Everybody loves a good whodunit, but in the case of the Book of Mormon, the mystery is more like a howhedunit. For more than years, critics of Mormon founder Joseph Smith have tried to find unimpeachable evidence that the former money-digger-turned-prophet invented the story of ancient American inhabitants who journeyed to the New World from Jerusalem. And when the etchings were rendered into King James English, the plates were returned to the angel.
According to those assistants, he spoke the words smoothly and rapidly, as if he were reading, and never did extensive editing or revising. Rick Bowmer AP photo A picture of a smooth, brown, egg-sized rock is shown in the printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon after a news conference Tuesday, Aug.
The church published photos of a small sacred stone it believes founder Joseph Smith used to help translate the Book of Mormon. The whole project by a relatively unschooled and little-known young man was completed in about three months during the spring of , leaving many questions in its wake.
Was it plagiarism? Collusion with a co-author? Every summer, hundreds of the faithful act out the story on the same hill where Smith is believed to have dug up the golden plates. After Jesus' resurrection, according to the Book of Mormon, he visited America. In fact, America plays a special role in Mormonism. Mormons believe that when Jesus returns to Earth, he will first go to Jerusalem and then to Missouri. They have always thought that," Fluhman said.
So Mormons have a complicated relationship with traditional Christianity, I think is an easy way to say it. We'll notify you here with news about. Over the next 12 years, Emma gave birth to six more sons, four of whom survived infancy — the youngest was born five months after Joseph's death.
Confused about religion during a time of revival in the state of New York where he lived in , year-old Joseph read a passage in the New Testament and went to the woods to pray. Joseph records that God and Jesus Christ appeared to him. Hear Him! It began the work of restoring the Church of Jesus Christ to the earth. Church members believe that Joseph was led to a hill near Palmyra , New York, where he received an ancient record from an angel known as Moroni.
The record, engraved on gold plates, gave the history of a people who lived on the American continent during the time of Christ. Joseph translated the plates in about 3 months, and the Book of Mormon was first published in New York by E. Grandin in Although born a farmer, Joseph worked as an editor, entrepreneur and businessman. In the years he led the fledgling Church, Joseph organized an international missionary program and founded what is today one of the largest women's organizations in the world.
He oversaw the building of three cities and directed the construction of two temples — all the while facing intense persecution from local mobs, who eventually drove Church members from all three cities Joseph settled. Because the Saints' religious and civil rights as American citizens had been denied them despite numerous and repeated appeals to the federal government, Church leaders announced Joseph Smith's candidacy for President of the United States in January The Saints, or Mormons as they are referred to by church outsiders, [1] assert that they are Christian as they believe in the Jesus Christ of the Bible.
However, many outsiders do not agree. The fact that twenty-two percent of recently polled Americans would oppose voting for a Mormon for President causes one to wonder why there is such opposition to Mormonism in its country of origin.
According to a standard dictionary definition of Christians "as believers and followers of Christ", Mormons are Christians. Jan Shipps, a Methodist and noted scholar of Mormonism, is often asked whether she believes Mormons are Christians and responds with questions of whether the question is analytical, analogical, historiographical or theological and religious. From this viewpoint, Mormonism can be seen to diverge from traditional Christianity in four areas: its views on scripture, the nature of God and the deification of believers; the deity of Christ and the trinity, and finally, salvation.
With respect to scripture, Mormons differ from traditional Christian groups in that they accept extra books in their canon. The Doctrine and Covenants is a compilation of the revelations given to the Priesthood, namely those given to Joseph Smith. The Book of Mormon is the most controversial addition to the canon. It is a supposed record of ancient groups in the Americas, and begins with a family moving from Jerusalem, shortly before its destruction, to the New World.
The climax of the record is a visit of the resurrected Jesus Christ in the Americas. Although the records, inscribed on gold plates, were lost shortly after this in the fourth century, the burier of the book, Moroni, is said to have returned in the early 19 th century as an angel in a revelation to Joseph Smith and led him to the plates.
Smith then translated these into English as the Book of Mormon. The lack of evidence about these golden plates and a message reflective of the times led many critics to believe that the book is a fanciful fabrication.
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