Joe Smith did not write his own Bible. Wake up. He wasn't able to read Bible Greek, Aramaic or Hebrew...So where did he get the bible from...where did he get the background to his practices before the floating tables....Hmmmm? I wonder. Get Real!!!! They still use the Bible...but Joe Smith in transes wrote the Mormon book as well! I also want historic documents state that what Joe Smith wrote for the book of the mormons was practiced way back when.. Give me historicall proof..not proof of someone zoning out and stating what thought God/Jesus whomever gave him. Its a problem to prove something is true by that something. I'll prove to you that the book of mormon is true by the book of mormon! What? Give me other "historical" proof. The fact of the matter is...you can't.
Here's some great information that one of the three witnesses to the translation of the stone said. Look it up...he's in the front of the Mormon book: Both accounts show failed prophesies and also shows that How can Joseph know what is from God and what is from the devil. Please read this.
Whitmer picks up the account, “Joseph looked into the hat in which he placed the stone, and received a revelation that some of the brethren should go to Toronto, Canada, and that they would sell the copyright of the Book of Mormon. Hiram Page and Oliver Cowdery went to Toronto on this mission, but they failed entirely to sell the copyright, returning without any money. Joseph was at my father's house when they returned. I was there also, and am an eye witness to these facts. Jacob Whitmer and John Whitmer were also present when Hiram Page and Oliver Cowdery returned from Canada. Well, we were all in great trouble; and we asked Joseph how it was that he had received a revelation from the Lord for some brethren to go to Toronto and sell the copyright, and the brethren had utterly failed in their undertaking. Joseph did not know how it was, so he enquired of the Lord about it, and behold the following revelation came through the stone: "Some revelations are of God: some revelations are of men: and some revelations are of the devil." So we see that the revelation to go to Toronto and sell the copyright was not of God, but was of the devil or of the heart of man.” - AN ADDRESS TO ALL BELIEVERS IN CHRIST, David Whitmer, 1887. The stone to which Whitmer refers is the “seer stone” by which Smith arrived at many of his revelations, and which he used to help him “translate” the Book of Mormon. Here, Joseph Smith himself admitted that he was susceptible to receiving revelations from men or from the devil, and passing it on as prophecy. Strike two on the validity of Joseph Smith as a prophet.
Joseph Smith was also interested in the second coming of Jesus Christ. So much so, that he tried to peg Christ’s return to a particular year – 1891. Smith said, “It is the will of the Lord that those who went to Zion, with a determination to lay down their lives, if necessary, should be ordained to the ministry, and go forth to prune the vineyard for the last time, or the coming of the Lord, which was night – even fifty-six years, should wind up the scene.” (The History of the Church, vol II, page 182).