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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitt's missing tax returns and mental health records are on Golden Tablets!!!!
I dunno why I never realized this before now!! He CAN'T show them!!! We just have to take it on faith!
Book of Mormon
According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden Bible)[1] are the source from which Joseph Smith, Jr. said he translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith. Some witnesses described the plates as weighing from 30 to 60 pounds (14 to 27 kg),[2] being golden in color, and being composed of thin metallic pages engraved on both sides and bound with three D-shaped rings.
Smith said he found the plates on September 22, 1823 at a hill near his home in Manchester, New York after an angel directed him to a buried stone box. Smith said the angel at first prevented him from taking the plates, but instructed him to return to the same location in a year. In September, 1827, on his fourth annual attempt to retrieve the plates, Smith returned home with a heavy object wrapped in a frock, which he then put in a box. Though he allowed others to heft the box, he said that the angel had forbidden him to show the plates to anyone until they had been translated from their original "reformed Egyptian" language. Smith dictated the text of the [Book of Mormon] over the next several years, claiming that it was a translation of the plates. He did this by using a seer stone which he placed in the bottom of a hat and then placed the hat over his face to view the words written within the stone.[3] Smith published the translation in 1830 as the Book of Mormon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates
We are never gonna know!
Laura
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Mitt's missing tax returns and mental health records are on Golden Tablets!!!! (Original Post)
davsand
Oct 2012
OP
"thin metallic pages engraved on both sides and bound with three D-shaped rings" lmao
elehhhhna
Oct 2012
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notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)1. And the Angle Moroni flew off with them after they were translated by Mitt
from a language that only Mitt understands.
That's his story and he's sticking to it.
davsand
(13,421 posts)7. Don't forget the special reading stones he used!
Can't POSSIBLY forget those!
Laura
Lol South Park covered this a few years ago.
davsand
(13,421 posts)4. They really ARE equal opportunity offenders!
Gotta love 'em!
Laura
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)3. Book Of Mormon?
I was going to say, "You couldn't make this shit up", but....I guess you CAN!
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)5. "thin metallic pages engraved on both sides and bound with three D-shaped rings" lmao
a BINDER!!!
davsand
(13,421 posts)6. It ALL fits now--I don't know why it took so long to see it!
Laura