Joseph Smith taking Mormon golden plates from the moroni
The plates are there for everyone to see... but in reality, no one saw these plates. Joseph Smith told people that if they saw the plates something horrible would happen. Here is a paragraph from Jerry Stokes' site about witnesses to the Book of Mormon plates
Emma told her son that she “ touched the plates” under a thick linen table cloth. “They seemed pliable like thick paper.” Three early Mormon leaders called the three witnesses signed a sworn affidavit that stated they had seen the plates, but also claimed to have seen an angel. Dr. Bushman says all three later left the church. ibid. Also in June 1829 another eight leaders called the eight witnesses swore that they viewed the gold plates. In the later years most of these men recanted their testimonies, and were excommunicated from the Mormon church. Brigham Young said, “Some of the witnesses of the Book of Mormon, who handled the plates, and conversed with the angels of God, were afterwards left to doubt and to disbelieve that they had ever seen an angel.
A toy of Joseph smith sitting on his knees and Moroni with white dress while he giving Golden plates to Joseph Smith
In 1827, the angel Moroni directed Joseph Smith to a hill where he received a set of golden plates that contained the Book of Mormon.
The prophet claims that he was only 14 when he was first visited by the Heavenly Father and his son, Jesus Christ, in the form of two pillars of fire. A few years later, the angel Moroni began to visit him and did so for four years straight until directing Smith to the hill Cumorah in upstate New York where he unearthed the golden plates and two divining stones that would help him to translate. Although the angel took the plates back, Smith was left with the Book of Mormon, which he originally had self-published.
Joseph Smith standing while taking golden plates from Moroni
The Mormon golden plates held on the table
moroni delivers the golden plates to Joseph Smith silver art
Portrait of Joseph smith studying book
Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormonism, and an important religious and political figure during the 1830s and 1840s. In 1827, Smith began to gather a religious following after announcing that an angel had shown him a set of golden plates describing a visit of Jesus to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. In 1830, Smith published what he said was a translation of these plates as the Book of Mormon, and the same year he organized the Church of Christ.
Joseph smith black statue at a temple
Joseph smith with coart and book on hand
spirit Moroni appeared to Smith three times while in bed and given golden plates
On September 21, 1823, a spirit calling itself Moroni, appeared to Smith three times while in bed to tell him of God's commission to restore the "true" Gospel to the earth and also of some golden plates upon which was inscribed the history of people who had lived in the Americas previously. Smith was told where to find them but also that he could not obtain them yet. He must wait until of time of fulfillment, which was September 22, 1827.
LDS dsplay of Book of Joseph smith's Mormon plates Temple Square
Pope Benedict XVI in his heavy vehicle car and security people on Mount Precipice in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth
Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful from his security-surrounded Popemobile as he arrives for a mass on Mount Precipice, where the Bible says a mob tried to hurl Jesus off a cliff, in the northern city of Nazareth. Tens of thousands of the faithful turned out in the town of Jesus’s boyhood when the Pontiff took his Holy Land pilgrimage to the heartland of Israel’s minority Arab population
The crowded people of mass celebrating the event of Pope Benedict XVI at Mount Precipice in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth
People gather for a mass celebrated Pope Benedict XVI on Mount Precipice in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth. Pope Benedict, visiting the town of Jesus’s boyhood, on Thursday addressed the largest crowd of his trip and called for a defence of traditional heterosexual marriage and family values. More than 40,000 people attended the outdoor mass -- celebrated in Arabic, English and Latin -- in the area of Nazareth known as Mount Precipice, where the bible says a mob tried to hurl Jesus off a cliff
Pope Benedict XVI leads a mass on Mount Precipice, where the Bible says a mob tried to hurl Jesus off a cliff, in the northern city of Nazareth. Tens of thousands of the faithful turned out in the town of Jesus’s boyhood as Pope Benedict took his Holy Land pilgrimage to the heartland of Israel’s minority Arab population
Catholic nun holding a rosary at Mount Precipice in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth event of Pope Benedict XVI
A Catholic nun holds a rosary as she attends a mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on Mount Precipice, where the Bible says a mob tried to hurl Jesus off a cliff, in the northern city of Nazareth. Pope Benedict, visiting the town of Jesus’s boyhood, on Thursday addressed the largest crowd of his Middle East trip and said governments had a duty to defend traditional heterosexual marriage and family values
Man with keffiyeh traditional Arab headdress at mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on Mount Precipice in the northern city of Nazareth
A man wearing a keffiyeh, a traditional Arab headdress, attends a mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on Mount Precipice in the northern city of Nazareth. Pope Benedict, visiting the town of Jesus’s boyhood, on Thursday addressed the largest crowd of his trip and called for a defence of traditional heterosexual marriage and family values. More than 40,000 people attended the outdoor mass -- celebrated in Arabic, English and Latin -- in the area of Nazareth known as Mount Precipice, where the bible says a mob tried to hurl Jesus off a cliff
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