Posted on 08/04/2015 3:31:18 PM PDT by GoneSalt
The Mormon church’s push toward transparency about its roots and beliefs took another step forward Tuesday with the first published pictures of a small sacred stone it believes founder Joseph Smith used to help translate a story that became the basis of the religion.
The pictures of the smooth, brown, egg-sized rock are part of a new book that also contains photos of the first printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon. Officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled the photos at a news conference in Salt Lake City.
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Now, there’s a real game-changer. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Now all they have to do is come up with the golden tablets.
I won’t hold my breath.
Is a Seer Stone like a Weather Rock?
Deer dropping?
I thought they were golden plates?
Is that the same rock he used to bilk treasure seekers out of their $$$???
What?
No hat?
What about those glorious gold pages?
Exactly ...if it is wet it is raining and if it is white it is snowing. Pretty amazing rock!!!!
I think the seers stone was to interpret the plates with - but I might be wrong. Prior to making up the Mormon religion, Smith used the seer stone(s) to dowse for water and look for lost treasure iirc. Put the stone in a hat, look into the hat, and then recite the passage that was “revealed” to him while someone transcribed.
I think their were two stones, called the Ummim and the Thurmim. Such devices are also mentioned in the Bible, and were used by the High Priest iirc.
My friend had a ‘pet rock’ in the 70’s. I thought she was nuts.
That is a cool looking rock. I have some eggs like that from Alaska. They form in the little potholes of glaciers where they get stuck in a depression in the rock and then the water flows and they get rolled around and worn like that.
Although I do wonder if the “genuine Alaskan egg” one finds in the gift shops are chunks of rock that are grinded to the egg shape rather than natural.
I figured a seer stone would be a clear or translucent crystal of sorts.
Like Chief Dan iirc:
“Its a piece of hard-rock candy. But its not for eating. I just look through it.”
Sounds a lot like the “shew-stone” used by occultist John Dee in the Middle Ages. Our Mormon friends need prayer. Scrying with seer stones is pure satanic occultic garbage.
Okay - sumtin’ wrong here. First it was said he translated the Book of Mormon from gold plates. Then it was said an angel told him what to write, and the third way was by this stone which he put in a hat then placed his face in the hat thereby translating the gold plates using the stone. So which is it?
It’s a sacred pecan.
They build a fine society, with clean safe cities, are good businessmen, love guns, are known to be enthusiastic preppers, have a stable of the hottest women seen anywhere, gave us John Moses Browning and,,,,,,,, are crazy as a craphouse rat. I just don’t get it.
Not satanic,,, that implies it actually HAS powers. This is just Bat Guano crazy
Seriously?
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