Did Martin Harris really actually see the gold plates or did he just hallucinate?
When John H. Gilbert was typesetting the text of the Book of Mormon for printing, he asked Martin Harris, “Martin, did you see those plates with your naked eyes?” Martin responded, “No, I saw them with a spiritual eye.”
Lots of critics of the Church use this and similar accounts to claim that Martin must not have really seen the plates, and so the Gold Plates can’t actually have been real, physical artifacts.
There are multiple problems with all of these accounts, but EVEN IF these accounts are 100% accurate, if we want to really understand if Martin actually saw the plates or not, we need to understand what “spiritual sight” would have meant to 1800s America in general and to Martin Harris specifically, because it’s not what you think!
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