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[…] and many were healed under their hands. HC 4:4-5 In his book Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, D. Michael Quinn cites additional examples of healing handkerchiefs, including those of Lorenzo Snow, Newel […]
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[…] Apologetic Assumptions A key project for apologists is “show that features of the … accurately reflect the world from which it claims to derive in ways that could not have been known to .” […]