"Mormonism", New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, New York, 1883, Vol.Response to claim: 16 - Joseph was notorious for telling tall tales The author(s) make(s) the following claim: Joseph was notorious for telling tall tales Author's sources: Response to claim: 31 - Joseph's mentor was "the conjurer Walters".Response to claim: 30 - The court pronounced Joseph "guilty" at the 1826 trial.Response to claim: 30 - In March 1826 Joseph got into serious trouble because of his "magic arts".Response to claim: 26 - Joseph liked preaching because it gave him an audience, and this was as "essential to Joseph as food".Response to claim: 25 - Joseph's vision may have been an invention to cancel out stories of his fortune telling and money digging.Response to claim: 25 - Joseph's own family did not know of his first vision at the time that it happened.Response to claim: 24 - Some of Joseph's close relatives confused the first vision with Moroni's visit.Response to claim: 24- Oliver Cowdery described Joseph's first vision as having occurred in 1823.Response to claim: 24 - The story of Joseph first vision evolved greatly between his 18 accounts.Response to claim: 23 - Palmyra newspapers took no notice of Joseph's vision at the time it was supposed to have occurred.
Response to claim: 20 - Joseph could see "ghosts, infernal spirits" and "mountains of gold" in his seer stone.Response to claim: 20 - William Stafford told a story about Joseph which claimed that he could find money using a bleeding black sheep.When Walters left the area, "his mantle fell upon" Joseph Smith Response to claim: 19 - A "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters became popular in the area.Response to claim: 18 - Joseph dreamed of an "illustrious and affluent" future, "detested the plow" and despaired about the family's debts.Response to claim: 18 - Fifty-one of Joseph's neighbors signed affidavits accusing him of being "destitute of moral character" and "addicted to vicious habits".Response to claim: 16 - Joseph was charged with being "a disorderly person and an impostor" at his 1826 trial.Response to claim: 16 - Joseph was notorious for telling tall tales.Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 2: Treasure in the Earth" A FAIR Analysis of: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, a work by author: Fawn BrodieĬlaims made in "Claims made in "Chapter 3: Red Sons of Israel"
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