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Posted by: Nick Humphrey ( )
Date: November 11, 2010 06:17AM
prophet joseph f smith denies ever having a revelation

http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsbefor01unitrich
(page 99)
The CHAIRMAN. I do not quite understand that "when it is divine." You have revelations, have you not?
Mr. SMITH. I have never pretended to nor do I profess to have received revelations. I never said I had a revelaton except so far as God has shown to me that so-called Mormonism is God's divine truth; that is all.

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Posted by: quoth the raven Z--nevermo ( )
Date: November 11, 2010 06:36AM
Re: prophet joseph f smith denies ever having a revelation

Well, how about the angel who was going to kill him unless he started banging the hired help in the barn?

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Posted by: Nick Humphrey ( )
Date: November 11, 2010 06:38AM
Re: prophet joseph f smith denies ever having a revelation

quoth the raven Z--nevermo Wrote:
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> Well, how about the angel who was going to kill
> him unless he started banging the hired help in
> the barn?

haven't heard about this story, what's your source? =)

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Posted by: badseed ( )
Date: November 11, 2010 11:45AM
Perhaps yer thinking of his Uncle JS Jr.

Who got the revelation on plural marriage— aka hooking up with Fanny Alger in the barn.

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Posted by: Jon ( )
Date: November 11, 2010 06:46AM
Re: prophet joseph f smith denies ever having a revelation

A case of mistaken identity me thinks, those darn Smiths all look alike...

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Posted by: quoth the raven "nevermo" ( )
Date: November 11, 2010 07:47AM
Re: prophet joseph f smith denies ever having a revelation

Oops...yes those darn smiths do all look alike!

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Posted by: apikoros ( )
Date: November 11, 2010 11:42AM
Re: prophet joseph f smith denies ever having a revelation

Does that mean that Section 138 can be ignored? I thought that it was a 'cornerstone' of LDS doctrine. He said that it was a 'divine communication,' which I thought was the very definition of 'revelation.'
But then, "I don't know that we teach that."

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Posted by: Simone Stigmata ( )
Date: November 11, 2010 11:51AM
Section 138 must be a daydream; BTW they changed it too!

Didn't he originally write that he saw both Michael and Adam in his daydream? In LDS theology they are the same person, so I think they took out Michael before they put it in the D&C IIRC.

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Posted by: schweizerkind ( )
Date: November 11, 2010 11:59AM
Re: prophet joseph f smith denies ever having a revelation

This excerpt is from the hearings regarding seating Reed Smoot as a senator. The profit testifying is Joseph F. Smith, Hy's kid and Joe's nephew. Father of Joseph Fielding Smith. Good 'ol Joseph F. could dissemble with the best of them. GBH probably learned from him.

The-whole-family-is-rotten-ly yrs,

S

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