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Towardzion
- Apr 26, 2020
- 5 min
Monogamy Wins for Time Only - Polygamy Part 4
We discussed earlier the lying and secrecy by Wilford Woodruff and Joseph F Smith as it pertained to polygamy leaving the Church with the...
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Towardzion
- Apr 21, 2020
- 31 min
Choose Your Own Adventure - Polygamy Part 3
In 1841, the idea of [1]spiritual wifery was being openly promoted by John C. Bennett but was in the cultural water with respect to...
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Towardzion
- Apr 15, 2020
- 17 min
Looking though History Backwards - Polygamy Part 2
Almost all histories relating to Mormon polygamy are written in a way that contextualizes all points of data into one seamless narrative...
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Towardzion
- Apr 12, 2020
- 14 min
Riddles in the Dark - Mormon Polygamy Part 1
The CES Letter spends quite a bit of time uncovering Joseph Smith’s polygamy, and rightly so. For decades, polygamy was sold as an...
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Towardzion
- Apr 6, 2020
- 17 min
Temple Tragedies
In 1839, Joseph Smith received a revelation stating that he was to build a temple in the new city of [1]Nauvoo. This temple was meant to...
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Towardzion
- Mar 18, 2020
- 16 min
Muddling through Succession
In the 1870’s, [1]a revelation was produced, recorded by Warren Cowdery, Oliver’s brother, which purported that Jesus Christ, Moses,...
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Towardzion
- Mar 12, 2020
- 18 min
Turning Prophets into Power
Once Joseph got the Book of Mormon translated, he set out to restore a church, as was promised by his angelic visitor, Moroni, and that...
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Towardzion
- Feb 26, 2020
- 7 min
Witness Projection Problem
The CES Letter spends quite a bit of time poking the [1]witnesses to the Book of Mormon. The Church has used the witnesses in strong...
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Towardzion
- Feb 13, 2020
- 16 min
Book of Mormon History and Manifest Destiny
Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon did not invent the idea that the Native Americans were offspring of ancient Israelites and part of...
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Towardzion
- Feb 7, 2020
- 6 min
Translation Troubles Part Deux
While the Book of Mormon is the foundation of Mormonism, the Book of Abraham is the sidebar that often creates more buzz. While it's...
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Towardzion
- Jan 31, 2020
- 15 min
Translation Troubles
Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me. But,...
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Towardzion
- Jan 16, 2020
- 16 min
Unpacking the Supernatural
More are discounting the supernatural every day. They believe that all unexplained phenomena have an explanation, even if perhaps it has...
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Towardzion
- Jan 4, 2020
- 8 min
Introduction and Epistemology
This site is unique in its attempt to look at Mormonism through the lens of a multi-layered spectrum. It’s not intended to be a polemic,...
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