Via the seer stone, Smith had declared in 1830 that ... Canal — they would secure funding to distribute the Book of Mormon. When the trip did not pan out, one follower, David Whitmer, questioned ...

This change was pivotal in the establishment of the LDS Church and Smith's role as a prophet. The most notable use of a seer stone in Smith's religious work was during the translation of the Book of ...

A new Hulu series will explore a cheating scandal — and its aftermath — that rocked the world of Mormon social media influencers. By Jessica Roy In the summer of 2022, the world of Mormon ...

Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), is a figure surrounded by intrigue and reverence within religious history. Among the many artifacts and elements ...

Read More: Why the Mormon Church Finally Let Black Men Into ... An early dissenter exposed the fact that Smith had used the same seer stone with which he sought treasure to translate the gold ...

To Latter-day Saints, the “coming forth” of the sacred text was done by “gift and power of God.” The seer stone, “sitting there like it had just been dug up,” Bushman adds ...

In recent years, the scholarly consensus in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seems to be that Smith produced most of the text using a “seer stone” in a hat, where words somehow ...

The correspondence describes how Joseph Smith found golden plates, which later resulted in the Book of Mormon, with the help of what the letter described as "a seer stone, a kind of magical ...

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The angel Moroni, an icon of the Mormon faith. SALT LAKE CITY (CN) — A federal lawsuit sure to get attention in Utah claims that the “Mormon Corporate Empire” has driven worshipers to existential ...