JojoBag Posted December 12, 2015 Report Posted December 12, 2015 Did you know:Joseph Smith was a wrestler and “jumper” of great strength and skill. He was able to walk under a bar set at six feet, “then take a step or two back and proceed to jump over it.”The Latter-day Prophet: Young People's History of Joseph Smith, Pg. 32 Did you know:When Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball met Joseph Smith the very first time, the gift of tongues was given to Brigham, who spoke the Adamic language. This was prior to him being baptized. This was the first time Joseph had ever heard the gift of tongues and he understood everything Brigham had said.The Latter-day Prophet: Young People's History of Joseph Smith, Pg. 67 Did you know:In 1853, the Deseret News ran an editorial essentially telling the Saints how not to become possessed by evil spirits and what type of actions cause possession.Deseret News, To The Saints, Feb 21, 1853, Vol. 2, No. 8 Did you know:After the Prophet Joseph Smith was killed, one of his murderers approached his body with the intent of beheading it when a dazzling light came from heaven and protected Joseph's body. “The Missourians had offered a large reward for Joseph's head; and the ruffian who had set him against the well curb now approached with a glittering knife for the purpose of severing the head from the body. William M. Daniels who claims to have been an eye-witness to the proceedings says that as he was about to make the awful stroke a vivid light burst from the heavens upon the bloody scene. It passed between Joseph and his murderers, and they were struck with terror. 1 he knife fell from the powerless hand of the ruffian, and he stood transfixed. The muskets dropped from the arms of Williams' four executioners, and they had not the power to move a limb.Horrified, the mob scattered in all directions. Williams cried to them to come back and carry off the four men who still stood like marble statues, frozen with terror. They obeyed, and these men were lifted into the baggage wagons as inert as corpses.” The Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet, Pgs. 527-528 Blackmarch and Sunday21 2 Quote
Guest LiterateParakeet Posted December 12, 2015 Report Posted December 12, 2015 Awesome post. No I didn't know any of those things. Quote
cdowis Posted December 12, 2015 Report Posted December 12, 2015 After the Prophet Joseph Smith was killed, one of his murderers approached his body with the intent of beheading it when a dazzling light came from heaven and protected Joseph's body. A faith promoting myth. Vort 1 Quote
pam Posted December 13, 2015 Report Posted December 13, 2015 A faith promoting myth. I agree because the story I have always heard but haven't seen confirmed is that the guy was struck dead from lightning when he tried to decapitate the body. Quote
David13 Posted December 13, 2015 Report Posted December 13, 2015 My favorite story from those days, tho' a true story, is after Joseph was killed a number of people decided they were to now run the church.However, Brigham Young adressed the congregation, and many of those present heard him do so in the voice of Joseph Smith. They said they were convinced, if they looked away from Brigham Young that they were hearing the voice of Joseph Smith.Thereafter there was little debate that Brigham Young was to follow Joseph Smith as President of the church.dc Vort and Sunday21 2 Quote
JojoBag Posted December 13, 2015 Author Report Posted December 13, 2015 I agree because the story I have always heard but haven't seen confirmed is that the guy was struck dead from lightning when he tried to decapitate the body. The account I got this from is a book written by Elder George Q. Cannon and published in 1908. I'm willing to take his word over a rumor or a story of a story told by a friend of a friend of a friend, whose sister heard it from her dad who..... Quote
Just_A_Guy Posted December 13, 2015 Report Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) Daniels' account was first published in Nauvoo in 1845. My recollection is that even LDS scholars take it with a grain of salt, but I don't know exactly why that is. Edited December 13, 2015 by Just_A_Guy Quote
pam Posted December 13, 2015 Report Posted December 13, 2015 The account I got this from is a book written by Elder George Q. Cannon and published in 1908. I'm willing to take his word over a rumor or a story of a story told by a friend of a friend of a friend, whose sister heard it from her dad who..... George Q. Cannon died in 1901. At the time this supposedly happened he would have only been 17 years old. I don't think he was there at the scene to have witnessed it so he probably heard the stories 2nd, 3rd and 4th hand. And since the book was published 7 years after his death, do we know if any changes were made to his writings? Quote
JojoBag Posted December 13, 2015 Author Report Posted December 13, 2015 George Q. Cannon died in 1901. At the time this supposedly happened he would have only been 17 years old. I don't think he was there at the scene to have witnessed it so he probably heard the stories 2nd, 3rd and 4th hand. And since the book was published 7 years after his death, do we know if any changes were made to his writings?Good point Quote
cdowis Posted December 13, 2015 Report Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) Let's look at it in another way. Did Joseph Smith really say there were men on the moon? In both cases there were reputable men who wrote something about Joseph Smith decades after his death, but unconfirmed by anyone else. And in both cases they did not give any sources. Edited December 13, 2015 by cdowis pam 1 Quote
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