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Originally Posted by Aesa
I have read through the standard works, thankyou. Well at least the BoM anyway.
Christ's rage was loving, not hateful or destructive.
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May not have been hateful, but try telling the merchants in the temple it wasn't destructive. The question that remains was the rage displayed in your quote hateful? It is pretty clear that Smith would have preferred peace. This statement is more like saying, "if you declare war on us, we'll fight back, we'll win, and we'll win in a fashion that will ensure you never declare war on us again."
Furthermore, the objectivity of this affidavit can be questioned, as it was given in the midst of Thomas B Marsh apostacizing. The quote Marsh made about the next Mohammed comes with no context, nor is there any indication of when it was made. There is nothing to substantiate the account, so far as I am aware. By the time Marsh gave this affidavit, he had been increasingly displeased with the Church since April of that same year. Ill feelings had been brewing for six months already. When I get home I can pull out the
History of the Church and see if there was any official comment on the affidavit.