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From: toddv@tekmdp.UUCP (Todd Vierheller)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Book of Mormon
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Date: Thu, 11-Aug-83 12:21:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 11 12:21:15 1983
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Jon White spells his name J-O-N.  (No "H").   Minor point, but it bothers
me because it makes me think I'm reading about someone else.

An interesting book on the market concerning the Book of Mormon is called
"Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?".  It (the book) claims (and documents)
that Joseph Smith and accomplices acquired a manuscript from a man named Rev 
Solomon Spaulding and turned it into [part of] the book of Mormon.  Lots of 
documentation is provided, including people who had read some of Spaulding's 
early manuscripts, neighbors of both Smith and Spaulding, personal letters, etc.

After reading this you might agree with Russ that Joseph Smith and accomplices
didn't write the Book of Mormon.  Then again, you might not.  Decide for 
yourself.

I understand that a similar [and better] book was published about 1914 --
"The True Origin of the Book of Mormon" by Charles Shook.


Russ, would you please address the problem of no archeological evidence of the
history of America as claimed by Joseph Smith.  I have a book called
"Archeological Evidence for the Book of Mormon in America."  Or something like
that.  It's in St Louis.  (My grandfather was a mormon.  I have books
concerning things you wouldn't believe.  But that's another story.)
Do you have this book Russ?  I frankly haven't read mine.
What about the archeological evidence?  Or the lack of it?

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                       Todd Vierheller (Portland Oregon)

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