LDS Church History documents that their mormon founder, Joseph Smith, lied to a large group of people about his having multiple wives.
Book of Abraham exposed “fraud”
The Book of Abraham is part of the Pearl of Great Price, which mormons consider scripture. The papyri which Joseph Smith said he translated the Book of Abraham from have been exposed to be nothing more than funeral texts from ancient Egypt.
Kinderhook plates exposed as phony
The Kinderhook plates were a set of plates which Joseph Smith claimed he was translating, and were later found to be phony plates made by someone trying to test the mormon founder.
Joseph Smith copied Freemasonry
Mormon temple worship shares an extensive commonality of symbols, signs, vocabulary and clothing with Freemasonry, including robes, aprons, handshakes, ritualistic raising of the arms, etc. Even the symbols on LDS temple garments precisely the same the major symbols of a Freemason, which are tools of a stone mason. Where did mormonism get these?
Similar books written before the Book of Mormon?
Many question the origins of the Book of Mormon. Two other books which are said to have striking resemblance to Joseph Smith’s Book of Mormon, were written prior what he claimed was the “most correct of any book on earth”.
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