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Golden Plates......I've always wondered
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:00 am
by _Wilma Fingerdoo
Why didn't God let Joseph Smith melt the plates so he could use them as start up money for the church? That would be better than requiring early members to sell everything they own.
Re: Golden Plates......I've always wondered
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:23 am
by _Polygamy-Porter
Wilma Fingerdoo wrote:Why didn't God let Joseph Smith melt the plates so he could use them as start up money for the church? That would be better than requiring early members to sell everything they own.
Brilliant.
He could have melted them down even before they were translated too.
Re: Golden Plates......I've always wondered
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:40 am
by _sunstoned
Polygamy-Porter wrote:Wilma Fingerdoo wrote:Why didn't God let Joseph Smith melt the plates so he could use them as start up money for the church? That would be better than requiring early members to sell everything they own.
Brilliant.
He could have melted them down even before they were translated too.
This is true. If I was Moroni, I would be really pissed about this whole deal. He hauled those things all the way up from Central America, and come to find out all what was needed was a hat and a rock.
Re: Golden Plates......I've always wondered
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:43 am
by _Uncle Dale
Wilma Fingerdoo wrote:Why didn't God let Joseph Smith melt the plates so he could use them as start up money for the church? That would be better than requiring early members to sell everything they own.
Well -- you see -- they were "sacred."
And we really don't want to say too much about sacred things,
like the wonderful plates, or the ark of the covenant, or the
severed foreskin of John the Baptist. These things are just too
spiritually uplifting to be part of our everyday conversations.
So -- to gaze upon the plates, with worldly eyes was death.
To melt them down and spread around that death-causing
gold would have been cruel and ungodly.
That is why we discover no Nephite or Jaredite metal plates,
to this very day. They are sacred and they would kill you
if you ever looked upon one.
Next question?
UD
Re: Golden Plates......I've always wondered
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:11 am
by _thews
The answer is simple... Joseph Smith was a money digger using his "Urim and Thummim" (a.k.a. Seer stones) in cahoots with other money diggers. If he melted them down, the others would demand their fair share.
Re: Golden Plates......I've always wondered
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:11 pm
by _Phaedrus Ut
I'd like to see a statement from the church assuring that "no Nephite gold was used to pay for the City Creek Mall".
Phaedrus
Re: Golden Plates......I've always wondered
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:54 pm
by _son of Ishmael
Uncle Dale wrote:Wilma Fingerdoo wrote:Why didn't God let Joseph Smith melt the plates so he could use them as start up money for the church? That would be better than requiring early members to sell everything they own.
Well -- you see -- they were "sacred."
And we really don't want to say too much about sacred things,
like the wonderful plates, or the ark of the covenant, or the
severed foreskin of John the Baptist. These things are just too
spiritually uplifting to be part of our everyday conversations.
So -- to gaze upon the plates, with worldly eyes was death.
To melt them down and spread around that death-causing
gold would have been cruel and ungodly.
That is why we discover no Nephite or Jaredite metal plates,
to this very day. They are sacred and they would kill you
if you ever looked upon one.
Next question?
UD
Yeah just look what happen in the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. And that was just Aztec gold. Think of the curses that would have plagued the early saints if they had tried to spend Nephite gold!