MormonTimes.com: Joseph Smith translated by revelation, professor says
PROVO — The only way Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, could have written the Book of Mormon is the way he said he did, Daniel C. Peterson said in a lecture at the Olivewood book store Thursday.
To have created it any other way would have required scholarly instincts and experience the young, uneducated farm boy did not have, Peterson said.
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...that LDS discourages the historical/scientfic search for truth...
Stunned | April 17, 2008 at 6:32 p.m.
(Even though I don't think he really did). Although the BOM...
Let's say Joseph did this | April 16, 2008 at 4:02 p.m.
Most religions are started by someone who wants money and to control...
Karen | April 16, 2008 at 1:25 p.m.
