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Joseph Smith

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Joseph Smith | Biography & Facts

Joseph Smith, American prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Smith published the Book of Mormon in 1830 and shortly thereafter organized a small church of his first followers. Learn more about the life, writings, and legacy of Joseph Smith.
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Joseph Smith abandons Ohio

After his bank fails in the Panic of 1837, Joseph Smith flees Kirtland, Ohio, to avoid arrest and heads for Missouri to rebuild his religious community. A sensitive and religious-minded man since his youth, Joseph Smith claimed the angel Moroni visited him in 1823, when he was 18 years old, and...
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Let's face it, the problem with the book of Mormon is that it says it was written in reformed Egyptian Hieroglyphics. That must be a bit like modern simplified Chinese Kanji. I'm not even going to try to comment on the historicity of that account, or the veracity of the assertions (the core assertion is the Jesus appeared to North Americans after his resurrections). It's the fact that it was written in Egyptian. I just know too much about that branch of quote unquote spiritual studies to accept something connected to them.
 
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