WHO REALLY WROTE THE BOOK OF MORMON?
I’ve had a conviction for years that Sidney Rigdon a Baptist minister who became a follower of Alexander Campbell, one of the founders of the Campbellite movement, was really the founder of the Mormon Church. However, at the death of Joseph Smith in 1844 Brigham Young became prophet of the Mormon Church. I’m convinced that Rigdon is really the founder of Mormonism. I don’t believe he intended it to teach what it does now, but he was really the founder of the Mormon Church. The Book of Mormon was probably written by an elderly Presbyterian or Congregationalist preacher who, in bad health, spent his time writing a novel about the origin of the American Indians. He often showed his work to friends who visited him. He left his novel at a printer and there have been rumors of this since Spaulding’s (or Spalding’s) death in 1816. A copy of that manuscript is in existence. Rigdon had toyed with the Sandemanians, a group that with a Presbyterian background was teaching. He used to ‘hang out’ a
