False Prophecies and Failed Abilities of Joseph Smith: While at Kirtland Ohio, Joseph made a prophecy that is unfamiliar to most Mormons. Just before the first general church conference, he predicted that “not three days should pass away before some...
In the formative years of the LDS Church, any revelation received by church members was only considered valid if it was approved by Joseph Smith, because any revelation that contradicted Joseph”‘s just couldn”‘t be true. It pains me to think...
I have often wondered how I would have responded, had I been an adult in New England in the early 1830″‘s. Part of me wants to believe that Bible knowledge would have kept me from believing the story of the gold plates. The New Testament warned against...
One of the most amazing (and least-noticed) revelations he gave out is that found in DoctrineandCovenants Section 15. The heading to the revelation states: “The message is intimately and impressively personal in that the Lord tells of what was known only...
On June 15, 1828″”years after his supposed visit from God who told him that all churches on earth were corrupt — he tried to join the Methodist Church. Even the esteemed LDS writer Hyrum L. Andrus admitted that Joseph became a Methodist, but ignores...
