Reason #110: Oahspe

While Mormons may claim that the Book of Mormon is unique, consider the case of a book called Oahspe: A New Bible. This very long book (twice as long as the Book of Mormon) was written by a single individual in a year’s time. According to ex-Mormon Richard Packham, this book was: . . .written miraculously by an angel using the hands and typewriter of a devout dentist named John Newbrough (1828-1891). He claimed that an angel had appeared to him and told him that he had been chosen to bring forth a new scripture. He was to spend the next few years as a period of testing and probation. At the end of the probationary period, the angel told him to buy a typewriter (at that time a fairly new invention) and a quantity of paper. Newbrough objected that he did not...