The Book of Mormon

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This Book Has Changed My Life! by .. Joni R. Lelis ()
Without this book and what it represents I would be lost in life. It has given me meaning and purpose to continue through hard times. Through it I have come to know that God knows and loves me, that I am His son and that He has a plan for all of us: We are here on earth to learn and to grow to be more like Him. But he knew we would make mistakes and sin and therefore, He provided us a way to be forgiven through the eternal sacrifice of His son, Jesus Christ. By repenting and accepting Christ as our Savior we can be purified and return to live with our Father in Heaven after this life. I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God as recieved and written by prophets of old in the Americas. I know that it was translated by the power of God through Joseph Smith and through Joseph Smith, God established His true church in our day: The Church of jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

The Book of Mormon Made Easier, Part III (New Cover)

Author : David Ridges Number of Pages : 384 Publisher : Cedar Fort, Inc. List Price : $21.95 Amazon Price : $14.18 Used Price : $13.74

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great contextual guide to the Book of Mormon by .. Erica A. Shirts (Ann Arbor, MI USA)
This is a great contextual guide through the last section of the Book of Mormon. It is very useful as a reference for teaching Gospel Doctrine. Do allow for some individual interpretation, however.

Excellent and easy study guide by .. John Nørgaard (Denmark)
Thank's so much for an easy to read scripture study guide. David Ridge teaches spiritual truths in an easy to understand language withoug using 50 meter long sentences. His short parenthese commentaries are an invaluable help in understanding the holy scriptures. I highly recommend this book as well as the other books in these series.

John

the book of mormon made easier by .. Darrell Thompson ()
I like all the commentary within each chapter. It's like being in a institute class

A brilliant study guide by .. T. James ()
"RC"'s diatribe against The Book of Mormon is a great example of why Christianity is losing members. He's so wrapped up in his version of doctrine, he forgets the entire purpose of religion, worship, or just being faithful.

I am not a Christian - I am currently searching. And during my search, I have spoken to possibly hundreds of people who walk in many faiths. Latter-Day Saints are the most genuine Christians I have ever met, simply because they live their faith, quietly, every day. They are deeply spiritual people who are openly friendly and welcoming to those of any faith. I am more inclined to study the religious texts of those who live a good and gentle life - those who actually take the words of Jesus to heart.

There seem to be many "Mormon bashers" - supposed Christians who feel it is their duty to spend their lives on Earth arguing against and ridiculing others instead of actually studying the words of their Savior and walking in His path. It is these people who make Christianity look bad to non-Christians. I wonder if RC ever feels any presence of Spirit at all. Maybe he's too busy bashing others to really notice.

So - back on track. David J. Ridges has definitely made studying all of the scriptures easier. I especially like his BoM series as well as The Book of Isaiah. You don't have to be a religious scholar to receive the benefits of this book. Think of it as another teacher who can point out parts of scripture you've never seen before.

Joseph Smith's Novel by .. RC Carrier (Sacramento, CA)
If you are a Mormon, I want you to know that I respect your open-mindedness in reading this review. I also want you to know that I like Mormons, and even love a few, some of whom I consider to be the finest people who ever walked in shoe leather, as my grandmother used to say.

Note: Your helpful votes are appreciated. Thanks, and please check my reviews of books by Hugh Nibley and John Sorenson, as well as my review of "Echoes and Evidence for the Book of Mormon." And other books by famous liars for the Lord.



Here, then, are the cold hard facts:

Joseph Smith demonstrated his ability to write Book of Mormon scripture by composing the scripture-sounding "Preface" (now dropped) as well as the two testimonies (originally at the end of the book). Note the following:

PART OF THE PREFACE TO THE BOOK OF MORMON COMPOSED BY JOSEPH SMITH

As many false reports have been circulated respecting the following work, and also many unlawful measures taken by evil designing persons to destroy me, and also the work....notwithstanding my utmost exertions to recover it again....Satan had put I into their hearts to tempt the Lord their God, by altering the words, that they did read contrary from that which I translated and caused to be written; and if I should bring forth the same words again, or, in other words, if I should translate the same over again, they would publish that which they had stolen, and Satan would stir up the hearts of this generation, that they might not receive this work....Wherefore, to be obedient unto the commandments of God, I have, through his grace and mercy, accomplished that which he hath commanded

SLIGHT CHANGES TO SHOW THAT JOSEPH SMITH COULD COMPOSE BOOK OF MORMON SCRIPTURE:

As many false reports had been circulated in the land, many unlawful measures were taken against Nephi by the evil designing Lamanite king. But notwithstanding Nephi's utmost exertions, Satan had put it into their hearts to tempt the Lord their God, by altering Nephi's words, that they did read contrary from that which he caused to be written as testimony on gold plates. And it came to pass, that Nephi said, If I should bring forth the same words again, or, in other words, if I should write the same over again, they would publish that which they had stolen, and Satan would stir up the hearts of Lamanites, that they might not receive this work. Wherefore, to be obedient unto the commandments of God, I, Nephi have, through his grace and mercy, accomplished that which he hath commanded.

The preface also shows the back-tracking style found throughout the Book of Mormon.

Note the following examples:

l. "I have charity for the Jew--I say Jew, because I mean...."
2. "And now if Christ had not come into the world, speaking of things to come as though...." (Supposedly written in 148 BC-before Christ)
3. "...so long as there should be a band of Christians remain to possess the land--For thus all the true believers of Christ...." (Supposedly written in 73 BC)
4. "And behold in the end of this book...Behold I do not mean the end of the book of Helaman, but I mean...."
5. "...it must needs be expedient that Christ-for in the last night an angel spake unto me that this should be his name...." (Written in the sixth century BC)
6. "...and if I should bring forth the same words again, or, in other words, if I should translate the same over...."
7. "...that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people."

NOTE: Number "6" (above) was written by Joseph Smith in his 1830 preface of the Book of Mormon, a preface now deleted, and number "7" was also written by Joseph Smith as he later described his visit with an angel.

Also, remember that Joseph Smith didn't know when to quit talking. His prayer for the dedication of the Kirkland Temple, according to the guides, was a couple hours long. Thus, again he demonstrated his ability to spin scripture as fast as his scribe could write it down.

Published in 1830, the original Book of Mormon bears all the marks of a novel written by a relatively uneducated man. Some 4000 changes have been made in grammar (also deleting the overuse of "and it came to pass").

Also, some significant errors corrected (King Benjamin was dead at one point and it was changed to Mosiah). In addition, it contains errors that are found in the King James Bible at the time.

Taking the popular folklore of the lost white race of "Mound Builders" and that the Indians were descended from the Jews, Joseph Smith had all the makings of a novel set in his lap. He was not a scholar, but he used a few books as references--notably "View of the Hebrews," published in Poultney, Vermont, where his chief scribe and third cousin, Oliver Cowdery, came of age.

The project took about a year. At the age of twenty-two-and-half, Joseph Smith dictated 116 pages over a two month period. When these pages were lost or stolen, he waited some nine months (with some composition in between) before starting again. Then after three months, he completed his novel at age twenty-three-and-a-half.

At the time, Joseph Smith was not a teenager or "farm boy" as many Mormon writers say, deliberately confusing Joseph's teenage visions with his dictating of the Book of Mormon. He was a married man of 22-23 when he began his novel.

Note, also, that Joseph Smith didn't have to "write" a single word. He had various scribes do that as he "translated" from behind a curtain by looking at a magic stone placed in a hat.

For a fascinating look at the problems of the Book of Mormon, read "American Apocrypha," a collection of essays by former Mormons. American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormons (Essays on Mormonism Series)

The following is from an essay by Professor Edwin Firmage, who tells a compelling story of how he came to abandon his belief that the Book of Mormon is an ancient document. The other essays in this book are also fascinating. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the Book of Mormon.

Professor Edwin Firmage, Jr. writes:

"Nearly twenty years ago, as a first year-graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, my ambition was to become another Hugh Nibley, whose writings I loved since I was twelve...."

"Still a neophyte, but armed with German and a little Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew, and intent on acquiring the requisite apologetic tools, I cameo Berkeley to study ancient Near Eastern languages, particularly Egyptian, the language of mysteries par excellence.

"Not long after my arrival, I was asked to teach the Book of Mormon in the Gospel Doctrine class in my Berkeley ward. I welcomed the opportunity, as it would give me a chance to delve deeper into the book. By any standard, my wife and I were faithful Mormons who attended church, visited the temple, and prayed together. I expected my study of the Book of Mormon to result in an increase of faith as it had done on my mission. But within six months, I no longer believed the Book of Mormon to be an ancient text.

"To this day, I am not sure how it happened, although I can isolate several issues that played a role in my change of mind....I have often thought that what happened to me in Berkeley was fundamentally a conversion, or, if you like, an anti-conversion. The process had all the inscrutable suddenness that characterized some of the conversions I had witnessed as missionary. Like a conversion to faith, the effect of my change of mind propagated with amazing speed. Almost overnight my whole outlook on life was different."

"The remaining pages of this essay will present a few of what, for me in 1984, were discoveries of some importance. These do not by any means constitute a comprehensive explanation of the Book of Mormon. Nor are they offered as proof of my thesis that the book is modern, but as examples of how the assumption that is modern resolves otherwise significant difficulties."

Further, there is no archaeological evidence for the claims of the Book of Mormon. Read the following:

Robert J. Sharer is Professor of Anthropology and Curator of the American Section of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His fascinating and heavy book analyzes the Maya from every angle. Although Sharer does not mention the Book of Mormon, he does give a devastating answer to those who would link Meso-American civilization with the ancient Hebrews, placing such theories squarely in the 19th century.

Sharer writes: "After more than a century of gathering and analyzing archaeological evidence, we have discovered nothing to support the idea of intervention by people from the Old World." "This is not to say that accidental contacts between the Old and New World peoples could not have occurred before the age of European exploration" (p. 6).

"On the basis of the available evidence, then, the courses of cultural development in the New and Old Worlds seem clearly independent of each other and devoid of significant contact until 1492" (intro., p. 7).

The ancient Maya civilization, Sharer continues, "are to be `explained' not as a product of transplanted Old World civilization, but as the result of the processes that underlie the growth of any culture, including those that develop the kind of complexity we call civilization."

"The idea, which either explicitly or implicitly asserts that the peoples of the New World were incapable of shaping their own destiny or developing sophisticated cultures independently of Old World influence, is still popular in quarters." "But this is but one more popular myth devoid of fact, for the evidence points unmistakably toward the evolution of civilization in the New World independently of developments in the Old World."

Lastly, every Mormon should read Robert Silverberg's book, "The Mound Builders: The Archaeology of a Myth." This book provides the context for the novel called the "Book of Mormon.

MOUND BUILDERS OF ANCIENT AMERICA: The Archaeology of a Myth

Another great book is Robert Wauchope's 150-page "Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents: Myth and Method in the Study of the American Indians."

Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents Myth Method in the

Studies of the Book of Mormon

Author : Brigham D. Madsen Number of Pages : 416 Publisher : Signature Books List Price : $19.95 Amazon Price : $12.78 Used Price : $11.44

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Good book for those really interested in LDS apologetics by .. Moose (USA)
I enjoyed the book simply because it gave me a view (other than the typical pro-LDS view) into the mind of an old-time LDS general authority. Some thoughts:
1) Several reviewers here and on other sites dwell on whether Roberts had become a semi-unbeliever later in life and they point to this book for discussion of that. Frankly, I don't think it matters whether he continued to believe or not, since his personal views on the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon don't make the book true or false.
2) However, the book does show how roberts eventually got stumped (rough paraphrase of his own statements) by some critic's questions. He assumed that the LDS apostles, being inspired as he believed, would be able to get further light and knowledge from God to answer the questions. He presented his concerns to them and they gave what he stated were unsatisfying answers.
3) I found this encounter interesting since this happens to lay members all the time. They develop questions, go to their leaders for answers, come away dissatisfied, read stuff by apologists, come away appalled at the lame answers and even dishonesty, then quit or just suffer with cognitive dissonance. It's interesting to read how a general authority went through this and got a similarly poor response.
4) Some reviewers claim the material in the book is outdated. True to some extent, but much of it is just as valid today. The parallels between the Book of Mormon and View of the Hebrews are still as striking as ever. And with regard to archeology, etc, the case has continued to grow worse and worse for the LDS church. DNA, for example, has all but shut the lid on church claims, even with the limited geography theories.

Remarkable in Historic Context by .. Confederate (Bethesda, MD)
Those who conclude that B.H. Roberts died a non-believer will be in for a bitter disappointment. It can be argued that this critique of Elder Roberts played a significant role in reevaluating the widely held and silly notion that the Book of Mormon is a history of the entire American continent, a view that has all but vanished among serious LDS scholars. As noted in an earlier review, much of Roberts' criticism topples once the "continent" view is ejected and a "limited geography" model is adopted. This makes Roberts' critique somewhat less than satisfying for the Book of Mormon's critics, yet it remains valuable to the historian as it reflects a step in the evolution of scholarly evaluation. In fact, now that the limited geography models are widely accepted, pieces of the Roberts' puzzle no longer fit. In short, the critique accomplished what it set out to do, and that is applying history, archeology, geography and culture to a land and peoples about which little is known. I suppose that critics will continue to wave this critique under the noses of believers, but if they try it with someone who knows better, they'll draw back a nub. The serious student will read John L. Sorenson and other Mesoamerican-based theories.

A must have to understand the authorship of the Book of Mormon by .. Joseph Otterstrom ()
This book is written by B. H. Roberts a general authority for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the church historian back in the 1920's and 30's. He was given the assignment to answer some questions concerning the Book of Mormon. This he attempts to do in the most fair and scientific way possible. In the process he finds a book, "View of the Hebrews", which has a large amount of similarities to the Book of Mormon. He develops a hypothesis that Joseph Smith used this book to base his book on and then tries to find what supporting or not supporting evidence there is to back up the hypothesis. This is a must read for anyone who wishes to learn more about the writing of the Book of Mormon or to understand Joseph Smith better.

An Important Book for Mormon Studies by .. RC Carrier (Sacramento, CA)
I have quoted below what Roberts said about "View of the Hebrews," and it is not at all clear that this was not his genuine belief. A couple other reviewers said that Roberts letter about playing "devils advocate" should have been included, and I agree.

Nevertheless, these writers completely ignore the social pressure of Roberts many family and friends. If he had not backed off, he would have lost everything. I personally knew an aged professor who told me that he was an atheist. He had been on a mission decades before, and when he died, he had a Mormon funeral at a Mormon ward.

I'm not making up this story, and in my own life, I could name at least fifteen people who do not believe a word of the Book of Mormon, but who are still on the roles because of social pressure--fear of hurting parents or other relatives, and fear of loosing friends.

The pressure on a public figure like Roberts would have silenced him. If you look at what he wrote below, it is impossible to believe that he was simply playing the "devil's advocate." The picture is much more complicated than that.

Robert's said:

"It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other. Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin."

"The material in Ethan Smith's book is of a character and quantity to make a ground plan for the Book of Mormon: It supplies a large amount of material respecting American antiquities--leading to the belief that civilized or semi-civilized nations in ancient times occupied the American continents" (B. H. Roberts, p. 240, above).

A Required Read by .. James I. Huston (Louisville, KY)
This book should be a requirement for anyone studying the Book of Mormon. B.H. Roberts was the first Mormon apologist, President of the First Quorum of Seventies and Mormon Church Historian. B.H. Roberts was additionally recognized as the Mormon Church's most accomplished scriptorian of his day. Apostle Talmage gave Roberts five questions that had been asked by a member. B.H. Roberts researched the questions and went to the Twelve and First Presidency and said he could not give satisfactory answers to the questions. He asked for the Brethren to pray about the questions and get the answers from God. Each of the Brethren stood, bore their testimony of the Book of Mormon and the meeting was over. Roberts was then asked to come up with the best answers he could. These answers were given to the member who originally asked the questions.

This started Roberts on the mission of proving or disproving the Book of Mormon. He reviewed the book for inconsistencies in technology, zoology and anthropology. He presents a study of the technology of steel, glass, the wheel, metal coins and other advances that were questionable. He also covered the problems with horses, elephants, oxen, cattle and other problems. He covered the linguistics and anthropological information available at the time in trying to reconcile an Israelite migration to North America. In all, his conclusions are consistent with the current scientific community. He proposed, and then rejected, what Mormons know today as the Limited Geography Theory. He then undertakes a review of Joseph Smith and the literature available to Joseph Smith and concludes that there are significant parallels to "View of the Hebrews" by Ethan Smith. He did not at the time have the information that Oliver Cowdrey's family were parishioners of Ethan Smith. He concluded that with the structure of "View of the Hebrews", the 1796 version of the King James Bible and Joseph Smith's imagination, he would have no trouble writing the book.

The book is analytical in nature, reviewing all possible options. Mormon Apologists claim that this book was written so the Brethren would know the weaknesses of the Book of Mormon. If you read the book you can clearly see that this is not the case. Roberts was struggling and searching for ways to justify the inconsistencies found in the Book of Mormon. By the end of the study it is clear that he no longer has a testimony of the Book of Mormon. The book was not published for 60 years and finally released in 1985. The Mormon Church has had this information since 1930, but never released it. The problems discussed in this book are the same problems that Mormon apologists struggle with today. The answers that the apologists give are no more satisfactory today than they were at the time of B.H. Roberts.

This book is a necessary read for any budding apologist. It is also a book that can be given to a believing Mormon, because it was written by a recognized General Authority. B.H. Roberts was the editor of the "Complete History of the Church" and the "Mormon Doctrine of Deity."

The Book of Mormon (Penguin Classics)

Number of Pages : 640 Publisher : Penguin Classics List Price : $15.00 Amazon Price : $4.75 Used Price : $4.74

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an experience, even if you aren't mormon by .. D. Weatherford (Spanish Fork, UT USA)
If you are interested in religion and are not Mormon, I would recommend reading this style of the Book of Mormon. The original (supposed) translation of the Book of Mormon did not have the verse numbers or columns. I like reading it better that way; it is a narrative and to me, all of the notes and verse numbers in the current edition just get in the way.

I am an ex-mormon and I never really "got" the BoM until I read it from an outsiders perspective in this format. If you want the original book however, this is not quite there; it is the third edition. And, yes, there were nearly 4000 typos and more serious textual issues that have had to be changed since. If you can find one, it is really interesting to read the 1830 edition, but this one will suffice if not.

Even if you are not Mormon, if you are interested in religion, read the older edition (like this one), not the new one.

Have you no shame, Amazon, at long last, no decency? by .. No DRM ()
WTF, Amazon, you've had the Look Inside and Search Inside features going for some five years now, and you still can't tag the appropriate scans to the right book. I tried to look inside the Penguin Book of Mormon, only to see a scan for some no-name BS small press edition. Way to lose a sale to a brick-and-mortar bookstore, where I can hold the book in my hands and consult it in the flesh. FAIL

An Exceedingly Good Review of the Book of Mormon by .. Tanstaafl (USA)
1. And it came to pass that I, TANSTAAFL, having been born of Mormon parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; which included the Book of Mormon, and having seen many afflictions and cognitive dissonance in the course of my days because of the fact that I was raised in the Mormon religion and having read the Book of Mormon nigh unto twenty times, nevertheless, yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mischievousness of Loki, therefore I make a book review of the Book of Moron.

2. Yea, I make a record of my review in the language of English, and not Reformed Egyptian - the language of the Book of Mormon, because everyone knoweth that no one speaks Reformed Egyptian anyway. Behold, I make an abridgment of the review upon computer which I have made with mine own hands; (the review, not the computer) wherefore, after I have abridged the review then will I make an account of mine own review and if thou findest this sentence difficult for your understandings to comprehend then thou wilt not enjoy reading the Book of Mormon, for I make the record of my review in the idiom of the book of Mormon author. Yea, verily, it came to pass that exceedingly more confusing than Yoda-speak it is.

3. And it came to pass that thus were written the first two paragraphs of my review. And I know that the review which I write true; and I make it with mine own computer; and I make it according to my knowledge. And thus passeth away even the third paragraph also.

4. And it came to pass that my review having been limited to 1000 words by the amazon.com web-site, I realized that my choice of writing style, that being the style inflicted upon the reader by Joseph Smith Jr., Author and Proprietor of the Book of Mormon, was not a good choice for one limited to a small number of words, or for that matter an odd choice for the inhabitants of the ancient Americas who supposedly had to inscribe the lengthy and frequently rambling and meaningless prose on gold plates where space was at a premium.

5. And it came to pass that this part of the review, yea even the middlest part, I shall shew unto you the parts of the review that review the book of which I revieweth. And it came to pass that I chose not to detail in this review the thousands of revisions which the Mormons made to the book after Joseph Smith wrote it, which was supposedly perfectly "translated" by a gift from god, or the many anachronisms which the author included, yea not even the horses that the ancient Americans supposedly had despite the fact that the horse arrived with Columbus nor the steel weapons. Nor even shall I comment upon 54 chapters dealing with wars that bear no resemblance to the actual wars that took place in the ancient Americas, yea and I especially shall not comment upon the accounts of wars with nonsensical accounts of million man armies fighting to the last man and their bones and steel weapons disappearing from the face of the earth. Yea, and it followeth that I also chose not to comment on the many plagiarisms and yea, even plagiarisms of mistranslations, which were included in the book. Yea, verily I chose not to comment on the writing or the story of the book, which Mark Twain called "chloroform in print," especially since I find that remark exceedingly disparaging to chloroform. For it came to pass in the commencement of my preparation for the writing of the review, I realized that a review of the book which pointed out its flaws would be so long, yea, so long as to be longer than the book itself. Yea, and thus passeth away even the middlest part of the review, the exceedingly longest paragraph, even though it merely toucheth upon the thousands of give-aways as to the fraudulent nature of the book. For yea, this review cannot contain even a millionth part of what was so exceedingly poorly written in the Book of Mormon.

6. And it came to pass that I decided that my review of the book should mention, before concluding, a list of some of the main themes of the Book of Mormon, and yea I verily mention them thusly: (1) Killing is good, if thou art a teenager and thou hearest voices in thine head telling thee to kill someone, preferably someone drunk so they cannot fight back. 1 Nephi 4 (2) If thou disobeyest God, he will curse thee with a dark skin, 3 Nephi 5:21, Jacob 3:5, Alma 3:6, but (3) If thou art a personage of dark skin, God will make thee white and delightsome, if thou wilt consent to join his church. 3 Nephi 3:15 (4) After Jesus, yea even Christ Our Lord, was killed, he camest to the Americas and killed millions of Native Americans, 3 Nephi 8-9, and (5) Women art completely insignificant except occasionally as breeding stock, passim.

7. And there are many things more which transpired in the Book of Mormon which, in the eyes of some, would be considered great and marvelous, but despite having read the book upwards of twenty times, I cannot remember even one. For there are some who say "it stinketh not," but as for me it doth stink, exceedingly.

8. Thus, I make an end to my abridgement of my review, yea, and now I bid unto all, adieu. I soon go to rest in the paradise of mine abode, until my spirit and body shall again recover from the taxing effort of writing in such an exceedingly nauseating style. Amen.

Inspired by .. Insee ()
Reading this book with an open heart and open mind will change your life forever. It truly is another testament of Jesus Christ!

Chloroform in Print by .. TruthbeFound (St. Louis, MO)
Mark Twain called the Book of Mormon "chloroform in print" and he wasn't kidding. It is by far the most boring read I have encountered (I could barely get through it). I am a woman of faith - faith in God and faith in Christ and I don't know how anyone could believe this rubbish. PLEASE, anyone who is taking this at all seriously - do some research on the church. Ask some hard questions (you will likely get a rehearsed answer, but it's worth a shot).

Joseph Smith was accused (and fined with a misdimeanor) of being a "glass looker" - hired by a man to help him find buried silver mines started and left behind by the Spanish. He would use "magic stones" that were placed in a hat to tell him where to find the location. So convenient that he later found "gold plates" and used what he called the "Urim and Thum" (which, by the way are actually gemstones that were carried by the High Priests of Israel in biblical times) to translate these plates (he describes them as stones he looked at in a hat).

There are SO many myths that are told by members of the church "most men were SO distraught at the thought of polygamy", the age issue of Joseph translating the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith's actual role in polygamy (which really should be called polandry - when a woman has more than one husband... 11 of Josephs 33 wives were actually married to other men first and then married to him, having NEVER divorced the first husband - what's up with that???).. etc.. and the list goes on and on...

I am not disputing that Mormons take care of their own... that they are often kind people who have good hearts, I think that is all wonderful and if you want to join their church for those reasons that's great! Just PLEASE do some homework first and don't just rely on the "power of prayer". There is a reason that Utah is the [...] capital of the USA (I'm sure every one of those people "prayed" about that big business decision - it can OFTEN be mis-intrepreted).

The Book of Mormon and the Constitution

Author : H. Verlan Andersen Edition : 1st Number of Pages : 244 Publisher : SunRise Pub Used Price : $29.99

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The Book of Mormon and the Constitution by .. Guy R. Stults (Dinosaur Colorado USA)
This is the most important information for the avid Book of Mormon reader it covers information lost to the general public on why the Book of Mormon was brought forth today to warn us of our present condition and what awaits us if we do not heed the warnings.
A must read for those looking for pure knowledge and not a watered down version of all is well in Zion.
I bought two copies so I can give on to my children to read.
True Latter Day Saints need to know this information and study it and make it a part of their lives.

Wake up call to all, not affended of the truth. by .. Dennise Faulkner (la mesa, california usa)
Reading this book opens your eyes to what is going on today in our government, entertainment (talk radio) and teaching. All people have left the laws and understandings of the past (Gods Laws) and become big machines of telling what they want you to do and we are going for it. As a man of great insight and having long years of being around the Prophets he has a very plan way of getting the point across. He gets the reader to question their thinking on the different subjects in the book. I know when I try to tell people of the informaiton of the Teacher being a type of Preist craft, this get the look as if the information is crazy. But then I say the book says this because when the Bad kings would take their Priests and have them teach of mans ways, not God laws or truth. The teaching became a way to sway people away from God and this is very evident today. Same with the government, lossing morality when the size of the government is so vast the abilty to have accountablity for any illegal thing done is hard to bring to justice. But as of old you hope for the best and watch for what will happen by God's hands.

Wonderful book! by .. Erlyn Barlocker (Utah United States)
This book is a great addition to studying the Constitution and reading the Book of Mormon. It allows readers to see the link between ancient America and the plans that God has laid out for this wonderful land, and our day. The Constitution was inspired by Heavenly Father, and studying this book will allow the reader to see the similarities between the people of the Book of Mormon and modern-day Christians. By so doing, one can forsee the events happening around them and basically predict what will happen if certain avenues that threaten our ability to be a free people are followed. This has been a great book to study, along with our study of the Constitution, "The Making of America" and "The Five Thousand Year Leap" both by Cleon Skousen. For anyone who wants to hone their skills in the area of the Constitution, these four books work in tandem. Too bad that "The Book of Mormon and the Constitution" is out of print. It's time for a second printing, as many people are looking for this great book!