More hear-say from Kevin's anti-Mormon sites,
none of which can be verified by first-hand
documentation. Warlock? LOL I bet
he's been watching "Charmed." See Below for truth
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Most reports state that throughout
the project Joseph used the "Nephite interpreters" or, for convenience, he would
use a seer stone (see CHC 1:128-30). Both instruments were sometimes called by
others the Urim and Thummim. In 1830, Oliver Cowdery is reported to
have testified in court that these
tools enabled Joseph "to read in English, the reformed Egyptian characters,
which were engraved on the plates" (Benton, Evangelical Magazine and
Gospel Advocate 2 [Apr. 9, 1831]:15). In an 1891 interview, William Smith
indicated that when his brother Joseph used the "interpreters" (which were like
a silver bow twisted into the shape of a figure eight with two stones between
the rims of the bow connected by a rod to a breastplate), his hands were left
free to hold the plates. Other late reports mention a
variety of further details, but they cannot be historically confirmed or
denied.
In a message dated 7/26/2005 3:12:04 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
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