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And you know his age, how?

Joseph Smith was born December 23, 1805, he didn't "start" the Church until 1827 at age 22 and didn't incorporate the Church or publish the BOM until he was 25 in 1830. Are you disputing these facts? It is your cookie that crumbles when we clearly point to a grown man charlatan instead of a 14 year old youth. Joseph Smith himself didn't write about his youthful "vision" until many years after it occured. Do you have any proof it occured when he was 14?

The BoM was written in In June 1828 - Smith allowed Martin Harris to take 116 pages of the manuscript to Palmyra to show Harris' wife (remember). At this time Joseph Smith was 24 years old and not an unwitting 14 year old innocent youth, but a married man.

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Joseph Smith was born December 23, 1805, he didn't "start" the Church until 1827 at age 22 and didn't incorporate the Church or publish the BOM until he was 25 in 1830. Are you disputing these facts? It is your cookie that crumbles when we clearly point to a grown man charlatan instead of a 14 year old youth. Joseph Smith himself didn't write about his youthful "vision" until many years after it occured. Do you have any proof it occured when he was 14?

The BoM was written in In June 1828 - Smith allowed Martin Harris to take 116 pages of the manuscript to Palmyra to show Harris' wife (remember). At this time Joseph Smith was 24 years old and not an unwitting 14 year old innocent youth, but a married man.

I said “Movement” which you translated (erroneously as “Church”) Joseph smith started the movement by asking God for a revelation and receiving an answer. He was 14. The church as you so ably pointed out took 8 years to get started form the time Joseph saw his first vision.