What if Mark Hoffmann...?

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_moksha
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What if Mark Hoffmann...?

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What if Mark Hofmann had utilized his skills in producing helpful materials for LDS apologetics, such as the Missing Long Scroll, the Second Watson Letter, the Calmoriah Conference Transcript, the single Nephite Pottery Shard for the great Hamblin/Jenkins debates, the secret decoder ring for determining Dr. Scratch's identity, etc....

Were he to be caught, he would have a veritable army of witnesses to certify his veracity. This historical rewrite would have ended in a win-win scenario with no one except history being injured.
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Funny and thought provoking as usual.

In real life this actually happened regarding his forgeries. For much of his murder trail, even the prosecution was convinced his forgeries were real, until one really persistent investigator was able to discover the invocative method Hoffman had used to produce them.
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It would be sad if one of this forum's scholars had gotten too close to the methodology of this alternate-reality apologetic Mark Hofmann.

Of course, alternate-reality Symmachus might have only been tagged with a symbolic paint gun, which apologists would argue was an honorific gesture of respect and fidelity.

Think how hordes of faith seeking Evangelicals could have been delivered unto the Church with that single shard of Nephite pottery in the great Hamblin-Jenkins debates. Those Evangelicals would have proclaimed Hamblin to be right up there with Donald Trump in the righteousness parade.
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Moksha
Think how hordes of faith seeking Evangelicals could have been delivered unto the Church with that single shard of Nephite pottery in the great Hamblin-Jenkins debates. Those Evangelicals would have proclaimed Hamblin to be right up there with Donald Trump in the righteousness parade.


An if they didn't follow into the waters of baptism, they could have shut the government church down... :lol:
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