page. The Christian must not be trapped into discussing his feelings instead of Joseph Smith’s claim to prophethood. At this point, the Christian should say, “Listen, we must have an objective way to test whether Joseph Smith was really a prophet. Since there are dozens of people who claim to be ‘a prophet of God,’ there must be some way to distinguish between true and false prophets.” In the Mormon book, Doctrines of Salvation (p. 188), Joseph Fielding Smith, a past president and prophet of the