As someone once said, "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember what you said." But because the Book of Mormon is a brilliantly made up tale, Joseph got caught up with lying incessantly, trying to pass off the BOM as truth and fact.
Joseph Smith Senior refused to join because a preacher had said his son Alvin had gone to hell. Alvin died in 1823. Richard Bushman on page 570 footnote 30 of Rough Stone Rolling wrote "All the circumstantial evidence not withstanding for an 1820 membership, the date of Lucy Smith's engagement with Presbyterians remains a matter of debate. It is possible that she did not join until later Palmyra revivals 1n 1824.
For many academic historians Brodie's approach is problematic. Her biography of Jefferson, for example, is not very highly regarded by scholars these days. Brodie’s work on Smith is important historically because it was one of the first empirical bios of Smith (there weren’t many for years after hers). It has been surpassed in the same way that Frederick Jackson Turner, while important, has been surpassed by current scholarship, particularly in their more nuanced approaches.
Great show. I LOVE me some Sandra and Dan
Amazing video!!
As someone once said, "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember what you said." But because the Book of Mormon is a brilliantly made up tale, Joseph got caught up with lying incessantly, trying to pass off the BOM as truth and fact.
Joseph Smith Senior refused to join because a preacher had said his son Alvin had gone to hell. Alvin died in 1823. Richard Bushman on page 570 footnote 30 of Rough Stone Rolling wrote "All the circumstantial evidence not withstanding for an 1820 membership, the date of Lucy Smith's engagement with Presbyterians remains a matter of debate. It is possible that she did not join until later Palmyra revivals 1n 1824.
Also sorry for being so sarcastic in the live chat
So god isn’t a god of “truth” he is a god is “feelings”. Religion requires faith, but it shouldn’t require the ignoring of verifiable facts.
For many academic historians Brodie's approach is problematic. Her biography of Jefferson, for example, is not very highly regarded by scholars these days. Brodie’s work on Smith is important historically because it was one of the first empirical bios of Smith (there weren’t many for years after hers). It has been surpassed in the same way that Frederick Jackson Turner, while important, has been surpassed by current scholarship, particularly in their more nuanced approaches.