Category: Plagiarism
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Mormon and Anti-Mormon Forgeries
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner An article examining the possibility of forgery in Oliver Cowdery’s “Defence” and the Overstreet Confession Over thirty years have passed since the editors of this newsletter (Jerald and Sandra Tanner) began studying the doctrine and history of the Mormon Church. Not long after starting our research, we began to realize…
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Mormonism and Plagiarism
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner For almost thirty years the editors of this newsletter have studied the contents of LDS documents in an attempt to determine the truth about Mormon history. Over the years we have found a number of documents (both Mormon and anti-Mormon) that bear all the earmarks of forgery. The Mormon scholar…
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The Changing World of Mormonism: Chapter 5
The Book of Mormon As we have already shown, Joseph Smith claimed that on the night of September 21, 1823, when he was seventeen years old, an angel appeared to him and stated that gold plates were buried in the Hill Cumorah. The angel explained that the plates contained “an account of the former inhabitants…
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B. H. Roberts’ Secret Manuscript
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner We are often asked how a young man like Joseph Smith could produce a work like the Book of Mormon. As we have already indicated, we feel that the Bible was the main source. Many of the stories found in the Bible were simply rewritten and inserted into the Book…
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BYU Computer Study
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner During the last two or three years the newspapers have carried some sensational stories concerning the Book of Mormon. On June 25, 1977, the Los Angeles Times reported that three handwriting experts had declared that portions of the Book of Mormon were written by Solomon Spalding. Now that the controversy…
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10,000,000 Mormons?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1967 the LDS Church glowingly predicted reaching 10,000,000 members by the year 2000. But serious problems underlying their faith claims have remained to this day, such as evidence that Joseph Smith plagiarized material for the Book of Mormon that was supposedly received by revelation. The Mormon Church leaders now…