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Plug in John's 5th angel for this look: "And I saw another angel (NOAH) fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people" Smith said John's revelation was one of the plainest of books but i...

Church apologists act like it's a big deal that the name Alma has been proven to be a masculine name during certain times in antiquity to include Roman times and earlier. They breathe a sigh of relief and claim a victory. The apologists ever ASSumed that Smith would have only known the name Alma to ...

If ancient temple rites could survive from the time of Solomon through Freemasonry to resurface in frontier America, then why couldn't masculine of Alma, with it's subtle yet ancient play on words? I'm not saying that the masculine male name of Alma "couldn't" have been passed down and end up in fr...

That particular Alma Smith was born in December 1831 . Thanks for that, Tom! I thought the poor lad had been killed when I was skimming the record. But he survived. That's good. (I corrected my previous post) I'm wondering whereof or why his parents named him, Alma. It may well have been influenced...

Joseph Smith Papers ​October 30 Hauns Mill Massacre​ was 18 or 19 whose names as far as I recollect, were as follows: . . . . Jacob Potts, Charles Jimison, John Walker, Alma Smith aged about 9 years old Another Alma! :o Hmmm, further reflecting: The boy Alma was injured at the Haun's Mill massacre ...

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013 This apologetic drivel ends on this note: The name Alma contains a subtle play on words that Joseph Smith would most likely not have understood given the state of his understanding of ancient Hebrew at that time. All of this, ...

l criticism. I have to be able to answer these points. It will take some time to work this out. Maybe my idea is wrong. Kishkumen has some good suggestions, but these points you are making against my idea are important for me to consider. Bear in mind we have two Joseph's -- the one before the Chur...

I see how all that is feasible and worthy of contemplation albeit those things never crossed my mind while studying Smith's teachings and peeling through his writings. From what I gathered about Smith's visitations or angelic persons visiting earth is that they were the originals from the times they...

To preempt the potential appeal to the Bar Kochba, here is Symmachus' thread where he so generously shared his knowledge of orthography and phonology: http://mormondiscussions.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=49737 So, the name Alma given to a man in Roman times is suppose to prove that Lehi in 600 BC did t...

Yeah, that’s pretty shameless of them, Shulem. It is shameless. But now that the matter has been positively resolved in favor of the critics, the apologists should step forward and correct the record. But will they? I doubt it. They haven't corrected Smith's errors regarding Facsimile No. 3, so may...