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5 unusual facts about Book of Mormon


Defanging the snake

In fact some Holy Books for example the Book of Mormon demonstrate defanging the serpent intertwined with certain religious ideas.

Ernest Sibanda

After reading from the Book of Mormon, Sibanda resolved to be baptized into the LDS Church, and he was baptized within two weeks of first meeting the missionaries.

Oakland California Temple

Within the front garden courtyard there is a statue of children in front of a bronze plaque bearing a scripture from 3 Nephi 17, from the Book of Mormon, telling how Christ blessed the children during his visit to the people of ancient America.

Pomeroy Tucker

Tucker was employed as a printer for a time by E.B. Grandin, known for publishing the first order of the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the churches of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Valisia LeKae

Previously, she was a swing and understudy in the Broadway productions of The Book of Mormon (2011), Ragtime (2009), and The Threepenny Opera (2006) and a performer in 110 in the Shade (2007).


Adele C. Howells

During her tenure as Primary president and editor of The Children's Friend, Howells commissioned a series of paintings by Arnold Friberg depicting scenes from the Book of Mormon.

Benjamin Cluff

In 1902, Cluff organized an expedition to explore Mexico in search of the city of Zarahemla mentioned in the Book of Mormon.

Jaredites

Ether is the last in the royal line that began with one of the sons of Jared.

Louis C. Midgley

Other topics Midgley has studied included the abandonment of a belief in the Book of Mormon as an ancient document by members of the Community of Christ.


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Abner Cole

Cole presented Smith as a charlatan too uneducated to have written the Book of Mormon himself and supposed that Smith got help from "Walters the Magician" (Luman Walter) who was said to have shown his followers a Latin translation of Cicero and claimed that it was a record of the Native Americans.

Eight Witnesses

Toward the end of June, 1829, at the Peter Whitmer, Sr. home in Fayette, New York, Joseph Smith (with Oliver Cowdery as scribe) finished the translation of the Book of Mormon.

Genetics and the Book of Mormon

LDS/Mormon researchers such as anthropologist Thomas W. Murphy and former-LDS plant geneticist Simon Southerton state that the substantial collection of Native American genetic markers now available are not consistent with any detectable presence of ancestors from the ancient Middle East, and argued that this poses substantial evidence to contradict the account in the Book of Mormon.

Lehi

Lehi, son of Helaman, another prophet in the Book of Mormon of the late 1st century BC

Limited geography model

These models, developed in an effort to reconcile claims in the Book of Mormon with archaeology and geography, have situated the book's events in South America, Mesoamerica, and the Great Lakes area.

Linguistics and the Book of Mormon

The words "Christ" and "Messiah" are used several hundred times throughout the Book of Mormon.

Moroni

The Book of Moroni, one of several divisions contained in the Book of Mormon, and portrayed as having been written by the above Moroni.

Angel Moroni, the angel that Joseph Smith, Jr. claimed visited him on numerous occasions and led him to the golden plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon, said to be the same Moroni portrayed in the book.

Captain Moroni, a figure in the Book of Mormon, portrayed as a military commander distinct from the Moroni described above.

Nefi

Nephi, a name use by several people and places in the Book of Mormon

Origin of the Book of Mormon

It is argued that several passages and many thematic elements in The Book of Mormon share strong paralledls with the work View of the Hebrews, published in 1823, with an expanded edition in 1825, by Ethan Smith.

Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting

Strongly influenced by John Lloyd Stephens’ 1841 bestseller, Incident of Travel in Central America, Parley Pratt set various Book of Mormon lands (including, apparently, the narrow neck) farther north and west of Panama.

Skousen

Royal Skousen (born 1945), American professor and Book of Mormon expert