Reading the Book of Mormon cover-to-cover gives you the right to do this. If I wanted to read something trying to So how do you close this one? Within the church they hype it to shit. The humor and camaraderie in the group was the only thing that kept many of us going in those moments (and trust me there were many of them, it was a constant topic of discussion) when it would have been a lot easier to throw in the towel and move on with our lives. The Tony Award-winning musical opened on Tuesday at Salt Lake City’s George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater ― in the heart of the country’s largest Mormon population. Christ bore testimony that the Book of Mormon is true, D&C 17:6. . The group agreed on this unanimously! 5. We can’t, on one hand, criticize critics of the Bible who are ignorant of it, and then hypocritically engage in exactly the same behavior, can we? ©2021 Verizon Media. On the whole, though, there hasn’t been large-scale outcry from U.S. Mormons over a show they could rightfully find offensive. 6. Steinberg, who spent part of his youth in an Orthodox Jewish seminary, does not appear to I'm not sure what just happened here. To gain an understanding of the Biblical doctrines that disprove both the Book of Mormon and Mormonism. Joseph Smith claimed that the Book of Mormon is an ancient text written by ancient Jews who came to the Americas long before Columbus. Rather, the Book of Mormon teaches 19th Century American Restorationism in a way that’s generally aligned with historic mainstream Protestant Christian orthodoxy. A montage of the Isaiah passages that the LdS Church officially acknowledges are plagiarized from the biblical book of Isaiah via the chapter headers of the affected portions of the book of 2 Nephi. It can be fun watching Mormons squirm as they have to give an account for their own scripture once you’re empowered like this. It’s that simple. Members of the Church read and revere a book of scripture called the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. Thus no Mormons (members of any Latter Day Saint denomination or splinter group) were allowed in the group so that the group can speak freely, evaluate, analyze and deconstruct the Book the Mormon honestly and openly without having to deal with the typical Latter Day Saint agendas, dogmas, thin-skinned offense, spin-doctoring, and confirmation bias-driven apologetics that typically swirl around the Book of Mormon whenever True Believing Mormons are present. If you haven’t read it, you’re just criticizing what you don’t know and have never directly experienced. [8] John W. Welch, “The Miraculous Translation of the Book of Mormon,” in John W. Welch, ed., Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 1820-1844 (Provo: BYU Press, 2005), nos. 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