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Rusty's Left Nut
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Date: December 14, 2018 08:04PM
That was the claim of Grant Palmer (now deceased) author of "An Insider's View of Mormon Origins" (which by the way sold in Deseret Bookstores for five years). Palmer worked for CES for 35 years. He lost faith after the Mark Hoffmann bombings/forgeries, proving that "The Brethren" did not have the supernatural "Spirit of Discernment" to know that Hoffmann was selling them bogus forgeries. This happened in 1986.
After that, Palmer started studying anti-Mormon books, for the first time. He no longer "trusted" that "The Church" would always tell the truth. He realized that Mormon "Prophets" are just "men" and "men" will "LIE" for many reasons: to save face, to protect the family name, to protect an organization they loved. Simple as that.
Palmer claimed in "Mormon Stories" interviews, that a Member of the First Quorum of Seventy, and a Mission President, visited him once a month, and told him:
1) They read his book.
2) They no longer believed in Mormonism
3) They remained in the Church for family reasons
4) One of them "knew" that the First Presidency and Apostles "didn't believe it" but "keep up appearances" because of family and financial reasons, and that every new Apostle was given 1,000,000 dollars to pay off his debts, and, if he leaved the Church, the 1,000,000 would be "owed back" to the Church.
Palmer never named the two men, saying he could not "out" them because they asked him "not" to out them.
Is Palmer's claim credible? Well, Palmer never had a "history" of lying (like Joseph Smith did, Brigham Young did, Gordon B. Hinckley did, Jeffrey Holland does, etc.).
But, the claim remains only a "claim". Only a "rumor" at this point. Hopefully, it can be proven true or false, one day, by Mormon Leaks, who come out with a document. But, remember, the Church has ingenious ways to keep things "undocumented" these days. The Church has been greatly embarrassed by "paper trails" and prefers now to NOT leave any.