Philo Sofee wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:57 amGee, there is nothing like showing him his entire life in the future, both ways so as to LET him be FREE in his choice and live by FAITH not KNOWLEDGE as Mormons today teach is there...Lucy Smith
While Joseph remained here, the angel showed him by contrast, the difference between good and evil; and the consequenses which <would> follow both obedience and disobedience to the commandments of God, in such a striking and forcible manner, that the impression was always bright in his recolection, until the very end of his days. And, in giving a relation of this circumstance, not long prior to his death, he remarked: that ever afterwards he was willing to keep the commandments of God.
Joseph was contemplating these stories several years before he got the plates. He was formulating ideas in his mind years before he ever met Oliver Cowdery or began any translation with Martin Harris. Smith spent years contemplating the story he knew he would someday tell the world in hopes of achieving his dreams.
How many times is "horses" mentioned in the Book of Mormon? Many times! Horses were used for multiple tasks and purposes. Everyone loves horses! Mother Smith explained rather forcefully:
"he would describe the ancient inhabitants of this continent; their dress, mode of travelling, and the animals upon which they rode; their cities, and their buildings, with every particular; he would describe their mode of warfare, as also their religious worship. This he would do with as much ease, seemingly, as if he had spent his whole life with them."
Thus we see that that the ancient Indians rode upon horses -- real horses, horses just like those that existed in Smith's neck of the woods. A horse is a horse of course, isn't that right mother Smith?