Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God. You are not the first, nor will you be the last, to blaspheme his name and tell lies about him.
Sorry, she is right. He did have a gun and did shoot back. It wasn’t murder. It wasn’t martyrdom. It was a mob, and Joseph was trying to escape out the window when he was shot both inside and outside the building, but he did shoot back.
He was also a false prophet and the true blasphemer in this conversation.
“...The matter of their having one six-barrelled and one single-barrelled pistol with them when assailed was because friends on parting from them left these fire arms with them as stated in a former chapter, under circumstances alike honorable and justifiable. These arms offered but a meager defense against the overwhelming odds of the assailants; nor did the Prophet use the pistol left with him until he had seen his brother shot to death from his side—not until he had looked into the dead face of that brother, calm but bullet-torn, did the war spirit native to his race—his revolutionary ancestry—rise within him and impel him to the conflict at the door where muskets were belching fire and death, where he stood for one splendid moment as some avenging spirit returning the fire of the mob. Much less or far more than mortal man must he have been not to have done what he did. And what he did in that supreme moment of trial and death, does not depreciate him in the esteem of Christian men, nor make him less a martyr to the mission given him of God. President McKinley’s and Roosevelt’s United States secretary of state, John Hay, was right when he said Joseph Smith put up a “handsome fight” in the prison; but it in no way detracts from the solemn fact of his martyrdom, and emphasizes the glory of his manhood.” (Comprehensive History of the Church, Vol.2, Ch.59, p.316 - p.317)”
You’ll have to accept the fact that many of us do not believe he was a Prophet. You will also need to accept the fact that he didn’t die without a fight. I’m not blaming him for fighting, but fight he did. Maybe he was trying to save his life, or maybe he figured to take some with him.
My turn: Joseph Smith, FALSE prophet. Real Prophets warned us they would be coming.
You are not the first, nor will you be the last, to blaspheme his name
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The false prophet Joseph Smith is not God...
He was only a man...A stupid, evil one but still just a man..nothing godlike about him...ever..then or now or in the future..
It is impossible to blaspheme the false prophet Joseph Smith...
yes, the false prophet Joseph Smith did say he was bigger than Jesus...
The Beatles said much the same thing...
But the false prophet Joseph Smith is dead and in Hell...
And most of the Beatles are also dead...
But Jesus is ALIVE...and is God..and is to be worshipped...
Even the false prophet Joseph Smith is bowing his knees to Jesus...
Phi 2:10 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Phl 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth;
Phl 2:11 And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:10-12
Likewise...
You are not the first, nor will you be the last, to ignore the FACTS that impinge negatively upon your Glorious Founder.