Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet

My name is Ryan Davis,
I post statements by those who personally KNEW the prophet as
those who KNEW him best BELIEVED him most
Comments are my own ideas

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@Manhattva This world is obsessed with war

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

You're not a data point, you are a beloved child of God.

[Latter-day Truth @Latterdaytruth]

Elder Gong COOKED with this one.

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@RestoredTruth8 The humble are sent to gather the humble...those who "don't need a physician" ... don't need a physician I guess.
Great video

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

So in 1829, a 23-year-old farmboy dictates the Book of Mormon in about 65 days — no notes, no rewrites.

In 1980, statisticians ran it through a computer. Not the doctrine — the tiny words every writer uses without thinking. a, of, the, and. The fingerprint you can't fake.

The verdict: two dozen DISTINCT authors inside the book. Odds of one author writing it all — under 1 in 100 billion.

How did Joseph Smieth fake two dozen fingerprints in 65 days? Unless....

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@nicoraytruth check this out - https://t.co/Pzkd8VP14f

Not likely to have handrails in Jerusalem in 600bc...and thinking that Laman and Lemuel didn't beat on Nephi / sam with a handrail. A rod is very specific and symbolic.

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@nicoraytruth Tithing is a terrestrial law.
Consecration is the celestial law.
Agree we should not water that one down -

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@kimah Awesome

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@mexinorseman Thanks Nate -

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@jonathanplumb But it was glorious. And I cannot say more.

Great statement

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@nicoraytruth Favorite statement in there is awaking the slumbering majority...

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

Elder Maxwell

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

America the Beautiful 🙏🏼🇺🇸

Don’t write checks with your tongues that your conduct cannot cash.

Good Sunday morning.
@elonmusk

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@GenFlynn @elonmusk This is prophetic

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@Manhattva @vivian39_ Yeah, that map isn't accurate

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

Deseret, the honey bee...

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

I mean, come on!

An ancient submarine? Sealed top and bottom? A stoppable air-hole? Sixteen glowing stones touched by the finger of God on a mountaintop to see in the dark?

How did Joseph Smith think he'd get away with this crazy story?

Turns out, every detail he described has been uncovered in MULTIPLE ancient texts which were UNKNOWN in 1829!

Enter, the Jaredites!
https://t.co/h1blKca6Ax

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

Living Prophets

[Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth]

Nearly 20 years ago I watched this video in the law library and wept. I don’t remember what I was supposed to be studying.

I remember the screen, the headphones, and an old man telling a story about a coat and a pair of worn out shoes and the gospel coming through him so plainly.

That’s the thing about Hinckley. He never raised his voice. He didn’t need to. He spoke the way a father speaks when he knows what he knows, quietly, without performance, without trying to convince you.

The authority wasn’t borrowed. It wasn’t the authority of a king or an office or a pulpit.

It was the authority of a man telling the truth, and you could feel it in your chest before your mind caught up.

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@nicoraytruth Me too. Still almost tear up --
So good.

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@defense_of_fam The gospel net gathers all kinds... - Joseph Smith

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

unto all nations...

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

Latter-day Saints Around the World - 1920 to 2025

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

Wisdom by a living prophet.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

The more I study the efforts of some Christians to legislate morality through overturning Supreme Court rulings, the more I understand what Dallin H. Oaks has been prophetically warning about for decades.

He warns:

“Litigation should not be the first recourse in resolving our differences.”

“Courts are constitutionally limited to resolving the specific cases before them. They are ill-suited to the overarching, complex, and comprehensive policy-making that is required.”

“What is needed is wise public policy, not a declaration of the winner in a legal contest.”

“Extreme voices polarize and sow resentment as they seek to dominate their opponents and achieve absolute victory. Such outcomes are rarely sustainable or even attainable, and they are never preferable to living together in mutual understanding and peace.”

“We all lose when an atmosphere of anger or hostility or contention prevails. We all lose when we cannot debate public policies without resorting to boycotts, firings, and intimidation of our adversaries.”

“There should be no adversariness between believers and nonbelievers, and there should be no belligerence between religion and government.”

“I believe one important way to move forward is to minimize talk of rights and to increase talk of responsibilities. The scriptures contain very little talk of rights, only commandments that create responsibilities.”

“The freedom and protection we seek is not for ourselves alone.”

He urges something harder and more durable than a court victory: that people of faith and those they disagree with sit across from each other, negotiate in good faith, and craft policy that protects everyone. Not a legal victory for one side. “Fairness for all and total dominance for neither.”

It has been done before and it can be done again.

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

@OurLadysDonor Umm...not exactly

[Knowing Joseph Smith the Prophet @KnowingJoseph]

The Book of Mormon goes against so many of the traditions of the day, like the Justin points out in this video - 1830s consensus was that the Arabian peninsula was a forest not a desert.
Joseph goes against the norm, calls it a desert and he's mocked by the smart people of his day.
But when the truth comes out, he's right again.
We are wise to listen to living prophets that always speak for God.

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

So... the Arabian desert. You picture endless sand, right?

The Book of Mormon, translated by Joseph Smith in 1829, describes a "GARDEN IN THE DESERT" — a hidden coastal oasis with fruit, wild honey, shipbuilding timber, and iron ore deposits.

No Western map showed it. Then in 1928, British explorer Bertram Thomas walked into the Qara Mountains of southern Oman and confirmed every detail.

How did this 23-year-old farmboy in upstate New York perfectly describe a region the British Empire didn't map until 99 years later?

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