Emma told her sons: "When you see David Whitmer, you will see an HONEST man."
The Mormonism Research Ministry was founded in 1979 by Bill McKeever and is Utah based. The following snippets were retrieved from his web site May 2010 under the title: Did the Eleven Witnesses Actually See the Gold Plates? The approach is simple: the witnesses were deluded and deceived therefore no one need worry about the … Read more
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Don’t Read or Teach the Book of Mormon
To show that David was humble and not after power after Joseph died, he could have asserted his right to lead but did not: I will tell you that he (Joseph) had so much confidence in me that in July, 1834, he ordained me his successor as “Prophet Seer and Revelator” to the Church. He … Read more
David warned Sidney and Joe NOT to publish the revelations (Book of Commandments) prophesying that if they did so, their press would be destroyed and the Saints would be driven from their lands. According to David, Joe would not listen, but was more focused on the money they would make from the sales: Brother Joseph said … Read more
Did David start his “own church?” I have told you in years past, you doubtless have authority to act IN your church. But the Lord has made it known to me that the CHURCH OF CHRIST is ANOTHER CHURCH, and that no man has authority to officiate in the ordinances thereof, without coming into it … Read more
The Whitmer family sold their farm in Fayette, NY, and moved to Kirtland, OH where they donated their funds to Joe’s church, though he and Sidney Rigdon had no prior business experience. In early 1834 Smith wrote Literary Firm members that ‘we have run into debt for the press’ and ‘have received but a very … Read more
David Whitmer said: After I had left the Latter Day Saints, I heard that they had given me a trial and cut me off. The only charges that I ever heard they had against me (until I read this Saints’ Herald) were, for not believing some of Bro. Joseph’s revelations, and not teaching them; and … Read more