[…] at ten-thirty tonight, He need not listen to them all in that one little snippet which we call ten-thirty. Ten thirty—and every other moment from the beginning of the world—is always Present for Him.” […]
[…] uncovered Smith’s true, unrealized intentions for Mormonism. The Book of Mormon is a Masonic romance, a coded call for America’s divided, demoralized Masons to join a new order of Christian Knights Templar. Indeed, the […]
[…] Thus, the textual self-designation “I” (or “me”) refers not to the author but to the narrator: “ Call me Ishmael.” Does this mean Melville is trying to deceive us regarding his name? Of course […]
<i>Dialogue 52.4 (Winter 2019): 85</i><br>Such inconsistencies may cause some readers to question the credibility of the text. Upon observing doctrinal andprophetic variation within the Book of Mormon, some dismiss the book’s divinity
<i>Dialogue 30.3 (Fall 1999):90–103</i><br> To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book […]
[…] (Spring 1966): 15–42</i><br> Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, wrote an […]
[…] apologia, it is that “the message of the Book of Mormon was and continues to be inseparable from the story of its origins—a story involving angels, seer stones, and golden plates” (37). What follows is a […]
[…] identified only as “a Querist” in 1826: I have reason to believe that many arts, which we call “cabalistic,” are lost, merely from the skepticism of modern philosophers. . . . Egypt and other countries shew vestiges […]
[…] Mormonism is a failure.” Shortly before Elder Smith wrote to Commissioner West, Snell himself received a letter from his fellow speaker, Henderson, who differed significantly from Smith in his evaluation of Snell’s address: “I […]
[…] is noteworthy because, instead of laying out the original historical meaning of Isaiah, it reapplies the text to the time of Joseph Smith and to the course of Jewish and Christian history up to […]