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- Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:57 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
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Re: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
I'd say that's a slam dunk, and so far uncontested. Just wait till Fat Dan gets the word. He'll be sorry. Mounting Evidence for the Book of Mormon By Daniel C. Peterson 2009 The appearance of two men named Alma in the Book of Mormon has occasioned much comment. Critics observe that Alma is a woman’...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:29 pm
- Forum: Celestial Forum
- Topic: Names and Reincarnation in Early Mormonism
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Transmigration a Doctrine of the Devil
Nope, sorry, but Joseph Smith taught no such thing but actually despised the doctrine of reincarnation or multiple appearances from spirit to body. Transmigration a Doctrine of the Devil I told Joshua I did not understand his remarks on the resurrection, and wished him to explain. He replied that he...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:38 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
- Replies: 60
- Views: 17907
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:35 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
- Replies: 60
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Re: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
The Book of Mormon's use of Alma as a man's name has occasioned considerable amusement among uninformed critics of the book. We are not amused, nor are we uniformed! We have the scoop and are sweeping the true piles of dirt that are under the rugs of Mormon scholars. so far as modern scholarship ha...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:26 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
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Joseph Smith Papers [201] Smith’s husband, Warren, and ten-year-old son, Sardius, were killed; her six-year-old son, Alma, was shot in the hip. (Amanda Smith, Affidavit, Quincy, IL, 18 Apr. 1839, photocopy; Alma Smith , Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 3 Jan. 18400 [214] Three boys originally hid under ...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 8:48 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
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Re: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
Joseph Smith Papers Alanson Ripley, Seymour Brunson, Charles [C.] Rich, Francis Higbee, Stephen Markham. Henry G. Sherwood Lyman Wight Thomas Grover King Fol[l]ett Tarlton Lewis Amanda [Barnes] Smith Isaac Laney Merrick Edwd. Partridge, Lyman Leonard, Samuel Bent Parley P. Pratt Chapman Duncan [Orr...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 8:32 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
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Re: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
Joseph Smith Papers
Another Alma!October 1838 wrote:October 30 Hauns Mill Massacre was 18 or 19 whose names as far as I recollect, were as follows: . . . . Jacob Potts, Charles Jimison, John Walker, Alma Smith aged about 9 years old
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
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Re: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
Alma Smith Gender: M Birth: 1799, Danby, Rutland, Vermont ALMA SMITH ! Alma was born 5 years before Joseph Smith Jr., in the town of Rutland Vermont which is about 30 or so miles southwest of Sharon Vermont, as the crow flies. I'd say there was a good chance the Smith's in Sharon knew the Smith's i...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 8:00 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
- Replies: 60
- Views: 17907
Re: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
Heavy weight (pun intended) scholar Daniel Peterson has weighed in on the subject: “Alma,” Deception, and I Since that time, though, I’ve been told that, in fact, there were some non-Latter-day Saint American men before and during the period of Joseph Smith who may have borne the name Alma . (The co...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 5:03 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
- Replies: 60
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Re: Top 10 Falsifiable FAIRMORMON Claims
Mormon scholar Mike Reed explored this same approach ten years ago. He listed 47 examples of pre-Book of Mormon male Almas on his blog, "Cultural Mormon Cafeteria." Here is a link to his interesting comments posted January 23, 2010: https://culturalmormoncafeteria.blogspot.com/search?q=alma+name+ma...