Joseph Smith

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…

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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…

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Reason #32: Joseph Smith’s Imaginative Abilities

  Smith's wife Emma once said that she believed God dictated the Book of Mormon because her husband could hardly…

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Reason #31: Joseph Smith’s Story Is Not Unique

In 1837 an illiterate youth named James Colin Brewster said that at age ten, he, like Joseph Smith, had been…

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Reason #26: Geography

Much has been made about how Joseph Smith just used or adapted Bible names to create the names in the…

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Reason #20: Problems with Joseph Smith’s “First Vision”

Joseph Smith's own accounts of the first vision must be viewed with some reservations. No mention of his "First Vision"…

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Reason #19: The Inordinate LDS View of Joseph Smith

Brigham Young once stated that Joseph"'s consent was required for a person to be able to enter into the celestial…

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