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Joseph Smith as a Fallen Prophet

Could Joseph have been a true prophet in 1830 and a fallen one later?

Bible

The Bible answers

Bible · Matthew 7:16–18

KJV + NRSVUE

By their fruits. The fruit is a church that preaches Christ in every nation.

King James Version
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit.

NRSVUE
You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit.

Book of Mormon

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Doctrine and Covenants 135:3
He has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man.
Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.

Faithful answers

FAIR

A fallen prophet?

FAIR Latter-day Saints

The 'true-then-fallen' thesis is usually a way to keep the Book of Mormon while discarding plural marriage and the temple. But the same gift that dictated 1 Nephi dictated D&C 132 and the endowment. If you trust Moroni 10 for the book, you are not free to fire the prophet who brought you the book the moment he becomes costly.

Joseph is not a buffet. The Lord called one seer.

Temple and priesthood keys are late Joseph, and they are the Church.
Fruits include a global Christ-centered people, not only Palmyra miracles.
Dissenters who called him fallen still often would not deny the plates.

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