Silly, frogs can't talk. It was a salamander. Actually, for purposes of accuracy and respect for the LDS church, the "salamander letters" were declared forgeries sometime in the 1980's. Smith said he was
told the location of the Book of Mormon by an angel.
Wow. Just... wow. You think you've heard it all, and then the Internet surprises you again.
I've been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since I was eight years old, and never once have I heard of a talking frog dispensing wisdom. Maybe you're confusing Mormons with a Disney movie?
The person who is in charge of all Animation at Walt Disney, is the same person who started Pixar and is the father of Computer Animation. Almost every big budget movie, or T.V. show has some kind of computer Animation now days.
Credit Ed Catmull for that. Ed Catmull is Mormon, by the way.
There are frogs sometimes in Walt Disney movies.
Honestly I am spent. That is it. I did the best I could with connecting frogs to Mormons, and that was the best I could come up with. Walt Disney animated frogs, overseen by Ed Catmull, who is a Mormon.
Wait a second... O.K. yeah, my Mormon frog is telling me to move on. Which makes sense my Mormon horns are getting a little bit itchy... I really do need to scrub those puppies down.
Hey frog, how about me and you take a bath? That is right, frog, you can jump on one of my Mormon horns just like you always do. After all what is a Mormon frog, without a Mormon horn, to perch on while taking a warm bath?
No wonder Ed Catmull and other Mormons are so successful so often. Just gotta listen to those Mormon frogs. Another billion dollar movie or invention could be revealed, every time an LDS frog, opens it's mouth.
You know I think I am going to put a little nail polish on those Mormons horns. Tell you what frog, you with me on that?
Silence means consent, so I'll take that as a yes.
I've heard a lot of ignorance people run out at the mouth about the Lord's church but this is first I've heard about a frog. Where do you idiots get your questions?
Salamander.... but the letters were this information came from was from a man who hated the church and wanted to try and get money off the church.
The real story is that Joseph believes and members of the church believed he had a vision where he saw God the Father and God the Son. He also had a visitation from an Angel named Moroni, who revealed to him the location of plates, which became to be translated as the Book of Mormon.
Willard Chase was a neighbor of Joseph Smith and his employer when they were money digging. In December 1833, he wrote a sworn affidavit stating some details regarding Joseph Smith. I'll copy and paste a portion of the affidavit that you are referring to:
'He repaired to the place of deposit and demanded the book, which was in a stone box, unsealed, and so near the top of the ground that he could see one end of it, and raising it up, took out the book of gold; but fearing some one might discover where he got it, he laid it down to place back the top stone, as he found it; and turning round, to his surprise there was no book in sight. He again opened the box, and in it saw the book, and attempted to take it out, but was hindered. He saw in the box something like a toad, which soon assumed the appearance of a man, and struck him on the side of his head.'
Joseph Smith's father relayed that story to Willard Chase in 1827.
The link to the full affidavit is: http://www.mormoninformation.com/wchase.htm
This particular story and affidavit was also the source for Mark Hofmann's salamander letter.
Edit, since Mormons turn a blind eye to the actual source. The salamander letter is not the source for the story, the source is this affidavit. Mark Hofmann used this affidavit as the main source for his forgery. Just because they've pr oven the salamander letter as a forgery, does not disprove the legitimacy of Willard Chase's account. From my understanding, the way Willard Chase tells how Joseph's father told him the story, the story doesn't seem far-fetched at all with what Joseph Smith claims to have happened to him during his life.
So where do we 'idiots' get this information from? Apparently, we idiots get the information from the people that were closest to Smith in his days...
No. You're making a vague reference to the Salamander Letters, which was a supposed letter from some random guy claiming Joseph Smith told him he'd gotten the idea for the Book of Mormon from a talking salamander. Bit ludicrous from the start, and it doesn't help that non-Mormon researchers have already pr oven the letter to be a forgery. Fail.
Is it true that Mormons believe their wisdom came from a talking frog?
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