Book of Mormon Flashcards
1769 KJV Errors
There are errors unique to the 1769 KJV of the Bible quoted in The Book of Mormon.
Examples:
-Matthew 23:37 - 3 Nephi 10:5 Chickens = Chicks
- Isaiah 10:18 - 2 Nephi 20:18 Standard Bearer = Sick man
17th Century Italics
To make the text more readable, translators between the years of 1604 and 1611, put their own words into the text in italics to make it more readable.
Examples:
- Isaiah 9:1 - 2 Nephi 19:1
- Malachi 3:10 - 3 Npehi 24:10
Mistranslations
There are 3 different translations of the same passage in the KJV, Book of Mormon, and JST.
Examples:
- 3 Nephi 13:25-27 - Matthew 6: 25-27 - JST Matthew 6: 25-27
The Sermon on the Mount was copied exactly in the Book of Mormon, but was later corrected in the JST, 10 years after the BOM was published.
DNA Evidence
The Church has changed it’s statement in the introduction of the Book of Mormon from the Nephites and Lamanites being the principle ancestors to among the ancestors of the native americans.
Anachronisms in the BOM
Horses, cattle, sheep, oxen, swine, goats, elephants, wheels, chariots, wheat, silk, steel and iron did not exist in precolumbian America
Archaeology in the BOM
- There is no archaeological evidence to directly support the BOM.
- The last battle in the BOM took place around the Hill Cumorah, with at least 230,000 deaths on the Nephite side alone. No bones, hair, chariots, swords, armor, or any other evidence of a battle has ever been found there.
- Other ancient battles provide a massive amount of evidence, but there is none from the BOM
Geography of the BOM
Book of Mormon names are very familiar to many of the names of places around where Joseph Smith lived.
(alma/alma, antrim/antum, antioch/Anti-anti, Boaz/Boaz, Hellam/Helam, Jacobsberg/Jacobugath, Kishkiminetas/Kishkumen, etc.)
Name of Hill Cumorah
- There is an island off the coast of Mozambique called Comoros, previously called Camora, with a capital city called Moroni. These places were names in a pirate treasure stories involving Captain William Kidd
- A neighbor of Joseph, Pomeroy tucker, writes about them both learning to read on the stories of Captain Kidd
View of the Hebrews
- A book published in 1823 by Rev. Ethan Smith called View of the Hebrews contains many similarities to the Book of Mormon.
- Oliver Cowdery lived in the same town when the book was published, and was in Ethan Smith’s congregation.
- Similarities: Destruction of Jerusalem, scattering of Israel, Restoration of the Ten Tribes, Hebrews leave old world for new world, encounter seas of many waters, the America’s were uninhabited, settlers journey northward, Hebrew the origin of the native language, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Hebrews the ancestors of Indians, a set of yellow leaves burried in a hill (similar to gold plates), breastplate with Urim and thumim, barbarous exterminate the civilized, etc. etc.
Tree of Life and Joseph Smith Sr
- Prior to the publication of The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith Sr. recorded a dream he had that matches almost exactly to the tree of life dream
The Late War
- A children’s textbook published in 1819 with Biblical style English.
- The introduction matches almost exactly with the BOM style.
- It contains many similarities with the BOM, like stripling warriors, a rod of iron, conversion of indians, worthiness of Christopher Columbus
The First Book of Napoleon
- Published in 1809
- Contains nearly identical passages, but describing France
Early Godhead
- The first publication of the BOM reflects Joseph Smith’s early Trinitarian beliefs
- See CES letter for exact passages and later changes
Rock in the Hat
- Joseph used a stone in a hat to translate the plates. Why did he need the plates at all?
- He used the same “seer stone” that he used to scam people with his treasure hunts.
