The Southern Utah Ex/PostMormon Association to meet October 4th

Place: St. George, Utah at the Red Lion affiliation 850 So. Bluff St. St. George Utah

Time: 2 PM- Red Lion Restaurant

Come and examine the LDS Churches admission of the Rock in the Hat story.


LDS Apologist Daniel Peterson offers this explanation in the following Deseret News article.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865625005/Joseph-the-stone-and-the-hat-Why-it-all-matters.html?pg=all

Some critics of Joseph Smith mock the fact that part of the Book of Mormon translation process apparently involved dictating while looking at a stone that he’d placed within a hat.

Yet far from being damaging evidence against his claims and against the Book of Mormon, this fact may strongly support their plausibility. The Lord has said that he makes (seemingly) weak things become strong (Ether 12:27), and this seems yet another such case.

Consider a smartphone or e-reader, for instance. Their screens are very difficult to read out in the sunlight and need to be shaded. Or consider your personal computer. You probably don’t place it directly in front of a window where bright light will be streaming into your face. You need contrasting darkness so that you can see the screen without strain, and especially so if you’ll be working on it for lengthy periods. Otherwise, your eyes will tire and your head will ache.

Explanations worth examining will be those of LDS Historians Matthew Bowman and Benjamin Park along with Richard Turley's recent Ensign article.

Come enjoy the fun, refreshments will be provided..

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How the spin misters defend the Keystone of their religion, translated from non existent gold plates, from an non-existent language, using a Rock in a Hat and a by a known shyster.