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Chapters 3 to 7 discuss the contents of the Book of Mormon itself. Howe begins with a comment regarding the style in which the book was written: "The whole work is written in a miserable attempt to imitate the style of King James the first." [5] Chapter 8 discusses the conversion and involvement of Sidney Rigdon.
The Book of Mormon is a foundational sacred book for the church; the terms "Mormon" and "Mormonism" come from the book itself. The LDS Church teaches that the Angel Moroni told Smith about golden plates containing the record, guided him to find them buried in the Hill Cumorah , and provided him the means of translating them from Reformed Egyptian .
Smith said that the Book of Mormon revealed "plain and precious things that had been taken away" from the Bible. [28] Smith also completed an unpublished revision of the Bible in 1833, [29] which he said corrected many of these errors, [30] and added inspired commentary. [31] Smith endowed the Book of Mormon with status equal to the Bible. [32]
The Tanners, who are ex-Mormon, [2]: 38 printed original versions of early Mormon writings and scripture in which they annotated and highlighted doctrinal changes, such as the rejection of Brigham Young's "Adam–God doctrine". They jointly published more than 40 books about many aspects of the LDS Church, primarily its history.
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 curelom (/ k ʊəˈr iː l ə m /) [1] and the cumom (/ ˈ k uː m ə m /) [2] are "useful" animals mentioned in the Book of Mormon. According to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, these animals are thought to have possibly existed in North or South America. To non-adherents, these animals are solely creatures of ...
The Book of Mormon spoke of a city of Zion to be built in the Americas, which would be the same as the biblical New Jerusalem. Smith elaborated in 1830 that the location for this Zion would be somewhere near the United States border among the Native American tribes, and the "elect" of the world would be gathered to this location during the ...
The plan of salvation as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.. According to the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement, the plan of salvation (also known as the plan of happiness and the plan of redemption) is a plan God created to save, redeem, and exalt humankind, through the ...