三位證人

三位證人（）為早期後期聖徒運動中具關連性的3名人物之集合名詞，他們宣稱摩羅乃天使曾展示其給予約瑟·斯密的，也就是後來翻譯而成的《摩爾門經》；他們也宣稱曾聽見神的聲音，展現翻譯這本書的神聖力量。這三個人皆為12名成員，其他成員包含約瑟·斯密以及。

三位證人──、與──的聯合證詞，已於1830年與八位證人的獨立證詞，首次同時出版於《摩爾門經》當中，並隨附於幾乎每一版的《摩爾門經》。所有三名證人最後皆與斯密及其組織的教會決裂，但哈里斯與考德在斯密過世後重新加入。惠特默則創立了他自己的。三名證人直到去世為止，都堅持他們對《摩爾門經》的見證 ("the three witnesses all defected from Smith and his church, (only Whitmer permanently), though all maintained until death the truth of the affidavits.")In 1838, Joseph Smith called Cowdery, Harris, and Whitmer "too mean to mention; and we had liked to have forgotten them." B.H. Roberts, ed. History of the Church (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1905), 3: 232. Technically, Whitmer resigned before the High Council decided that he "be no longer considered a member of the Church of Christ of Latter day Saints." Ronald E. Romig, "Faithful Dissenter, Witness Apart," in Roger D. Launius and Linda Thatcher, Dissenting Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, p. 36; Michael Marquardt, "David Whitmer: His Evolving Beliefs and Recollections," in Scattering of the Saints, Schism within Mormonism, eds. Newell G. Bringhurst and John C. Hamer, (Independence, MO: John Whitmer Books, 2007) p. 50.。

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