Category: Joseph Smith Jr.
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Jesus and Joseph Smith (tract)
Although Joseph Smith is admired as a saintly prophet and even compared himself to Jesus Christ, history shows a great gap of character between the two.
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Was Joseph Smith a Magician?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner How did Joseph Smith translate the supposed ancient record he found in the hill? The eye-witnesses to the translation process of the Book of Mormon seem to be describing a magical event. Joseph Smith would put a stone in his hat and then the “translation” of the plates would appear…
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Joseph Smith Sermon: Boasting and Denial of Polygamy
Responding to criticisms of being a fallen prophet and promoting polygamy, Joseph Smith boasts of maintaining a church better than anyone (including Jesus), and claims to have only one wife (while he actually had more).
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Preface to the Book of Mormon, 1830, first edition
PREFACE. TO THE READER— As many false reports have been circulated respecting the following work, and also many unlawful measures taken by the evil designing persons to destroy me, and also the work, I would inform you that I translated, by the gift and power of God, and caused to be written, one hundred and…
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The Mormon Prophet Attempts to Join the Methodists
The significance of Joseph Smith trying to join the Methodist church is that he did so AFTER being told by God that the Methodists are “not my People,” (specifically), and that all Christian denominations were “an abomination,” (in general).
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A Response to Foster
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In our last newsletter, we included a statement by Dr. Lawrence Foster criticizing our work. Foster claimed that we were deliberately trying to avoid an interview with him. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were actually looking forward to meeting with him. Unfortunately, in his response to us…
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Mormon Claims Answered: Chapter 1
By Marvin W. Cowan Origin and History of Mormonism THE STORY AS TOLD BY MORMONS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism recorded his own story this way: I was born in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, on the twenty-third day of December, in the town of Sharon, Windsor County,…
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Brigham Young Sermon: Joseph Smith’s Consent Needed to Enter Heaven
Brigham Young teaches that although all people will be “saved” (resurrected), only those who obtain Joseph Smith’s consent can then attain the highest degree of exaltation, in the celestial kingdom. As printed in Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, pp. 288-90 (typescript)[Bold in quotations is added for emphasis and does not appear in originals.] [page 282]…
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Interview with Martin Harris in Tiffany’s Monthly
Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses of the Book of Mormon, tells of his early experiences with Joseph Smith, the gold plates, the Urim and Thummim, Smith’s money-digging, and his Seer stone. “I am forbidden to say anything [about] how the Lord showed them [the gold plates] to me, except that by the power…
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Legacy: A Distorted View of Mormon History
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Legacy (1993) The Mormon Church’s official magazine, Ensign, printed the following in 1993: Imagine that you have just completed a tour of Temple Square in the heart of Salt Lake City, Utah. The guide suggests that you walk across the street and view Legacy, a new motion picture shown exclusively…