Originally posted by moon1969
Wow, so I guess you not big on the Mormon faith.
That is a fact, Jack. Since I know it is plagarism taken partly from
one of Solomon Spaulding manuscripts of romances with Biblical
backgrounds similar to the Book of Morman. It was imbellished with
word for word plagarisms from the King James Version of the Holy
Bible along with the mistranslation errors. Joseph Smith, Oliver
Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris were known for such
thinks as digging for Captain Kidd's buried treasure and using "peep"
stones and "divining" rods to find where to dig. According to Judge
Daniel Woodard, Joseph Smith escaped penalty for counterfeiting
money by turning evidence against Jack Downing, with who he had
been implicated. So the Book of Morman was just another one of
his "get rich quick" schemes that snowballed into a new religion.
You can read more about it in Dr. Walter Martin's book called
"The Kingdom of the Cults".