Tobin wrote:I'll be interested in Nightlion's take on this, but I don't put much faith in it. It is the recollection of one man and the whole thing sounds very unlike Joseph Smith. If there were several references by different people or various accounts by Joseph Smith where he had stated this in different versions, I'd be much more interested.
Do you hold this evidentiary standard (several references by different people) for all the things that you choose to believe?
If you are looking for various accounts by Joseph Smith where he had stated...different versions, then I suggest you start a thread about the First Vision, or Polygamy, or....