( This is an image of Joseph Smith's “Alphabet and Grammar,” containing most of the text of the Pearl of Great Price's Book of Abraham 1:13-17. The arrows point to symbols found on the papyri from which Smith supposedly translated the PofGP. The...
A recent article in an LDS publication gives a hint to how the Mormon church may choose to deal with the embarrassment of the Pearl of Great Price. Like many other elements of Mormonism which have brought negative attention to the LDS church, it may just “go...
The previous post used an analogy to describe the feelings that many have when discovering that Mormonism's claims of divine origin are false. I'll use a quote from my book, The Mormon Mirage, that describes the end of that process for me, when I was confronted with a...
