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The largest of the churches embracing the Book of Mormon – the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) – has not endorsed an official position for the geographical setting the Book of Mormon, although some of its leaders have spoken of various possible locations over the years. There have also been multiple attempts to ...
A limited geography model for the Book of Mormon is one of several proposals by Latter Day Saint scholars that the book's narrative was a historical record of people in a limited geographical region, rather than of the entire Western Hemisphere.
The Mormon culture region generally follows the path of the Rocky Mountains of North America, with most of the population clustered in the United States.Beginning in Utah, the corridor extends northward through western Wyoming and eastern Idaho to parts of Montana and the deep south regions of the Canadian province of Alberta.
These apologists attempt to map the geographic, demographic, and economic details of the Book of Mormon to real geographic and archeological features. For example, the Book of Mormon describes a "narrow neck of land" or isthmus that connects a "land northward" and a "land southward", surrounded by eastern and western seas.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a temple is a building dedicated to be a House of the Lord. Temples are considered by church members to be the most sacred structures on earth.
The accounts related to Zelph are used as evidence by some Book of Mormon scholars to suggest that the Lehites inhabited the entire North American continent as proposed by the Hemispheric Geographical Model, rather than merely portions of Central America as suggested by the Limited Geography Model. (See also Archaeology and the Book of Mormon)
Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting; Z. Zelph This page was last edited on 20 November 2020, at 07:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Book of Mormon places (12 P) C. Mormon cemeteries (9 P) L. Latter Day Saint church buildings (2 C, 12 P) M. Mormon Trail (42 P) ... Mountain Meadow, Utah; N. Naples ...