“Only a fake prophet translates fake documents. “
There is no way Joseph Smith could have made up the Book of Mormon. It is humanly impossible. Same as the Holy Bible being made up by a “fake” prophet - impossible.
I am sorry Sandy but that post may be the funniest post I have ever read.
Mormon apostle and historian B. H. Roberts studied the matter very throughly. His study showed that, in addition to the vast amounts of the bible that were incorporated into the bom, that the pre-existing work called "A View to the Hebrews" was a contributor. He wrote the book "Studies of the Book of Mormon" to present the results of his studies. In it he states:
It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other. Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin ... The material in Ethan Smith's book is of a character and quantity to make a ground plan for the Book of Mormon (Studies, p. 240).
A few pages later Roberts notes:
... was Joseph Smith possessed of a sufficiently vivid and creative imagination as to produce such a work as the Book of Mormon from such materials as have been indicated in the preceding chapters ...? That such power of imagination would have to be of a high order is conceded; that Joseph Smith possessed such a gift of mind there can be no question (Studies, p. 243).
“There is no way Joseph Smith could have made up the Book of Mormon. It is humanly impossible.”
You present a great case for Satan helping young Joe.