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Summary: Fantasy
Review: It has been documented that Joseph Smith made over 3,900 errors in his original Book of Mormon. (No honest Mormon will dispute this.) The 1830 edition, written by Smith, isn't comparable to the version the Mormons now publish. Why all the changes? Who knows. The Book of Mormon tells of Christians in B.C. 60 or so. Who can believe in Christianity BEFORE Christ was born? It appears that many Mormons can and do believe this. Strange.
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Summary: Do you love the Bible? Then you MUST read the Book of Mormon
Review: I'm not a very "religious" man, but I've grown up being taught of the great stories and teachings in the Bible. Quite frankly, I love the book. I know that the Bible is the word of God. I know this because of how it makes me feel as I read from it's pages. I know that it persuades mankind to believe in God and to love each other. I believed that the Bible was the ONLY word of God until I actually READ the Book of Mormon.What an amazing experience. As I read from it's pages for the first time, I felt a warm feeling inside each day as I read it, as if I was being filled with energy. I read it as scripture, but also as history and philosophy. The teachings make so much sense. And many things that aren't very clear in the Bible (evident by the thousands of religions that believe in the bible, however ALL believe different things) became so very clear upon reading the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon testifies to the truth of the Bible. I understand why the phrase was added "another testiment of Jesus Christ", because like the Bible, the Book of Mormon testifies that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God. This book has brought me so close to Christ and answered questions that I wouldn't normally have been able to have answered. I recommend reading the Book of Mormon and contacting the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the fastest growing church in the world) to learn more about the Book of Mormon and other scriptures that God has revealed to men on earth. God does speak to mankind in our day, just as he did in the time of Noah and Moses. If you listen, you can hear. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. That it is the word of God and was translated by Joseph Smith a true prophet of God. I know that these things are true because I have prayed and asked God if they are true and I have received answers to my prayers. And you can too.
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Summary: No se puede probar que sea falso, pero si que es verdadero!!
Review: Es increible como todavía existen personas, que por el orgullo y falta de conocimiento hablan sin saber. Se han dicho muchísimas cosas sobre el Libro de Mormón y sobre la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días, pero la palabra más sabia es la que no se dice. El libro de Mormón si hubiese sido escrita por una persona corriente no tendría la promesa de que le preguntemos a Dios el Eterno Padre en nombre de su Hijo Jesucristo si las cosas que se han leído son verdaderas o no, y si lo hacemos con un corazón humilde con verdadera intención llegaremos a tener una respuesta por medio del Espíritu Santo. Creo por más fariseo o Ateo que fuera, jamás pondría eso en un libro que yo escribiera; lástima las personas que por falta de conocimiento y por orgullo y ceguedad religiosa escribe y dice cosas, que lo que hacen es confundir a las personas que están con un ferviente deseo de aprender y conocer cosas que les ayudarán en sus vidas. El centro de todo es que no hay que confiar en el brazo de la carne, sino en Dios Nuestro Padre, y el que confíe más en personas que en Dios mismo pobre de eso en el día final. Así que yo no quiero convencerle con mis palabras, lo que quiero es que pueda leer este libro con deseo de saber si las cosas que están allí escritas provienen de Dios o no, y la única manera de saberlo es que las lea y le pregunte a Dios en nombre de Jesucristo y el por medio del Espíritu Santo le dará un respuesta. Para finalizar una historia; estaba una vez Socrates en el mar jugando con las olas del mar, cuando llegó un hombre y se le acercó y le dijo que quería aprender todo lo que el sabía, Sócrates tomó al hombre y lo consumió en el mar, lo sostuvo hasta que ya el hombre casi ni se movía, en eso Sácrates lo sacó del agua y le dijo, cuando usted quiera aprender tanto así como quería salir del agua, regrese y yo le enseño. Moraleja, cuando usted de verdad quiera saber si el Libro de Mormón es verdadero, lealo y pregunte a Dios con verdadera intención.
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Summary: Definately the best book ever!
Review: I have read the Book of Mormon several times; and the more I learn about it, the more I believe that Joseph Smith was truly a prophet called by God to restore the Gospel to earth. The facts don't lie, there is plenty of evidence to proof that the book is true and that Joseph Smith did not write it, he only translated it into English. If you are really interested in learning more, I think the best way would be to read it yourself. There is no doubt in my mind or in my heart about the divinity of this book. I love it!...And I thank God for the opportunity I had to come accross it.
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Summary: Solomon Spaulding Rides Again
Review: Where do you think this passage comes from: "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; (charity vaunteth not itself,) is not puffed up; (doth not behave itself unseemly,) seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." Well, it all depends on those two phrases in brackets, and four "and"s.
If you add in the four "and"s and take out the two phrases inside the brackets then you've got the book of Moroni, Chapter 7, verses 45-46 from the BOM (the Book of Mormon). If you just remove the four brackets then you have first Corinthians, Chapter 13, verses 4-7 from the King James (1611) translation of the Bible. Which is rather strange, really, because according to information from the "Ask Gramps" column written by Mormon member H. Clay Gorton: "All the witnesses [to the translation of the BOM], directly or indirectly, provide strong evidence that Joseph Smith did not use a King James Bible." The whole subject of the alleged translation of the Book of Mormon is riddled with this kind of inconsistency, starting with the gold plates that were supposedly buried in the hill called Cumorah, near Manchester, New York, in 420 A.D., just over fourteen hundred years before Smith allegedly found them in 1823.
According to David Whitmer, one of the three witnesses to the authenticity of the BOM, Smith: "... did not use the plates in the translation, but would hold the interpreters to his eyes and cover his face with a hat, excluding all light, and before his eyes would appear what seemed to be parchment, on which would appear the characters of the plates in the line at the top, and immediately below would appear the translation, in English, which Smith would read to his scribe, who wrote it down exactly as it fell from his lips. The scribe would then read the sentence written, and if any mistake had been made, the characters would remain visible to Smith until corrected, when they faded from sight to be replaced by another line." So if Smith didn't need the plates in order to translate them, what was the point of showing them to him in the first place?
Why, having been shown the plates, did Smith see "what seemed to be parchment" during the translation?
Why was the text on the plates in "reformed *Egyptian* hieroglyphics" if it was written by one-time *Israelites* living in America?
Why, if it is genuine, has no-one else ever found a single example of this form of writing, not even in America, Egypt or Israel?
Why, if Smith was able to read Egyptian hieroglyphics at all, did he make such a hash of "translating" the manuscript he named the "Book of Moses"? (See "By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri" by Charles M. Larson)
And why was Smith given a translation in 17th century English, which surely bore no relation to either the language of America in the 1820's or to the language of the original authors? It is also hard to understand why, even with that seemingly "absolute" quality control, well over 3,000 changes have been made to the text since it was first published.
And it *still* contains errors such as this "prophecy" concerning the birth of Christ: "... he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers ..."
(Alma 7:10) (It need hardly be said that Jesus was born in Bethlehem rather than Jerusalem, and that Jerusalem itself is a city, not a "land".) The truth of the matter is that this is not a "divinely inspired" work at all, but a (...) version of an earlier novel called "The Manuscript Found", by one Solomon Spaulding, (not to be confused with another of Spaulding's works - "The Manuscript Story" - which has nothing to do with the BOM). So, if you enjoy badly written adventures in a poor imitation of the language of the King James Bible, you may well enjoy the Book of Mormon.
If you don't, you won't. Just one last point - it has been asked "If the book has been the backbone of a religion for over 100 years and yet it was a scam, would it have gone uncovered for so long and would so many people have believed it to be true?"
On the face of it, these are perfectly good questions, which have been asked numerous times by people on both sides of the discussion. The answers are: Firstly, the question of the authenticity of the BOM is nothing new, on the contrary, it has been in doubt ever since the book was first published.
Secondly, there are far more people around the world who believe in flying saucers than have even heard of the BOM - but that doesn't., of itself, mean that flying saucers actually exist, does it.
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Summary: Blashphime
Review: Mormons say they believe in the bible also but one question comes to mind. in Galatians 1:8 the bible says: "But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. kinda intersting being that Mormons get most of there docterin from a ANGEL
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Summary: How to read the Book of Mormon
Review: A lot of people have said some really nasty things about this book. Many of them say everything that is in this book is a fraud (or worse). Others demand evidence. For those who demand evidence: do you believe in God? Do you question His existence? Then why demand evidence from another religion WHO BELIEVES IN THE SAME GOD??? For those who call the entire book one big scam, ask yourself this question: If the book has been the backbone of a religion for over 100 years and it would have been a scam, would it have gone uncovered for so long and would have so many people believed it? All others: Read it and be enlightened.
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Summary: How does one review a book of scripture?
Review: Like Islam and the Koran, it is difficult to seperate Mormonism from the Book of Mormon. If you are a devout Mormon, you believe this to be "the most perfect book on the face of the Earth" as the author or "translator" said of it. If you read it in any other context, you will find it a poor read. Written in Elizabethean English, though supposedly translated from "Reformed Egyptian", it reads suspiciously like the King James Bible. In fact, many Mormon critics believe that the book was written by Joseph Smith or one of his colleagues, drawing heavily on "A View of the Hebrews", written by Ethan Smith a few years before the Book of Mormon was published, and with word for word extracts from the King James Bible. While Mormon missionaries and apologists expect you to accept the book on the merits of prayer and warm feelings, I suggest you read other works, like Mormon historians B.H. Robert's "Studies of the Book of Mormon" or D. Michael Quinn's numerous Mormon histories to get a more balanced viewpoint. Richard Ostling's "Mormon America" (1999) also gives a great overview of many aspects of the religion and Mormon subculture. As for a literary work, Mark Twain once said that if you took out "And it came to pass...", the Book of Mormon would be a pamphlet. In sum, if you want to know about Mormonism, you should read this book, just as I would read the Koran to study Islam. If you want to truly understand it, however, you need to read more of [it] and also take a look a more balanced works.
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Summary: The Greatest book ever.
Review: This Book is very powerful. You Must read it. even if you dont belvie it then its still a great story from the time of Jerusulum to after Christ's death. Even if you dont join the Church of Jesus Christ read this book.
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Summary: a good liar......
Review: God said "heaven and earth will pass away, but my WORD will not pass away" God didn't say wordS. i am a christian and refuse to believe that Jesus was A god and not GOD. I COME BEARING TRUTH, and the truth is hard, but Jesus is God, the alpha and the omega. AMEN.
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