Category: Joseph Smith Jr.
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Hearts Made Glad — A Look at Mr. Petersen’s New Book
In our book Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? page 413, we said that “LaMar Petersen has prepared a manuscript entitled Hearts Made Glad. When this manuscript is published it will throw a great deal of light on the Word of Wisdom and Joseph Smith’s attitude towards it.” We are now happy to announce that Mr. Petersen’s book…
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The Real Joseph Smith
Getting a clear impression of Joseph Smith’s character has been difficult, due to guarded church records and LDS historians who have often been pressured.
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New Light on Moonmen
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the Messenger for August 1969, we quoted Oliver B. Huntington (a friend of Joseph Smith) as saying: Inhabitants of the moon “The inhabitants of the moon are more of a uniform size than the inhabitants of the earth, being about 6 feet in height. “The dress very much like…
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New Find Undermines Mormonism
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner We feel very honored and happy to announce one of the most important discoveries since Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church in 1830. This is the discovery by Wesley P. Walters of an original document which is more than 140 years old. This document proves that Joseph Smith was a…
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Joseph Smith and Money-Digging
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1877 the Vermont Historical Gazetteer printed the following information: About 1800, occurred the “Wood scrape,”. . . a strange affair in which the Wood families, then living here, were the leading actors . . . the Woods dug for money in various parts of the town, and were engaged in this for nearly…
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Changing the Revelations
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The following article is an excerpt from our book, The Case Against Mormonism Vol. 1 (Chapter 6, pp. 131-191) A Detailed Study of Changes in Joseph Smith’s Revelations The Mormon Apostle John A. Widtsoe stated: The Doctrine and Covenants is a compilation of the revelations received by Joseph Smith to…
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Fraudulent Acts
Evidence shows that Joseph Smith tried to declare bankruptcy after having transferred some of his property to others to avoid losing it.
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New York Times, Dec. 29, 1912 — “Museum Walls Proclaim Fraud of Mormon Prophet”
Early analysis of Joseph Smith’s claim to translate Egyptian papyrus into the Book of Abraham.