[nesnah]

“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.”

-Jospeh Smith, May 26, 1844

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Cha-ching!

And no response to your post? I thought I’d see lots of disclaimers posted with facts to back it up! :)

[broncobilly]

You are getting out of context. The subject was how great the Mormon people were that they stood by him. Other peoples had not sttod so firmly behind their leaders. He didn’t believe he was establishing the church independent of Jesus, but that he was doing it as Jesus’ emissary. He acknowledged that.

You stated that he was claiming to have done more than Jesus in general, which is ridiculous.