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There are theories to go around that Joseph Smith was the author of the Book of Mormon

or that he collaborated with others to produce the book.

You talk about that in your book, Refstone Rolling, but just to recap, you know, the typical

Grant Palmer or even Fombroty type of argument is that, you know, at least I think Grant

Palmer would say that like 20% of the Book of Mormon is word for word from the King James

Bible and that even we know what version of the King James Bible Joseph Smith had and

that some of the errors that were in that edition of the King James Bible actually made

it into the Book of Mormon.

So it's clear that to some extent he was taking from an existing Bible and putting those

words in the Book of Mormon for a good chunk of it.

A lot of people like to say that that Joseph's father had dreams just like Lee Hyde's dream

and somehow that makes it in and Joseph had brothers and a relationship with his brothers.

There's a lot like Nephi and his relationship with his brothers so they kind of say that

Joseph Smith family stories make up part of the Book of Mormon and then they talk about

how some of the wars with Andrew Jackson and I don't know what war was going on back

in the in the 1830s, but you know there are people who even try to tie the battles in

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