Honest Mormonism in a Parallel Universe

 
Top Left Photo
This is a current display at the LDS Conference Center depicting the Book of Mormon translation process.

Top Right Photo
This is a current display at the LDS Salt Lake Temple Square North Visitor Center depicting the Book of Mormon translation process.

Bottom Photos
Based on the actual historical record.  As reported by witnesses and documented by scholars and historians.  And acknowledged in obscurity by the LDS church.

"Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat and put his face in the hat"
'A Treasured Testament' - Ensign July 1, 1993; Elder Russel M. Nelson
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/07/a-treasured-testament

Bottom Statement
This is a reference to the standard of honesty taught by the LDS church in Chapter 31 of the Gospel Principles Manual.



"To become completely honest, we must look carefully at our lives. If there are ways in which we are being even the least bit dishonest, we should repent of them immediately."

Credit idea for panel to the author of A Letter to a CES Director

The Mormon God Doesn't Need Plates

References

1 Nephi 4:10-13

10 And it came to pass that I was constrained by the Spirit that I should kill Laban; but I said in my heart: Never at any time have I shed the blood of man. And I shrunk and would that I might not slay him.

 11 And the Spirit said unto me again: Behold the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands. Yea, and I also knew that he had sought to take away mine own life; yea, and he would not hearken unto the commandments of the Lord; and he also had taken away our property.

 12 And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me again: Slay him, for the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands;

 13 Behold the Lord slayeth the wicked to bring forth his righteous purposes. It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief.

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"Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat and put his face in the hat"
'A Treasured Testament' - Ensign July 1, 1993; Elder Russel M. Nelson
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/07/a-treasured-testament