On this episode, Joseph Smith is a fraud. We discuss two occurrences in Nauvoo which prove that Jo didn’t have access to any knowledge that people of his day did. First is the Greek Psalter incident where a guy proved that Jo had no idea what language was on the parchment. After that is the entirety of the Kinderhook Plates incident, which proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jo unabashedly knew he was a fraud. These incidents, coupled with the Book of Abraham in early 1842, reveal Jo to be the liar he was.
Links:
Henry Caswell “Three Days At Nauvoo” Greek Psalter expose http://www.olivercowdery.com/smithhome/1840s/1842Cas1.htm
Greek Psalter MormonThink article http://www.mormonthink.com/greekweb.htm
Henry Caswell: Anti-Mormon Extraordinaire https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3085&context=byusq
Hugh Nibley The Myth Makers (1961) https://archive.org/details/mythmakers00nibl/page/190
May 30, 1843 New York Herald signed “A Gentile” https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030313/1843-05-30/ed-1/seq-2/
Kinderhook Plates FAIRMormon article https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Forgeries_related_to_Mormonism/Joseph_Smith_and_the_Kinderhook_Plates
Kinderhook Plates MormonThink Article http://www.mormonthink.com/kinderhookweb.htm#significantref3
Improvement Era Aug 1961 https://archive.org/stream/improvementera6509unse#page/n61/mode/2up
1981 Kinderhook Plate LDS.org article https://www.lds.org/study/ensign/1981/08/kinderhook-plates-brought-to-joseph-smith-appear-to-be-a-nineteenth-century-hoax?lang=eng
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