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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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First was her acceptance of the validity of the testimony collected by Philastus Hurlbut that before Joseph Smith was a prophet he was an irreligious money digger who used a magic stone to discover buried treasure.
Joseph Smith's 1843 Ode on the Plan of Salvation Zeke Johnson's 1908 Witness of a Resurrection The (Discredit.
Smith's great-grandson, Joseph Fielding McConkie, provided a new preface for this edition, highlighting the significance of President Smith's teachings and life.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Joseph Smith published the first edition of the Book of Mormon in 1830 in Palmyra, New York; skeptics have reviled the book - and Smith - as frauds ever since.
Joseph Smith was a very flamboyant individual and had a disagreement with the Grand Lodge of Illinois over the way the Nauvoo lodges were operated.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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The Mormons were driven out of Nauvoo, Illinois and their beloved prophet and leader Joseph Smith was killed at the hands of a mob while in the protection of government authorities.
Joseph Smith with his 600 Mormon militia soldiers, tried to work out some sort of compromise.
Joseph Smith had already set that precedent with his public denials about polygamy when he was secretly practicing it in Nauvoo.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Joseph Smith's own story is by no means the only possible explanation of his career; for everything in the universe there are as many explanations to hand as the mind is willing to devise.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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If Joseph Smith had been a true prophet and the Book of Mormon the Word of God, it would be very dangerous for churches to not only disregard Smith and his Book of Mormon, but to also attack them, as many denominations do.
The Prophet Joseph Smith was the first Fundamentalist Mormon simply because he was the first to teach, advocate and practice, in this dispensation the fundamental principles of the Gospel.
However, if Joseph Smith's ordination to the priesthood occurred without having a mortal body, then the gospel plan for him and the rest of us is different.
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