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− | ==Criticism==
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− | Critics claims that the fact that the Book of Mormon has chapters demonstrate that it is a modern production, since the "ignorant forger, in attempting to imitate the Bible, seems not to have known, that the division into chapters is a modern invention, and that the tables of contents are no part of the Bible, but are inserted or omitted at the option of the publisher of any edition."{{ref|forge.1}}
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− | ==Response==
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− | The table of contents was a modern insertion; it had not counter-part in the dictated text of the Book of Mormon. It was added just as it is in modern Bibles.
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− | The modern edition of the Book of Mormon was divided into chapters by Orson Pratt in 18??.{{nc}} However, the first edition of the Book of Mormon ''did'' contain chapters (though much longer than the modern chapters), and chapter markers ''were'' part of Joseph's dictated text.
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− | ==Conclusion==
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− | ==Endnotes==
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− | #{{note|forge.1}} {{CriticalWork:Bachelor:Mormonism Exposed|pages=9}}
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− | ==Further reading==
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− | ===FAIR wiki articles===
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− | {{Book of Mormon Anachronisms}}
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− | ===FAIR web site===
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− | ===External links===
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− | ===Printed material===
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