There's an error in the upcoming edition of The Mormon Mirage. (Yes, since I'm human, there will be errors.) This one has to do with the assertion of Fawn Brodie (author of No Man Knows My History, a biography of Joseph Smith) and others who have said that...
Because of the Sheer Number of Joseph Smith”‘s False Prophecies: False prophecy became a habit for Joseph Smith. Most estimates of the number of recorded false prophecies that Smith made range from 50 to 60. Edmond C. Gruss and Lane A. Thuet in What...
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...
