The Book of Mormon - Charles Anton's Account of the Visit of Martin Harris

Charles Anton has the discrepancies in his two accounts and so you do have to account for those but at the same time we can evaluate the way Joseph Smith changes Martin Harris's account especially with Martin Harris being gone. The phrase I cannot read a sealed book was added after the initial 1838 draft of his history which shows that Joseph Smith was changing the historical account both to fulfill prophecy and bolsters authority. mentioning the sealed portion is Joseph Smith trying to fulfill Isaiah 29 even though as we've talked about already biblical scholars are clear that Joseph Smith is completely misinterpreting Isaiah 29 in the first place. If he wanted to take a shot at translating the language Martin Harris could have showed him the unse