
Mark Hofmann & the Forging of New Mormon History
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L. Hannah Stoddard
This three-and-a-half-hour audiobook offers a faithful retelling of the Hofmann forgeries, and their impact on the progressive rewriting of Latter-Day Saint history. Why did new Mormon historians insist Hofmann’s forgeries were legitimate, even when investigators provided convincing evidence to them of the hoax? How did Bruce R. McConkie know Hofmann’s Joseph Smith III Blessing was a fake, despite authentication by document experts and pressure by historians calling him “incompetent” for questioning? Before detection, Mark Hofmann’s “discoveries” challenged the testimonies of many Latter-Day Saints as science and history seemed to attack the character and integrity of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Church. Church leaders endured a great deal of criticism for their inability to detect the deception foisted on them by Hofmann. For progressives, the Hofmann story left behind a black hole and a black eye for the Church. For traditionalists, the Hofmann forgeries can represent a faith-promoting opportunity with diverse lessons for navigating future trials. This audiobook is an excerpt from the larger book, Faith Crisis, Volume 1: We Were Not Betrayed!.
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This short book excerpt blew me away going through a timeline of events, from Mark’s initial early desire to forever change the narrative about Joseph Smith, to the incredible uncovering and exposing Hofmann’s fraud by document experts in the FBI, to the position we find ourselves in now, not really knowing what “history” has become tainted by Hofmann’s forgeries.
This is such a crazy incredible story. I wish everyone understood this and would listen to this amazingly researched narrative. It could help people step back and stop worrying so much about weird historical narratives that were obviously tainted by fraudulent actors, and just focus on what we do have and know. I am so grateful to Hannah and James Stoddard for putting this together and presenting it so well. Well done!
A Spellbinding Account
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every truth seeking church member should consider
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I was a teenager when this all played out and missed so many details! Brilliantly researched and written. I look forward to the next reading.
Fascinating and Faith Promoting!
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Must Read!!
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Fantastic read!
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Good Explanations of Things That can Be Confusing about The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-Day Saints
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Hannah reads very nice. Easy to listen to.
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I hope the authors will consider that their own position, is uncomfortably close to the progressives in that they also seem to believe the prophets fallibility is somehow more recent than their own. And this leads both the progressives and the traditionalists to use prophetic fallibility as an excuse override prophets with their own interpretations sold as truth. They just have different perspectives. Or different versions of the story they want to tell.
The authors version is undoubtedly vastly better than the progressives. But both contain the seed of apostasy within them in that seek to steady the ark of God in their own ways. They put their own wisdom above the wisdom of the Lord in guiding his church.
Sure there are questions that will trouble the newly aware saint. But regret the mistakes or missteps, I would argue they are deliberately left by the Lord to test us. To see if we will trust him to run his church or if we will push our own will over his.
Read the book. It's unavailable. Just be aware that the adversary will attack from every angle he can to undermine our commitment to let God prevail. Whether we are progressive or traditionalist, he will use either to further his agenda of provoking us to anger and to pride.
Never believe that you are strong enough to resist evil or worse to challenge it openly in your own strength. Pray that you are strong enough from a position of humility.
The Lord is sifting his church of tares. It's accelerating. - Dimitri
An eye opening perspective
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