Reason #35: The Gold Plates Never Existed

  One LDS author, Dan Vogel in American Apocrypha:Essays on the Book of Mormon stated:  “Given the fact that the three witnesses saw a vision and that the experience of the eight witnesses seems to have been similarly visionary, there is no compelling...

Reason #34: Unreliability of Book of Mormon Witnesses

Many Mormons seek solace in the thought that there were enough reliable witnesses to substantiate the Book of Mormon”‘s validity and justify their own faith in it. But just how reliable were these witnesses? Mormons often claim that none of them ever...

Reason #33: Who could verify Egyptian translations in 1828?

  Martin Harris did indeed as Mormons claim take a copy of some of the characters Joseph Smith said he copied from the golden plates to Dr. Charles Anthon at Columbia University in New York City. But there truth and LDS fiction part paths. Harris claimed that...