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The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. [1] [2] The book is one of the earliest and most well-known unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement.
The "Heartland" Model or "Heartland Theory" of Book of Mormon geography states that the Book of Mormon events primarily occurred in the heartland of North America. [31] In this model, the Hill Cumorah in New York is considered to be the hill where Joseph Smith found the Golden Plates, and is the same hill where the civilizations of the Nephites ...
The Book of Mormon was much more ambitious than being just a purported history of Native Americans. Mormons quickly adopted the book as a work of scripture of similar importance to the Bible. The book's title page described it as an attempt to show Native Americans "what great things the Lord has done for their fathers", and to convince "Jew ...
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]
In 1980, researchers at Brigham Young University used a stylometric technique that they called "wordprint analysis" to examine the possible authors of the Book of Mormon. They reached the conclusion that none of the Book of Mormon selections they studied resembled writings of any of the suggested nineteenth-century authors, including Joseph Smith.
The Book of Mormon refers to other documents and plates as being "sealed" to be revealed at some future time. For example, the Book of Mormon says the entire set of plates was "sealed up, and hid up unto the Lord" [190] and that separate records of John the Apostle were "sealed up to come forth in their purity" in the end times. [191]
AD 331: Mormon 2 and his army of 42,000 defeats the Lamanite king, Aaron 4, and his army of 44,000. AD 335 (about): Mormon 2 goes to the hill called Shim in the land Antum, takes the plates of Nephi, and begins his abridgment of the records. AD 345: Nephites retreat to the land of Jashon, but are driven forth again northward to the land of Shem.
The film was controversial for demonizing the Mormon religion, and its box-office success is cited for initiating a decade of anti-Mormon propaganda films in America. October 26: Stake missionaries are first called, in the Granite Utah Stake. [3]