Posted by:
Chicken N. Backpacks
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Date: January 12, 2015 07:38PM
Has anyone come across any surviving pamphlets or sermons from other preachers that contain "Deep thoughts" that Joseph Smith cribbed for his writings?
What I mean is, while more research shows that things like the three degrees of heaven was taken from Swedenborg and the temple ceremonies ripped off from the masons, I'm sure Smith and Cowdery lifted freely from other preachers they'd seen and/or read.
I was reading the article about Nephi being a scribe, and his reference to "withered reeds", and I'll bet there's either a bible quote similar to that or a travelling preacher said it.