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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
No, you didn't say it was all false, but Rathji said as much.
The part about the hat is that he looked into a hat with the rocks in the hat as he was translating the gold tablets while another guy wrote down what he was saying. I don't know if it's true or not.
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What I said was basicly you need to understand the source and realize that the information will all be biased to the point that it cannot be considered an acurate source. I said it was akin to asking Palin about Obama being the best President, clearly not the best person to be asking if you want a factual answer.
I did not mean to imply that all the information there was false. What I meant to say, and probably should have, was that you could find out alot more factual information from going directly to the source.
There is no secret how Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, it is written in pretty much every copy and in the Joseph Smith History. I am sure there are links to it online, but I am dealing with sick baby so hopefully if you are interested you could search 'Joseph Smith History' on
http://www.lds.org and you would come up with many relevant links.
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Direct Link to Jospeh Smith History