ROTFL! So "written" is defined as a scribble from words dictated by a man looking into a hat claiming the words were being "translated" from golden plates that were "taken by an angel" into heaven as an explanation as to why the plates cannot be examined for authenticy and the world is to take the word of a handful of men who may or may not have actually seen these plates.
Yeah, I can understand where that "written tradition" would be reliable.
After all the first lie or half truth was told in garden of Eden which was more stable than the temporal world we reside in even in the garden of Eden the Lord was able walked with Adam and Eve.
Say what?
LOL it gets to you and no matter how ye protest your tongue will reveal your motives!:)
(Which picture is a more ACCURATE illustration of fact?)
From a MORMON book for kiddies...
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Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine. A piece of something resembling parchment would appear, and on that appeared the writing. One character at a time would appear, and under it was the interpretation in English. Brother Joseph would read off the English to Oliver Cowdery, who was his principal scribe, and when it was written down and repeated to Brother Joseph to see if it was correct, then it would disappear, and another character with the interpretation would appear. Thus the Book of Mormon was translated by the gift and power of God, and not by any power of man.
David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ, Richmond, Mo.: n.p., 1887, p. 12