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If Joseph Smith’s revelations were proven false or fraudulent how can we possibly accept anything in the Book of Mormon or anything Smith ever said?
As a Christian, I trust the Bible to be the Word of God. In ancient times, God spoke to His chosen people through His prophets. God knew there would be other men pretending to be prophets but – who were no more than mere counterfeits.
And God gave us a fool-proof test to know if someone is a true prophet of God. It says, in Deuteronomy 18:22 “When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen, or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”
And in Jeremiah 14:14 “Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.”
It seems that Joseph Smith fits those descriptions. Didn’t he make prophecies that did not come to past?
Yes! There is a classic example in LDS Church history called the Canadian Copyright Episode. This event was recorded during the winter of 1829 and 1830 in a publication called “An Address to All Believers in Christ, pp. 30-31” by David Whitmer, one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.
When Smith desperately needed more money to complete the printing of the Book of Mormon, his brother Hyrum Smith suggested to Joseph that some men could go to Canada and sell the copyright to the
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If Joseph Smith’s revelations were proven false or fraudulent how can we possibly accept anything in the Book of Mormon or anything Smith ever said?
As a Christian, I trust the Bible to be the Word of God. In ancient times, God spoke to His chosen people through His prophets. God knew there would be other men pretending to be prophets but – who were no more than mere counterfeits.
And God gave us a fool-proof test to know if someone is a true prophet of God. It says, in Deuteronomy 18:22 “When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen, or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”
And in Jeremiah 14:14 “Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.”
It seems that Joseph Smith fits those descriptions. Didn’t he make prophecies that did not come to past?
Yes! There is a classic example in LDS Church history called the Canadian Copyright Episode. This event was recorded during the winter of 1829 and 1830 in a publication called “An Address to All Believers in Christ, pp. 30-31” by David Whitmer, one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.
When Smith desperately needed more money to complete the printing of the Book of Mormon, his brother Hyrum Smith suggested to Joseph that some men could go to Canada and sell the copyright to the