Well you are in denial then, and reject the historic accounts of Joseph Smith and about his family.
Anyone who is knowledgeable about the occult & extra-biblical spiritual beliefs and practices knows full well that joseph smith was into ungodly practices such as divination and there was court records he was accused of looking for treasure by this method. This is not hearsay. It was also recorded his family were involved in magic, they were not born again Christians, they had other spiritual beliefs, these facts are in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
To bogusly portrait Smith as a righteous man is like portraying a wolf as a vegan!
In the bible true Christians are taught to search the scriptures and test every teaching and test every spirit by the SCRIPTURES.
So, No , you are incorrect,
Joseph Smith was and is a false prophet - we know this because firstly , he gave a "new " revelation when THE BIBLE SAID the REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST is the Last BOOK of the BIBLE. The Bible canon closed with the Apostolic Age.
We identify Smith as a FALSE PROPHET because he presents ANOTHER Gospel and ANOTHER Jesus, and Smith's Christology and his theology about men becoming gods and GOD once being a human is Utter
Blasphemy & Evil.
Mormons need to just study ONLY what the Bible says and believe what it says. Get free of the spiritual deception that this counterfeit to Christianity teaches.
John 8 : 23 " .“If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. 32
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
It begins :
REVELATION 1
Prologue
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Daniel 12:1-13)
1This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,
2who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
3Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.
REVELATION 1: 18 "18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
20He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
21The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints.
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Amen.
You said "...he was accused of looking for treasure by this method."
Jesus was accused of having a devil. Does that mean Jesus had a devil?
Paul was jailed, does that make Paul a criminal?
Joseph Smith was fifteen when he prayed to God to know which of the sects were true. He prayed in faith knowing that God would answer his prayed. God did answer that prayer:
(Pearl of Great Price | JS-History 1:11 - 20)
11 While I was laboring under the extreme difficulties caused by the contests of these parties of religionists, I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first chapter and fifth verse, which reads: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
12 Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible.
13 At length I came to the conclusion that I must either remain in darkness and confusion, or else I must do as James directs, that is, ask of God. I at length came to the determination to "ask of God," concluding that if he gave wisdom to them that lacked wisdom, and would give liberally, and not upbraid, I might venture.
14 So, in accordance with this, my determination to ask of God, I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty. It was the first time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties I had never as yet made the attempt to pray vocally.
15 After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.
16 But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.
17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: "they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof."
20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, "Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off." I then said to my mother, "I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true." It seems as though the adversary was aware, at a very early period of my life, that I was destined to prove a disturber and an annoyer of his kingdom; else why should the powers of darkness combine against me? Why the opposition and persecution that arose against me, almost in my infancy?
such an one caught up to the third heaven.
I can't imagine converting to a religion based on a sensation that may be indistinguishable from legitimate preexisting medical problems. Yikes!
