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Community of Christ has added a number of revelations to their canon from the president of their church. Other Latter Day Saint denominations have also added new scriptures. There is no one accepted way among Latter Day Saints as to where or how revelations should be received. Latter Day Saints believe that God answers prayers.
A significant portion of the Book of Mormon quotes from the brass plates, which purport to be another source of Old Testament writings mirroring those of the Bible. In many cases, the biblical quotations in the English-language Book of Mormon, are close, or identical to the equivalent sections of the KJV.
Sweet is the Word: Reflections on the Book of Mormon, Its Narrative, Teachings, and People. American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications. pp. 49– 59. ISBN 1-55503-925-1. Austin, Michael (2024). The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252045356.
Within the LDS Church, a movement to re-emphasize the Jesus-based elements of Mormonism in the 1980s included a rediscovery of the Book of Mormon. [108] In 1982, the church subtitled the book "Another Testament of Jesus Christ", to emphasize that Jesus was a central focus of the book [109] and that the book is intended to be a complement to the ...
Adherents of Latter Day Saint movement generally believe the Book of Mormon has a miraculous origin. While Joseph Smith described the Book of Mormon as a "translation" of text written on golden plates, Smith had not studied ancient languages and did not "translate" in the traditional sense of the word. Smith claimed a divine origin for his ...
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Mormons believe in the Old and New Testaments, and the LDS Church uses the Authorized King James Version as its official scriptural text of the Bible. While Mormons believe in the general accuracy of the modern day text of the Bible, they also believe that it is incomplete and that errors ...
Brigham Young, the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, laid the foundation for the Adam-God theory with his original doctrinal statements. The Adam–God doctrine (or Adam–God theory ) was a theological idea taught in mid-19th century Mormonism by Brigham Young , a president of the Church of Jesus Christ of ...
The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition. The text of the 1920 LDS edition reformatted into paragraphs and poetic stanzas and accompanied by some footnotes. [270] link: Doubleday: 2004 The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Text from the LDS edition without footnotes. [271] A second edition was printed in 2006. [272] link ...