Standing For Something More by Lyndon Lamborn

In his Comprehensive History of the Church ( CHC), LDS historian and Seventy Brigham H. While many paintings and pictures used in Mormon visitor's centers and books depict a prayerful Smith leaning over the plates, many contemporaries of Smith admit that he used a hat and a seer stone as a means of bringing about this 'divine' record. The method in which Joseph Smith 'translated' the gold plates has been a source of interest to many people who have studied the origins of the LDS movement. This is the difference between the way Mormons and critics of the LDS Church view Mormonism's first prophet. On the other hand, if the translation has no basis in fact, but instead is based on fraud, then it should be exposed and the man's teachings about God and faith should be debunked.

If Smith truly was a prophet with the ability to decipher plates of an unknown language which were said to contain the story of Jesus' appearance in the Americas, then this man should be revered and his translation of this ancient work heralded as God's word to mankind. The question at hand, then, is whether or not Smith's translation of the Book of Mormon plates is true. The volume was something near six inches in thickness, a part of which was sealed' ( History of the Church 4:537). They were filled with engravings, in Egyptian characters and bound together in a volume as the leaves of a book, with three rings running through the whole. Joseph Smith said, 'each plate was six inches wide and eight inches long, and not quite so thick as common tin. According to Smith's testimony, four more years went by before the angel allowed him to retrieve the gold plates.

This heavenly messenger is reported to have told him about gold plates that contained a record of 'former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang.' The plates were said to contain 'the fulness of the everlasting Gospel' as it was 'delivered by the Savior to the ancient inhabitants.' In order to translate the language contained on the plates (a language called 'Reformed Egyptian'), two stones in silver bows, called the Urim and Thummim, were included with the plates (Joseph Smith History 1:34,35). The founder of the LDS Church, Joseph Smith, claimed an angel named Moroni visited him in September of 1823. Original Author(s): Bill Mckeever And Eric Johnson To understand the purpose of this website.ĬLICK HERE to visit the main page of The Mormon Curtain.Ī Seer Stone And A Hat - 'Translating' The Book Of Mormon is a website that blogs the Ex-Mormon world.

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Standing For Something More by Lyndon Lamborn