on the First Vision, see Byrna S. Zerr, <i style="">In Behalf Of Joseph, An Affirmation, </i>Copyright 1992, pp.16-35. Available from Price Publishing, Independence, Mo. or the Library of Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">(2). There is no valid history that shows Joseph Smith or his family “practicing occultists”. No court record of 1826 has been produced by Trask, Hansen or any other that proves Joseph was “convicted of glass- looking by using a “peep-stone” buried in a hat”. The facts are that Joseph did not even have the plates from which the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> was translated or the instruments by which they were translated until 1827, the year following the purported conviction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">(3). Martin Harris declared to his dying day that Joseph was shown the plates by an angel. Mark Hofmann, the convicted Mormon killer, forged documents with Harris’ name that said otherwise, but those documents have been proved forged. (See <i style="">Salamander</i>, <i style="">The Mormon Murders</i>, or <i style="">The Gathering of the Saints</i>, all popular books detailing the case against Hofmann). No evidence has been produced that any primary witness ever said Joseph found the plates by using a peep-stone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">(4). There is no testimony of any person who scribed for the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> who says he did not use the plates. There are only statements of other people who were not involved who said they were not used.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">(5). Joseph’s brother William was not permitted to see the plates and only testified that Joseph was to show them to no one except those to whom he was directed by the Lord to show them. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The Stephen Burnett letter is a secondary source concerning Martin Harris’ testimony and a tertiary source concerning all others. They can not stand against Martin’s own statements even as late as 1870. (See Zerr Ibid. p. 66.) and the testimonies of all 10 of the other witnesses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s dissertation on Zion contains some strictly Mormon doctrine never accepted by the RLDS, and leans on the <i style="">Book of Commandments</i> as the true source of Joseph’s teachings. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The <i style="">Book of Commandments</i> is a partial printing of hand written copies of the early commandments, interrupted by mob action in Missouri. It stops in the middle of a sentence, the last of the section being printed at the time. Oliver Cowdery and W.W. Phelps, who were responsible for the printing, later testified that they had no idea how so many errors crept into the publication. Afterward they were instrumental, with Joseph, in the printing of the 1835 edition of the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i> from the original revelations and testified to the correctness of that publication. (See the Preface to the 1835 Edition of the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i>, the booklet on the <i style="">Book of Commandments</i> entitled <i style="">A Recurring Issue</i> and authored by Joseph Smith III, Israel A. Smith and Delbert D. Smith available from the Board of Media Development of the Restoration Elders Conference, Independence, Missouri). <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s statement of the present situation on pages 40-41 is quite perceptive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 43 - Trask says the Latter Day Saints build Zion for God. It is true that <b style=""><u>some people </u></b>have that idea, but it is <b style=""><u>not validated in the scriptures</u></b>. The <i style="">Inspired Version of the Bible</i>, the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> and the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants </i>all say <b style=""><u>men build the Kingdom. God builds Zion with Kingdom quality people!</u></b> (See the scriptures or Delbert D. and Ronald K. Smith, <i style="">The Kingdom Way</i>).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 44 - It is understandable that one who has not experienced the Patriarchal Blessing or who does not accept the antiquity of the Gospel might feel as Trask does about the office of Patriarch and the practice of Patriarchal Blessings. For those of us who have experienced it, the testimonies of the validity of that ministry are voluminous!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 45 - I have one question. If there are no Priests after Christ, why are so many Christians looking forward to being <b style=""><u>Priests</u></b> and Kings (Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:6 K.J.)? Hebrews 7 gives an understanding of how the Priesthood was changed from that of the Mosaic law, but not taken away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 46 - Trask proposes the dubious idea that the Gospel should go only to the Jews until after the Son of Man comes again to the earth. Jesus said He was sent to the <b style=""><u>House of Israel, not just to the Jews.</u></b> The scriptures are clear that there were 12 tribes in the House of Israel of which the Jews are only one! And when Jesus Christ commissioned his disciples, he told them <b style=""><u>to go and teach all nations!</u></b> (Matthew 28:19). Read of the experience of Peter as recorded in Acts 10 and 11 in which Peter was commanded by spiritual means to go to the Gentile, Cornelius, and teach him and his household. There were no Jews to take precedence, and when Peter was accused of violating Jesus’ instruction in so doing, he retold his testimony and further testified to the Lord’s Spirit falling upon the Gentiles who were baptized. So powerful was his testimony that “they (Jewish members of Christ’s church) held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.” Also Matthew 19:30, Matthew 20:16, Mark 10:31, and Luke 13:30 all record that Jesus prophesied that the <b style=""><u>first shall be last and the last shall be first</u></b>. The Jews were taught the Gospel first but as a nation rejected it. They will be the last to accept it fully.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 47- The concept of a Latter Day Israel is not a distortion of Biblical theology. On the contrary, it is fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. That in the last times Israel will again be gathered is so much a part of the <i style="">Bible</i>’s prophetic ministry that it is not even necessary to cite quotations to support the assertion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 34pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 4 - RLDS Scriptures <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 34pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask begins by citing Paul’s statement that from <b style=""><u>infancy</u></b> Timothy had known the Holy Scriptures which were able to make him wise for salvation through faith on Jesus Christ. What scriptures did Timothy’s mother and grandmother have to share with Timothy? There was no <i style="">New Testament,</i> nor even <i style="">Old Testament</i>, compiled as we have it. How could the stories of Christ, his ministry, his death and resurrection be scripture until after He died? Paul was writing to Timothy, now a young man, very soon after Christ died, referring to the time of <b style=""><u>Timothy’s infancy</u></b> which had to be at least a little while before that event. Scholars say the Gospels had not yet been written. Many of Paul’s letters had not been written. John’s Revelation was yet to happen. So what scriptures did Eunice and Lois have to share? They could have had some of the writings from the Hebrew <i style="">Bible</i>, perhaps the <i style="">Septuagint</i>, but what else? Certainly Timothy’s scripture was very different from ours! If he had all that was ever to be needed, why should we accept the <i style="">New Testament</i> as scripture?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask says Jesus believed in the <i style="">Bible</i>. What <i style="">Bible</i> did He have in which to believe and from which to quote? There was no <i style="">Bible</i> that looked like ours in Jesus’ day. They had the <i style="">Torah </i>, the prophets and the writings all on scrolls. Some of these Hebrew scriptures had been translated into Greek to form the <i style="">Septuagint</i>. But there was no <i style="">New Testament</i>, for many of the events recorded in it had not yet occurred! If the scholars are to be believed, the four Gospels were not even written down until long after Christ died. The Acts of the Apostles and Paul’s letters could not have been in existence because Paul was still persecuting the Saints, and Pentecost was yet to happen. Trask’s interpretation is so wrong! Jesus did not promise there would be no changes in the <i style="">Bible</i>! The <i style="">Bible</i> did not exist! Jesus spoke only of the provisions of the law as being fulfilled, <b style=""><u>not of the rest of the writings as being perfect!</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">So when Paul wrote to Timothy, what did he really say about the scriptures? The <i style="">King James Bible </i>says that he said, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” Trask says Paul said, “All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> Now if the <i style="">Bible</i> is so accurate and reliable that “not the slightest letter nor the least stroke of a pen” will disappear before everything is accomplished, as Trask indicates from his second paragraph on that page, how can he suddenly change it and its meaning? The two quotations above do not say the same thing. (1) <b style=""><u>“God-breathed” </u></b>is substituted for “inspiration of God”. “Is God-breathed” implies that man was not involved in the production of scripture. <b style=""><u>“Given by inspiration of God”</u></b> means the author’s mind was stimulated to a high degree (<i style="">Strong’s Concordance</i> says “divinely breathed <u>in</u>”) by God. (2)<b style=""><u> Doctrine</u></b> is a teaching, tenet or dogma. Trask’s rendition is that the scriptures are <b style=""><u>“for teaching”,</u></b> in other words, a tool, which is far different in meaning. (3) <b style=""><u>Reproof</u></b> as Paul used it, according to <i style="">Strong’s Concordance</i>, is evidence, conviction. <b style=""><u>Rebuke</u></b>, on the other hand, is to criticize sharply, reprimand. (4) <b style=""><u>Instruction</u></b> is education, something learned. <b style=""><u>Training</u></b> is to coach in or accustom to some mode of behavior or performance, as one would train a dog to do tricks. (Definitions for the above terms not ascribed to <i style="">Strong’s Concordance</i> are from the<i style=""> American Heritage Dictionary</i>.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Now, which version of the Timothy scripture is “accurate and reliable” with a guarantee from God that “not the slightest letter nor the least stroke of a pen” shall disappear from it until everything is accomplished? If it is the former, how dare anyone vary from it not only in words but in meaning? If it is the latter, surely millions of people have been deluded by misinformation at least since 1611!</span></b><span style="font-family:Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 52-53 - Neither Joseph Smith nor the RLDS church discard the <i style="">Bible</i> or put the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>above it. The two scriptures support each other in every way, and until recently, the contents of the RLDS <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i> has been judged by that which is written in the <i style="">Bible </i>or it has not been accepted by the church as inspired by God. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 5 - The <i style="">Book of Mormon</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask is wrong when he says that hidden knowledge that was once in the <i style="">Bible</i> was to be restored in the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> for which Joseph Smith’s followers were to be the exclusive beneficiaries. The<i style=""> Book of Mormon</i> was never claimed to be an instrument of restoration of former Biblical scriptures. Any clarification of concepts or correction of details was to be for <b style=""><u>all nations</u></b> and all peoples of the earth! To compare the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>with the early Gnostic heresies is to display deplorable ignorance of the book’s contents or of the Gnostic heresies.(See explanation of <u>Gnosis</u> and <u>Gnostic</u> in the answer to Trask’s page 78 in this work).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 57 - The Jaredites did escape the confusion of tongues, which is <b style=""><u>what they requested</u></b> of the Lord, and were guided to a <b style=""><u>promised land</u></b>, choice above all other lands, not “scattered the farthest” as Trask sarcastically affirms. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The sarcasm with which Trask treats the building of the Jaredite barges just indicates his lack of understanding of that ingenuous design that is used to this day in fishing boats of the South Pacific. The hole in the bottom is rimmed up to a little above the usual level of the ocean water and provides a port through which the people can fish, keep their catch fresh until they return to land, and discard waste. The motion of the ocean waves makes the port into a huge bellows that expels stale air and brings in fresh air through the hole in the top when it is open. When the top hole is closed during a storm, it keeps out the storm. When the seas are rough but no rain is falling, or when the boat is stationary before launching into the deep, the bottom hole may be closed to keep out excess sea water while the open hole in the top still provides necessary ventilation. it wasn’t stupid at all! And the fact that the Lord allowed the brother of Jared to think through many of the problems attendant to building the boat and providing light for it, merely shows how much the Lord wants us to use our own agency in consultation with Him in solving the problems of the world in which we live.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The contention that the Jaredites loaded onto the eight barges all of their flocks, herds, fowl, fish, birds and a food supply for them all is again a statement showing <b style=""><u>lack of knowledge of the scripture</u></b>. Ether 3:4 says they prepared for “whatsoever beast, or animal or fowl they should carry with them” when they prepared to cross the ocean. It was when they left their home and went to the Valley of Nimrod and moved about from place to place before reaching the place of embarkation that they took all of their flocks, the bees, etc. with them. See Ether 1:22-24.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 58-59 - Trask distorts the record again. The <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>does not say every wicked person was completely destroyed at the time of Christ’s death. The people who were destroyed were those who had known the prophecies of the Lord’s coming to save them, had known of the Lord’s coming at the time of His birth and had not only <b style=""><u>rejected that knowledge</u></b> but had deliberately <b style=""><u>chosen to live wickedly </u></b>in defiance of their knowledge of the coming Savior. Many who were less wicked than they (but still had the possibility of repenting) were saved. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The situation has many parallels in the history of the Hebrew nation. When Moses came down from the mountain and found his people worshiping the golden calf, Exodus 32 (King James) says that the Lord would have consumed them all but Moses begged Him not to do it, so only about 3,000 men were slain by the Levites at Moses’ command. How many rebellious ones who followed Korah (Numbers 16) were swallowed up in the earth when they failed to repent? And what happened to the 250 men who had offered incense but not unto the Lord? How many priests of Baal did Elijah kill? And what about the flood? The scriptures are replete with instances in which the Lord removes from the earth those who have had their chance to follow Him but have refused and pose a danger to others whose spiritual well being they would put in jeopardy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 59 - Trask repeats a <b style=""><u>monumental error </u></b>that is very difficult to explain. How anyone who was a member of the RLDS Priesthood as long as Trask claims he was does not know the difference between the plates on which the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> was written and the brass plates which Lehi’s people brought with them is hard to comprehend and impossible to explain except as evidence of ignorance! <b style=""><u>Not Moroni nor any of his predecessors of the</u><i style=""> Book of Mormon</i><u> authors wrote on brass plates.</u></b> The records they made and which were delivered to Joseph Smith were made of ore with the <b style=""><u>appearance of gold</u></b>! The brass plates, carried with the family of Lehi from Jerusalem, contained the records of the holy scriptures and the genealogy of their forefathers, even from the beginning (Alma 17:32). They learned from them but they never wrote on them, and Joseph Smith never claimed to have them for any reason! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask further compounds his error by saying that the compiler of the <b style=""><u>brass plates</u></b> was a prophet named <b style=""><u>Moroni</u></b>. The brass plates were engraved <b style=""><u>centuries before Moroni was even born</u></b>, and no <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> author added to their engravings. Moroni was not even the compiler of the plates from which the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> was translated! It was <b style=""><u>Mormon</u></b> who abridged most of the record that constitutes the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> on plates with <b style=""><u>the appearance of Gold. Moroni</u></b> had the records only after his father gave them to him to preserve. In the “Book of Mormon”, chapter 4, page 704 of the 1908 edition of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>, verse 1, Moroni says that he is to finish the record of his father, Mormon. He tells of the last of his people, gives an abbreviated account of the Jaredites whose record he found among the other sacred records of his people, and finishes with some discussions of doctrine before he hides the plates in a hill that was first <b style=""><u>called Hill Cumorah by Oliver Cowdery</u></b> - not by Moroni. The hill <b style=""><u>called Cumorah by Mormon,</u></b> in which the large library of the Nephite people is deposited,<b style=""><u> is somewhere in Mesoamerica</u></b> (Book of Mormon, 3:7-8). <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">That the language in which Mormon and Moroni wrote or that the language of the brass plates was some form of Egyptian should not be especially difficult to understand. Moses, who was the author of at least a part of the early scriptures that were on the brass plates was raised and educated an Egyptian. Joseph, ancestor of Lehi’s family, was a ruler of Egypt. Lehi was a merchant taught in the language of Egypt. All had Hebrew thought and Egyptian learning. Since the Egyptian language took less space than the Hebrew, that it was the choice for engravings on metal plates is very understandable. That it had been changed (reformed) over a period of a thousand years to suit the needs of the engravers is also no great mystery. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">That the Hebrews would not countenance the writing of the name of their God in any language but Hebrew is a strange statement for Trask to make in view of the facts. By the first century A.D., even books of our Old Testament were translated into Greek and Aramaic, “<b style=""><u>the languages of international commerce and culture”</u></b> (Reader’s Digest,<i style=""> A,B,C’s of the Bible</i>, 1991). The Greek translation of the early Hebrew scriptures, the <i style="">Septuagint</i>, became the standard scripture for Christians along with the portions of the <i style="">New Testament</i> that were also written in Greek. The difference is that in the day of Lehi, the language of “international commerce and culture” was Egyptian, not Greek, but God’s name is in both! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 60 - Just last Saturday I was in a group in which a linguist working with the Mayan and Egyptian languages demonstrated the similarities between the characters Joseph Smith drew for Martin Harris and one form (demotic) of the Egyptian language. Trask is just not current in his knowledge of the languages, and so makes an unrighteous judgement of Joseph’s motives. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 61-62 - It is understandable that Professor Anthon would want to distance himself from anything so unpopular as the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>came to be. It had been 5 or 6 years since Harris visited him when he wrote the letter cited, and a busy professor might well have forgotten the particulars, especially if they would be an embarrassment to him. His letter does verify that a man did bring him a paper on which characters of some sort were drawn. It is not so strange that one supposed to know languages would make a guess at what languages he was seeing when he knew no one would know any more about it than he, especially if the changes in the language made the characters unfamiliar.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 62 - Trask’s explanation of Isaiah 29 is interesting, but it leaves out any mention of the book that is to be offered a little while before Lebanon becomes a fruitful field and is esteemed as a forest, and a number of other details that are pertinent to really understanding the prophecy. Lebanon has become a fruitful field. It is too late for the prophecy to be fulfilled as Trask suggests.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">It is true that the Isaiah scripture has been interpreted to say that the book would have a “familiar spirit”, which Trask promptly and rightly condemns <u>if</u> that was what the scripture said. In every place in the <i style="">Bible</i> in which the term is used, with the exception of Isaiah 29, the context is that a <u>person</u> has sought or is seeking a “familiar spirit” for the purpose of divining the future or to receive advice or counsel. Such usage is forbidden. Careful reading of the Isaiah scripture, however, shows that the writer simply used a simile (“A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.” <i style="">American Heritage Dictionary</i>). The scripture actually says that the voice of the people of the city where David dwelt will speak out of the ground “<u>as of</u>” (in a manner similar to) “one that hath a familiar spirit”. The Lord is telling the prophet that the <u>voice </u>of the people of Ariel (Jerusalem), whose story will be in the book, will sound familiar to those who read it, and will come out of the ground in a manner that they have often considered ghostly. The Hebrew word translated “familiar” means safe, happy, friendly. In Hebrew idiom it means to be at peace or to be well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">It is interesting that on pages 59-60, Trask declares that Christ saves, not destroys sinners. Now on page 63 he interprets Isaiah’s prophecy to mean that God will save Israel and punish her wicked enemies, who are the ones who need saving. His explanation, however, does not take into consideration that the prophet is still talking about a book, the words of which shall be delivered to a learned man who cannot read it because it is sealed and to an unlearned man who says he is unlearned.Then the Lord moves marvelously to make the the book available even to those who are deaf and blind just a little while before Lebanon becomes a fruitful field, esteemed as a forest. The history of the coming forth of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> is the only event that fulfills the prophecy. Read the record from the first few chapters of the <i style="">RLDS Church History</i>, Volume 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 64 - Ezekiel 37 is undoubtedly a prophecy of what will happen to Israel in the future, but it is also a <b style=""><u>metaphor for the testimony</u></b> of the several parts of Israel that will be used by the Lord in making the northern and southern kingdoms of Israel one nation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">It is common knowledge that the northern and southern kingdoms of Israel were not united while they did exist. Now they are long since gone, and the nine and a half tribes of Israel are known as the lost tribes because Judah no longer has knowledge of them or their whereabouts. In promising to reunite all Israel, the Lord has the prophet Ezekiel explain that there will be <u>one record</u> for those of Judah and those children of Israel<span style=""> </span>his companions that are known and <u>another record</u> for Joseph and those of the lost tribes who are his companions. One of these records will be in the hand of Judah. It is the record of the Jews, the <i style="">Bible.</i> The other record will tell of Joseph’s people, who are among the lost tribes. It will be in the hand of Ephraim, the son of Joseph to whom Israel, Joseph’s father, insisted on giving the greater blessing even though Manasseh was the firstborn. (Genesis 48).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>tells of a portion of the tribe of Manasseh who were led by the Lord to the new land to live. When the book was brought into being by the Lord, however, He placed it in the hands of one who is of the tribe of Ephraim. Scholars, I understand, believe that the tribe of Ephraim is numbered among the English and northern European peoples. Joseph Smith is one of those who believed his lineage was of Ephraim.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">These records, the Lord promises, will be used by God to bring all of Israel together in a time to come. A stated purpose of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> is to bear such witness of the Lord Jesus Christ that even the Jews will be convinced of His Messiahship. The stick of Joseph is to be in the hands of Ephraim, and we have no indication of which I am aware that Ezekiel was a descendant of Ephraim. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Contrary to Trask’s summary, I know of no persons more aware of the restoration of Israel and more excited about the events occurring currently than those of the Restoration who understand the <i style="">Book of Mormo</i>n and through it understand <i style="">Bible</i> prophecies more correctly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 6 - The <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>, Part Two.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask correctly shows that <i style="">Spaulding’s Manuscript Found </i>was not plagiarized in writing the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>. He does not, however, make it clear that Sidney Rigdon could not have provided the manuscript for the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>to Joseph since Sidney did not know Joseph until after the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>was published. In fact, it was that book that was instrumental in his conversion to the Restoration (<i style="">Church History</i> Vol. 1, pp. 139-140). <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Then Trask makes Joseph Smith the most highly educated, most intelligent, most clever genius the world has ever known by ascribing to him knowledge of all the literature of his day pertaining to the subject of the origin of the native Americans with the ability to put it together in one intricately woven story, without errors or contradictions, in some 777 printed pages (1908 edition), detailing information that was not yet discovered, creating names of people and places just now (1990-2002) being discovered, writing in Hebrew Poetic forms that had not even been discovered in the <i style="">Bible</i> until a century or so later, using terms not known to have been used by the natives of Mesoamerica until they were discovered on glyphs and translated in and since 1960, writing in 15 distinct writing styles without using the language of one author in the purported work of another, and doing it all is less than 80 days! Inadvertently, Paul Trask has given Joseph a compliment that Joseph would never accept. He would give the glory to God, his heavenly Father and God’s only Begotten Son!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">It only takes a glance at Ethan Smith’s <i style="">View of the Hebrews</i> to know that Joseph did not copy it. It is interesting, though, that if Joseph had knowledge of the Ethan Smith book, he did not make the mistake of saying that the plates to which he was led were buried with a skeleton of an Indian as one copying the legend Ethan Smith reported would have done. Neither did he make the mistake of ever calling the people to which the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>referred “Indians” in the text. Ethan Smith called them <u>Indians</u>. Joseph called them Israelites, Nephites, Lamanites, Jaredites, Mulekites but <u>never</u> Indians. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Joseph did not err in adopting Ethan Smith’s nomenclature or interpretation of many other facets of the legends and ideas that he reported. He did not, for example, endorse the idea that the people of whom the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> spoke came to America by way of the Bering Strait, nor did he adopt the nomenclature of a “bearded white God”. In fact, the only reference to a beard in the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> is a quotation from Isaiah found in II Nephi 9:33 and has nothing to do with Christ or any other person of whom the book speaks. The <b style=""><u>bearded white God</u></b> of which the people of the Restoration speak comes from the <b style=""><u>carvings and paintings</u></b> found in Mesoamerica long after 1830.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The idea that Oliver Cowdery was Joseph’s cousin is not verified in any way. Oliver, Joseph and Joseph’s mother all indicate that Oliver and Joseph did not know each other until Oliver went to investigate and stayed to write for Joseph. Oliver’s brother Lyman was even one called upon by Lucy Harris to help her try to convict Joseph of fraud according to Lucy Smith’s account (Chapter 28 of <i style="">Joseph Smith and His Progenitors</i>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The fact that Ethan Smith made much of the stick of Ephraim and the stick of Joseph symbolizing the reuniting of the house of Israel is not surprising. Trask’s own interpretation of the Ezekiel scripture concurs. Did Trask get his idea from Ethan Smith?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">What is reported to be B. H. Robert’s summary is couched in typical propaganda terms - “... it is more than likely”, “ a great probability”, “most likely”, “within the lines of possibility”, “could have been produced this way”, “can there be any doubt?”, “could be urged”. “would make it possible”, all of which show that whoever wrote them <b style=""><u>had no credible evidence on which to base his speculations</u></b>. The answer to the question asked at the bottom of page 69 and the top of page 70 is, “<b style=""><u>YES, there is every reason to doubt it”</u></b>! This kind of speculation has no place in serious study of events surrounding the coming forth of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 70 - Trask says that Josiah Priest’s book was “checked out repeatedly” but <b style=""><u>does not</u></b> list Joseph Smith or any of his family among those who checked it out. Again, the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> never even mentions <b style=""><u>Indians</u></b>.<span style=""> </span>The <b style=""><i style=""><u>Book of Mormon </u></i></b> narrow neck of land divides two bodies of <b style=""><u>land</u></b>. Priest’s book has it dividing two vast <b style=""><u>oceans</u></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 70 - Again Trask makes Joseph a very clever man by stating that he was careful to cite Priest’s 1833 book instead of the earlier Ethan Smith or Priest works when speaking of an Indian legend in 1842. Then he makes the <b style=""><u>unsubstantiated presumption</u></b> that that reference shows that Joseph was acquainted with both men’s work 13 years earlier, before the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>was written. <b style=""><u>Propaganda tricks again, but not serious history!</u></b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 71 - Trask’s comment on the renewed interest in the <i style="">Apocrypha</i> interests me in view of his earlier contention that the <i style="">Bible</i> of Joseph’s day was inerrant. Not one jot or tittle was to be changed before all was accomplished. If there were no errors in it, why was the <i style="">Apocrypha</i> removed and how can it have <b style=""><u>only literary and historical value now</u></b>? The speculation that Joseph may have borrowed from the <i style="">Apocrypha</i> is again unsubstantiated speculation - <b style=""><u>pure propaganda</u></b>! For one, I have been in the church for 76 years and have never before heard anyone try to determine where Joseph got the word Nephi. The fact that it is in the <i style="">Apocrypha</i> merely proves that it was a <b style=""><u>legitimate Hebrew term</u></b>, not that it was copied. Why Trask makes such a deal of it is incomprehensible to me. Lehi, Sam, Jacob, Joseph, Ishmael, Laban and numerous other <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> names are in the <i style="">Bible.</i> In 1961, an ancient deed bearing the signature of <b style=""><u>Alma</u></b> ben Yehuda was found in the Cave of the Letters during an archaeological dig in the Holy Land and is now on exhibit at Brigham Young University in the Museum of Art in Provo, Utah (see Angela Crowell’s “Jerusalem Report” to Qumran Quest supporters, May 26, 1997), and we have rejoiced to learn that even that name is authentic Hebrew! On the other hand, for every name used in both the <i style="">Apocrypha</i> and the<i style=""> Book of Mormon</i>, there are many more that are found solely in the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> or solely in the<i style=""> Apocrypha</i>. Some found only in the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> are just now being discovered in Mesoamerica. An ancient city in Belize is named Lamani, very similar to Laman. Recently I was in the ruins of a city in the Yucatan that has two names on its ancient glyphs, one of which is Mulek. The city of Mulek is spoken of twelve times in Alma 24 and once in Helaman 2. And there are more to which reference is made later in this response. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask uses his propaganda technique again saying, “<b style=""><u>It is possible</u></b> that Joseph got his idea from 2 Maccabees”. Again the fact that Maccabees speaks of brass plates and treasuries only <b style=""><u>serves to validate the authenticity</u></b> of those items in Hebrew life. Trask has no justification for his conclusion that “<b style=""><u>It seems clear</u></b> that the <i style="">King James Apocrypha</i> provided yet another source of ideas for Joseph Smith’s fertile imagination.” The statement merely demonstrates his very obvious bias and his adeptness at using propaganda techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The same is true of his discussion of the influence of Anti-Masonry sentiment on the text of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> and on the account of Enoch in the scriptures. The tragedy of Joseph’s involvement with Masonry does have validity in events that occurred in Nauvoo, but the effort to equate the experience of Joseph with the Masonic “Legend of Enoch” falls far short of credibility. For Joseph there was <u>no</u> lost name of God, <u>no</u> flood that made it necessary for him to preserve the name, <u>no</u> pillars inside the hill, <u>no</u> builders had to find the plates. (The plates were shown to Joseph by the one who buried them there.) <u>No</u> three evil men tried to force Joseph to reveal the place from which the plates came and finally killed him. <u>No</u> persons associated with Joseph pursued those who killed him, killed them or were rewarded by Joseph’s friends. <u>No</u> repository of the plates and their accompaniments was ever designed or considered. In an effort to make the story fit, Trask resorts to the propaganda term “it seems”, and the slanderous statement that Joseph had a polygamous wife in Far West in 1838. If the fact that Joseph died at the hands of a mob crying, “Oh Lord, My God ...” is evidence that he was copying the legend, he certainly carried the act too far! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">In summary, Trask goes too far. What two books did Joseph confess knowledge of in later years? The fact that Joseph quoted Josiah Priest’s, <i style="">American Antiquities</i> in <u>1842</u> does not in any way indicate that he was aware of or acquainted with either Ethan Smith’s work or the earlier work of Priest in <u>1829</u>. Even trying to validate the work of an unnamed scholar, Trask uses that “scholars” terms, <b style=""><u>“seemed transformed”, “appears to be”</u></b>, indicating that the “scholar” had no evidence to support his speculations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s final statement of the way in which Joseph translated the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> plates is not truthful, as shown earlier by Delbert D. Smith’s, <i style="">How The Book of Mormon Was Translated</i>, Byrna Zerr’s, <i style="">In Behalf of Joseph</i>, <i style="">RLDS Church History, Times and Seasons</i>, Lucy Mack Smith’s, J<i style="">oseph Smith and His Progenitors</i>, etc. This was no New Age channeling process. It was far more like the present form of translation by computer. There is recorded on a small silicon chip the information that makes it possible to translate German or French or any of a number of other languages into English or vice versa. In the computer, electrical impulses provide the energy for the translation. In Joseph’s case, the Spirit of God provided that energy. To say that it could not be is to say that we can do things that are impossible for God. That is putting ourselves in the place of God and declaring ourselves greater than He. That is the Spirit of the Anti-Christ! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 78 - If one uses the actual definition of <b style=""><u>gnosis - the knowledge of spiritual things </u></b>- perhaps it might be applied to Joseph Smith. If, however, one is applying it to the Gnostics of the early Christian era, nothing could be farther from the truth. That sect claimed that <b style=""><u>matter was evil</u></b> and <b style=""><u>denied that Christ had a natural corporeal existence</u></b>. None of Joseph Smith’s writings or those that he translated have any of those characteristics. In fact, the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>and the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i> carry the strongest evidence that Jesus lived, died, rose from the dead and lives today that is available anywhere. And the Word of Wisdom (<i style="">Doctrine and Covenants </i>Section 86), Sections 49, 59, 85, 119, 90 and numerous other references are irrefutable evidence that Joseph did not reflect the belief that matter is evil! Either Trask does not understand Gnosticism or he does not know either the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> or the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants </i>at all! <b style=""><u>If he was ever a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint, he surely did not understand it’s teachings or his mind has become so darkened that he does not remember that which he once espoused!</u></b> Trask’s pronouncement of demonic forces channeling through Joseph Smith, producing a book promoting a massive heresy is, at best, an unrighteous judgement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>, Part 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>does contain quotations from Isaiah because the people had Isaiah’s prophecies on the brass plates. The brass plates were not readily available to the people, so the religious leaders taught from them frequently. Trask demonstrates his convoluted misconception of the languages involved in his effort to make this an impossibility. Most importantly, Trask contradicts himself in declaring the King James translation of the <i style="">Bible</i> just the product of scholars using different manuscripts. Earlier he said “all scriptures are God-breathed”, etc. and therefore perfect! Does he not consider the <i style="">King James Bible</i> Scripture?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The fact that Trask says references in the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> are identical to those in the <i style="">King James Bible</i> is also incorrect. Where there is a similarity, there are <b style=""><u>many significant differences.</u></b> Where Jesus is quoted, it is just good common sense to expect that He would use language similar to that used in Palestine since He knew that He was speaking to His own “other sheep”. It is apparent that Trask has not made a significant study of the material he disparages. I recommend that he does!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 80 - Trask does accurately define an anachronism; but to say there are no such in the <i style="">Bibl</i>e is strange. Isaiah, for example, called Cyrus by name some two centuries before his birth (Isa. 44:28) and named him the one who should cause Jerusalem to be rebuilt long before Jerusalem was destroyed. The Jewish historian, Josephus says that it was when Cyrus was shown that prophecy that he decided to do as God, through His prophet, had said he would. Surely calling Jesus by name in <i style="">Old Testament</i> times would not have been more difficult for God!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">In 2 Nephi chapter 11 Nephi explains some of the prophecies of Isaiah and those of his father and others concerning the coming of the Messiah. He says plainly that it is according to the<b style=""><u> words of the prophets and “the word of the angel of God,</u></b> his name shall be Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” God knew by what English name the Messiah would be known at the time the<i style=""> Book of Mormon </i>was brought forth in English. He made certain there would be no mistaking who the Messiah was by causing the prophets to foretell it by giving them a name in their language that would be translated into English, Jesus Christ. For Trask to say that those who left Jerusalem around 600 BC could not have known of the angel’s message is very strange. God surely has the ability to send angels to whomever He chooses wherever He chooses. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The story of the birth of Jesus cannot even be fully told without the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>record!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Where in the King James <i style="">Bible</i> is there a prophecy of a new star to arise at Jesus’ birth? There is none. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Why does Luke not mention a new star shining over the stable at Christ’s birth? Because there was none seen there! Matthew is the only Gospel writer who mentions a star associated with Christ’s birth, and that only after the Wise Men tell Herod about seeing one in the East.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Why did the Wise Men go to Jerusalem instead of to Bethlehem? If they were studying the Hebrew prophesies of the birth of a King of the Jews they would have gone directly to Bethelem. Micah had said He would be born <u>in</u> Bethlehem, and Herod had no trouble finding the prophecy from the Chief Priests and the scribes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> has the answer. The Book of Mormon people did not have Micah’s prophesies. Their prophets had said, “he shall be born of Mary <u>at</u> Jerusalem, which is the <u>land of our forefathers</u>” (Alma 5:19). The Wise Men had no knowledge of the specific city in the land of Jerusalem, so went to Jerusalem to ask.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">If the Wise Men were just kings of the Orient or Zoroastrian Priests or Magi or astrologers, as some modern texts say, why would they want to worship a Jewish king? That was the only purpose the Wise Men gave for seeking Him. The Wise Men were believers in the Messiah of whose birth they knew by the fulfillment of the prophecy of a new star that would arise at the time of His birth (Helaman 5:59 and 3 Nephi 1:24).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Beautiful stories like <i style="">The Other Wise Man </i>have filled in a huge gap in this foundational story with fiction and formed a tradition that has blinded even good Christians to the missing parts of the story of Christ’s birth. The <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>fills in the gaps!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Surely Joseph Smith cannot be credited with figuring this one out!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 34pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s criticism of the practice of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> peoples keeping the law of Moses even while they believed in Christ and looked forward to His coming is very strange in view of the fact that <b style=""><u>Jesus’ parents did the same and so, also, did Jesus</u></b>. He was circumcised, presented at the temple with sacrifices, observed the Passover, etc., etc. Jesus and His Apostles were even preparing to observe the Passover the night before His crucifixion! That is <b style=""><u>exactly the pattern</u></b> of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> people. As soon as Christ gave His life in sacrifice and came among them as a resurrected being, the Law of Moses was no longer observed. There is no scripture more plain than the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> on this point that Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law of Moses and established the New Covenant. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">How Trask can say that the words <u>gospel</u> and <u>baptism</u> are out of place before Christ’s sacrifice is another strange one. What was John the Baptist doing using those terms and practices before Jesus had even declared His Messiahship? And how could Jesus be baptized with a “Christian baptism” while even He carried the marks of the Mosaic Law in His body and was still observing Jewish feasts (John 7:8-14) including the Passover (Matthew 26:17-18)? Obviously, it is not Joseph Smith who “has no understanding of the Gospel of Christ.” That Joseph had “not even fundamental understanding of Biblical theology”, as Trask affirms, is very good since <b style=""><u>fundamental Biblical theology of the nature Trask affirms is not at all scriptural!</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s criticism of the use of Greek words, <u>alpha </u>and <u>omega,</u> in the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> again shows his misunderstanding of the nature of the book. It is a translation, and a translation from any language to another uses the words that presently convey the thought of the author. These Greek words were used because they were commonly used and understood in 1829. Adieu, borrowed from the French but well established in the English language by 1828, was similarly used, simply because it was the word commonly in use and understood in 1829 that most closely expressed the meaning of the Jewish word Barak. (See Angela Crowell, “Adieu: The Right Word After All”, <i style="">Recent Book of Mormon Developments,</i> Volume 2, p. 40.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Whether Jonas and Timothy were names known to Lehi’s family or to Mulek and his companions before they left Jerusalem, we do not yet know. We do know that Greek influence had reached Egypt by the mid 4th century before Christ because Alexander the Great founded Alexandria, Egypt about 322 B. C. Greek was the most widely spoken language in the Mediterranean after the fourth century B. C., and the Jewish population in Alexandria was so numerous that the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek beginning in the third century before Christ, forming the <i style="">Septuagint</i>. Greece and Palestine were neighbors. Even Andrew and Philip, two of the Apostles whom Jesus chose, have Greek names. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s objection to the quotation from Malachi being similar to those found in the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>fails to take into account that the <b style=""><u>Holy Spirit was the source of both scriptures</u></b> and He has every reason to use similar or identical language if He chooses! There is not the slightest indication that the people brought Malachi’s prophecy with them. 2 Nephi 11:73, for example, is directed to the Nephite people speaking even of the number of generations involved in the fulfillment of that prophecy. Christ, too, has every reason to say to the people on this continent what has already been said on another. If it had not been important for the House of Israel to know, I believe Trask will agree, the prophecy would never have been given in the first place; and those to whom Christ spoke were and are of the House of Israel. Again the principle of translation applies whatever the actual words that Christ used.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">With respect to <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>archeology and anthropology, there are always those among us who fit the adage, “None are so blind as those who will not see!” Trask gives no credible statement from any <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>student or researcher who ever <b style=""><u>claimed</u></b> that the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society are using the <i style="">Book of Mormon<b style=""><u> </u></b></i><b style=""><u>as a tool to discover Mesoamerican ruins</u></b>. Rumor is not evidence, and neither is ignorance! The fact that the two institutions have not <b style=""><u>used</u></b> the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>in locating historic ruins, however, does not in any way deny that <b style=""><u>there are ruins found that coordinate with ruins described in the </u><i style="">Book of Mormon</i><u>.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The Smithsonian Institution statement is not dated by Trask and is written by one who was before or not aware of the Smithsonian’s own research data which give an entirely different view of the facts. (See Diane E. Wirth, <i style="">A Challenge to the Critics</i>, Horizon Publishers, Bountiful, Utah, 1986, p. 22-36.) Actually, the Smithsonian statement was written in 1982 and the National Geographic one in 1979, neither of which could possibly include the massive amount of information that has been discovered since those dates, which Trask chooses to ignore.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">I have read Ferguson’s material that Tanners circulate and find that it is just another piece of “evidence” that the Tanners promote filled with much more<b style=""><u> evidence of propaganda</u></b> than of truth. They say Thomas Stuart Ferguson wrote a letter saying that he was going to “spoof” the Mormon church concerning the <i style="">Book of Mormon,</i> yet the supposed letter did not come to light until <b style=""><u>after Ferguson was dead</u></b>; and if Ferguson actually wrote the letter the Tanners circulate, addressees violated his confidence in allowing the Tanners to have and publish it. I am sorry that I no longer have the material available, but if one can find it, they will note that Mr. Ferguson’s family deny that such a letter or such an attitude ever existed. In fact, one of his sons helped to complete his father’s unfinished work, that of revising and republishing his book, as a tribute to him and to his “abiding testimony of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>....” His brother helped finance the endeavor. Certainly Mr. Ferguson’s family believe that Thomas Stuart Ferguson believed in what he was doing. The Tanners effort to refute that idea is filled with <b style=""><u>propaganda </u></b>terms and techniques that place a shadow over their work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">When the Tanners and others, including Trask, try to equate the archaeological findings of the Biblical lands with those of the Americas, they fail to take into consideration that for nearly two thousand years critics of the <i style="">Bible</i> denied that there were archaeological evidences of the existence of many places and characters spoken of, especially in the <i style="">Old Testament</i>. Only recently have such archaeological evidences been found, and this in spite of the fact that many of the towns still exist, many records are extant and many peoples have a continuous history. I recently saw a TV documentary showing even these findings being hotly disputed by professional archaeologists who question their validity. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The search for <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> evidences by the BYU Department of Archaeology has been in progress about a half century, if its first sponsored field trip was in 1948 as this paper states. Give them some time! The <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> tells of 2 nations destroyed. There were none left to keep their records available to those who do not believe Mormon’s record. Those persons who did survive lost almost all of their records at the hands of the invading Spaniard so there is far less to which American Archaeologists may turn for guides. The critics also fail to consider that God may have a time table for when He wishes the definitive evidences to appear. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">As to the archaeological findings that do support the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>, they are increasing from time to time. When Delbert Smith was last in Central America, he saw a line of fortifications that were identical with those described by Mormon, placed in the same relation to each other that Mormon described. I stood in the ruins of one such fortified city January 2002. As already mentioned in this paper, there is an ancient town named Lamani in Belize. The name is very similar to that of a chief character of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> named Laman. I have recently visited an ancient city named Mulek in the Yucatan. Both Lamani and Mulek are names reminiscent of <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> times. The book, <i style="">Maya Divine Kings of the Rain Forest, published in 2001 and</i> edited by the famed epigrapher, Nickoli Grubs, has a picture of a court scene on page 157. The caption identifies the king as King K’inich <u>Laman</u> Ek’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The “golden” artifacts of central and south America are made of the ores described in the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>as used for that purpose. One of the most often recurring glyphs in Mesoamerican ruins has been translated by the renowned epigrapher, David Stuart, “It came to pass”, that often recurring phrase of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> that has been so maligned. The report of the translation may be found in <i style="">Science 1986</i>, Vol. 7, Number 2, p. 48 in Virginia Morell’s article, “The Lost Language of Coba”. We have seen and examined many stele and statues near Oaxaca and know for a surety that they show persons of distinct Jewish, Egyptian, Negroid, Chinese, and other anthropological physical characteristics and of national dress. (For further information on the archaeological findings that are supporting the <i style="">Book of Mormon,</i> contact the Pre-Columbian Studies Institute, P.O. Box 477, Independence, M0 64051 or Book of Mormon Foundation, 210 West White Oak, Independence, Mo. 64050.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Additional items that have been called anachronisms have been answered by Roy Weldon and others. See Roy Weldon,<i style=""> Restoration Witnesses</i>, a compilation of articles published in the <i style="">Saints’ Herald</i>, available from the Book of Mormon Foundation or the School of the Saints, Independence, MO. or see Roy E. Weldon and F. Edward Butterworth, <i style="">Book of Mormon Deeps</i>, Volumes 1,2, and 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 34pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 8 - <i style="">The Doctrine and Covenants</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask starts out with an error. He gives misinformation concerning the relationship of the <i style="">Book of Commandments</i> and the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i>. For correct information see <i style="">A Recurring Issue, the Authenticity of the Book of Commandments, Three Treatises </i>By Joseph Smith III, Israel A. Smith and Delbert D. Smith, Conference of Restoration Elders, Independence, MO 64050, 1996). Those who were responsible for the printing of those revelations that did get printed in the <i style="">Book of Commandments</i> said there were numerous errors in the transcriptions and printing. When the revelations were printed in the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i> in 1835, after having been compared with the originals, <b style=""><u>these same men said they believed they were now printed correctly.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask then says there were 3 additional <b style=""><u>revelations</u></b> placed in the 1844 edition. When publication of the <i style="">Book of Commandments</i> ended, there were <u>26 </u>additional revelations to be printed that were printed in the 1835 edition and remain in the present<i style=""> Doctrine and Covenants</i> as sections<i style=""> </i>15, 22, 31, 36, 51, and those from 65 through 85.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Two of the documents that were added in the 1844 edition after Joseph Smith’s death, and printed by John Taylor who was later a president of the Mormon church, were letters Joseph had written, not inspired revelations. Only one was even purported to be a revelation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 88- Trask persists in his <b style=""><u>erroneous declaration</u></b> that Joseph used a peep stone by which to produce the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Pages 88-89 - Trask continues his misinformation concerning the <i style="">Book of Commandments </i>and the<i style=""> Doctrine and Covenants</i>. For correct information, see the preceding reference, “Recurring Issue”. Trask says there were 64 complete revelations in the <i style="">Book of Commandments</i>. What he does not say is that there is a sixty-fifth chapter in the book which is <b style=""><u>not</u></b> complete; and those who were responsible for the printing say there were many errors in that which was printed. All one has to do is to read Section 64 of the present RLDS <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i> and compare it with the final chapter of the <i style="">Book of Commandments,</i> chapter 65, to know that the <i style="">Book of Commandments</i> ends within a sentence. The book and the sentence were never completed in that work!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">During the printing of the <i style="">Book of Commandments</i>, the printing press was destroyed and the printed portions of the revelations scattered by a mob. Books were printed in sections of 16 or 32 pages, each called a Mo. At the time of the mob action, 160 pages (5 Mo) had been printed. The last printed word was Ephraim, but the sentence was not finished. The scattered portions retrieved were gathered into what has been labeled The <i style="">Book of Commandments</i>, but it carried only a small portion of the revelations that had been given to that date and were to have been printed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">In saying that Joseph Smith verified both the completeness and accuracy of the book, Trask is again giving <b style=""><u>false information</u></b>. The letter to which he refers was <b style=""><u>not written by Joseph Smith.</u></b> It was written by Sidney Rigdon, and it does <b style=""><u>not </u></b>say either that the book was completed or that it was correct! It only addresses the errors in <b style=""><u>two chapters</u></b> (Chapters 40 and 44) of the work and says nothing about the other 63 chapters! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">To substantiate his statement that Joseph verified both the completeness and accuracy of the <i style="">Book of Commandments</i>, Trask gives the correct reference in the <i style="">RLDS History</i>. <b style=""><u>How, then, can he give such false information?</u></b> He uses a <b style=""><u>most insidious propaganda device</u></b> to which reference has already been made. A reliable reference is given which in <b style=""><u>no way</u></b> conveys the information the author says it does. The author, however, <b style=""><u>expects that the reader will trust him/her so completely that the reader will never consult the reference.</u></b> In this way all sorts of misinformation is foisted off onto unsuspecting readers by unscrupulous and prejudiced authors. (In my field of nutrition we call them quacks!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 90 - Trask still insists, without justification and with <b style=""><u>no evidence,</u></b> that Joseph Smith and his father were “practitioners of various occult devices”. His conclusions about the changes in the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i> are likewise foundationless - the imaginings of only prejudiced minds! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Rod</span></u></b><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> as used in the <i style="">Bible</i> is not necessarily evil. <i style="">Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible </i>says one word from which it is translated is sometimes translated as a branch (as extending) figuratively a tribe; or when translated as a rod, it is an instrument that may be used for chastising (figuratively correction), ruling (a scepter), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff), figuratively a support of life, e.g. bread. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Another word translated rod as in the 23rd Psalm , “Thy<b style=""><u> rod </u></b>and thy staff they comfort me” is defined as a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.). This definition is also that of the rod of God to which Job refers, or Proverbs 29:15, “the <b style=""><u>rod</u></b> and reproof give wisdom”. Is the <u>rod</u> that “comforts” us or that “gives us wisdom” evil?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Hebrews 9:4 speaks of <b style=""><u>Aaron’s rod</u></b> that was kept in the Holiest part of the tabernacle. In this instance, rod was translated from a word meaning “A stick or wand (as a cudgel, a cane or a baton of royalty); rod, scepter, staff.” This rod was also from the same word as the rod of Rev. 12:5 with which the man child who was caught up into heaven was to “rule all nations with a rod of iron”. This <b style=""><u>“rod of iron”</u></b> is, of course, a metaphor for the word of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Hosea 4:11-12 <b style=""><u>says nothing</u></b> about an evil divining rod of which Trask makes so much. It merely says that the people are committing whoredoms which Strong’s defines as adultery or idolatry. In this case, the prophet is directed to clarify it by saying the people consult their wooden idols and expect an answer by those sticks of wood. The <i style="">New International Version</i> makes the meaning especially clear. It is the <b style=""><u>rejection of knowledge</u></b><u> (Hosea 4:6) that has led the people to <b style="">worship idols</b></u> even to sacrificing to those wooden creations, and their “whoredoms and wine and new wine take away the heart” (Hosea 4:11). Trask has no justification for applying his perverted definition to the scriptural use of a rod! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 89-90 - Trask gives Raveill’s reference to a lengthy letter from David Whitmer to the<i style=""> Saints’ Herald</i><span style=""> </span>dated Dec. 9, 1886 and published February 9, 1887 (<i style="">Saints’ Herald</i>, Vol. 34, Number 6, Pages 89-93) in which David said that Oliver Cowdery told him that Rigdon was the one responsible for the differences in the revelations as printed in the <i style="">Book of Commandments</i> and the 1835 edition of the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i>. On the face of it, this was <u>hearsay </u>testimony given some <u>52 years</u> after the event. This is another example of tertiary testimony that directly contradicts primary testimony of the time of the event and so cannot be given credence as truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Oliver Cowdery’s own published statements of the time (1835), along with the published statements of others involved in the printing of the <i style="">Book of Commandments </i>and the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants,</i> declare there were errors in the first printings in Independence that were corrected when the <u>original revelations were examined</u> back in Kirtland. When printed in the 1835 edition of the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i>, these men certified their belief that they were now correct. (See the Preface to the 1835 edition of the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants </i>and pages 6-8 of the Delbert D. Smith portion of <i style="">A Recurring Issue, The Authenticity of the Book of Commandments, Three Treatises, </i>by Joseph Smith III, Israel A. Smith and Delbert D. Smith.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask quotes David Whitmer as saying Joseph heeded Rigdon who expounded the scriptures to him and showed him High Priests and other offices that should be added to Elders, Priests, and Teachers. Whitmer contended that since these three offices were the only ones mentioned in the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>, these were all there should be. One needs only to consult a concordance to the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> to see how many times “High Priests” or “High Priesthood” is ascribed to the functioning of the church in that era. The High<span style=""> </span>Priesthood is not missing from the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">David’s objection to the introduction of High Priests has been argued for so many years that there is little use to discuss it here. It is, however, interesting to compare that objection to Whitmer’s personal history. He was ordained a High Priest in the early church and served as President of the High Council of Zion. (<i style="">RLDS Church History</i>, Vol. 2, p.5 ). After his expulsion from the original church (<i style="">RLDS Church History</i> Vol. 2, p. 150), he was again ordained a High Priest and designated President of the church organized by William McLellin in 1847. In McLellin’s church, he was called a prophet, seer and revelator as well as President; and John Whitmer was ordained a High Priest to be David’s counselor in the First Presidency. David later denounced the principles he had claimed were revealed to him in McLellin’s church. See the following: <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">1. William McLellin’s account of “Things in Kirtland” printed in their “Ensign of Liberty”, reprinted in the <i style="">RLDS Church History</i>, Vol. 3, pp. 79-83; <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">2. McLellin’s report to<span style=""> </span>the conference held in Far West, Mo., September 8 and 9 of 1847, published in the “Ensign of Liberty”, August, 1849 and reprinted in the <i style="">RLDS Church History</i>, Vol. 3, pp. 83-90. (See also the historians comment that follows McLellin’s report);<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">3. Hiram Page’s letter from Richmond in answer to an inquiry addressed to David Whitmer there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">David Whitmer is said to have denied even that there should be Apostles in the church, pointing out that the twelve Jesus chose in the Americas were only called Disciples. In spite of this denial, there were and are Apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ, (Temple Lot) which he espoused after leaving McLellin’s church.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Pages 92-93 - Trask makes an incidental error in stating that, what he calls the “triumvirate concept” is used in virtually every aspect of the organization, including the Seventy. There is a quorum of seven Presidents of Seventy that presides over the seven quorums of Seventy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Other subjects addressed in these pages represent charges the Temple Lot church has made through the years that have been answered repeatedly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask is correct that the institutional RLDS (now COC) has built its temple on a spot other than the one dedicated for that purpose. That does not mean, however, there will not be a temple built on the dedicated spot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 97 - The Word of Wisdom is not a “dietary code”. It is a revealment of principles of health that are much more far reaching than food, are universal, and are constantly being verified by scientific data. (See Mildred Nelson Smith, <i style="">The Word of Wisdom, Principle With Promise</i>, Herald Publishing House, 1977 or the 1997 version, Paragon Publishing, Mt. Ayr, Iowa, available from Mildred Smith, Lamoni, Iowa, or Herald House, School of the Saints, or Price Publishing all of Independence, Missouri) <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 98 - What Trask characterizes as Joseph’s new version of the afterlife is not new at all. It is just a clarification of Paul’s statement to the Corinthians concerning the glories of the sun, moon and stars (1 Cor. 15:40-42), concerning one caught up to the third heaven (2 Cor. 12:2-5); paradise (Luke 23:44); 1 Peter 3:18-22 that tells why Christ went to preach in the prison to souls, some of whom died in the flood; Rev. 20:13-15 which says that hell will give up her dead and finally itself be destroyed, and other scriptures that traditional <i style="">Bible</i> “scholars” have ignored in determining their <b style=""><u>erroneous view of heaven and hell</u></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Pages 99-101 - With respect to Malachi, it has already been shown that D&C 110 is a letter in which Joseph discussed his own ideas, not a revelation. D&C 95 is an independent revelation and not a copy of Malachi. It was the angel, not Joseph, who gave the reference a little different from the scripture as written. Joseph<b style=""><u> reported</u></b> the statement as the angel gave it but retained it as it was in the <i style="">Bible.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 9 - Joseph Smith’s <i style="">Inspired Version of the Bible</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask misses a point on the date of publication of portions of the <i style="">Inspired Version of the Bible</i>. Genesis 7, which is also RLDS <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants 36</i>, was included in the 1844 edition of the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i>, much earlier than 1851.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Because he has no evidence on which to base his conclusions, Trask again resorts to propaganda techniques at the bottom of page 103 and “speculates” on Sidney Rigdon’s participation in the “translation”. The <i style="">Inspired Version</i> is not a translation, as is sometimes erroneously stated, but is just what it says it is, an inspired revision of the King James text.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 105 - Trask resorts to his erroneous statement concerning the production of the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>. His statement that first hand witnesses gave such information has already been shown to be <b style=""><u>false</u></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 106- Trask’s contention that the name of Jesus Christ could not have been revealed to Adam is an indication of the limitation he puts on God. God is not limited to any era of time, and he knows all there is to know even about us all. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask is correct in explaining that the<i style=""> Inspired Version</i> is not a translation as already noted. The parts of the <i style="">Inspired Version</i> that appear to be insertions are <b style=""><u>revelations</u></b> of portions that were changed or removed from the old text. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">That Jesus Christ was involved in the creation as the Son of God is not an anachronism! To whom was God speaking when he said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:” (Genesis 1:26)? Was Paul lying when he told the Ephesians that “... God created all things by Jesus Christ” (Eph. 3:9), or when he told the Colossians (1:16-17), “For by him were all things created ... : And he is before all things, and by him all things consist”?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">I am puzzled by the assertion that the introduction of the gospel and belief on God’s “Only Begotten Son” in the beginning of time is a theological anachronism. What doctrine did God teach the people He created if He is unchangeable and Jesus was the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world?” To what was the Psalmist referring when he wrote Psalm 2:7 which reads, “The Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.”? Did God leave those people born during the two millennium or so <u>before</u> Moses without a religious faith on which to depend? Were they left without knowledge of a Savior?<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 107-108 -The idea that Joseph wrote the account of Enoch as a description of his own life has no basis in fact. That Joseph “defined himself as a revived Enoch in the last days” is a figment of Trask’s imagination! That Enoch lived, walked with God (Genesis 5:22-24) and <b style=""><u>“was translated </u></b>that he should not see death” (Hebrews 11:5) is clearly recorded in the <i style="">King James Bible</i>. That the writer of Hebrews had a record that told more of the story than is found in the King James Genesis is apparent because that Genesis account merely says that God took Enoch, which could easily have been by death. But the Hebrews account says pointedly that <b style=""><u>he did not die</u></b> but was translated. Where did the writer of Hebrews get his information? It was either from inspiration from God or from some record that had been left out of the Genesis account by accident or design. God merely <b style=""><u>restored </u></b>the fuller account through Joseph Smith in the <i style="">Inspired Version</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Genesis 7:9-10 - With respect to the people of Cainan, Trask skews his facts to suit his purpose again! The <i style="">Inspired Version</i> says the <b style=""><u>land </u></b>was cursed, not the people. Enoch went to preach as the Lord directed him, and there is no indication in the <i style="">Inspired Version</i> as to why he was not sent to Cainan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask disparages the idea that Zion will return to the earth in the last days, but the <i style="">King James Bible</i> says the Lord will return to the earth bringing “them ... which sleep in Jesus” with Him (1 Thessalonians 4:14 - 17) and will dwell on the earth a thousand years (Revelation 20:4-6). Whether one calls it “Zion” is of little consequence. God’s people will return to the earth with God’s Son to live there “with those who remain” for a thousand years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The substantive part of Isaiah 29 is the same in the <i style="">King James Bible</i> and the <i style="">Inspired Version</i> as previously noted. In case the reader is not familiar with the scripture, let it be noted that the names Trask has put in parenthesis are <b style=""><u>not</u></b> in the <i style="">Inspired Version</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 111 - The warning in Revelation is very like the warning in Deuteronomy 4:2 which says, “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandment of the Lord ... .” Neither warning in any way limits God adding to or correcting the record men have made of His word.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 112 - Trask presents his <b style=""><u>own hypothesis</u></b> concerning the male child that was taken into heaven. I have never heard nor read in any Restoration literature that the early Christian church members are equated with that symbolic male child by members of the RLDS church! Neither does the Restoration literature claim that the Christian church was removed from the earth “soon after Jesus’ death”. In fact, it does not say Christ’s church was ever removed from the earth. Rather it says that church remained in the wilderness and was called out of the wilderness, just as the scripture said it would be, in the latter days. Certainly the ideas Trask presents are not in any of the scriptures or writings of Joseph Smith or any of his successors! That there would be a falling away (apostasy) before Christ’s return is clearly prophesied in many scriptures, Matthew 11:12 and 2 Thessalonians 2 among them. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 10 - <i style="">The Pearl of Great Price</i> is not a scripture of the RLDS church. Parts included in the RLDS scriptures are discussed in other portions of this response.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 11 - The RLDS Priesthood System<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s continuing insistence on Joseph Smith’s occult orientation is getting tiresome in view of the fact that he has <b style=""><u>no evidence</u></b> that it is true! Now he even <b style=""><u>stoops</u></b> to using New Age language to disparage Joseph’s work. His review of the history of the restoration of the Priesthood is fairly accurate. He does make an error in designating specific offices in an order of Priesthood as “higher” than others. For example, the offices of Apostle or Bishop are not higher than that of a High Priest (p. 123). They are just specific ministries within that group.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">On page 126 the antiquity of the gospel is denied by Trask. He supports the traditional view of the Christian faith that ignores the fact that Christ was “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” (Rev. 13:8). With the traditional view, all the ministry of all the millenniums before Christ is without Christ. That is not reasonable since Jesus Christ was <b style=""><u>the one through whom God created all things</u></b>, was alive and well through all those millenniums, and worked with His Father to bring salvation to as many as would respond. If it were not so, how could He expect every knee to bow and every tongue to confess Him? (Philippians 2:10-11, <i style="">King James</i>. Similar language in K.J., Isaiah 45:23 & Romans 14:11)? Why would he go to preach to the spirits in prison, some of whom were disobedient in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing? (1 Peter 3:19-20 K.J)?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 12 - Ministry in the Early Christian Church. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 130 - Again Trask forgets that there were people and ministry for centuries before the Mosaic Law was instituted. The Mosaic Law was instituted simply because the truth had been forgotten and the people now needed what Paul called, a schoolmaster to bring them to Christ (Galatians 3:24-25).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Of course the gifts of God are to be held and used by each member of the church, or of the world, for that matter, as <b style=""><u>God</u></b> provides them. And Restoration members are among those who believe that principle should extend to all of the gifts, both physical and spiritual. This proliferation of gifts, however, does not negate the establishment of Priesthood and organization in the church. I Cor.12: 27-31 says <b style=""><u>God set </u></b>Apostles, prophets, teachers, miracles, gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues in the body of Christ,<b style=""><u> not</u></b> that they <b style=""><u>just happened,</u></b> created as needs arose. Ephesians 4:11-14, speaking of Christ, says He gave some, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers “<b style=""><u>for the perfecting of the Saints,</u></b> for the <b style=""><u>work of the ministry</u></b>, for the <b style=""><u>edifying of the body of Christ</u></b>: <b style=""><u>till </u></b>we all come in the <b style=""><u>unity of the faith</u></b>, and of the <b style=""><u>knowledge of the Son of God</u></b>, unto a <b style=""><u>perfect man</u></b>, unto the <b style=""><u>measure of the stature of Christ</u></b> .... that we ... may grow up into Him in all things which is the head, even Christ.” To date we have not achieved a unity of the faith nor the measure of the stature of Christ, which leads me to believe we still need these ministers. The fact that these and others were not all mentioned at one time or in one place does not mean that Christ had no intention of their being in His church for His purposes. Of course, the function came first and the form later, but that does not mean that it was not God and His Christ who determined the form! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 132 - Although Trask confirms the universal nature of some of the Priesthood, he has to resort to assumptions to support his historical conjectures- <b style=""><u>“It seems</u></b> the concept of Elders...”, “<b style=""><u>It may be</u></b> predominantly Gentile congregations ...” The Apostle Paul did not have to guess. He said, <b style=""><u>God and His Christ set the gifts and ministers in His church.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 135 - Trask is correct in saying that Paul urged the people to desire the best gifts. While the gift of prophecy was frequently experienced, as Trask says, there is no evidence that it was the gift they sought above all else! That all of the gifts are still needed and should be experienced frequently in the Body of Christ is a given with Restoration believers; and it has been the history of the church that they have been “Spirit appointed ministries proceeding from a genuine gift of the Holy Spirit”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 137 - Trask tries to prove that all Apostles have to be eye-witnesses of Christ’s ministry. According to that reasoning, Paul could not be an Apostle, unless you count his Spiritual encounter with the Christ as an eye witness. And what about Barnabas? He was from Cyprus and was converted by Paul’s preaching (Acts 4:36, 11:22-25, 13:1-2, Galatians 2:1). When was he physically an eye-witness of Christ’s ministry? And if Paul could be an Apostle because of his <b style=""><u>spiritual experience with the Christ</u></b>, why not others? It is the testimony of many Apostles of the Restoration that they have had spiritual encounters with Jesus Christ that have verified their calling to that office, and they have been gifted by Christ to be special messengers of His new covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask again forgets that Timothy had only the <i style="">Old Testament</i> to make him wise at the time Paul made the quoted statement. The testimony of those Apostles with whom Jesus Christ traveled had not yet been compiled into scripture form. These testimonies were necessary for further assurance of the truthfulness of the prophecies with which Timothy was familiar, the delineation of the specifics of Christ’s continuing ministry and His expectations of His people. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Christ is still ministering. We have not all come to a unity of the faith nor have we become perfect people able to measure up to the stature of Christ (Eph. 4:13). The continuing ministry and testimony of those who are eye witnesses of the Savior is still essential, and it is available not only in scripture but in the lives of some chosen persons. Many of the Apostles called by God and ordained to Apostleship in the Restoration bear such a testimony. Even my husband, Delbert D. Smith, saw His Lord and received instruction of Him concerning his ministry as a Seventy in Christ’s church. (See Mildred Nelson Smith, <i style="">The Master’s Touch I and II.</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 13 - The Melchizedek Priesthood - A Biblical Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Again Trask’s footnote on page 139 prompts me to ask what <i style="">Bible </i>is so completely God-breathed that not a jot or a tittle can be removed from it. If the King James uses the phrase, “after the order of Melchizedek”, what justification is there for the other versions removing it if it is there God-breathed? Trask also persists in using the pronoun “in” instead of the King James “after” in the phrase which is used numerous times in the scripture. “In the order of Melchizedek” is not the same as “After the order of Melchizedek”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Pages 139-144 - Of course the author of Hebrews was building a case for Jesus Christ being the Great High Priest of the Jews who would be both Priest and King. But it must here be noted that <b style=""><u>Abram paid tithes to Melchizedek</u></b>. Melchizedek was a <b style=""><u>person</u></b> who was a Priest and King. That means that Melchizedek was a Priest <b style=""><u>long before there was a Mosaic law</u></b>. It must also be noted that Trask declares the “type of Priesthood held by Melchizedek was to actually prefigure that of the coming Messiah”. From where did this Priesthood <b style=""><u>type</u></b> of which the Messiah was to be a Priest forever (Hebrews 7:17 & 21) come? It came from God (Gen. 14:18-20). Of course, men who hold this Priesthood must be “selected from among men” and “called of God” as was Aaron. Those true to the Restoration have always required it!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s conclusions are not justified. Ignoring the Genesis scripture by saying it is the one exception does not make it go away! The existence of a man who was of a Priesthood order of which Christ Himself is a part, who offered Abram (Abraham) bread and wine and to whom Abram (Abraham) paid tithes is clearly manifested in the scriptures. Melchizedek was not just a figure of speech or one concocted to influence the Jews. <b style=""><u>He was a member of the Priesthood whom God had called, of whom the Jews had knowledge and for whom they had respect. </u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Joseph Smith is <b style=""><u>falsely accused</u></b> of blasphemy by Trask. Joseph did not attempt to restore the Melchizedek Priesthood. It was <b style=""><u>God </u></b>who restored His Priesthood, even that which had been from at least the days of Melchizedek, in order to offer the ministry that would eventually bring us all to a unity of the faith and to the measure of the stature of Christ! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 14 - The Aaronic Priesthood - A Biblical Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Again Trask unjustly accuses Joseph of showing contempt for the sacrifice and work of Jesus Christ. The responsibilities of the Aaronic Priesthood of the Restoration was not that of offering sacrifices and conducting temple duties as those of the Mosaic Law. Their duties are those of the <b style=""><u>preparation of a people to receive the Lord Jesus Christ</u></b> on His return to reign forever, just as John the Baptist prepared the way of the Lord at His coming in the meridian of time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 15 - The Heresies of Joseph Smith’s Priesthood<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s unjust accusations, from his insistence, without evidence, of Joseph’s occult activities to his accusations of blasphemy and contempt for the sacrifice of our Lord, continue unabated. They are extremely <b style=""><u>contradictory</u></b>. First he makes Joseph one of the most well read, intelligent, clever persons in the world, capable of gathering information from every author of his day, including the <i style="">Bible</i> with the <i style="">Apocrypha</i> intact, and creating a monumental work called the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>from it<i style="">.</i> Now he calls him an ignorant, spiritually immature person with no ability to distinguish right from wrong! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">In this chapter Trask vents his intense hatred for Joseph and his work in an <b style=""><u>irrational</u></b> manner. If the concept of a great or high priest originated with Israel on Mt. Sinai, and Aaron was the first high priest, as Trask says on page 151, then why do the scriptures record the life and ministry of Melchizedek who lived even before Israel (Jacob) was born? Trask acknowledges Melchizedek was a high priest by insisting that Hebrews 4:10 which reads, “Called of God, <u>an high priest after the order of Melchizedek</u>” really means <b style=""><u>in the manner of Melchizedek</u></b>, which means <b style=""><u>as Melchizedek was</u></b>. Trask is confused when he declares that the existence of Priesthood from Adam invalidates the concept of Melchizedek being a high priest when in fact, it validates it! And how the concept invalidates the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> is <b style=""><u>incomprehensible and irrational</u></b>!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">To say that <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i> 83:6c teaches that priesthood can be obtained by ones own initiative is like me telling someone they can make as good bread as I make by using wheat alone. Being faithful is only one qualification of a person called to the Priesthood. The rest of the qualifications are discussed in other parts of this and other scriptures, just as the rest of the ingredients in my bread have all been spoken of in the rest of the recipe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask again confuses the nations of Israel and Judah. It is true that for the<b style=""><u> house of Judah</u></b> and their associates, priests had to be of the lineage of Aaron. However, for the other tribes of Israel there was <b style=""><u>no such requirement.</u></b> Elijah and Elisha were not Jews. They were Tishbites from Gillead, East of Jordan. They were of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, yet they were the powerful servants of God. The record of the Kings tells of other prophets and elders of that nation who also preserved the true religion even against their wicked rulers who tried to institute other forms of worship. <b style=""><u>Lehi’s people were of the tribe of Manasseh, not of Judah. Their Priests would not have had to be in the lineage of Aaron.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 152 - Trask cites Mosiah 7:14 as additional proof that there were many high priests at one time in the<i style=""> Book of Mormon</i> record. Like much of his other material, the reference is taken out of context. What he neglects to say is that this reference describes the temple built by the wicked and idolatrous King Noah. That the other references are legitimate does not, however “betray the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> as a fraud”. As previously noted, these were not Jews and their system of Priesthood did not have to follow that of the Jewish line which was leading up to the verification of Jesus as the Messiah for that people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Heresy #4 - For Trask to contend that Melchizedek was without father or mother, without beginning of days or end of life and remains a priest forever is interesting. The man must still be alive somewhere and still ministering as a high priest. I wonder where! And how was he born without parents? That the reference is to the <b style=""><u>Priesthood</u></b> that Melchizedek received from God, as the <i style="">Inspired Version</i> says, is the correct rendition of the scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> Actually, the writer of Hebrews was telling the people to whom he was writing that there was <b style=""><u>another Priesthood</u></b> that was greater than that to which they were accustomed, for Melchizedek blessed Abraham, and the less is always blessed of the better (Heb. 7:6-7). To be a part of this greater Priesthood did not require lineage. The writer was contrasting the Priesthood of Christ that, like Melchizedek’s which had prevailed while Levi was “yet in the loins of his father” (Heb. 7:10), did not require lineage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask does not understand section 83 and so divorces 83:2 c-g from the rest of the section. Again the two lines of Priesthood are being delineated. Moses and His sons were <b style=""><u>one line</u></b> and “The Lord confirmed a priesthood <b style=""><u>also</u></b> upon Aaron and his seed throughout all their generations ....” (D&C 83:3a).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Heresy #5 -Again Trask ignores the Genesis reference to Melchizedek and accuses Joseph of appropriating the title to himself and others. It was not Joseph, but <b style=""><u>God </u></b>who conferred the title in Melchizedek’s day as in this day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Heresy #6 - There is no attempt to return to the Levitical Priesthood and their performance of sacrifices for the people in any of Joseph Smith’s works!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 16 - True Christian Priesthood<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Earlier Trask contended that there were no legitimate Priests after Christ. Now he has all Christians going to be Priests. In the sense that all have free access to God, this is true. And the fact that it is spiritual sacrifices that are required of all people is also true. He says that in this present life we are Christ’s servants. Christ said those who do as he commands are <b style=""><u>friends, not servants</u></b>, (John 15:14-15), but since friends do serve each other, we will not quarrel with his statement. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 155 - I do not know where he gets the idea of <b style=""><u>dominion theology</u></b> nor why he brings it into this discussion. Certainly it does not come from any Restoration scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 17 - Understanding the RLDS Dilemma<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s statement that the beliefs of RLDS people have led them to be moral people, good neighbors, workmates and fellow citizens who carry out their lives with above average zeal leads me to quote Jesus Christ - <b style=""><u>“By their fruits ye shall know them”</u></b> (Matthew 7:20). His accusation that our zeal is misdirected and not based on truth, however, is based on his own misperception of the Restoration faith and lack of understanding of truth. To imply that we have rejected the Messiah is so far from the truth that it is difficult to understand how he can make the accusation with a straight face! There is no group in all this world bearing a more vibrant testimony that Jesus Christ actually came in the flesh (1 John, 4:2), was crucified, rose from the dead and is alive and working personally in the world today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s misunderstanding or lack of knowledge leads him to teach that the personal ministry of Jesus was limited to the Jews without regard even to Christ’s <b style=""><u>“other sheep</u></b>” of the House of Israel whom He said He must bring, “and they shall <b style=""><u>hear my voice</u></b>; and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.” (John 10:16). Neither does he consider the fact that<b style=""><u> Jesus Christ was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world</u></b> as Christ revealed through John in the book of Revelation. Faulty premises lead to wrong conclusions, and this has been the journey Trask has taken from the beginning of his work. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 160 - By making his sarcastic reference to “Joseph Smith’s highest heaven”, celestial glory, Trask is, perhaps ignorantly, rejecting the testimony of the Apostle Paul who writes of being in the “highest heaven”, of the resurrection of bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial and of the glories of the sun, moon, and stars (1 Cor. 15:40-42). <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s evaluation of the “ties that bind” shows regrettable ignorance of the Restoration and its people. The history of the Restoration movement is filled with the testimonies of persons who have <b style=""><u>given up their families and friends</u></b> to become a part of Christ’s restored church. Among our immediate acquaintances, we can introduce him to many, some of whose stories are in <i style="">The Master’s Touch I and II</i>. To say that it is ignorance and fear that keeps us together is to<b style=""><u> bear false witness</u></b> through the dissemination of gross misinformation. I repeat. <b style=""><u>Bearing false witness is forbidden by the ten commandments, which have never been rescinded!</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 34pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 162-163 - I do not have access to the quotations that Trask attributes to Joseph Smith through Fawn Brodie or the Tanners. Other materials he has borrowed from them have proved unreliable and even slanderous. There is no reason to believe these would be any different!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 163 - How Trask can say that “Joseph’s” Priesthood were to be “beyond reproach, just as he was” when so many of the early revelations are <b style=""><u>reprimands to both Joseph and other Priesthood, </u></b>is beyond my comprehension. Either he has <b style=""><u>never read</u></b>, or cannot comprehend the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants </i>or he<span style=""> </span><b style=""><u>deliberately</u></b> misleads his readers. And for him to accuse the RLDS of considering any weak in the faith who consider an opposing viewpoint shows a deplorable lack of knowledge about the work of the Seventy, the debates of the early days of the church, the explorations of other faiths conducted by many in church school curriculum, the life of the church’s people who freely “fraternize with the enemy by considering an opposing viewpoint”, except that we do not consider them enemies! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Pages 163-164 - Trask returns to his unjust insistence on Joseph’s obsession with the occult, and now applies it to the “burning of the bosom” instruction of one revelation as though it is the entire method by which truth is evaluated. In so doing Trask disregards the instruction of even this verse to <b style=""><u>study it out in your mind</u></b> and <b style=""><u>then ask God </u></b>whether what you have thought is true. Even more importantly, he disregards Section 85 in which all are instructed to study out of the best books to obtain knowledge, to seek learning by study and also by faith, since all cannot be instructed in all things (and the curriculum is extensive), teach one another the things of the kingdom. He ignores the definition of truth and the extensive treatise on truth in section 90. He ignores the many statements of scientific fact found in the <i style="">Doctrine and Covenants</i> in such sections as 85, 86, 90, long before science discovered the principles they proclaim. He shows himself either ignorant of the revelations that came through Joseph Smith or a vindictive prevaricator of the truth that he does know. His assertion that Joseph Smith taught that the human heart is where truth is to be evaluated is not documented because it is not a teaching of Joseph Smith but a figment of Trask’s imagination.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask even distorts the promise of the Lord to bear witness of the truth of the<i style=""> Book of Mormon</i>, which truth is that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. There is no limitation on <b style=""><u>how</u></b> the Lord will give the reader a testimony of the truthful testimony of Jesus that it bears. My Father received his testimony by being instantly taught to read the book by the Spirit at age 16 and through it being able to read everything that he chose to read. Sherman Phipps received his testimony as a service man in World War II, also by being taught to read instantly by the Spirit and by the ministry of an angel who visited him as he read. (Both of the foregoing testimonies are found in detail in Mildred Nelson Smith, <i style="">The Master’s Touch II</i>). We could multiply the testimonies of miraculous confirmation of the promise in the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> of a testimony of the Christ and His continuing presence among the children of men to those who ask in faith. There is <b style=""><u>no mention of a burning of the bosom</u></b> in that promise or in the many testimonies that are continually given of the truthfulness of the promise. Neither is there a threat for those who do not believe the book, even in the scripture cited. The only warning is for those <b style=""><u>who reject the word of God </u></b>to which the book bears witness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Like the Saints at Berea (Acts 17:11), the Latter Day Saints are instructed to examine the scriptures to see whether that which is being taught them is true. The statement most often quoted on the subject in the church as I have known it comes from Jesus Christ, <b style=""><u>“Whoso treasureth up my words shall not be deceived.”</u></b> (Matthew 24:39 IV). And it is by the words of Christ and His servants that we who try to be faithful to our Lord judge all things, Trask to the contrary! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 165 - Trask continues his display of ignorance of the way RLDS receive testimony of spiritual truth. He does not have to believe to make the Three Nephites and John the Beloved real and active ministers in the world today. John the Beloved actually preached a sermon for my husband at Creston, Iowa years ago. (See <i style="">The Master’s Touch</i>, Herald House 1973, pp. 192-195.) And there are many testimonies of ministries of both John and the Three Nephites in Latter Day Saint literature. There are even testimonies of their presence and actions in American and Israeli history, but, as the <i style="">Book of Mormon </i>indicates, those who receive their ministry without knowledge of or belief in their presence will not recognize them (3 Nephi 13:39-41).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Page 166 - Aren’t healings one of the spiritual gifts of which Paul did not want the Saints of his day to be ignorant (1 Cor. 12 )? And dreams and visions, are they not manifestations of the Spirit of God prophesied by Joel and attested to by Peter as being evidence of the action of the Spirit of God in the last days (Acts 2:16-17)? Why does Trask question them in Christ’s church today? Are they out of place in his Christianity? If so, why did Christ send his ministers out with power to heal the sick and cast out devils. Has He since rescinded his instruction? And has prophecy suddenly disappeared from the community of Saints? Paul instructed the Saints of his day to “covet to prophecy”, as well as to speak in tongues (1 Cor. 14). Has that instruction been rescinded? Trask said not one jot or tittle could be changed in the God-breathed <i style="">Bible</i> - nothing added or taken away!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">When one has experienced tongues as <b style=""><u>real languages</u></b> given by persons who did not know the language but interpreted at times by persons who did know the language and containing prophecies that have come to pass as many times as I have; when one has been the recipient of a “Thus saith the Spirit” that answers questions asked only of God as I have; when one has seen lives cleansed and saved by such ministry as many times as I have; when one has seen instant headings of serious diseases and near fatal accidents as I have; when one has experienced the testimony of dreams and visions that have brought tremendous ministry to those who experienced them and to others for whom that ministry was intended as many times as I have, it brings <b style=""><u>deep sadness and profound pity</u></b> for one who disparages the ministries because of ignorance or deliberate rejection. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 37pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">In his summary, Trask is obsessed with his<b style=""><u> own misinformation</u></b> concerning the way Joseph Smith encouraged his followers to evaluate scripture and so rejects the truth of the instructions that are written in the scriptures God gave through Joseph. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">The last paragraph of page 166 contains truth to which every faithful Saint with whom I have been associated would readily agree!<b style=""><u> We do not believe every spirit</u></b>, but <b style=""><u>test </u></b>even the spirit by which Trask performs his work of deceit and falsehood under the guise of trying to save the Saints! When we “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”, we find that we must <b style=""><u>reject his work</u></b> as that of an angry man who either does not understand the truth or deliberately rejects it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Chapter 18 - Helping RLDS to Victory<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask declares that he has proved much more than he has, as can be seen by the foregoing refutation of a great portion of his assertions. It is not the people who are faithful to the Restoration who are deceived but Trask himself. It is Trask who has “proliferated misinformation” that would lead faithful followers of the Savior from light into darkness! Christ said that it is <b style=""><u>truth </u></b>that makes one free (John 8:32), and repeatedly we have shown that Trask has not been truthful! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Trask’s “historical information” has been shown to be based on <b style=""><u>unreliable </u></b>secondary and tertiary sources substantiated by reprehensible <b style=""><u>propaganda techniques.</u></b> His “Biblical analysis “ has been shown to be extremely <b style=""><u>selective and faulty</u></b>. His suggested technique for saving RLDS is a good way to <b style=""><u>sell books</u></b>, and may be <b style=""><u>successful</u></b> with those who are ignorant of their history and scriptures, as it is apparent Trask must be. His characterization of Joseph Smith as a false prophet and the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> as the heart of his rottenness will one day cause him grief when he meets his Lord and learns the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">“A mature and growing relationship with Jesus Christ” is the privilege of every person who believes and loves God’s truth. That truth is found in the <b style=""><u>whole</u><i style=""> Bible</i></b>, not in Trask’s selected excerpts from it. We all need “intercessory prayer and undistorted truth”, including Trask! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Addendum:</span></u></b><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> As I reread this response I note I have left out a response that I should have included on page 23 concerning the use of the word Nephi in the <i style="">Apocrypha</i>. 2 Maccabees 1 is a letter from the Jews in Jerusalem to those in Egypt. They describe a miraculous happening in which water that had covered the temple fire, hidden by the Priests when the people were taken to Babylon, was sprinkled over the wood and the sacrifice when the people returned. A great fire was miraculously kindled on the altar. When the sacrifice was consumed, Neemias had the rest of the water poured on the stones and again a fire was kindled. Verse 36 reads, “And Neemias called this thing Naphthar, which is as much as to say, A cleansing; but many men call it Nephi.” If Joseph had been copying it, he would have had Lehi and the people of Ancient America “nephiing” their children (cleansing them miraculously) instead of naming them Nephi!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Incidentally, there is no story in the <i style="">Book of Mormon</i> that parallels this story. It is more closely related to the experience of Elijah and the prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 18. Whether the 32 parallels the Tanners claim to have found that Joseph <b style=""><u>“very likely”</u></b> (there is that propaganda phrase again) “used while developing his <i style="">Book of Mormon</i>” are of any consequence can easily be determined by comparing the portions of the <i style="">Apocrypha</i> they indicate with the <i style="">Book of Mormon. </i>It is not wise to take the Tanner’s word for it.<i style=""> </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">It is my prayer that all those who read this response will be blessed by the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth, in the reading. If I have made errors, I apologize and assure you that such errors are not intended. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"></span> </p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"> <span style=""> </span>Sincerely,</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span> </p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Geneva;"><span style=""> </span>B. Mildred Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 34pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">315 Zion’s Ridge, Lamoni, Iowa 50140<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 34pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Geneva;">Telephone 641 784 7659</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /><span style="font-family:Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div>James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-10245861995454912672010-01-26T04:56:00.000-08:002010-01-31T05:52:42.899-08:00Lifeline Ministeries 2 RLDS Misrepresentation of Truth<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span class="PageHeading">Carol Hodges Hansen, The<i> RLDS Christian?</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span class="PageHeading"> (A Discussion of the text by B. Mildred Smith)</span><br /><br /></span><p> When one is considering material designed to save one’s soul, he/she expects it to be accurate in at least most of its information. In this material, I find that is not the case. In this text inaccuracies and untruths prevail In spite of the fact that in many cases truth is readily available. </p> <p> With the proper selection of “evidence” from publications of their respective times, anyone can easily prove that the Kirtland Temple was burned to the ground on the day it was dedicated or that Thomas E. Dewey was elected President of the United States in 1948. It is this type of selective “evidence” that makes all quackery hard to refute whether related to health of body, mind or spirit. </p> <p> I agree that the author must have been a member of a cult from 1966 until she removed herself from following a false leader; but that cult was not the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. </p> <p> I am also very much aware that sincere people, such as Carol Hodges Hansen appears to have been, often give heed to deceiving and seducing spirits, as she declares she did while a member of the cult. Unfortunately, she may still be doing it if the untruths in this book are representative of her true convictions.</p> <p> Paul warned us (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12) that before Christ’s return, Satan will work “with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; <b> because they received not the love of the truth</b>, that they might be saved. And for this cause,” Paul continues, “God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”</p> <p> This author gives a skewed and inaccurate brief history of the church, but I pass that by as attributable to ignorance of the facts and proceed to answer some of the questions she raises.</p><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><span class="subhead">Some Answers to Questions Asked in the Text</span></span></p><p>P.17-19 - Whether the revival described by Joseph actually took place is disputed by Ms. Hansen. For support for her disputation, she refers her readers to two sources. One is a study made by a Presbyterian historian named Wesley Walters who made a study of the records of several denominations in Palmyra and concluded there was no great revival there in 1820. It is of interest to note that the Smith family was living in Manchester in 1820 (<i>RLDS Church History</i> Vol. 1: p. 6), and the revival Joseph described occurred in the vicinity of Manchester, not Palmyra.</p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Her second reference is the <i>Messenger and Advocate</i>, Vol.1, p. 92, which she gives when she returns to the subject in question 28. In it she claims that a Rev. Lane and Rev. Stockton, who were reported to have been involved in a revival in which Joseph Smith was interested, were not assigned to the Palmyra area until 1824. Therefore, she says, the claim that they were involved in the revival of 1820 was not valid. The reference, however, does not support her contention! Rev. Stockton is not even mentioned in the article and Rev. Lane is said to have <u>visited the area</u>, not having been assigned there. As previously noted, however, the revival was in the vicinity of Manchester, not Palmyra.</p> <p>Whether the Smiths were in Manchester in 1820 is disputed, apparently because there are no tax and assessment records concerning them until 1822. I understand there would be no such record unless and until the Smiths had <u>purchased</u> their farm. Ms. Hansen declares that since Joseph said his “grove experience” occurred two years after moving to Manchester, that would have to make it and the revival occurring in 1824. Joseph said they happened in his 15th year. That would be sometime in or near 1820.</p> <p> However, when Joseph Smith’s own story is consulted, it is apparent that the only firm dates given are the dates of his birth on December 23,1805, the date of the visit of the angel Moroni on September 21,1823, the date on which he was allowed to take the plates and the accompanying artifacts, September 22, 1827 and April 6, 1830, the date on which the church was organized. All other dates are given as approximations. These firm dates are the significant ones to be considered.</p> <p> Page19 continued on page 22 presents a good example of the deception Ms. Hansen perpetrates, perhaps inadvertently, on her readers. Under the topic, “Occult Connection” she announces that Joseph was “well known in his community for his magic arts and divinations. He claimed he could find buried treasures through the use of a “peep stone” which he would put in a hat and then look into it. He thus became known as a glass looker or money digger (<i>RLDS Church History</i>, Vol. 1: Ch. 2, p.17) ... .” She then proceeds to declare that Emma confirms that Joseph used “peep stones” with which to translate the <i>Book of Mormon. <o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 38pt;"><i> </i>The obvious intent of this statement is to convince the reader that the <i>RLDS Church History</i> validates her assertion of Joseph’s connection with “magic arts and divinations and “peep stones””. What the reference actually does is to refute that claim. In the <i>Church History</i>, Joseph is explaining that he, with others, was hired by Josiah Stoal to dig for a purported silvermine. When they were unsuccessful, he writes, “Finally I prevailed with the old gentleman to cease digging after it. Hence arose the very prevalent story of my having been a money digger.” </p> <p>The propaganda technique Ms. Hansen uses here is one of the oldest such tricks ever invented. An author cites a valid reference as supporting his/her statements <b> but</b> he/she<b> </b>does not expect the reader ever to check on the reference given. When the reference is consulted, a very different story comes to light.</p> <p> There is <b> absolutely nothing</b> in the “Church History” citation about Joseph’s “magic arts” or “divinations” or “peep stones”. Instead, there is an explanation of how one of the <u>false accusations</u> came into being. Rather than confirming Ms. Hansen’s claims, the reference refutes them. </p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 33pt;"> While the prophet’s wife’s statement concerning the use of a stone in translating the <i>Book of Mormon</i> may be correct, there is no valid evidence that the stone was other than the Urim and Thummim with which Joseph said he did translate the work. (See Delbert D. Smith,<i> How The Plates of the Book of Mormon Were Translated</i>, Paragon Publications, Mt. Ayr, IA 50584, 1996. Also available from the School of the Saints, Price Publishing or the Book of Mormon Foundation, Independence, Mo.)</p> <p> Page 23 contains another flagrant effort to deceive by means of the same propaganda method just described. A church history reference is given in which Joseph relates an experience in which he was arrested “on charge of being a disorderly person; of setting the country in an uproar by preaching the <i>Book of Mormon</i>, etc. etc.”. In an effort to turn the court against him, he says, the prosecutor brought up the story that he had been a “money digger”. A Mr. Reed and Mr. Davidson spoke on Joseph’s behalf and he was judged innocent.</p> <p> As soon as he was released, the constable of another county arrested him, and he was forced to again undergo trial. Again the “money digger” story was not a part of the charge but was brought up in an effort to prejudice the court. Again Mr. Reed and Mr. Davidson defended him and again he was acquitted. In each of the two cases cited, the arresting constable ended up <u>protecting</u> Joseph from the mob that had incited the arrest.</p> <p> Ms. Hansen then says positively, “This account proved to be false.” To substantiate her assertion, she puts into evidence a copy of some court document that is supposed to refute the story. When one studies the court document, however, one discovers that it does not qualify as evidence. First, Hansen’s document predates the church history event. The <i>Church History</i> reference given is to events that occurred in <b> <u>1830</u></b>. This date is very well established by the fact that Emma Smith was baptized on a Monday morning during the ordeal being described. The church was not organized until April 6, 1830, and Emma was not baptized until after the church was organized. The court document that was supposed to show Joseph’s report is untrue is dated <u>March 20, 1826</u>. That is four years earlier than the event described in church history. It is more than a year prior to Joseph even <b> possessing</b> the plates for the <i>Book of Mormon</i> and more than four years earlier than the organization of the church<b> !<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p> Interestingly, the court of record is identified by Ms. Hansen as that of Justice Albert Neely. In the church history reference she hopes to discredit, however, Mr. Joseph Reed, one of Joseph’s defenders (never a member of the church) testified that it was <b> Mr. Joseph Chamberlain</b> who was the justice of the peace who heard that case. (See <i>RLDS Church History</i>, Vol. 1, pp. 101-102). That Joseph was exonerated is verified by Mr. Reed’s later testimony. The gentleman is recorded as having recounted the events saying of the first trial, “Yes sir, let me say to you that not one blemish nor spot was found against his character. He came from that trial, notwithstanding the mighty efforts that were made to convict him of crime by his vigilant persecutors, with his character unstained by even the appearance of guilt.” Of the second he said “There was not one particle of testimony against the prisoner. No sir, he came out like the three children from the fiery furnace without the smell of fire on his garments.” (Read the entire story from <i>Church History</i>, Vol.1, pp. 94-103.) There is no connection between the real event recorded in church history and attested to by at least two witnesses and the questionable event of at least four years previous. </p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">There is no evidence the court document which Ms. Hansen shows had any relationship at any time with the Joseph Smith, Jr. who translated the <i>Book of Mormon</i> . There is no location for the court shown. It could be a document from anywhere. There are and have been many Joseph Smiths in the world. The one in question could be any of them. Still, Ms. Hansen blatantly declares that the statement of the prophet was proved false by her selected court document. <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What a travesty on truth!</span></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p><p> Page 23 - The reference given from the <i>Book of Commandments </i>concerning Oliver’s blessing cannot be verified in the <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i>. The publication of the <i>Book of Commandments</i> was interrupted by the destruction of the printing press on which it was being printed, and its publication was never completed. The revelations that were to have been contained in it, however, were compared with the originals, corrected and printed in the 1835 <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i>. Of the errors in the part of the <i>Book of Commandments </i>that was printed, Oliver Cowdery wrote in the <i>Evening and Morning Star</i>, Vol. 1, p.16, “On the revelations we merely say, that we were not a little surprised to find the previous print so different from the original.---- it was our unceasing endeavor to have them correspond with the copy furnished us. We believe they are now correct*. If not in every word, at least in principle.” (*Correct as printed in the 1835 edition of the<i> Doctrine and Covenants </i>- See a letter from historian Heman C. Smith. <i>Saints’ Herald</i>, May 8,1907. ) The revelation under discussion, as given to Oliver Cowdery and recorded in the <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i>, section 8 does not mention a “rod”. It emphasizes the gift of and necessity of exercising faith.</p> <p> Page 25 - Of the talisman that someone is supposed to have said Joseph Smith had at his death, I have no information. Judging from the misinformation that Ms. Hansen has deduced from other references, there is no justification for giving this tale any credence. Even if there might be an affidavit from Emma Smith’s foster son concerning some subject, in view of Ms. Hansen’s documented misrepresentations noted previously, her insertion of the word (talisman) cannot be considered an accurate representation of the subject of the affidavit.</p> <p> Even if there was such an object in Joseph’s possession, would that prove that Joseph was involved in the occult? A talisman is simply an object that some (not necessarily the owners) believe gives protection or supernatural powers to its possessor. How many of you have carried a rabbit’s foot on your key chain? Did that mean that you were involved in the occult? How many St. Christopher medals are being worn by perfectly wonderful, God fearing people in the world today? We have a Hawaiian tiki on the shelf of our study. Does that mean that we worship those old Hawaiian gods? Actually it means just the opposite. If we felt the object had any supernatural powers at all, we would be afraid to have it in our study!</p> <p> Page 25 - The statement that “The RLDS church is a breeding ground for extremist groups, because of its roots in occultism.” is <b> libelous</b>. It would be interesting to see the subject in court!</p> <p> Page 25 - The <i>Book of Abraham</i> has never been considered scripture by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and there is no reliable evidence that Joseph Smith considered it so. It contradicts all of the scriptures for which Joseph Smith was responsible in the<b> </b><i>Inspired Version of the Bible</i>, the <i>Doctrine and Covenants </i>and the<b> </b><i>Book of Mormon</i>. Whoever wrote in the <i>Latter Day Saint Millennial Star</i> in 1842 that it was translated by the use of the Urim and Thummim had to be mistaken. The Urim and Thummim were returned to the heavenly messenger along with the plates when the translation of the <i>Book of Mormon</i> was completed in 1829. (See <i>Times and Seasons</i>, Vol. 13, p 772). The papyrus from which the <i>Book of Abraham</i> originated was not acquired until 1835, some six years after Joseph no longer had the Urim and Thummim available. </p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">To the question of why Joseph Smith did not correct the statement if it was not true, one can easily understand that in 1842 Joseph Smith had more important things to do than to try to correct an error that may have been inadvertent in a publication that was very far from home. <i>The Millennial Star</i> was published in England. See the discussion of the unreliability of its published materials in the discussion of the introduction of the idea of plural gods. </p> <p> Page 28-33- Ms. Hansen pronounces a number of Joseph Smith’s prophecies to be false:</p> <p> 1. The 1832 prophecy of a temple to be built in “this generation” is judged to be false because, again, she has erroneously inserted the word “Independence” into the text. Even the introduction to Section 83, in which it is now contained, informs the reader that the prophecy was given in <b> Kirtland</b>, Ohio. The Kirtland Temple was built and dedicated in about four years following the prophecy.</p> <p> 2. The prophecy concerning the Nauvoo House was contained in section 107 of the <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i>. That section was removed from the body of the <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i> by action of the RLDS World Conference of 1970. However, the Nauvoo House still stands, it is still owned by the church and is still used to house and feed strangers. Just try to reserve a spot there next summer if you want to find out how busy a place it is!</p> <p> 3. Ms. Hansen finds a false prophecy in David Whitmer’s <i>An Address to All Believers in Christ</i>, Pages 30-31. In my copy of that work there is a portion of a quotation from the <i>Book of Mormon</i>, (3 Nephi 9:58 to 10:8; Ether 2:3-5; 3 Nephi 14:1-3.), that begins on page 29 and finishes on page 33. There is no “false prophecy” that Ms. Hansen professes to have found there.</p> <p> 4. I do not have access to <i>The Millennial Star</i> to check an alleged prophecy there. If, however, the reference proves to be as inaccurate as others have been, there is nothing there to concern us.</p> <p> 5. The Civil War prophecy is open to various interpretations. It is certain that there was a war between the states that began with the rebellion of South Carolina, that slavery became an issue, that many slaves did participate as soldiers and that war resulted in the death of many souls. If the “Boston Daily Advertiser” predicted that it would begin immediately after December 10, 1832, it was certainly mistaken by some twenty eight years. Joseph did not make that mistake.</p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Page 32 - Ms. Hansen states unequivocally that paragraphs 2 and 3 of the “Civil War Prophecy”, quote, “did not materialize. England did not become involved in war against the United States.” </p> <p> Apparently Ms. Hansen did not consult a history of that war before making that statement. <i><u>The Encyclopedia Americana,</u></i><u> International Edition, 1992 </u> tells a different story. Not only did Great Britain become involved in that war, but United States claims against her for her assistance to the South resulted in negotiations that were not settled until 1872 when Great Britain was instructed by a tribunal of arbitration to pay the USA fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars in indemnity.<br /></p><p> Great Britain’s efforts, along with those of France, to get the Confederacy declared an independent nation as early as 1862, her protests of Northern activity on the high seas, and other matters make for interesting reading in Volume 6 of the above named encyclopedia. Even some of her troops accompanied those of France and Spain as they entered Mexico during this period of time. Canada, also a part of the British Empire, perpetrated wartime activities against the North. Only the settlement of claims against Great Britain prevented the USA asking Canada to pay claims against them for those activities. </p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 1pt;"> It is true, also, that there have been two “world wars” since that date and, according to former President Carter, there are more than thirty wars in progress at this time with continual threats of more to break out at any time. We know that there has been famine that would have killed many more than it did if Herbert Hoover had not headed up a rescue operation that saved millions of lives. We know there is still famine in many lands of which many are dying today. We know that the plague of the flu that swept the world during 1918 killed millions. We know that the plague of AIDS is presently killing millions throughout the world and threatening millions more.</p> <p> There is no reason to believe that the prophecy should have been completely fulfilled by now. Those who judge that it has failed because it has not yet fully come to pass, just do not understand the nature of prophecy! There are Biblical prophecies of centuries ago that are yet to be fulfilled.</p> <p> 6. The “Reed Peck Manuscript”, whatever it may be, has no validity as scripture. No supposed prophecy it contains can be given any credence at all.</p> <p> Ms. Hansen says, “Joseph Smith clearly did not pass the Biblical test of a prophet. --- He was assassinated in June of 1844”. Surely the violent death of a man at the hands of his accusers does not show him to be a false prophet. Jesus Christ, the greatest prophet that has ever lived, even the Son of God who was God, was also assassinated, as were Peter (to be crucified upside down, was his request), Stephen stoned to death, John the Baptist beheaded, and others.</p> <p> Pages 34-41 contain forty three questions which Ms. Hansen calls “Some Provocative Questions Every Person Should Consider Before Accepting Joseph Smith as a Prophet of God”. Here are some sincere answers to most of those questions.</p><p>1. The statements that Joseph Smith made concerning his first vision were not <span style="font-size:130%;"><b>contradictory</b>. </span>They varied in detail just as any one will emphasize different parts of their story as they meet different time constraints, different audiences with varying interests, etc. The statements of others are only hearsay and of no consequence in determining the truth.</p><p>2. Ms. Hansen cites two issues of the “Amboy Journal” of <span style="font-size:130%;"><b>1879</b></span> as evidence that Joseph Smith tried “to join the Methodist church in <b> <span style="font-size:130%;">1828”</span></b><span style="font-size:130%;">.</span></p><p>The report of a newspaper 35 years after any person’s death and fifty one years after the supposed event could hardly qualify as evidence of any person’s<span style="font-size:130%;"> <b>actions</b></span>, let alone of their<span style="font-size:130%;"> <b> intent</b></span>. Joseph Smith did say that he felt some desire to join the Methodists in his fifteenth year,<span style="font-size:130%;"> <b> <u>before</u></b></span> he had his first vision. The erroneous report cited by Ms. Hansen may have had its genesis from that statement, but she offers no evidence but that of a newspaper’s account fifty-one years after the supposed event, and thirty five years after Joseph’s death. What credence do you want given to a newspaper account of your present thoughts fifty years from now and after you have been dead for thirty five years?</p><p> 3. Why did a part of Joseph Smith’s family remain active in the Presbyterian church until 1828?</p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 1pt;"> Joseph Smith’s family had no church, other than the one of which they had been a part until after 1828. The church in which Joseph had a part was not organized until 1830. The family, therefore, had no opportunity to participate as members in any church other than the one to which they belonged until after 1828. If they stopped their participation in the Presbyterian church in 1828, that may have some connection with their new found beliefs. Their belief in his work has abundant evidence in historical records, but such belief or disbelief would not validate or discredit his experience.</p><p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 1pt;"><br /></p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 33pt;"> 4. Why were changes made in the <i>Book of Mormon</i> after its translation was declared correct by an angel?</p> <p> The <i>Book of Mormon</i><b> </b>translation was correct. The hand written manuscript, however, had to have punctuation marks, sentence divisions, paragraphing, etc. inserted. Most of this was done by the printer. There were also inadvertent omissions, spelling errors, typographical errors that had to be corrected. This is typical of all printed materials, especially of those copied from works handwritten from dictation. Most of the changes in the second edition of the book were grammatical and stylistic, according to Richard Howard. (See Richard P. Howard,<u> Restoration Scriptures: A Study of Their Textual Development</u>, Herald House, 1969, pp 41-52 as reproduced as Resource 7 of Temple School course SS200B.) </p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 2pt;"> 5. Why weren’t the three witnesses shown the plates instead of being shown them only in “vision?</p><p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 2pt;"><br /></p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 1pt;"> The three witnesses did not say they saw them in “vision”, as Ms. Hansen declares. They said they actually <b> saw</b> the plates. The three Witnesses testified “---that we beheld and saw the plates, and the engravings thereon, ---; and it is marvelous in our eyes, ----”.</p><p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 1pt;"><br /></p><p> Why does the author concern herself <u>only</u> with the testimony of the three witnesses to whom the plates of the <i>Book of Mormon</i> were shown by an angel? If she wants to be truthful, why doesn’t she call attention to the experience of the eight witnesses to the <i>Book of Mormon</i><b> </b>who did <u>see with their eyes, and handle with their hands</u> every plate that had been translated. They bear witness that “---said Smith has shown unto us, for we have <u>seen</u> and <u>hefted</u>, and know of a surety, that the said Smith has got the plates of which we have spoken.---”. The testimony of the three witnesses and the testimony of the eight witnesses are both in every <i>Book of Mormon<b> </b></i>I have ever seen in print. If Ms. Hansen had wanted to tell the truth, why should she have picked out one of them and then give misinformation about it?</p> <p> 6. Ms. Hansen questions how the Urim and Thummim could have been in the Americas while they were still in use in the Jerusalem in 458 BC.</p> <p> The Bible record does not support the idea that the Urim and Thummim were being used in Jerusalem in 458 BC, and Ms. Hansen gives no evidence that they were. The last Biblical reference to even the possibility of their being in use was back more than one thousand years before Christ when there was no answer to Saul’s dilemma by any means, even “by Urim” (1 Samuel 28:6). Ezra 2:63 and Nehemiah 7:65 both record that at about 445-444 BC certain holy things should not be eaten until “there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.” There is no mention in the Scripture that such a priest was ever found.</p> <p> 7. Ms. Hansen says that the Urim and Thummim were only to be used for making decisions, not for translating languages.</p> <p> Anyone who has ever translated knows that such a task is replete with decision making! The Hebrew meaning of Urim is light, and the meaning of Thummim is an emblem of complete truth, according to <i>Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible.</i> There is no evidence that they were designed just for making decisions about people. The instruction to Aaron was to use them in judgment.</p> <p> 8. Ether’s story of Shiz rising on his hands after his head was cut off gives Ms. Hansen reason to doubt the <i>Book of Mormon.</i></p> <p> Have you ever seen a chicken that has just had its head removed? Or a person? The body of an untethered chicken covers a lot of territory before it quits flopping. The one person I know who saw a Japanese guard decapitated by his abused captives during World War Two testified that the body of the decapitated man staggered, much as does the chicken with its head cut off, before it became immobilized. It is well known that victims of the guillotine during the French Revolution had their hands tied behind them so their bodies could not be propelled about after decapitation. Perhaps the effect of decapitation on a body should be researched more fully by the author before the account of Shiz is rejected.</p> <p> 9. A review of the first issue of <i>The True Latter Day Saint’s Herald,</i> page 9 will reveal that the word “polygamy” is not there. Ms. Hansen has again inserted her interpretation of the mind of the author in an apparent effort to make her supposition appear to have been in the text.</p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 35pt;"> Isaac Sheen, Editor of the “Herald”, wrote two very powerful articles showing that polygamy was not the doctrine of the true church. His assertions concerning any possible association Joseph Smith might have had with the doctrine came years after Joseph’s death and were clearly hearsay; but they also represented Joseph as being strongly opposed to the doctrine. </p> <p> 10. Joseph’s report of Moroni returning as an angel causes Ms. Hansen to accuse him of necromancy, which she defines as contact with the spirits of the dead. She says such contact “is strictly forbidden by the Lord”. What of those who, after their graves were opened at the time of the crucifixion, came into the city and were seen by many (Matthew 27:52-53)?</p> <p> If contact with spirits of the dead is strictly forbidden by the Lord, please explain to me why Jesus took Peter, James and John to the Mount of Transfiguration with him to meet Moses and Elias, as is recorded in Matthew 17:2 and Mark, 9:2. And how did Mary, the Apostles, the disciples on the road to Emmaus and others of the early Saints know that Jesus was alive after his crucifixion? </p> <p> Actually, necromancy is the art that professes to conjure up and commune with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future. In neither the case on the Mount of Transfiguration nor in Joseph Smith’s bedroom was there any of this sort of black magic or sorcery performed.</p> <p> 11. The author wonders how Joseph Smith could see the face of God and live before he had the Priesthood. Joseph said that he saw the Father and the Son <u>in vision</u> in 1820. There is a difference!</p><p> 12. Ms. Hansen questions the right of the Book of Mormon peoples to offer burnt offerings. She says only the Levites had that right.</p> <p> The <i>Bible</i> does not teach that only the tribe of Levi can offer up sacrifices. Abraham was instructed to offer sacrifices long before Levi, or any of his brothers, was born. The tribe of Levi was to assist the Priest in the offering, too, not to carry it out alone. </p> <p> 13. Only Oliver and Joseph know why they did not mention the vision of 1820 in their history of the church.</p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 34pt;"> 14. Genesis 11:6 IV does <u>not</u> say that the Lord “confounded <u>all</u> the languages of the earth”, as the author reports. The correct quote is that the Lord “did there confound the language of all the earth.” The correct quote is consistent with Ether account.</p> <p> 15. The question concerns the use of the word “Christian” in the <i>Book of Mormon.</i><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p> <p><b> </b>Neither Christ nor his Apostles called the followers of Christ “Christian.” Both in the promised land and in the Holy Land it was the non-believers who dubbed Christ’s followers “Christian”. Christ and his Apostles addressed them as “Saints” only referring to the derisive name applied to them by their enemies as one they should not reject because in its use, they were being persecuted for the Lord’s sake. (See Acts 26:28 for Agrippa’s use of the term and 1 Peter 4:16 for Peter’s consolation of the Saints to whom the appellation was applied.) The Saints of the promised land knew and believed the prophecies of the coming Christ and worshipped him even before his birth. Truly, he was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world as is recorded in Revelation 13:8.</p> <p> 16. The question is about the use of a French word in the <i>Book of Mormon.</i></p> <p> “Adieu” was used because it was the word most familiar to English speaking people that expressed the thought of the passage, a commendation to the care of God. “Adieu” had been adopted into the English language before the <i>Book of Mormon</i> was translated, as is apparent by consulting the 1828 edition of<i> Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language. </i>For further elucidation of the subject, see Angela M. Crowell, “Adieu: The Right Word After All”. <i>Recent Book of Mormon Developments,</i> Vol. 2, Articles From the Zarahemla Record, 1992, Zarahemla Research Foundation, Independence, Missouri. Incidentally, a lot more French words are used in the French translation of the book!</p> <p> 17. This question concerns baptism for the dead mentioned in some editions of the <i>Doctrine and Covenants.</i></p> <p> Section 110 was removed from the body of the RLDS <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i> because it was not a revelation. It was a letter setting forth speculations on the part of its author. It was never specifically accepted as the word of the Lord by the people of the church. See further discussion of the subject in Russell Ralston,<i> Fundamental Differences</i> or Aleah Koury, <i>The Truth and the Evidence.</i></p> <p> 18. How could Professor Anthon pronounce the translation of the plates correct if no other people knew the language in which it was written?</p> <p> Epigraphers now recognize that the characters on the “Anthon transcript” are very similar to one form of ancient Egyptian. Professor Anthon may have recognized some of the characters as such and his pride may have made him declare that the translation was correct. For his real reason, however, your guess is as good as mine.</p> <p> 19. How could Moses have been on the Mount of Transfiguration if murder is an unpardonable sin?</p> <p> I cannot account for the language of D&C 42:6 in view of the scripture’s clear teaching that the only sin for which there is no forgiveness is the sin against the Holy Ghost. Clearly, there is a difference between deliberately planned murder and accidental killing.</p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 35pt;"> 20. This one deals with the death of Joseph Smith. The author questions that he died a martyr because he did not “willingly lay down his life for his beliefs”. He tried to defend himself. She uses an obscure reference to say that he killed in the process.</p> <p> The definition of a martyr is one who chooses to suffer death rather than to renounce a religious principle or one who makes great sacrifice for a cause or a principle. Joseph Smith did just that! All of the persecution, both social and physical, that he had received because of his beliefs, even the many threats of death, did not cause him to recant his testimony or to vary from his determination to do what he believed the Lord asked him to do.</p> <p> No one in that Carthage jail gave Joseph the choice to renounce his beliefs and live! He was attacked there by a mob intent on killing him because of his beliefs. He was also in the company of other men for whose lives he felt responsible. The charge that he killed someone in the process, so far as I have been able to determine, is another fabrication. No such claim was made at the time of the altercation nor was there any such charge made by officials involved in the investigation of the murders.</p> <p> 21. Why does the <i>Book of Mormon</i> say that Adam and Eve could not have had children if Adam had not fallen? </p> <p> Eve had sinned and was banished from the garden. Paul says that Adam was not deceived (1 Tim. 2:14). He made the deliberate choice to follow her example so they would be together. If Eve had been in the garden and Adam outside, they would have had no children!</p> <p> 22. The question concerns the fact that many subjects attributed to Joseph Smith are not included in the <i>Book of Mormon.</i> How can this be if the <i>Book of Mormon</i> contains the fulness of the Gospel?</p> <p> The fullness of the Gospel is that Christ is the Savior of all of the world and has a plan of salvation that applies to all people. The specifics of that plan are dependent upon the truth in all of the Scriptures. Many of the subjects noted in the question have no place in the plan of salvation or in valid scriptures. Others are valid principles for life but do not determine one’s salvation.</p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 1pt;"> Failure to follow the Word of Wisdom, for example, will not catapult one into hell. It is just what it says it is, a word of wisdom, good counsel about the care and feeding of our bodies, the principles of which are largely known by scientists today but which could only have been known by revelation in 1833. </p> <p> 23. The acceptance of the spurious Joseph Smith blessing was due to the fact that the consideration of the missive was not by prophetic inquiry but by dependence upon the defective scholarship of the church’s history department. That department and its head have left many marks of poor scholarship on the materials they have offered during the past years.</p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 35pt;"> 24. This is the perennial question of how Joseph could have run with the heavy plates or how Emma could have moved them about. This estimate given by Ms. Hansen is that they weighed 230 pounds.</p> <p> Scholarly inquiry has determined that the plates from which the <i>Book of Mormon </i> was translated weighed approximately 60 (sixty) pounds, just the weight that those who handled them while they were in Joseph Smith’s possession estimated for them. The documented information may be obtained by consulting the <i>The Master’s Touch II</i> by Mildred Nelson Smith, the chapter titled “A Colossal Error in Mathematics.”. (The book is deposited in the library of the RLDS Temple, Independence, Mo. and at the Book of Mormon Center in Lamoni, Iowa. It is almost out of print, but a few copies may still be purchased from Price Publishing, Independence, Missouri.)</p> <p> 25. A “Reed Peck Manuscript” report of a sermon by Sidney Rigdon, said to have been confirmed in part by Joseph Smith, is quoted to show that the doctrine of blood atonement was taught in Far West.</p> <p> Any report of what another said about disputed issues is always suspect. Even in our day of electronic recording of speech and action, dramatically differing interpretations are often placed on the same material. The “Reed Peck Manuscript”, whatever that may be, could only be one person’s interpretation of what he may or may not have heard and cannot be used as evidence of a principle that is in direct opposition to all that the speaker who is being reported has written in sacred or secular literature.</p> <p> 26. How could the Brother of Jared have been redeemed from the fall in 2200 BC if, as Ms. Hansen says the <i>Bible</i> states that no one was redeemed until Christ’s blood was shed on the cross. She references Hebrews. 9:24-28.</p> <p> Christ is “The lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” (Revelation 13:8). The idea, all too prevalent in religious circles, that no one was redeemed from the fall until Christ was crucified on the cross comes from a misinterpretation of the Hebrew letter. Actually, the Hebrew letter refers to John’s characterization of the blood of Christ as having been effective <u>for all responsive people since the beginning of time</u>.</p> <p> 27. Does the RLDS church believe that all of Christendom other than the RLDS church is the church of the devil?</p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 1pt;"> The answer is, “NO”.</p> <p> 28. Ms. Hansen claims that a Rev. Lane and Rev. Stockton were not assigned to the Palmyra area until 1824. Therefore the claim that they were involved in the revival of 1820 was not valid. </p> <p>See page 1, the first question addressed in this response, for the detailed answer to this question. As is usual, her references are not supportive of her contention! The author of one reference researched the wrong town. In the “Messenger and Advocate”,V.1, pg. 92 Rev. Stockton is not even mentioned and Rev. Lane is said to have <u>visited the area</u>, not having been assigned there.<br /></p><p> 29. The author seems to mistakenly believe that Joseph Smith’s assertion that Adam and Eve lived at Adam-Ondi-Ahman contradicts his recognition of the location of the Garden of Eden in the mid-east.</p> <p> There is no contradiction. Adam and Eve were evicted from the </p> <p>Garden of Eden centuries before their deaths. Joseph Smith only said that Adam was at Adam-Ondi-Ahman sometime before his death. There is not even a hint that he thought Adam-Ondi-Ahman was the Garden of Eden. </p> <p> 30. Why do the RLDS not partake of the Lord’s Supper with other Christians? </p> <p> The Bible teaches that the Lord’s supper should be given only to those who “discern the Lord’s body” (1 Corinthians 11:28-30). Others will be condemned by partaking of it. Real ministers for the Christ do not want to bring condemnation upon anyone! (Read also 1 Corinthians chapters 10 and 12.)</p> <p> 31. The question asks why some of the writings of Joseph Smith that she lists are not included in current RLDS scriptures.</p> <p> The writings of Joseph Smith are not all scripture. Neither are all those listed by the author excluded from RLDS scripture, as she erroneously states.</p> <p> The <i>Book of Abraham</i> is not scripture. See Aleah G. Koury, <i>The Truth and the Evidence</i>, p. 22-25 for a brief exposition of the book and its history.</p> <p> The “Book of Moses” is a title that has been given by the Latter-day Saint church (Mormon) to most of the first five books of the <i>Inspired Version of the Bible. </i>They are a very significant part of the RLDS scripture.</p> <p> The “Lectures on Faith” are not scripture. They were only attached to the <i>Doctrine and Covenants </i>as a convenient way to have them available for study. They are still studied by RLDS members and the good ideas they present are cherished.</p> <p> Those sections of the <i>Doctrine and Covenants </i>that were placed in the appendix in 1970, and the appendix subsequently removed from the book, incidentally, were not “revelations”. See response to previous questions on the subject. </p> <p> 32. How could a record written in Egyptian help Jewish people preserve their language?</p> <p> Egyptian was not the language of the people. Egyptian was the language Lehi had been taught that enabled him to read the brass plates giving them the law and much of their personal and ecclesiastical history. (See Mosiah 1:6). It was the language of the learned that continued to be taught for the purpose of keeping certain records.</p> <p> The original language of the people was Hebrew. When Mormon was completing his record, (Mormon 4:99) he apologized for some problems that there might be with some of the translated language because they had to use a language less familiar to them than the Hebrew because of the necessity of engraving the work on plates. He says, “If the plates had been sufficiently large, we should have written in the Hebrew; ----- If we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no imperfections in our record.”</p> <p> 33. Why are there two names given for the angelic visitor to Joseph?</p> <p> The error may have been Joseph misspeaking himself, as I am sure you have done if you ever tried to relate a story that was dear to you, or it may have been a misunderstanding on the part of a scribe. I believe that generally Moroni, the name given under inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the revelation recorded in the<i> Doctrine and Covenants, </i>has been considered the correct one.</p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 34pt;"> 34. A question is raised concerning the church history report of the ordination of the first High Priests. The author contends that it contradicts earlier information.</p> <p> One only needs to read half a page of the <i>Church History</i> reference she gives to understand the delineation between the office of Elder, already in place, and High Priest, revealed for the first time. Both are of the Melchisedec Priesthood but have different responsibilities. Again the confusion comes from Ms. Hansen’s having inserted the word <u>Melchizedek </u>into the text where it was not and where it does not belong.</p> <p> 35. The question concerns Joseph and others joining the Masons.</p> <p> In my opinion, it was a terrible mistake for Joseph Smith or any of his successors to embrace Masonry, but they were all men, and men make mistakes. Even Peter made mistakes, several of which drew him reprimands from the Lord himself and at least one of which was called into question by Paul (Galatians 2:11-14). Paul said, “I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.”</p> <p> 36. The use of the word “synagogues” in the <i>Book of Mormon</i> is called into question on the assertion that Jewish synagogues were not developed until after Lehi and his family left Jerusalem.</p> <p> Both <i>Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible </i>and <i>Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible </i>agree that “synagogue” was a good Hebrew word that technically meant the congregation but by extension meant a place of meeting where people met at appointed times and for designated purposes. It was in use by Hebrew peoples for that purpose long before the exile. Psalms 74:8 says “---they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.” The song is attributed to Asaph, whom King David appointed to be in charge of his music.<i> Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible </i>says that Asaph served at about 1040 BC. Lehi and his family left Jerusalem some 400 years later, about 600 BC.</p> <p> 37. The question concerns the loss of “many plain and precious things” from the Scriptures which Ms. Hansen says the <i>Book of Mormon </i>teaches were removed by the Catholic church.</p> <p> The <i>Book of Mormon </i>does not mention the Catholic church. It speaks of a great and abominable church. Satan had been abroad doing his work long before the Catholic church came into being.</p> <p> 38. Ms. Hansen asks whether the source of the <i>Book of Mormon</i> story of Lehi’s dream was not really an 1811 dream of Joseph’s father.</p> <p> For the answer to the source of Lehi’s dream, ask God as instructed in Moroni 10:4-5.</p> <p> 39. This question concerns the restoration of the Melchisedec Priesthood by Peter, James and John instead of by John and one of the Three Nephites.</p> <p> God’s ways are past finding out! (Romans 11:33). So far as I know, He has not told us why he used Peter, James and John to restore the Melchisedec Priesthood instead of sending one or more of the surviving Nephites to assist John in conferring that Priesthood on Joseph Smith and others. </p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 1pt;"> 40. Ms. Hansen contends that there is no record of any laying on of hands for ordination in the <i>Bible</i> and questions why the RLDS use the ordinance for that purpose.</p> <p> Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor,Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas were all set before the apostles, “and when they had prayed, they <u>laid their hands</u> on them.” Acts 6:6, King James. </p> <p> The Holy Spirit said, “Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them, and when they had fasted and prayed and <u>laid their hands</u> upon them, they sent them away. So they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit departed.” Then follows the description of their missionary journeys. (Acts 13:2-4, King James).</p> <p> Don’t these instances sound like ordination by the laying on of hands to you? There probably are others. I have not exhausted the search of the Scriptures for them.</p> <p> 41. Ms. Hansen questions the method God used to restore the Aaronic Priesthood.</p> <p> Again, the ways of the Lord are past finding out. It seems proper that we should be content to let Him determine how His work is to be done. It is interesting, though, that Jesus Christ prophesied that Elias, whom he identified to his Apostles as John the Baptist, would come at a future time “to restore all things”. (Matthew 17:11-13, King James). It was John the Baptist who appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and ordained them to the Aaronic Priesthood in fulfillment of this prophecy of Jesus Christ.</p> <p> 42. Ms. Hansen wonders why some RLDS believe the name of Quetzalcoatl refers to the Christ when the Aztec religion applies it to one of many pagan gods.</p> <p> Quetzalcoatl was a term applied to a cultural hero who existed, taught and ministered to the people of Mexico long before the Aztec civilization appeared. Christ appeared in the Americas about 33-34 AD. The Aztec civilization was not developed until about twelve hundred years <u>after</u> Christ came to this land. </p> <p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 35pt;"> The Aztecs did apply the name to their decadent deity and culture hero, but that did not negate the fact that there had not been a real hero who first bore the title. See Diego Riveria’s mural in the Presidential Palace of Mexico City to see the real hero depicted. Riveria painted a “white”, bearded man who taught the people - some dark skinned and some light (white) skinned - all kinds of pertinent life skills, then departed through the sky, promising to return. It was this promise, according to historians, that caused the native Americans to welcome the Spanish conquerors who betrayed them.</p> <p> 43. Ms. Hansen wonders what we would do if a fourteen year old boy appeared at our door with the story Joseph told about his first vision.</p> <p> Joseph Smith at age fourteen did not go around trying to convince people of his calling. He confided in his father and in the minister of one of the churches. His father believed him and encouraged him to follow the directions of the Lord. The minister deprecated him saying that God did not speak any more and that the experience had come from the devil.</p> <p> I hope I would be more open than the minister to trying the information, as I have done with that contained in this book. If it proved to be true, I would hope that I would wait on the Lord. If it proved spurious, as the information in this book has proved to be, I would hope I would have the good grace to refuse it and try to help the youth learn the truth. For that reason I have spent many hours researching the questions raised in this publication. I hope the answers will help some, perhaps the author herself, to take a closer look at the false information included and to seek for the truth. </p> <p> <o:p></o:p></p> <p> The section on “Non Biblical Source of Authority” uses the same deceptive tactics as the preceding portions of the book. The<i> Inspired Version of the Bible</i> is her first target:</p> <p> 1. The author attempts to prove that there was no spiritual creation before the natural by using 1 Cor. 15:46:</p><p> 1 Corinthians 15:46, used to negate the Genesis explanation of the creation, is extracted from Paul’s explanation of the difference between Adam and Christ. It has nothing to do with the creation of mankind. If there was no spiritual life before life in the body, how was Christ instrumental in creating the world millennia before his birth?</p> <p> 2. Ms. Hansen accuses the <u>IV</u> as teaching Hindu philosophy by its teaching of a spiritual creation.</p> <p> Genesis 2:4 and 5 , King James version, records that when the Lord created the earth and the heavens, he created “every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew---”. How was this done if it was not a spiritual creation?</p> <p> 3. The question concerning the assertion that Adam and Eve would not have had children if Adam had not fallen was answered previously. See the answer to question 21. See also Gen. 3:12. Adam emphasizes that the woman whom the Lord had given <u>to be with him</u> gave him the fruit, and he ate. Had he not chosen to eat, as Paul informs us, she would no longer have been with him, and they would have had no children.</p> <p> 4. The assumption that the scripture concerning the priesthood was added to give authority to Joseph Smith’s priesthood system is just that, an assumption adopted to validate Ms. Hansen’s effort to discredit the scripture. There is no factual or scriptural evidence supporting it.</p> <p> 5. Ms. Hansen asserts that Joseph Smith taught that God had a body like man’s and criticizes that teaching.</p> <p> Genesis 1:26 (King James) has God saying, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:---” What is meant by “our likeness”? When Christ came to the earth, He was God incarnate. He took on a human body just like all of mankind whom He had made. </p> <p> When the scriptures speak of God making man male and female after the likeness of His own body, they are speaking of the human body in which Jesus Christ performed His earthly ministry. This is made crystal clear in the experience of the Brother of Jared with the Christ, whom he calls “God of truth”, related in the book of Ether 1:68-81. The encounter closes with the words of Christ, “behold this body , which ye now behold, is the body of my spirit; and man have I created after the body of my spirit; and even as I appear unto thee in the spirit, will I appear unto my people in the flesh.” </p> <p> 6. The author says that the <i>Inspired Version </i>equates blackness with wickedness and whiteness with righteousness while the King James version of the <i>Bible</i> makes no such distinction.</p> <p> Genesis 7:27&30 (<i>Inspired Version</i>) says nothing about blackness representing wickedness. Genesis 4:15-16 of the King James Version says that the Lord “set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.” Both scriptures merely tell us that Cain was separated from the rest of the children of Adam with a mark set upon him for his protection. </p> <p> 7. Ms. Hansen says that the Lord made a covenant with Noah, not with Enoch as the <i>IV</i> states, Genesis 7:57-58.</p> <p>The assertion that the covenant under consideration was made only with Noah is again a product of Ms. Hansen’s apparent failure to understand the nature of prophecy. Enoch was talking with God in vision and was being shown what was coming on the earth. In that prophetic vision, he saw the destruction of the flood and was appalled. God explained why it had to be, how much grief it gave Him to have to destroy the people because of their wickedness and His determination to yet have a people of righteousness on the earth. It was then that he told Enoch of the covenant that He would make with Noah after the flood. Enoch was given the covenant in prophecy. Noah was given it in the flesh.</p><p> 8. Ms. Hansen asserts that the <i>Bible</i> teaches that Zion will only be Jerusalem of the Middle East.</p> <p> When Christ told of His return, He said it would be like the lightening that is seen from the east to the west. All the peoples of the earth will see Him together. (Read all of Matthew 24 and 25.)</p> <p> Zion of the <i>Bible</i> is often used to designate Jerusalem or a mountain in Jerusalem; but in its larger meaning,<i> Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible </i>identifies it as a monumental or guiding pillar (one occupying a central or responsible position), a sign, a title or a waymark (conspicuous solitary place).</p> <p> I find no place in the King James version of the <i>Bible </i>in which Christ said He would return to Jerusalem. In fact, I find no place in that scripture where He ever even mentions Zion. Joel 3:16 does prophecy that, “The Lord also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem: “ indicating that there are two places involved in establishing the whereabouts of Zion.</p> <p> Micah also verifies the existence of two places involved in the fulfillment of the Lord’s purpose for the earth. “But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: For the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” (Micah 4:1-2). Isaiah 2:2-3 uses almost the same words but is more specific when he says, “For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”</p> <p> What Christ does say is that He will return where His people are gathered together. In fact, he says, He will even send the angels to gather those who have not been able to gather in a place of righteousness to prepare for His coming. It is Matt. 24:31 which reads, “And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” Nothing that Joseph Smith has written about Zion in any way contradicts what the Master said about His coming or what the prophets predict in relation to that event.</p> <p> 9. Ms. Hansen questions the use of the name of Jesus Christ before His birth. She wonders why Noah was baptizing in the name of Jesus Christ in the “Old Covenant”, and wants to know of what Noah was repenting in Gen. 8:11-15. She also asserts that the Holy Spirit was not given until Pentecost.</p> <p> Again, Christ was “the lamb slain from the foundation of the world” Rev. 13:8. If God could tell Isaiah to prophecy that a virgin would conceive and bear a son whose name would be called “Immanuel”(Isaiah 7:14), “Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The prince of peace.” (Isa, 9:6) isn’t it reasonable that God could tell Noah by what other name he would be called? God surely knows Greek as well as He knows Hebrew or English.</p> <p> Noah was not baptized in the “Old Covenant”. It is apparent from many scriptures that the “Old Covenant” was established with Moses <u>long after Noah was dead,</u> only about fifteen centuries before Christ. Paul explains repeatedly that the Mosaic Law was a school master to bring the Israelites to Christ. In Noah’s time, it was the covenant that Jesus Christ made from the beginning that prevailed. It was the disobedience of the people that caused them to abandon that covenant and become subjected to the Law of Moses. </p> <p> The passage in question clearly says that Noah was sorry that the Lord had made man to live on the earth because they had become so wicked and had put the lives of themselves as well as of Noah and his family in jeopardy.</p> <p> If the Holy Spirit was not given until the day of Pentecost, what spirit was it that moved upon the face of the earth to create it? Genesis 1:2 says “---And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. “Genesis 31:3 and 35:31 both record that God said, “I have filled him with the Spirit of God ---”. Numbers 11 tells of a time when the <u>spirit rested upon</u> certain men and they prophesied. When Moses was informed of it, he said, among other things, “would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that <u>the Lord would put his spirit upon them!</u>” There are numerous examples throughout the <i>Old Testament</i> of the Lord’s Spirit being active among the children of men.</p> <p> I have no way of knowing why there is no record of a Pentecostal baptism of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament as we have it. Certainly, as the people lived in wickedness, that Spirit was not bestowed on them in the power needed to fulfill the Lord’s commission. By the time of Christ’s coming, that Spirit was not greatly evidenced in any of the religions of the day; but Christ promised it to those of his followers who would live in The Way, His Way. Peter even identified the spirit by which they preached on Pentecost as the <u>Spirit of God</u> poured out upon them as promised in the prophecies of Joel (Acts 2:16-17).</p> <p> 10. The author questions Genesis 50:26 and 30-33 and interprets it to substitute Joseph Smith’s work for the shed blood of Jesus Christ.</p> <p> The reference given does not contradict the shedding of Jesus’ blood as the source of salvation. It merely says that the work that God will perform at the prophet’s hand will <u>bring the people</u> unto salvation. That work will bring the people to the Christ who is their salvation.</p> <p> 11. Hebrews 6:1 (<i>IV</i>)<b> </b>is brought into question because it says <u>not</u> leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ we should go on to perfection whereas the King James version says, “<u>leaving</u> the principles of the doctrine of Christ let us go on unto perfection”.</p> <p> Does the author propose that one should not continue in faith? Is repentance so elemental that it should not be a part of everyday life? How else can one go on to perfection except by the exercise of faith and the other principles of the Gospel? </p> <p> 12. Ms. Hansen insists that the words appearing in Isaiah 29 in the <i>Inspired Version of the Bible</i> that are not in the King James were inserted by Joseph to justify the<b> </b><i>Book of Mormon.</i><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p> <p><b> </b>Isaiah 29 of the <i>King James Bible</i> describes a book that will tell of a time when Ariel (Jerusalem) will have been brought low with destruction and distress of various kinds, when the “prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. And the vision of all is become unto you as the <u>words of a book</u> that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed:</p> <p> “And <u>the book</u> is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. Wherefore the Lord said, ----I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent shall be hid”.</p> <p> When the Lord shall perform this “wonderful work and a wonder” which neither the learned nor the unlearned can perform, when Ariel shall “<u>speak out of the ground</u>, and thy speech shall be <u>low out of the dust</u>, and thy voice shall be <u>as one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground</u>, and thy speech shall <u>whisper out of the ground as one speaking from the dust </u>. ----Is it not yet a <u>very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be esteemed as a forest?</u> </p> <p> “And in that day shall the deaf hear the words <u>of the book</u>, and the eyes shall see out of obscurity and darkness. ---”.</p> <p> It is a well known fact that after centuries of barrenness, the latter rains began to fall on Lebanon sometime during the mid eighteen hundreds, and Lebanon is now a “fruitful field” “esteemed as a forest”. This was to happen, so said the prophet Isaiah, a little while <u>after the book</u> was available by God’s power, even to the deaf and the blind, that “They that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.”</p> <p> Where is the book of which the prophet Isaiah spoke? It is too late for such a book to be found now, for Lebanon has long ago fulfilled its part of the prophecy. Lebanon has become a fruitful field and is esteemed as a forest. That was to happen a little while after the book had been made available by the power of God performing His marvelous work and a wonder, making the words of the book intelligible and available that they who erred might come to understanding and those who murmured might learn doctrine. If the <i>Book of Mormon </i>is not that book, where is the book?</p><p> The words that were inserted in the Inspired Version of Isaiah, chapter 29, did not change the message of the text. Those who criticize must still explain what other book tells of a people from Jerusalem that was buried in the ground for centuries, the words of which were not able to be read by either the learned or the unlearned but which book the Lord made available by His mighty power to fulfill His purposes among mankind.</p> <p> 13. Ms. Hansen questions how Joseph Smith justifies the changes in the book of “Revelation” in view of the book’s warning against any man adding to or taking from the words of the book.</p> <p> The warning of Revelation 22:18 is to any <u>man</u> who shall add to or take away from the things written in the book. God did not say that <u>He</u> could not have the book translated into other languages or have the translation of the book corrected if and when he chooses.</p> <p> Example one -Rev. 1:1- Why would God have to give a revelation to Jesus Christ when Christ was already returned to the Father and had received again all the power and glory of His first estate with the Father. To say that he still had to have a revelation of what is to come is to deprecate the place of Jesus Christ as God or even as a member of the Godhead. It makes Christ one of God’s servants instead of the God He really is. This misconception of God was corrected through inspiration in the <i>Inspired Version of the Bible.</i></p> <p> Example two and three - Rev. 1:5 and 5:6- What is this about <u>Seven Spirits of God</u>? Everywhere else in the Scriptures that I know of, God has only <u>one</u> spirit, that Holy Spirit which enlightens every man who comes into the world and is granted in power to those who believe. There are spirits of men and spirits of the evil one and angels are made spirits, but there is only one Spirit of God. This misconception needed correction, and God caused the correction to be made. Incidentally, John, as a faithful witness, identifies the Christ as the source of his witness, and gives glory to Him.</p> <p> Example four - Rev. 2:27- Surely the rule of the Lord is not with punishment and coercion. It is with His Word, as Isaiah 11:4 tells us in describing what it will be like when Christ will reign on the earth. The Rod of Iron with which Christ will rule is His Word. Saying it plainly instead of with a Hebraic idiom makes it more clear, at least to us who speak English.</p> <p> Example five - Rev. 22:18 - It has already been noted that the Lord has the privilege of adding to or correcting the errors man has made in communicating His word as and when He chooses. None of the changes in the book of Revelation introduces material contrary to Christ’s way or teaching. They simply clarify understandings or correct errors.</p> <p> The <i>Book of Mormon</i> is the second target in the author’s attempt to prove “Non Biblical Source of Authority” in the RLDS faith. There have already been answers to many of the questions now raised by Ms. Hansen concerning this Scripture. Please refer to those previous answers.</p> <p> Information about the translation of the <i>Book of Mormon</i> may be obtained by reading Delbert D. Smith, <i>How The Plates of The Book of Mormon Were Translated </i> already referenced and available from Price Publishing, The Book of Mormon Foundation, The School of the Saints. In Delbert’s publication you will find evaluations of some of the supposed references and “testimonies” used by Ms. Hansen. To repeat that information would be a waste of time since the publication is available to all those really interested in knowing the truth.</p> <p> The copy of a letter from the Smithsonian Institution that is included in this publication is not dated. Whether it was written in 1846 when the Institution was first established or at any date since that time cannot be deduced <u>from the information given.</u> Actually it was written in 1982 and could not possibly contain facts concerning the vast number of archeological discoveries since then and up to the present time. If one is sincerely interested in knowing those facts, he/she need only to contact the Book of Mormon Foundation, Zarahemla Research, or the Pre-Columbian Studies Institute (P.O. Box 477), all of Independence, Missouri, to learn that the letter is no longer appropriate.</p> <p> To further apprise oneself of the truth, one should take a tour of Book of Mormon lands, (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, etc.) with a knowledgeable guide. Pre-Columbian Studies Institute frequently sponsors such tours, and there are independent guides available from time to time. I have taken such a tour more than once and have seen for myself, as well as having heard from local guides in the area, much that confirms the information contained in the<b> </b><i>Book of Mormon.</i> Anyone who persists in saying such confirmation does not exist is deliberately closing their eyes and ears to the truth.</p> <p> Many of the objections brought up in page fifty and those pages following in Ms. Hansen’s book have already been addressed. To repeat the answers would be redundant. Anyone who really wants to know the truth must surely by now know that the truth about Joseph Smith, the <i>Book of Mormon</i> or the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints cannot be found in Ms. Hansen’s book.</p> <p> There are some new assertions to which I want to respond, however:</p> <p> Page 60- There is criticism saying the <i>Book of Mormon</i> teaches that Jesus was born at Jerusalem, not Bethlehem. There is an easy answer!</p> <p> When Lehi and his people left Jerusalem about six hundred BC, their scriptures did not carry the prophecies of Micah which told that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem. The only prophecies of place they had was that he would be born “at Jerusalem, which is the <u>land </u>of our forefathers” (Alma 5:19). It was this understanding that caused the Wise Men to go to Jerusalem to inquire where the Christ child had been born. The people of the Americas knew that He would be born in the land from which they had come, but they did not know in what city. You will note that the reference does not say he was born <u>in</u> Jerusalem. It says he was born in <u>the land of Jerusalem</u>, the same country from which their forefathers had come. (See also, B. Mildred Smith, “Who Were the Wise Men”, <i>The Witness</i>, Winter 1990, P. 11-14, available at the Book of Mormon Foundation, Independence, Mo. Presentations are available on request for persons or groups by B. Mildred Smith, 315 Zion’s Ridge, Lamoni, Iowa 50140.)</p> <p> Page 60 - Ms. Hansen says that III Nephi 4:4 claims “the <u>whole earth</u> became dark for three days at Christ’s crucifixion.” Ms. Hansen must have misread or misunderstood this passage. The passage actually says that the people were looking for the fulfillment of the prophecy, “Yea, for the time that there should be <u>darkness</u> for the space of three days, over the <u>face of the land</u>.” (Underscoring in both passages is mine.)</p> <p> The passage refers only to that which would happen in the land of the Nephites and Lamanites, not the whole earth. Just a few verses past the reference Ms. Hansen gives, III Nephi 4:16-17, is the information that the storm that occurred at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion “did last for about the space of three hours.” It was the aftermath of the storms that caused darkness to prevail over the face of the <i>Book of Mormon</i> lands for three days.</p> <p> When we lived in Hawaii, there were days following a volcanic eruption that the sun was obscured by flying debris. Our family in Missouri did not experience any of the aftermath of the eruptions. With the violence of the storms in this land during the crucifixion of the Christ, it is not surprising to those of us who have experienced even a comparatively gentle Hawaiian volcanic eruption that there was darkness in the land for an extended period of time. Since those living in the Holy Land did not experience that aftermath, they naturally would not record it. </p> <p> Page 60 - Response to II Nephi 1:115 concerning Adam’s fall is already given. See answer to question 21. Paul writing to Timothy, 1 Timothy 2:14, says plainly that Adam was not deceived. He deliberately chose to join Eve in eating the forbidden fruit. Had he not done so, Eve would have been outside the garden and Adam inside. In that situation they could not have had children - men, as we know them, would not have been born.</p> <p> The fact that Adam chose to follow Eve’s example does not mean that he did not sin. That the fall of Adam was clearly sin is taught plainly in each of the three books that the RLDS accept as scripture. Examples are Genesis 6:55-63 and Roman’s 5:14 of the <i>Inspired Version,</i> II Nephi 1:111 and Mosiah 1:107-119 of the<i> Book of Mormon</i>, and <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i> 28:11.</p> <p> Page 60 - The author questions the <i>Book of Mormon</i> story of Lehi’s family camping beside the Red Sea.</p> <p> The assertion that no rivers do or have ever emptied into the Red Sea is an invalid assertion. It assumes that the Red Sea is limited to the body of water now named the Red Sea. Josephus, the Hebrew historian, says it covered much more territory than that which now bears the name.</p> <p> A careful study of the travels of Lehi’s family indicates that they were probably camped near the upper end of the Gulf of Aquaba, an extension of the Red Sea, at the end of the first leg of their journey. There one will find a large wadi, a big valley with a stream that is dry part of the time but at other times is a large and flowing river. Even if they were at another part of the Red Sea, they could easily have been camped by a flowing wadi or by one of the many smaller streams that empty into the sea which could have been swollen at the time it was being viewed.</p> <p> Page 61 - Ms. Hansen sarcastically says that “Joseph Smith did not know that the Phoenicians had not yet invented glass (2200 B.C.)” hence he made the mistake of having God tell the Jaredites that they should have no windows in their sea going vessels. </p> <p> Ms. Hansen apparently is not aware that there were windows long before the Phoenicians invented glass. Even Noah was instructed to put a window in the ark. (Genesis 6:16). If Noah could have a window in his boat, surely Jared could have known what a window was.</p> <p> Windows are not necessarily glass. Even in my young life, many windows in both houses and vehicles were filled with isinglass. One form of isinglass is mica, any member of a group of minerals that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent and usually elastic laminae. Since it comes straight from a rock, Jared and company could well have been accustomed to using it in windows, but could not use it in windows on their barges because it would not hold up against the storms at sea. </p> <p> Page 61- MS. Hansen is unable to believe Jared and company could have put all of the things they were to gather before they left their homeland in the boats they built for transport across the sea. </p> <p> The provision of beasts, seeds etc. to which Ms. Hansen refers was made for a trip across the <u>wilderness</u>, which trip lasted for many years before Jared and company ever reached the sea. There is no evidence that they took everything of that first provision with them into the barges. As to the length of the journey, I know of no one who knows their route, but we do know that there are ocean currents that do take wind driven objects from the east coast of Asia to the west coast of the Americas in about one year. The Jaredite barges were wind driven vesssels.</p> <p> It is interesting to note that there are fishing boats in Hawaii today which are constructed with some of the features of the barges Jared and company made for their journey. Having a hole in the top and a hole in the bottom permits them to have fresh air pumped in by the waves on good days and to shut out the storms on not so good days. The hole in the bottom, surrounded by walls that reach up past the water line, provide for them a place to discard waste and to catch fresh food. Even the peaking of the ends make it so the boats remain stable in times of rough seas.</p> <p> Page 62- The accusation of plagiarism is not well founded. The Book of Mormon people had the first five books of the <i>Old Testament</i> plus many words of the prophets up to and including Isaiah on the brass plates which they brought with them. When large passages are quoted from Isaiah, for example, those using the quotation explain where it comes from, why they are using it and frequently tell what it means. When credit is given to the author of a literary work, using it is not plagiarism.</p> <p> When Jesus teaches on this land, he teaches the same Gospel that he taught in Palestine, hence the stories and the words are frequently similar or the same. If Joseph had been copying from the King James <i>Bible</i>, he surely would at least have used the same words for the Lord’s prayer. Instead, that prayer prayed for the people on this continent is very different from any one of those recorded in the King James <i>Bible.</i> </p> <p> Page 67 - In every place in the <i>Bible</i> in which the term, “familiar spirit” is used, with the exception of Isaiah 29, the context is that a <u>person</u> has or is seeking a “familiar spirit” for divining the future or to receive advice or counsel. Such usage is forbidden.</p> <p> In Isaiah 29, the Lord is telling the prophet that the <u>voice</u> of the people of Jerusalem whose story will be in the book will sound familiar to those who read it, and will come out of the ground in a manner that they have often considered ghostly. The Hebrew word translated “familiar” means safe, happy, friendly. In Hebrew idiom it means to be at peace or to be well. </p> <p> Please see earlier discussion of Isaiah 29 to discover how inadequate Ms. Hansen’s explanation of the chapter is. That discussion also explains that neither the learned or the unlearned could read the engraved characters. The translation had to be the marvelous work and a wonder performed by the Lord himself. </p> <p> Page 68 - Ms. Hansen explains that the two sticks spoken of in Ezekiel 37:16-20 speak only of the northern and southern kingdoms of Israel again becoming one nation.</p> <p> It is common knowledge that the northern and southern kingdoms of Israel were not united while they did exist. Now they are long since gone, and the nine and a half tribes of Israel are known as the lost tribes because Judah no longer has knowledge of them or their whereabouts.</p><p> In promising to reunite all Israel, the Lord has the prophet Ezekiel explain that there will be <u>one record</u> for those of Judah and those children of Israel of his companions that are known and <u>another record</u> for Joseph and those of the lost tribes who are his companions. One of these records will be in the hand of Judah. It is the record of the Jews, the <i>Bible.</i> The other record will tell of Joseph’s people, who are among the lost tribes. It will be in the hand of Ephraim, the son of Joseph to whom Israel, Joseph’s father, insisted on giving the greater blessing even though Manasseh was the firstborn. (Genesis 48).</p> <p> The <i>Book of Mormon </i>tells of a portion of the tribe of Manasseh that came to the new land to live. When the book was brought into being by the Lord, however, He placed it in the hands of one who is of the tribe of Ephraim. Scholars, I understand, believe that the tribe of Ephraim is numbered among the English and northern European peoples. Joseph Smith is one of those who believed his lineage was of Ephraim.</p> <p> These records, the Lord promises, will be used by God to bring all of Israel together in a time to come. A stated purpose of the <i>Book of Mormon</i> is to bear such witness of the Lord Jesus Christ that even the Jews will be convinced of His Messiahship. </p> <p> Page 68 - The author believes that Christ’s “other sheep” are the Gentiles.</p> <p> John 10:16 refers to “other sheep” that He shall bring into the fold who shall hear his voice. This could hardly be the gentiles when one considers Christ’s statement that He was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. (Matt. 15:24). Also, we have no record of Christ having gone into any Gentile country to preach. He sent others as Paul and Barnabas and Timothy, but he did not go himself. The Gentiles as a people did not <u>hear His voice</u>. The people of the Americas did.</p> <p> Page 68-69- Ms. Hansen equates all of the restored gospel with the theology of the <i>Book of Mormon.</i></p> <p> To limit the “restored Gospel” to the <i>Book of Mormon</i><b> </b>is to show a woeful paucity of understanding both of the Gospel and of the work of Joseph Smith.</p> <p> Page 70 - The errors in the <i>Book of Commandments</i> and its history related to the <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i> has already been addressed. There is now extant a publication authored by Joseph Smith 3, Israel A. Smith and Delbert D. Smith, giving documented evidence of the history of the <i>Book of Commandments</i>. It is available from the Conference of Restoration Elders, Independence, Mo. or Delbert D. Smith, 315 Zion’s Ridge, Lamoni, Iowa 50140. It is distributed through such independent congregations as the Waldo or South Crysler Restoration branches of the church.</p> <p> Page 71 - Ms. Hansen declares that the church could never have been taken from the earth because Jesus Christ is the foundation of it and Christ promised that the gates of hell could not prevail against it.</p> <p> Of course Jesus Christ is the foundation of His church. Paul said clearly, (I Corinthians 3:10-11), “<u>I have laid the foundation</u>, and another buildeth thereon. --- For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ.” In exactly the same way Joseph Smith said that he had power to <u>lay the foundation</u> of the church of Jesus Christ in these Latter Days, but there is no foundation other than Jesus Christ.</p> <p> The fact that the gates of hell shall never prevail against the church puzzles many people. If the gates of hell are not to prevail against the church of Jesus Christ, that surely means that hell cannot keep it out. For what other purpose would the gates be used against the church? Christ’s church will be able to go into the worst situations that Satan can devise here on the earth and through hell’s gates even into hell itself to preach to those confined there. This Jesus did, as Peter testifies (I Peter 3:18-20).</p> <p> It does not mean that the church could never have been lost to the peoples of the earth. There are many warnings of apostasy to come after Christ’s ascension into heaven. Paul warned the people of the church not to be deceived for Christ would not return until after there was a falling away first (II Thessalonians 2:3). The books of Daniel and the book of Revelation show clearly that the church did go “into the wilderness” for an extensive period of time.</p> <p> Pages 71 to the end of Ms. Hansen’s book she continues to bring up accusations of belief garnered from her misunderstanding of the scriptures and teachings of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. To pursue them all would require a text too lengthy for me to attempt at this time. There are a few to which I do wish to respond.</p> <p> Page 80-81- The King Follett sermon is used to prove that Joseph Smith taught the doctrine of plural Gods, and his diary is used to prove that he instigated the doctrine of plural wives and sealing for eternity. Neither of these is correct.</p> <p> The King Follett Sermon was reported by men from memory and printed months <b><u>after Joseph was dead</u></b>. It contradicts all that Joseph taught or wrote concerning God. James Whitehead, Joseph’s private secretary from 1842 until his death, swore under oath in court that he <b><u>heard </u></b>the King Follett Sermon and Joseph did <b><u>not</u></b> teach the plurality of gods in it. (See “Abstracts of Evidence” given in the Circuit Court of the United States, Western Division, at Kansas City, Missouri, 1893, Page 37. “Abstracts of Evidence” was printed by Herald House, Lamoni, Iowa in 1896.) See also Aleah G. Koury, “The truth and the Evidence”, Pages 27-29 for more information.</p> <p> James Whitehead also testified at the court proceedings noted above that he was directed by the administrator of Joseph to turn over to the Twelve, of whom Brigham Young was the president, all the papers and records that he had. (Ibid. Pg. 35). Whitehead’s testimony was that he found so many changes in the doctrines and practices of the church after Joseph died that he could not tolerate them and so left the church and waited for the legitimate successor of Joseph Smith, Jr. to take leadership in the church as it once was under the first Joseph. (Ibid. Pg. 35). </p> <p> One can easily see what Brigham Young and his associates did to Joseph’s words by comparing the LDS (Mormon) <i>Doctrine and Covenants </i>section 121 with the original letter from which it was taken. Two letters were written by Joseph and those imprisoned with him in Liberty, Missouri, jail. These letters were printed in the “Times and Season”, Nauvoo, Illinois, Vol. 1, number 7, pages 99-104 in May 1840 and number 9, pages 131-134 in July 1840. At the time, Joseph Smith was living in Nauvoo and his brother, Don Carlos was one of the editors of that publication.</p> <p> More than ten years after Joseph’s death, the Utah church <u>supposedly</u> reprinted the first letter in the <i>Millennial Star</i>, Liverpool, England, Vol. 17, No. 4, Pg. 52-56, but the letter was <span style="font-size:130%;"><u>deliberately altered</u></span> to include the doctrine of plural gods. From this <span style="font-size:130%;"><u>altered</u></span> form they then selected portions that were called “Prayers and Prophecies, written by Joseph Smith the Prophet”. Large portions of the letter (over two thousand words) were removed from the original and over two hundred words were inserted. <span style="font-size:130%;"><u>In the insertions is the concept of plural gods</u></span>. There is nothing to even resemble that doctrine in the originals. <span style="font-size:130%;">(See Koury, <i>The Truth and the Evidence</i> , Pg. 25-27. Also compare the original letters from the <i>Times and Seasons</i> with the Mormon <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i> section 121).</span></p> <p> With this clear evidence of the perfidy of Brigham Young and his associates, nothing that is supposedly written in Joseph Smith’s diary, in the Mormon <i>Doctrine and Covenants </i>or even in the <i>Millennial Star</i> can be considered reliable evidence of Joseph’s true teachings or actions.</p> <p> Page 85- Of course the doctrine of polygamy was known in Nauvoo. Joseph and Hyrum were very active in putting it down. Even during the last few weeks of their lives they were putting men out of the church for teaching it. For one interested in knowing the truth, there are many sources. Two that I recommend are Koury as noted above and Russell F. Ralston, <i>Fundamental Differences</i>, Herald House 1963. Another more recent publication answering more recent accusations of Joseph and polygamy is Richard Price, <i>The Polygamy Conspiracies</i>, 1984, Cumorah Books, Inc, Independence, Mo. and/or Richard and Pamela Price’s more recent and more thoroughly documented <i>Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy,</i> Vol. 1, Price Publishing Co. available at The Restoration Book Store in Independence, Mo. </p> <p> Pg. 96-97 - Ms. Hansen alleges that the RLDS preach another Jesus. She tries, by association, to infer that the Jesus preached is that of just a “good man”, a “prophet”, the “higher self”, “a god”, the “Son of God” (as a separate being) or the “Christ presence” who lives within us all. All one has to do is to read the Scriptures that she treats with such disdain to learn of her gross misunderstanding or deliberate effort to again deceive.</p> <p> Of course Jesus is spoken of as the “Son of God, the only begotten of the Father”, in the <i>Inspired Version of the Bible,</i> the <i>Book of Mormon</i> and the <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i>, just as he is in the <i>King James Bible.</i> But there is no firmer testimony of Christ as God, the eternal Father of Heaven and Earth than is found in the <i>Book of Mormon.</i> From the first writer of the book to the last, the testimony is the same. Here are only a few samples of the way the <i>Book of Mormon </i>bears witness that Jesus is God, much more clearly than does the <i>King James Bible.</i> </p> <p> In II Nephi 11:78 Nephi bears his testimony of the Christ, then says that it is necessary that both the Gentiles and the Jews become convinced “that Jesus is the Christ, the eternal God;” Mosiah 55:43-45 tells of a prophet who was slain by the unbelievers because he taught that “Christ was the God, the Father of all ---.” Mosiah 8:30 explains how it is that Christ is both the Father and the Son. Alma 19:97 explains that God, himself atoned for our sins. In III Nephi 5:14 Christ has the people of this Land thrust their hands into his side and feel the prints of the nails in his hands and feet so that “ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.” In Mormon 1:88, Mormon says that he wrote the history of his people so that the Jews and others of the covenant peoples should have another witness that “that Jesus whom they slew, was the very Christ, and the very God;”. </p> <p> For anyone who is really interested in knowing the truth, I recommend that you read the references given by Ms. Hansen<span style="font-size:130%;"> <u>in their context</u></span> and ask the Lord to help you understand. The answers already given in this paper will give you a clue as to how little Ms. Hansen’s information can be trusted.</p> <p> A few of the author’s references have not been consulted because they have not been readily available to me. Because they have not been examined, the purported facts or ideas attributed to those references have not received comment. To comment without examining them would not be wise in view of the fact that so much of that which has been available for research has proved to be misquoted, misused, and misinterpreted by Ms. Hansen. I see no reason to expect that information not readily available for comparison would prove the author’s statements concerning them either accurate or truthful. </p> <p>I pray God will guide and enlighten those who prayerfully read this response to Carol Hodges Hansen’s efforts to discredit Joseph Smith and his work. God has promised that His Spirit will lead to all truth, and it is the truth that makes us free.</p><p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 1pt;"><br /></p><p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 1pt;"><br /></p><p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p><p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><br /></b> </p><br /></div>James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-71308393389165431012009-08-16T05:21:00.000-07:002009-08-16T16:55:21.114-07:00Ancient Ceremonial Plaza Unearthed in Peru<div><br /></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Ancient Ceremonial Plaza Unearthed in Peru</span></strong><br /><strong><em>Andrew <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Whalen</span>, Associated Press</em></strong></div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div>Feb. 27, 2008 -- A team of German and Peruvian archaeologists say they have discovered the oldest known <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/13/peru-temple-mural.html" target="_blank">monument in Peru</a>: a 5,500-year-old ceremonial plaza near Peru's north-central coast.</div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370551277606742498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 324px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 205px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RCLB5VzpoR0/SogH7r3FKeI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/x42he6pVVrs/s400/peru-monument-324x205.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>Carbon dating of material from the site revealed it was built between 3500 B.C. and 3000 B.C., Peter Fuchs, a German archaeologist who headed the excavation team, said by telephone Monday.</div><br /><div>The discovery is further evidence that <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/ancient_civilizations/index.html" target="_blank">civilization</a> thrived in Peru at the same time as it did in what is now the Middle East and South Asia, said Ruth Shady, a prominent Peruvian archaeologist who led the team that discovered the ancient city of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Caral</span> in 2001. Shady serves as a senior adviser to Peru's National Culture Institute and was not involved in the project.</div><br /><div>The find also raises questions about what prompted "civilizations to form throughout the planet at more or less the same time," Shady said.</div><br /><div></div><div>The circular, sunken plaza, built of stones and adobe, is part of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Sechin</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Bajo</span> archaeological complex in Andes foothills, 206 miles northwest of Lima, where Fuchs and fellow German archaeologist Renate <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Patzschke</span> have been working since 1992.</div><br /><div>It predates similar monuments and plazas found in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Caral</span>, which nonetheless remains the oldest known city in the Americas dating back to 2627 B.C.</div><br /><div>The plaza served as a social and ritual space where ancient peoples celebrated their "thoughts about the world, their place within it, and images of their world and themselves," Fuchs said.</div><br /><div>In an adjacent structure, built around 1800 B.C., Fuchs' team uncovered a 3,600-year-old adobe frieze--six feet tall--depicting the iconic image of a <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/04/18/childsacrifice_arc.html" target="_blank">human <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">sacrificer</span></a> "standing with open arms, holding a ritual knife in one hand and a human head in the other," Fuchs said.</div><br /><div>The mythic image was also found in the celebrated <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Moche</span> Lords of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Sipan</span> tombs, discovered on Peru's northern coast in the late 1980s.</div><br /><div></div><div>Walter Alva, the Peruvian archaeologist who uncovered the Lords of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Sipan</span> tombs, said the plaza found in Fuchs' dig was probably utilized by an advanced civilization with economic stability, a necessary condition to construct such a ceremonial site.</div><br /><div></div><div>The excavation was the fourth in a series of digs at the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Sechin</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Bajo</span> complex that Fuchs and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Patzschke</span> began on behalf of the University of Berlin in 1992. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Deutsche</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Forschung</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Gemeinschaft</span>, a German state agency created to sponsor scientific investigations, has financed the most recent three digs.</div><br /><div>The find "shows the world that in America too, human beings of the New World had the same capacity to create civilization as those in the Old World," Shady said.</div><div align="left">Her discovery, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Caral</span>, made headlines in 2001 when researchers carbon-dated material from the city back to 2627 B.C., proving that a complex urban center in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">th</span>........</div><br /><div><strong><em>Dear Reader, I regretfully inform you the Discovery story was </em></strong></div><div><strong><em>incomplete. Click this link, perhaps Discovery will have discovered</em></strong></div><div><strong><em>their typo and have fixed it. </em></strong></div><br /><div><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/27/peru-monument-02.html">http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/27/peru-monument-02.html</a></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Blogger Note:</span></strong> The <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Ancient</span> Ceremonial Plaza in Peru story only confirms the Book of Mormon claims, peoples and cultures of ancient antiquity thrived upon the American Continent. Such as the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Jeredite</span> cultures, spoken of in Book of Ether, in the Book of Mormon. The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Jaredites</span>, led by Jared and the Brother of Jared around 3000/2600 B.C.- 200 B.C., after the fall of the Great Tower of Babel, traveled east as recorded by the Book of Mormon. The wise, considerate scholar will note the Book of Mormon acount of 3000/2600 B.C. and the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Mesoamerican</span> city <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Caral</span> dated to 2627 B.C. are dated closely. To close for mere chance. </div><br /><br /><div><strong>Book of Genesis <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">KJV</span> records Genesis 11:8-9</strong></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>8So the LORD scattered them <strong>abroad </strong>from thence upon the face of <strong>all the earth</strong>: and they left off to build the city.<br /></div><br /><div>9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the <strong>LORD did there confound the language of all the earth:</strong> and from thence did the <strong>LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. </strong></div><br /><div></div><div>If the Biblical Account stands correct, then the American continent in included, to which God scattered the peoples. In fact what appears to be a single language in 6 world wide locations, 2 locations which have been <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">discovered</span> upon the American Continent give <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">evidence</span> of a single worldwide language. </div><br /><div><br /> </div><div align="left"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370550295249088498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 360px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 178px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RCLB5VzpoR0/SogHCgSw7_I/AAAAAAAAAdI/G4gVNSoPMsI/s400/globe3%5B2%5D.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><p align="center">Click Below Link for Full Story<br /></p><br /><p><a href="http://taleof2nations.blogspot.com/search/label/6%20World%20Wide%20Language%20Locations%20Where%20Hebrew%20is%20Used%20To%20Translate">http://taleof2nations.blogspot.com/search/label/6%20World%20Wide%20Language%20Locations%20Where%20Hebrew%20is%20Used%20To%20Translate</a></p><p>The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Jaredite</span> story ends in the Book of Mormon. We never hear from the Bible what happened to them. They disappeared. Their story continues and is recorded in Book of Ether, of the Book of Mormon. </p><p>According to the Book of Mormon, Jared and the Brother of Jared led their people to the New World long before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. </p>James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357776394322470159.post-58020816732486946102009-06-30T19:47:00.000-07:002009-08-15T20:20:48.899-07:00The Cascajal Block: The Earliest Precolumbian WritingBy Andrew Bridges<br />updated 1:12 p.m. CT, Thurs., Sept . 14, 2006<br /><br /><br />A.P. Associated Press<br /><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370389109701723954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 281px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RCLB5VzpoR0/Sod0cRVlxzI/AAAAAAAAAdA/yFO6rZzQ690/s400/stonewriting_zoom.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center">More Than PicturesThe Cascajal block, </div><div align="center">pictured here, was found in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1999. </div><div align="center">Since then archaeologists have confirmed it bears the</div><div align="center">earliest known writing in the New World.<br /></div><br />WASHINGTON - It’s more than idle doodling, and the meaning is unclear. But there’s one thing researchers are sure of: The insect, ear of corn, inverted fish and other symbols inscribed on an ancient stone slab is the earliest known writing in the Western Hemisphere.<br />The arrangement and pattern of the symbols suggest the ancient Olmec civilization was using written language roughly three centuries earlier than previously proposed.<br />“We are dealing with the first, clear evidence of writing in the New World,” said Stephen Houston, a Brown University anthropologist. Houston and his U.S. and Mexican colleagues detail the tablet’s discovery and analysis in a study appearing this week in the journal <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/" target="_blank">Science</a>.<br /><br />The patterns covering the face of the rectangular block also represent a previously unknown ancient writing system — a rare find in archaeology.<br /><br />The text covers the block’s face, which is almost exactly the dimensions of a standard legal pad. However, at 5 inches (12 centimeters) thick and tipping the scales at 26 pounds (12 kilograms), the tablet is decidedly more hefty.<br /><br />The face is smooth and slightly concave, which suggests it may have been worn down in antiquity as it was inscribed and erased multiple times, Houston said.<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Discovered Years Ago</span></strong></div><p><br />Villagers in the Mexican state of Veracruz discovered the tablet sometime before 1999, while quarrying an ancient Olmec mound for road-building material. News of the discovery slowly trickled out, and the study’s authors traveled to the site earlier this year to examine and photograph the block. </p><p><br />Based on other materials, including pottery sherds, believed found with the slab, team concluded it is roughly 2,900 years old. Isolated signs similar to those inscribed on the block also appear on even older figurines found elsewhere in Mexico.<br />In 2002, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077435/ns/technology_and_science-science/">other experts claimed</a> an Olmec cylindrical seal and chips from a stone plaque contained the oldest examples of writing in the Americas. Some have disputed their interpretation of those symbols, which date to roughly 650 B.C.<br /><br />“This is centuries before anything we’ve had. People have debated whether the Olmecs had any writing. This clears it up. This nails it for me,” David Stuart, a University of Texas at Austin expert in Mesoamerican writing, said of the new find. Stuart was not connected with the discovery, but reviewed the study for Science<br /><br /><br /><br /></p><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Was It A Dead-End Script?</span></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></div>The block contains 28 distinct glyphs or symbols, some of which are repeated three and four times. The writing system doesn’t appear to be linked to any known later scripts, and may represent a dead end, according to the study.<br /><br />Other experts unconnected to the study agreed with Houston and his colleagues that the horizontally arranged inscription shows patterns that are the hallmarks of true writing, including syntax and language-specific word order.<br /><br /><div align="left">“That’s full-blown, legitimate text — written symbols taking the place of spoken words,” said William Saturno, a University of New Hampshire anthropologist and expert in Mesoamerican writing.</div><p><br />More Detailed Info About <br />The Cascajal Block.</p><p><a href="http://www.mesoweb.com/reports/Cascajal.pdf">http://www.mesoweb.com/reports/Cascajal.pdf</a><br /><br /></p><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="left">RELATED CONTENT<br /><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12480978/ns/technology_and_science-science/">Writing traced to nature and ancient shapes</a><br /><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10724962/ns/technology_and_science-science/">Earliest Mayan writing found inside pyramid</a><br /><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8633818/ns/technology_and_science-science/">Peruvian ‘writing’ system goes back 5,000 years</a></div><br /><div align="left">The Olmecs flourished between about 1200 B.C. and 400 B.C., before other great Central American civilizations like the Maya and Aztec. They are best known for the massive heads they carved from stone. The village where the block was found is close to a site called San Lorenzo, believed to be the center of the Olmec world.</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">“To me, this find really does bring us back to this idea that at least writing and a lot of the things we associate with Mesoamerican culture really did have their origin in this region,” Stuart said.<br />The small size of the block and the faintness of the inscription imply the text wasn’t a public document, but instead was meant for intimate reading, Houston said. Some suggested it may have had a ritual use.</div><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div>James Brian Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889997109571762096noreply@blogger.com0