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008 Translating the Book of Mormon with Stones in a Hat?

Church History Matters

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The Book of Mormon Is of Divine Authenticity

A couple of years ago, I was in independence at the community of Christ Temple there and I was with Todelin Ford, who's a great scholar that I work with at BYU. And they brought out these pieces of loose leaf paper. They were interview notes with Emma Smith. It was the last interview that Emma did February 4th through 10th, 1879 with her son Joseph the third. He just asked her flat out like, do you think he could have deceived you? She says, my belief is that the Book of Mormon is of divine authenticity.I'm satisfied that no man could have dictated the writing of the manuscripts unless he was inspired for when acting as described, your

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