The ‘translation’ procedure described by Whitmer is accurate, in his own words, and quite believable when you consider Joseph Smith’s earlier, pre-Golden Bible days of money-digging using a seer stone in his hat. That is all documented and not up for dispute.
-————— —==
Well, there’s the first problem.
Joseph Smith translated the alleged Golden Plates not with the Urim and thummin, but with....get this.....yes, Southpark was quite accurate.......putting a rock in his hat, pulling the hat over his face, so as to exclude all light, and speaking words that were then written down by his scribes.
95% of all Mormons don’t know it happened this way as they have been told a different, more glorius and fantastic story.
But, the way it happened, as I have described above, is an account given by one of the three attesting witnesses to the veracity of the whole story, as well as Joseph Smith’s own moth
+++++++++++++++
Go back to the your original posting, not the cleaned up version you posted later. Be truthful.
It happened as described by Whitmer, as described in Southpark. Learn it, live it.
The fairy tale version, painted in such a way as to portray JS sitting there scanning through the plates at a table is pure baloney.
Sorry, Dude, you believe in a whitewashed fairy tale.