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Originally Posted by Link S.
You have misinterpreted my meaning. I am saying that it is very possible that a man could find plates with religious writings on them that is all. I said nothing about the how Joseph Smith found the plates that recorded the actions of Gods children on this continent.
The point I was making is that it is very possible for someone to find ancient religious texts I mean look at the dead sea scrolls. They would be in the same catagory as the plates.
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No, I did not misunderstand or misinterpret your meaning. I understood, for the second time, exactly what you have explained.
What I stated was that such as claim ...
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Originally Posted by Link S.
It is very possible that a man could find plates with religious writings on them.
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Has, to my knowledge, no opposition or criticism existing towards it. Be that opposition directed at Mormonism or any claim on religious findings. If you have a source that states that Joseph Smith could not have found religious writings because it isn’t possible to, then please present it. Otherwise I can find no source that states the validity of Joseph Smiths plates are questionable because “people don’t find artefacts with religious writing on them”.
I also said that the only criticism or opposition against the Golden plates authenticity that even remotely resembles such a claim is...
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Originally Posted by <IF> Marius
The only criticism relating even remotely to that would be that there was no physical evidence presented for the existence of the Golden plates presumably found by Joseph Smith and that the sources presented for the existence and historicity of the Golden plates are either dubious (from conflictions or flat out disproof of accounts by witnesses or others) or have no sources outside of Mormon faith to prove their authenticity.
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