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Depiction of a "Stripling Warrior", who according to the Book of Mormon was a member of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi ethnic group. According to the Book of Mormon, the Anti-Nephi-Lehies (/ ˈ æ n t aɪ ˈ n iː f aɪ ˈ l iː h aɪ z /) [1] [2] were a tribe of Lamanites formed around 90 BC in the Americas, after a significant religious conversion. [3]
Mormon authors claim that the description of olive horticulture in Jacob 5 is too specific and detailed for Smith to have learned on his own in early 19th century New England, so they assert it is evidence that Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's divine origin is true.
In the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon, the first two iteration of Amalickiah are spelled as such, but throughout the remainder of the text Oliver Cowdery, scribing for Joseph Smith's dictation of the Book of Mormon, frequently misspelled the name by replacing the second or third vowels (or both) with the letter e, as in Ameleckiah. [10]
The sophic and mantic were originally defined by Hugh Nibley in 1963 as a way of describing naturalistic and supernaturalistic ontologies.H. Curtis Wright, a professor in the Brigham Young University (BYU) Library information science program, popularized the distinction and several Latter-day Saint (LDS) scholars referenced it, mostly in the 1990s.
A review of An Insider's View of Mormon Origins; A Summary of Five Reviews of Grant Palmer's "An Insider's View of Mormon Origins" of Palmer's book by LDS apologists at F.A.I.R. (Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research) A Reply to FARMS and the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute, by Ron Priddis of Signature Books
Many of Vogel's books have been critically reviewed by members of FARMS, a Mormon apologetics institute. [10] For example, in 1991, Mormon religion professor and FARMS scholar Stephen E. Robinson suggested that Vogel's naturalistic arguments closely resemble those of Korihor, an atheist polemicist in the Book of Mormon. [11]
Mormon handcart pioneers are memorialized on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Mormon religion is predicated on what are said to be historical events such as the First Vision of Joseph Smith and the historicity of the Book of Mormon, which describes a detailed pre-Columbian history of the Americas. [1]
According to the Book of Mormon, this exchange happened in Jerusalem, around 600 BC. The meaning of the word "church" in the Book of Mormon is more comparable to usage in the Bible than Modern English. The concept of a church, meaning "a convocation of believers", existed among the House of Israel prior to Christianity.