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“I have more to boast of than any man had. I am the only man who has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam….Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it.”

Wow. I did not know he said that. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

Interesting note about that comment. Smith stated that about a month before he died and was actually lying - there were many of the upper leaders, including William Law, who were leaving the church at the time because of polygamy - which he also lied about to the members.

The destruction of William Law’s printing press is what led to Smith’s arrest and lynching.

Wow. I did not know he said that.

Not just WOW!; but SHAM wow!!

(But WAIT!!! There's MORE!)

Questions put to Joseph Smith:

"'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness."

(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world"

(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).