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The Book of Mormon contains a version of the Sermon on the Mount, which some authors have claimed to be "the Achilles heel of the Book of Mormon." [ 5 ] One author makes the point that certain portions of the Greek manuscripts of Matthew 5–7 do not agree with the KJV of the text, and concludes that the Book of Mormon version of the sermon ...
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 following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Book of Mormon: . The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.
Mormon theology teaches that the United States is a unique place and that Mormons are God's chosen people, selected for a singular destiny. [51] The Book of Mormon alludes to the United States as being the Biblical promised land, with the Constitution of the United States being divinely inspired, and argues that America is an exceptional nation.
The Book of Mormon claims to be the original writings of Nephite leaders in ancient America, yet it contains a mix of verbatim and paraphrased quotations of the 17th-century edition of the King James Bible (KJV) and the deuterocanonical books, which Joseph Smith's bible had as well. Furthermore, the language of the Book of Mormon closely mimics ...
Historical interpretations were popular from the mid 1940s up through the 1980s. In his summary of tree of life visions in Approaching the Tree, Joseph Spencer writes that the first academic analysis of the vision was in Sidney Sperry's Our Book of Mormon (1947), which described Lehi's dream as a type of "symbolic prophecy". [11]
In the Book of Mormon, Laman and Lemuel (/ ˈ l eɪ m ə n ... ˈ l ɛ m j uː l /) [1] are the two eldest sons [2] of Lehi and the older brothers of Sam, Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph. According to the text, they lived around 600 BC. They were notable for their rebellion against Lehi and Nephi, becoming the primary antagonists of the First and ...
According to the text of the Book of Mormon, the word Mormon stems from the Land of Mormon, [1] [better source needed] where the prophet Alma preached the gospel and baptized converts. Mormon—who was named after the land—was a 4th-century prophet–historian who compiled and abridged many records of his ancestors into the Book of Mormon. [2]