Re: [TruthTalk] Mormon Classification

[Charles Perry Locke]

Dave, I am afraid running the question of whether JS was baptised a Baptist 
through a LDS forum will only get you the answer you want instead of the 
truth. The LDS is an organization known for suppresssing the truth. You have 
to look outside the LDS box to get the truth. That is why we see the falsity 
of Mormonism...we are outside the LDS box.

Perry
From: Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org
To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Mormon Classification
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 09:49:34 -0800

David Miller wrote:
David Miller wrote:

There would be a historical reason.
Joseph Smith was baptized a Protestant
(Baptist), ...

Dave Hansen wrote:

Where did you come up with that, DavidM?

Don't you remember me raising this point some years ago here on TruthTalk?

DAVEH:  Wait until you reach my age, and your brains turn to mush....       
  :-[

   Thanx for digging it up again, DavidM.  I'll run it through an LDS 
forum to see if anybody can enlighten me more on it.

I read this in, "Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon," by 
David Peruitte, second edition, 2000, www.mcfarlandpub.com.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-0826-X

On page 29, he writes, "Arriving at the residence of the Smith family and 
finding that Joseph was not there, they asked Joseph's father to tell them 
the story of the discovery of the plates.  The elder Smith complied, and 
while doing so he described some early events in his son's life, including 
the digging of a well, that, from other sources, it is known Joseph had 
dug in 1822.  About two years after digging the well (Lapham related the 
father as saying), Joseph 'became concerned as to his future state of 
existence, and was baptized, becoming a member of the Baptist Church.'  
Two years after 1822 would be 1824, the same year in which occurred the 
revivals started by Mr. Lane."

The footnote here references the following source:
Fayette Lapham, "The Mormons," Historical Magazine, Vol. 8, 2nd Series, 
No. 5 (May 1870), pp. 305-306.

Peace be with you.
David Miller.


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