Post 4

Post 4

So we know that Joesph Smith is a “money digger”. Smith met a girl named Sally Chase, who lived near the Smith family farm. Upon learning that she possessed a magical rock , Smith found the girl and used to stone to find hidden treasures. Oh my god. No pun intended. He was doing an illegal practice, and in six years he had never managed to unearth any other actual treasure. When this had come to light, a nephew of the man who hired Smith acused him of being a fraud. The trial and bad press brought Smith’s career to a halt. And one night when he was 17 an angel appeared to Joseph Smith. It was Moroni and explained that he had been brought by God. But  really you have to watch  the South Park  episode , “all about the Mormons”. It does the best job in explaining the revelation that Smith had. The whole idea that people follow this man after the story he tells is what makes it so interesting. He claims that He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do; and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kinds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people. Regarding Moroni, “He said there was a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang. He also said that the fulness of the everlasting Gospel was contained in it, as delivered by the Savior to the ancient inhabitants; Also, that there were two stones in silver bows--and these stones, fastened to a breastplate, constituted what is called the Urim and Thummim--deposited with the plates; and the possession and use of these stones were what constituted "seers" in ancient or former times; and that God had prepared them for the purpose of translating the book.”