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Episode 31: The Chamber of Father Whitmer (Michael MacKay)

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What's the Effect of the Joseph Smith Papers on the Church?

Part of this came out a during the work on a documents volume one at the joseph smith papers project. We realized that the chamber of father whitmer is something that we should think about and wonder and try to figure out what it is. So i should say, let me go back to john the baptist. He promised that some one would come and give them the gift of the holy ghost or the power to ordain each other as the elders of the church. Those were the two promises. And so they jesus gives them the authority to give the Gift of The Holy Ghost. They can't be separated from Joseph's account which excludes these in his narrative.

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