Saraswati: There is a difference. Many people may have known that Joseph Smith said he found golden plates, but probably only a handful knew whether or not he actually did. And if he did, no one could know whether his translation was accurate. In the case of Jesus, we have multiple people (likely a few thousand) believing that Jesus was God based on the things he was said to have done. Since they knew, or at least had good information on, whether he had done these things, it is highly unlikely that they would have risked there lives by professing a belief they knew to be false.
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