Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: barry1@ihlpa.att.com (Barry O Olson) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Why Joseph Smith? Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 07:58:47 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Concerning Joseph Smith on his revelation to the indians. Not a flame but something i have prayed about and pondered, for what it's worth. The American Indian always gets the shaft from the white man right? Now, why would God in all His wisdom meed a white man to come along for Him to reveal His revelation to the Indians. Are the indians that tainted that God cannot show or lead one of their own to find some buried plates, btw, buried by another indian at God's command, to reveal their own history? The Indians i can safely say in all sincerity would pray to the Great Spirit for wisdom, understanding, blessing, etc. Yet, in all their sincerity, God would not use them to discover these alleged plates. In fact for God to have to wait for a white man, would seem another slap in the face to the Indians from a white God? And surely there had to be more holy indians around than Joseph would have been. Or more Holy white men for that matter. Now the Gospel and the OT came to us through no white man, but through the Jews whom God chose to make Himself known to all the world. These are certainly honest questions that have bothered me for quite a while now. barry olson