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Intro:
“ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Nephites soon after his resurrection.” Jesus was among Jews for 40 days (Acts 1:3) then ascended to Heaven (1:9). Immediately after, angels said to the apostles that He would return in the same way (v10-11), and all people will witness (1 Cor. 51-51, 1 Thes. 4:16; Rev 1:7). He could not have gone somewhere after ascending without everyone knowing of his return.
— Aug 07, 2025 12:06PM
“ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Nephites soon after his resurrection.” Jesus was among Jews for 40 days (Acts 1:3) then ascended to Heaven (1:9). Immediately after, angels said to the apostles that He would return in the same way (v10-11), and all people will witness (1 Cor. 51-51, 1 Thes. 4:16; Rev 1:7). He could not have gone somewhere after ascending without everyone knowing of his return.
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There’s literally too much wrong with this book to write it all down every chapter. I get frustrated reading this. And then I get really sad. Pray for the lost.
Nephi’s been having this vision of the “promised land” and “heaven” and the tree of life that’s definitely not the tree of life. Smith quotes and obscures a lot of NT and is vague in all the important parts and specific when he has the info.
— Aug 12, 2025 03:14PM
Nephi’s been having this vision of the “promised land” and “heaven” and the tree of life that’s definitely not the tree of life. Smith quotes and obscures a lot of NT and is vague in all the important parts and specific when he has the info.
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Oh boy (there’s only 6 verses in this chapter, making 66% of this chapter erroneous)
Yellow: vv 1, 3, 6
Red: v 2
— Aug 09, 2025 11:33AM
Yellow: vv 1, 3, 6
Red: v 2
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New color! Amazingly I am now also highlighting in blue, which is something that’s actually true.
1 Nephi 5
Blue: v 2
Yellow: vv 6, 9, 12-13
Red: vv 19-20
— Aug 09, 2025 08:26AM
1 Nephi 5
Blue: v 2
Yellow: vv 6, 9, 12-13
Red: vv 19-20
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1Ne4
This one has a few theological uh oh’s so let’s break it down. I’ll start using yellow and red to organize. Yellow is anything that’s weird, suspicious, or interesting enough to mention. Red is anything theologically, historically, or narratively incorrect outright.
Yellow: vv 11-12, 14
Red: vv 2,16, 18-21
— Aug 08, 2025 09:08AM
This one has a few theological uh oh’s so let’s break it down. I’ll start using yellow and red to organize. Yellow is anything that’s weird, suspicious, or interesting enough to mention. Red is anything theologically, historically, or narratively incorrect outright.
Yellow: vv 11-12, 14
Red: vv 2,16, 18-21
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1Ne.3
Not much here, but it is interesting that a genealogy would be recorded on brass plates instead of passed down orally or written down with a paper equivalent. I’m curious why brass?
v17 “he knew that Jerusalem must be destroyed” Jeremiah is the contemporary prophet to 1 Nephi so people would certainly be hearing his prophesies of Babylon.
— Aug 07, 2025 01:32PM
Not much here, but it is interesting that a genealogy would be recorded on brass plates instead of passed down orally or written down with a paper equivalent. I’m curious why brass?
v17 “he knew that Jerusalem must be destroyed” Jeremiah is the contemporary prophet to 1 Nephi so people would certainly be hearing his prophesies of Babylon.
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1Ne.2
“now this he speak because of the stiffneckedness… for behold, they did murmur and many things against their father”
Interesting how the second chapter of the whole book introduces that there is doubt for this religion, and that there is severe punishment for doubting this religion. Almost as if that is a manipulation tactic that cult leaders will use to bolster fake authenticity.
— Aug 07, 2025 01:05PM
“now this he speak because of the stiffneckedness… for behold, they did murmur and many things against their father”
Interesting how the second chapter of the whole book introduces that there is doubt for this religion, and that there is severe punishment for doubting this religion. Almost as if that is a manipulation tactic that cult leaders will use to bolster fake authenticity.
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1 Ne. 1
v2 “in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.”
What I was able to find was that this is called reformed Egyptian. What I wasn’t able to find was any other source using this language besides something Joseph Smith wrote down, which is not even enough to be able to decipher an entire language. This book isn’t verifiable.
— Aug 07, 2025 01:02PM
v2 “in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.”
What I was able to find was that this is called reformed Egyptian. What I wasn’t able to find was any other source using this language besides something Joseph Smith wrote down, which is not even enough to be able to decipher an entire language. This book isn’t verifiable.
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Brief explanation:
“abridgment by Mormon… with many commentaries.”
“abridged by Moroni, who inserted comments of his own…”
Again, this book is just admitting that it is full of idiosyncrasies that you must believe blindly. It is a poor source academically, and spiritually. I’m not even on page one yet.
— Aug 07, 2025 12:53PM
“abridgment by Mormon… with many commentaries.”
“abridged by Moroni, who inserted comments of his own…”
Again, this book is just admitting that it is full of idiosyncrasies that you must believe blindly. It is a poor source academically, and spiritually. I’m not even on page one yet.
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Aug 07, 2025 12:10PM
Then at the end of the intro it says “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the Lord‘s kingdom once again established on earth, preparatory to the second coming of the Messiah.” But according to the beginning of the intro, Jesus already returned after ascending to go to the Americas, so that would technically be preparatory to the *third* coming.
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Paragraph six: “the book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on Earth.” This is just logically false. If you believe in the Bible then it would go without saying that the Bible would be this, and the Boom of Mormon only reach a status of “as correct as the Bible,” not more correct than any other book. Again, even before reading any of the actual book, Joseph Smith is making it clear that you cannot believe both the Book of Mormon and the Bible at the same time.
