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What Were the Urim and Thummim? (Messages from God?)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Is There a Lot Theory in the Bible?

In terms of biblic evidence, the major argument in favor of the alphabetic theories is the longa replies that are sometimes given. The communications they had with the spirits were based around listening for the spirits to make a certain number of knocking sounds to answer yes no questions. They also developed a way of letting the spirits painstakingly keep knockingto indicate numbers or letters of the alphabet,. So like one knock for a, two knocks for b, 19 knocks for s, 20 knocks for t, and so forth.

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