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The official account adopted by the LDS Church is that he prayed to know which church, if any, was true, despite the sermon that raised the question in his mind not having been given until 4 years later.
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He meets a white native American prophet, who tells him where to find golden plates, but he is also instructed not to take them yet.
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George Lane Gives the talk, that supposedly inspired Smith to question which religion was true.
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He begins in the employment of Josiah Stowell and moves to the vicinity of Harmony, Pennsylvania to look for a rumored silver mine. The "money diggers" board with Isaac Hale's family. Hale states that the boarders left with their bill unpaid.
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The Trial Bill
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Smith finally acquires the plates. No one else see's them. He hauls the tremendously heavy object for several miles, while running from treasure hunters.
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Martin Harris claims he is lying, and that he only changed his mind when he heard that it was a religious account.
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Martin Harris loses the pages. Smith Claims that the plates were taken from him by God for having let such a thing happen.
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Translating resumes, but from a different book that accounts the exact same events...
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he appends at a later date, when his authority is called into question, that the melchizedek priesthood was also restored.
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Their accounts differed rather wildly unfortunately...
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Apparently word of his sexual indiscretions leaked out...
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Clearly written from a trinitarian perspective
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This is odd... Considering that the sealing power wasn't restored until 1836
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"Translated" into scripture. The translation done by Smith does not bear any relation to the actual document, which was a pagan burial rite. It was, however, considered translation by Smith, rather than revelation, as is evidenced by the fact that his notes showed translations of individual characters on the papyri. One character apparently equaled as much as a paragraph of english text.
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This time there are two personages. Neither claims to be god, but they testify of Christ.
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He recounts the experience again, referring to it as a "Visitation of Angels", rather than from God.
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Woohoo, we can seal now! If only Smith hadn't already been sealed to other wives before this date... I wish this was an april fools joke, but it isn't...
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'nuff said
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For illegal Banking
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as admitted by Martin Harris
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Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris
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They try to decide the status of the book of mormon in their new religion, considering none of the witnesses actually saw it.
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This time, he claims to have been visited by an angel only, in the year 1823
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Once again, He refers to two unidentified personages
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"That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another."
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Which were later revealed to be a forgery
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No mention of visitation at all this time
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I'd look this up if I were you...
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"What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one."
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For which he was arrested and placed in Carthage
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He had been drinking, had removed his garments(though he did continue wearing a pendant of the Roman God Jupiter), shot one of the assailants, and made masonic symbols through the window to try and garner sympathy. He was shot while doing so and fell out of the window.
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-By the end of this Smith had nearly 40 wives, including girls as young as 14, women married to other men, a former sister in-law, and multiple sets of sisters -He altered the images on the Papyri to better match his "translation" -Mormonism had a sect of people who carried out violence to accomplish the churches ends, known as the danites -The Book of Mormon has been altered multiple times to fix mistakes -Visit mormonthink.org for more info