Alexander Campbell implies the Book of Mormon came from Satan.

Date
1832
Type
Book
Source
Alexander Campbell
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Alexander Campbell, "Delusions an analysis of the Book of Mormon; with an examination of its internal and external evidences, and a refutation of its pretences to divine authority by Alexander Campbell," (Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1832), 15

Scribe/Publisher
Benjamin H. Greene
People
Alexander Campbell, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

These are but as one drop out of a bucket compared with the amount of Smithisms in this book. It is patched up and cemented with 'And it came to pass' — 'I sayeth un'o you' — 'Ye saith unto him' — and all the King James' haths, dids and doths — in the lowest imitation of the common version; and is, without exaggeration, the meanest book in the English language ; but it is a translation made throu[g]h stone spectacles, in a dark room, and in the hat of the prophet Smith. from the reformed Egyptian! ! It has not one good sentence in it, save the profanation of those sentences quoted from the Oracles of the living God. I would as soon compare a bat to the American eagle, a mouse to a mammoth, or the deformities of a spectre to the beauties of Him whom John saw in Patmos, as to contrast it with a single chapter in all the writings of the Jewish or Christian prophets. It is as certainly Smith's fabrication as Satan is the father of lies, or darkness the offspring of night. So much for the internal evidences of the Book of Mormon.

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