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Kinderhook plates
FAIR Latter-day Saints
Hoaxers in Kinderhook, Illinois, made bell-shaped brass plates to test Joseph. Later chemical tests proved them modern. A published character reading in a local paper is thin evidence of a prophetic translation, and no Kinderhook text entered scripture. Prophets are not omniscient; they are seers when the Lord opens the vision.
A failed parlor trick is not a second Book of Mormon. The difference is the fruits.
- The plates were a documented forgery.
- No Kinderhook revelation is in the canon.
- Testing a prophet by a trap is the opposite of the Moroni 10 pattern.