Why do the Mormons believe in Joseph Smith when he practiced the Occult, withcraft an

seems like ole Joe was more of a con man and Charlton
http://www.janishutchinson.com/joeoccult.html
http://www.faithwriters.com/article-details.php?id=61803
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Mormons/mormon-kabbalah2.htm
http://www.irr.org/mit/masonry.html
http://www.gnosis.org/jskabb1.htm
http://www.saintsalive.com/mormonism/srainmormonism.htm
YES, very credible. enjoy.
cl Freemason. you have the facts wrong. sorry.
you are a Freemason and you think I'm not credible? LOL.

CZ they're kooks with magic undies!

Never heard that before.

But I do know he practiced horology (I own a very interesting book about him and medicinal herbs)

Maybe because he never did those things you say he did?

Now show me the proofs and make your statement 100% valid

Wow..I never knew that about Joe Smith... eek!! Those Mormons could be in big trouble!!!!!

Because Occult, with craft and freemasonry make people smarter that their fellows that do not want to understand the world we live in.




Don't die ignorant.

Don't feed the trolls

Why do you believe you have freedom of thought if you parrot the talking points that popular culture says you should?

Or should I not assume to know about things that I am not a part of.

STs!

Because your an idiot and try to make lies seem like facts.

Those are credible websites.....gotta love the Internet...

I agree with wanna be a princess. You can find crap about anyone on the Internet...doesn't make it true.

because he didn't practice those things.

So, ole Joe was a conman because he got rich....
by establishing a church with an unpaid ministry?

Huh?

I've read all of your links. Every single one. I've seen all but 2 before.

Joseph Smith's lineage is called into question in one article.
Smith was the descendant of a man who left England and the Anglican Church in exile after challenging the belief that they had the authority of the priesthood and to act in the name of God. The later Smiths kept the same zeal for truth and the word of God.

Yes, as a kid they did the "light as a feather, stiff as a board" stuff; the "candy man, candy man, candy man" stuff. He got in with the wrong crowd as a kid but straightened out by adulthood.
I did that crap too. Does that mean that I am unworthy to feel God's light?

As far as Freemasonry, Joseph Smith joined the Masons *after* the temple endowments were revealed to him. Unless his "occult" behavior allowed for time travel, that makes the influence of Masonry on the church impossible.

it doesn't matter how many sources you quote if they are full of inaccuracies and impossibilities. Facts need to be pr oven with quality, not quantity.

Seems like you're bored.
Let me guess you go ogled "Joe Smith, false prophet" and just started copying and pasting links that had a good introduction.
Those sites will say anything to make a point (true or false) They must work for MSNBC.

too funny.

occult? the things claimed in some of the articles have been practiced by just about everyone at one time or another --- people used divining rods to find water, everyone in the old testament sacrificed animals to God - at His command no less. there's no evidence smith practiced witchcraft. the problem with the web is that people can put anything on in and some feeble minded conspiracy theorist or paranoid schizo will assume its true. smith became a Freemason decades after he started the LDS; and there is nothing wrong with freemasonry.

your sites are anything but very credible.