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Originally Posted by SoonerCoug
You're oversimplifying the human mind.
This is an awful analogy, but it's a memorable one, so I've got to use it. Did Andrea Yates lie when she said the devil told her to kill her kids?
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Maybe she did lie? I don't know. Maybe she was hallucinating and was a crazy person? I don't know.
Are you assuming that Joseph was hallucinating and he was a crazy person and that just happened to write an inspiring religious text?
Are you assuming that he was able to convince 11 others to hallucinate with him? Are you assuming that Joseph continued to have this daily hallucination when he thought he was translating from plates that did not literally exist?
If it was just a vision of the plates, why testify to the world that it was not simply a vision?