The CES Letter claims that Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery "backdated and retrofitted Priesthood restoration events."

Date
Oct 2017
Type
Book
Source
Jeremy Runnells
Resigned
Critic
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Jeremy Runnells, CES Letter: My Search for Answers to my Mormon Doubts, self-published online, 2017, p. 83

Scribe/Publisher
Jeremy Runnells
People
Jeremy Runnells
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

It wasn’t until the 1835 edition Doctrine & Covenants that Joseph and Oliver backdated and retrofitted Priesthood restoration events to an 1829-30 time period – none of which existed in any previous Church records; including Doctrine & Covenants’ precursor, Book of Commandments, nor the original Church history as published in The Evening and Morning Star.

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