Tell us Mormons.
Why did Joseph need the golden plates if he didn't reference them?
And if he referenced them, why would that matter? (He couldn't read the unknown (& still unknown language of "reformed Egyptian")
[And tell us, why would those of Israel, who spoke and wrote Hebrew, reduce a record of their peoples in the language of known enemies?]
And if he used a "urim and thummim," and if the church still has this seer stone today, why don't current Lds "prophets" use it?
“... if he used a “urim and thummim,” and if the church still has this seer stone today, why don’t current Lds “prophets” use it? “ Can’t find the right shrooms to go along with the smell of the hat?