Genuine revelation was pushed into the past: it was recorded in the sacred writings; the contemporary religious leader and thinker could be no more than a commentator. (religion-online.org)
Naturally Mormon writers deny this and defend the book as a genuine revelation received through the prophet Joseph Smith.27 It is impossible to enter here into the merits of the controversy, but there is much circumstantial evidence to support the claim of non-Mormon scholars. (religion-online.org)
It would be incapable of mediating any genuine revelation. (religion-online.org)