Smith humble! HA! Thank you again Resty. I just love the way you slip this stuff in for us all on an otherwise serious thread. [AMPU]
Smith himself...
...as the biggest lawyer on earth...:
"I am a lawyer; I am a big lawyer and comprehend heaven, earth and hell, to bring forth knowledge that shall cover up all lawyers, doctors and other big bodies." (History of the Church, Vol. 5, p. 289)
...gordian-knot cutter and university math professor of all math professors...oh, and God is his 'right hand man'...
"I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'." (History of the Church, Vol. 6, p. 78)
...Smith as the inspiration for Peter Pan...and the one who out-competed Peter the apostle, Paul, and even Jesus as Preserver of the church:
"If they want a beardless boy to whip all the world, I will get on the top of a mountain and crow like a rooster: I shall always beat them....I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet." (History of the Church pp. 408-409)
(Wow! He "majored" in humility!) (12) Times and Seasons, Vol. 5, p. 614
....I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam
The operative word is MAN!
It was because Joseph Smith had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and exercised what Jesus taught to those who have faith!
Matt. 17: 20.
20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
How do you tell when a lawyer is lying? When their lips are moving.