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Alma Smith Gender: M Birth: 1799, Danby, Rutland, Vermont ALMA SMITH ! Alma was born 5 years before Joseph Smith Jr., in the town of Rutland Vermont which is about 30 or so miles southwest of Sharon Vermont, as the crow flies. I'd say there was a good chance the Smith's in Sharon knew the Smith's i...

Heavy weight (pun intended) scholar Daniel Peterson has weighed in on the subject: “Alma,” Deception, and I Since that time, though, I’ve been told that, in fact, there were some non-Latter-day Saint American men before and during the period of Joseph Smith who may have borne the name Alma . (The co...

Mormon scholar Mike Reed explored this same approach ten years ago. He listed 47 examples of pre-Book of Mormon male Almas on his blog, "Cultural Mormon Cafeteria." Here is a link to his interesting comments posted January 23, 2010: https://culturalmormoncafeteria.blogspot.com/search?q=alma+name+ma...

And one wonders: was it an Alma whose real-life story inspired the Alma of the Book of Mormon? Mayhap it was none other than Alma Fuller himself! Which gives me reason to pause and consider another point. Both characters in the Book of Mormon named Alma were considered to be some of the more highly...

Two male characters named Alma appear in the Book of Mormon. There are dozens of Book of Mormon names which Smith used to tell stories. Some are complicated and some are not. Several are recycled names from the Old Testament, and many seem totally foreign as if they came from an unknown tongue. The...

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Wed Oct 28, 2020 9:13 pm

Nothing would make me happier than Trump losing the election and being convicted for the many felonies he has undoubtedly committed. Now THAT is something to pray for.

You and me both. There is no way I could deal with another 4 years of that mad man in office. The whole thing has been insane.

Good point, Shulem. How is it that Abraham had the priesthood and knew all of its mysteries while the Pharaoh, a figure associated with all kinds of magic and mystical symbolism, did not. Joseph Smith provides his own answer, and it looks like it has racial implications too. And yet, if it is as so...

I agree that the Bible started to be read according to these later ideas, but it would be impossible for the writers of the Bible to teach these ideas centuries before they were invented by European colonial powers. Perhaps we can agree that biblical racism and modern racism have their own brands a...

I don't think the people who wrote the books of the Bible were racist in the way you are claiming. Race theory was not yet invented. Other than that, what you have to say on the priesthood here is very interesting. What is the relationship between the two priesthoods? I am not talking about Aaronic...

Suddenly Abraham chapter 1's description of Abraham and his priesthood makes a whole lot more sense. In it, Joseph Smith reveals a lot about his priesthood and its origins that he did not spell out explicitly in any other place. Indeed, Smith's royal priesthood comes from lineage or the seed of the...