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OK, say you're a Mormon...and you're reading all thru your "Scriptures" -- Doctrine & Covenants...just about ALL of it written by Smith...MOST of it in the 1830s...a little in the early 1840s.

I mean it's got what? 138 sections or so...and the first 123 of them (+ sections 133, 134, & 137) were Smithized into being by March 1839...meaning the Mormon god was quite effusive post Book of Mormon's 1830 print date for 9 years...and since then these Mormon "prophets" have been rather seerless.

I mean section 135 isn't "revelational"...just a historical account from Mormon leaders' eyes...

So...we get a dream from an old man nephew of Smith -- about to die -- and that's deemed "scripturable" to add to the D&C as section 138...along with a brief nothing by Brigham as D&C 137...

What happened to the "continuing revelation"???

And then, even with those 1830s "revelations"...all those names in those sections...

Did you ever stop and see how many of those names of Mormons mentioned by Smith apostatized?

These weren't for the most part wicked men...Thomas B. Marsh per an official D&C student manual published by the Mormon church in 2000 labeled Marsh "among God's noblest sons" (p. 65, published 2000) He was part of the apostles quorum as of 1837.

Why did Marsh leave the church? Thomas B. Marsh’s Story: A More Accurate Version of Why He Left the Church

In the index of that student manual, W.W. Phelps -- whose name pops up in a LOT of Mormon hymns -- is mentioned as having become disaffected and excommunicated (see p. 505).

Phelps was rejected as a member yet was said to be a "man of God"

Just look at all of the names of the Mormons who left in the D&C:
* William McLellan (M'Lellin)
* Lyman E. Johnson, part of the 1837 apostles quorum
* Luke S. Johnson, part of the 1837 apostles quorum
* John F. Boynton, part of the 1837 apostles quorum

The early leaders with Smith all left...Sidney Rigdon, David Whitmer, John Whitmer (mentioned in D&C 47:1), Warren Cowdery ALL Left the Mormon Church! ...Warren Cowdery joined Warren Parrish, Leonard Rich, and Stephen Burnett leaving in Kirtland...

Even Mormons like Oliver Cowdery & a feeble-minded, feeble-bodied Martin Harris who died having returned to some level of fellowship with Mormons, each left for a while.

William Law was a counselor to Smith...and turned vs. him vociferously...

Even Lds apostle Orson Pratt was disaffected vs. Smith when Smith tried to have him turn over his wife to him -- like Lds apostle quorum leader Orson Hyde had to do...and even Hyde signed the same affidavit referenced in the Marsh link above.

Ezra Booth's name pops up a few times in the D&C. He left and returned to Methodism.

James Covill is mentioned in D&C 39 & 40...he had been a Baptist minister for about 40 years...he exited Mormonism.

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Later in Mormonism...see: The last son of Joseph Smith understood the power of doubt [Real Mormonism]

21 posted on 08/01/2013 8:30:36 AM PDT by Colofornian
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* Lyman E. Johnson, part of the 1837 apostles quorum
* Luke S. Johnson, part of the 1837 apostles quorum
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The Johnson’s probably left when Joey Smith raped their sister...


30 posted on 08/01/2013 9:53:45 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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