Nowhere does the Bible make such trinitarian statements. Alma 11:38, 39 says: “Now Zeezrom saith again unto him: Is the Son of God the very Eternal Father? And Amulek said unto him: Yea, he is the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth.” Mormon 7:7 speaks about singing praises “unto the Father, and unto the Son, and unto the Holy Ghost, which are one God, in a state of happiness which hath no end.” The Book of Mormon has Jesus Christ flatly saying, at 3 Nephi 11:14, “I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.” Concerning him Mosiah 3:5 states: “For behold, the time cometh, and is not far distant, that with power, the Lord Omnipotent who reigneth, who was, and is from all eternity to all eternity, shall come down from heaven among the children of men, and shall dwell in a tabernacle of clay, and shall go forth amongst men, working mighty miracles.” Here we find reflected the popular trinity doctrine of the churches of Christendom, which churches Joseph Smith considered to be wrong.Ĭonsider a few more examples and note how The Book of Mormon boldly asserts that God and Christ are one God. Let us see if this is so regarding what it says about God. If The Book of Mormon contains the word of God, its doctrines should be in harmony with the Bible. They were openly displayed and copies distributed far and wide. The same can be said for the other writings that make up the Bible. The stone tablets upon which God wrote the Law were neither taken back by an angel nor was Moses forbidden to display them. Nor is the deep secrecy that surrounded the writing of The Book of Mormon characteristic of the production of the Bible. The mass of archaeological data and the secular records that confirm the accuracy of Biblical history is conspicuously absent with regard to what is claimed to be historical narrative in The Book of Mormon. After the translating work was done the angel is said to have taken them away. The reason why the plates or copies of the text on them are not available for examination is explained by saying that the angel had forbidden Joseph Smith to show them to anyone except those designated by the angel. Joseph Smith claimed that he translated it from golden plates that he found in a hiding place revealed to him by an angel. The claim made for The Book of Mormon is that it covers a period from about 600 B.C. These are available for examination by all language scholars. Thousands of manuscript copies of the Bible in the original languages that date back close to the days of the apostles exist today. The writing of the Bible was done over a period of more than 1600 years, and much of its historical narrative has been confirmed by many archaeological findings as well as by secular historians of different periods of time. But first let us briefly compare the backgrounds of these two books. Their publicly expressed conviction that it is truthful is an invitation to others to make such a comparison. It has many words like those in the Bible, and as a whole is a strong witness to the Bible.” Mormons with this firm confidence in The Book of Mormon should not object when others compare their book with the Bible. Their view was concisely expressed by Brigham Young in Journal of Discourses of July 13, 1862: “The Book of Mormon in no case contradicts the Bible. TO MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Book of Mormon is the word of God and is considered to be in complete harmony with the Bible. The Book of Mormon Compared with the Bible
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