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- Source:Joseph Smith:Joseph's journal entry of 9 November 1835:Personages who appeared
- Source:Joseph Smith:Letter to Oliver Cowdery:December 1834:during this time, as is common to most, or all youths, I fell into many vices and follies
- Source:Joseph Smith:Nov 1835:he said the indians were the literal descendants of Abraham
- Source:Joseph Smith:TPJS 191:After His resurrection He appeared as an angel to His disciples
- Source:Joseph Smith:Wentworth Letter:1840:surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day
- Source:Joseph Smith:Wentworth letter:1 Mar 1842:The remnant are the Indians that now inhabit this country
- Source:Joseph Smith Papers:In the early 1830s, when this history was written, it appears that JS had not broadcast the details of his first vision of Deity
- Source:Joseph Smith Papers:The historical preamble to the 1830 'articles and covenants,' for example, appears to reference JS’s vision
- Source:Kenneth W. Godfrey:A New Prophet and a New Scripture:Ensign:January 1988:Once Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone
- Source:Kimball quoting Richards:1974:The Lord has given me dreams which to me are just as real and as much from God as was the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar
- Source:LDS Department of Education Study Manual:1938:the Book of Mormon deals only with the history and expansion of three small colonies which came to America and it does not deny or disprove the possibility of other immigrations
- Source:LDS Department of Education Study Manual:1940:There is a tendency to use the Book of Mormon as a complete history of all pre-Columbian peoples...The book does not give an history of all peoples who came to America before Columbus
- Source:LDS Newsroom:Approaching Mormon Doctrine:May 2007:Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine
- Source:LDS Newsroom:Belief in prophets and apostles at the head of the Church does not mean that members blindly follow their leaders
- Source:LDS Newsroom:the Church revelation spelling out health practices does not mention the use of caffeine
- Source:LDS missionary tract:1844:where has the seed of Joseph gone to?...There is no place except North and South America to which they could have gone
- Source:Lanny Bell:the Mormon Book of Abraham:the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand
- Source:Lanny Bell:there would not be enough available space to restore the hand of Anubis, the erect phallus of the Osiris, and the body and wings of Isis
- Source:Larsen and Rencher:Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints:Our approach is sometimes referred to as the science of stylometry, which can be defined loosely as statistical analysis of style
- Source:Last Testimony of Sister Emma
- Source:Levi Nicklin:18 Jan 1841:To prove the divinity of the book he assured us that a prophecy, and the description of certain cities in South America were accurately laid down
- Source:Lowell T. Bennion:1955:The Book of Mormon itself does not purport to be a history of all pre-Columbian peoples in the Western Hemisphere
- Source:Lucy Mack Smith:Biographical Sketches:They stood in the yard near the door, and were devising plans to find "Joe Smith's gold bible," as they expressed themselves
- Source:Lucy Mack Smith:Here it was that those 8 witnesses recorded in the Book of Mormon looked upon the plates and handled them of which they bear witness
- Source:Madden et al:How the Iron Age Began:Scientific American 237:4:by the beginning of the tenth century B.C. blacksmiths were intentionally steeling iron
- Source:Madsen:B.H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon:Among readers who came to the Book of Mormon with hard, skeptical assumptions, B.H. Roberts is notable
- Source:Madsen:Defining Adultery:Joseph Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844
- Source:Marcus B. Nash:Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional:June 2013:This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light
- Source:Marion G. Romney:1975:As the conflict intensified, all the people who had not been slain—men...gathered about that hill Cumorah
- Source:Marion G. Romney:6 Apr 1963:I have for the past two years been supervising the Latin American missions...the Lamanites, many of whom live in these missions
- Source:Marion G. Romney:His Life and Faith:1988:I have never told anybody some of the experiences I have had, not even my wife. I know that God lives. I not only know that he lives, but I know him
- Source:Mark E. Peterson:1982:Now, a General Authority might speculate, I suppose. We have had speculation, for instance, on the part of some with respect to Book of Mormon geography
- Source:Martin:The Discovery of America:Science 179:974:No theoretical reason mastodons, horses and slots could not have survived
- Source:Martin Harris:EMD 2:338:no man ever heard me in any way deny the truth of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:112-113:1:Do you know that is the sun shining on us
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:113:1:As many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:116:1:Do you see that hand
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:116:2:It is not a mere belief
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:116:3:Just as plain as you see that chopping block, I saw the plates
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:117:1:I know what I know
- Source:Martin Harris:Joel Tiffany 1859:I knew that Joseph had not credit enough to buy so much lead
- Source:Martin Harris:Letter from George A. Smith:All would be damned that rejected it
- Source:Martin Harris:Metcalfe:Ten Years Before the Mast:EMD 2:346-347:While praying I passed into a state of entrancement
- Source:Martin Harris:Millennial Star 2:52:Martin Harris...gave me a particular description of the plates
- Source:Martin Harris:Mormonism Unvailed:He does not pretend that he ever saw the wonderful plates but once
- Source:Martin Harris:Origin and History of the Mormonites:Yet I saw them with the eye of faith
- Source:Martin Harris:Painesville Telegraph:1831:He had seen and handled them all
- Source:Martin Harris:Stephen Burnett to Lyman E. Johnson 1838:But he never saw them only as he saw a city through a mountain
- Source:Martin Harris:William Harrison Homer 1869:For I saw the angel, I heard his voice
- Source:Martin Harris Three Witness statements
- Source:Martin Harris reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Matthews:Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible:does not necessarily assume that it be a restoration of the original Bible text
- Source:Matthias F. Cowley:Obedience:Talks on Doctrine:160-161:true obedience to the Lord's commands is an indication of moral courage
- Source:Maynes:Young Adult Devotional:1 May 2016:Joseph wrote or dictated four known accounts of his First Vision
- Source:McGuire:Finding Parallels:Interpreter 5:Anjouan, one of the Comoro islands, with an indicated anchorage identified as Meroni
- Source:Melvin J. Ballard:Apr 1930:We were made to know that the Gospel message would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America
- Source:Melvin J. Ballard:Apr 1938:for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come
- Source:Michael J. Dorais:Maxwell Institute:2004:The Geologic History of Hill Cumorah
- Source:Millennial Star:2 Jul 1841:Canada on the north, Oregon on the West, Mexico on the south, together with all the tribes in central and South America
- Source:Millennial Star:9 Jul 1842:the American Indians were once an enlightened people and understood the arts and sciences, as the ruined cities and monuments lately discovered fully prove
- Source:Millennial Star:Sep 1840:We learn these gentlemen will continue their journey, and after their visit to Palenque, will proceed to Mexico
- Source:Millennial Star:Sep 1842:as the western continent is separate from the eastern
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Cattle and horses
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Elephants:Survival until the time of the Jaredites
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Elephants:Traditions of giant beasts with long noses
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Goats
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Sheep
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Swine
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Wild goats
- Source:Morrise:Simile Curses in the Ancient Near East, Old Testament, and Book of Mormon:The simile curse is a type of curse that appears in ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and Book of Mormon texts
- Source:Moses Thatcher:JD 23:203:The "Mormon" Priesthood dominates the affairs of the "Mormon" people upon the principles of righteousness and equit
- Source:Moses Thatcher:JD 23:203:The "Mormon" Priesthood dominates the affairs of the "Mormon" people upon the principles of righteousness and equity
- Source:Muhlestein:Gee:Human sacrifice in ancient Egypt
- Source:Muhlestein:Gee:Sacrifice could be extended to foreigners who lived beyond the boundaries of Egypt
- Source:Muhlestein:Gee:Sacrifice was a penalty for desecrating the sacred house of an Egyptian god
- Source:Myron H. Bond:Saint's Herald:25:John Whitmer...the plates, which he saw and handled
- Source:Nauvoo Journals:December 1841-April 1843:The Joseph Smith Papers:Several later documents suggest that several women who were already married to other men were, like Marinda Hyde, married or sealed to Joseph Smith
- Source:Neal A. Maxwell:1986:Whether located in Meso–America or elsewhere, they were one people among many peoples on this planet and perhaps even on the western hemisphere
- Source:Neil L. Andersen:Trial of Your Faith:Ensign:Nov 2012:A few question their faith when they find a statement made by a Church leader decades ago that seems incongruent with our doctrine
- Source:Neil L. Andersen:Trial of Your Faith:Ensign:November 2012:The leaders of the Church are honest but imperfect men
- Source:Neil L. Anderson:Nov 2012:The doctrine is taught by all 15 members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. It is not hidden in an obscure paragraph of one talk
- Source:Nelson:A Treasured Testament:Ensign:July 1993:The details of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known. Yet we do have a few precious insights
- Source:Neuenschwander:Ensign:January 2009:Joseph's vision was at first an intensely personal experience...it became the founding revelation of the Restoration
- Source:New Era:Feb 2016:What does the Church believe about dinosaurs?
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch19:9:Mourning by the daughters of Ishmael
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch22:8:Greek Names
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch6:8:Sam
- Source:Nibley:Church News:29 July 1961:How else does one quote scripture if not bodily?
- Source:Nibley:Teachings of the Book of Mormon:Vol1:430:in Lehi's day Palestine was swarming with Greeks
- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process
- Source:Norwood:Review of Vernal Holley, ''Book of Mormon Authorship: A Closer Look'':Vernal Holley's contribution to the issue is a plethora of parallels
- Source:Oaks:CES Fireside:7 May 2000:it is usually inappropriate to recite miraculous circumstances to a general audience that includes people with very different levels of spiritual maturity
- Source:Oaks:Ensign:Feb 1987:it is wrong to make statements of fact out of an evil motive, even if the statements are true
- Source:Oaks:Ensign:March 1997:rarely speak of them publicly because...because we understand that the channels of revelation will be closed if we show these things before the world
- Source:Oaks:Life's Lessons Learned
- Source:Oaks:Life's Lessons Learned:55-60:We are supposed to learn by both reason and revelation, and that does not happen when we compartmentalize science and religion
- Source:Oaks:Recent Events Involving Church History and Forged Documents:Ensign:October 1987:tools as the Urim and Thummim, the Liahona, seerstones, and other articles have been used appropriately
- Source:Observer and Telegraph:Nov 1830:the Aborigines of America; who, as they affirm, are a part of the tribe of Manasseh, and whose ancestors landed on the coast of Chili
- Source:Oliver Cowdery:Jul 1835:A history of the inhabitants who peopled this continent, previous to its being discovered to Europeans by Columbus
- Source:Oliver Cowdery:Jul 1835:A history of the inhabitants who peopled this continent, previous to its being discovered to Europians by Columbus
- Source:Oliver Cowdery Three Witness statements
- Source:Oliver Cowdery reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Olson:2004:People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not
- Source:Orson F. Whitney:The Divinity of Jesus Christ:Improvement Era:1926:One night I dreamed … that I was in the Garden of Gethsemane, a witness of the Savior’s agony
- Source:Orson Pratt:15 Feb 1871:they landed on the south-west coast of South America
- Source:Orson Pratt:1840:Interesting Account:they were marvellously brought across the great deep to the shores of North America
- Source:Orson Pratt:A Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions:Pillar of light
- Source:Orson Pratt:JD 25:19:I have been blessed with some revelations and prophecies, and with dreams of things that have come to pass
- Source:Orson Pratt:JD 7:309-310:to obtain those revelations and visions that belong to the High Priesthood and to the Apostleship
- Source:Orson Spencer:2 Jan 1843:I only remark that Stevens’ Travels had some influence, as an external evidence of the truth of the Book of Mormon
- Source:P. Wilhelm Poulson:Deseret Evening News:6 August 1878:John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us"
- Source:Packer:A Tribute to the Rank and File of the Church:Ensign:May 1980:We do not talk of those sacred interviews that qualify the servants of the Lord to bear a special witness of Him
- Source:Padilla et al:Bees, Apiculture and the New World:The maya codex Tro-Cortesianus shows drawings of bees
- Source:Painesville Telegraph:16 Nov 1830:Cowdery pretends to have a divine mission and conversed with angels
- Source:Painesville Telegraph:7 Dec 1830:Cowdry claims...By this authority, they proclaim to the world
- Source:Painsville Telegraph:7 Dec 1830:Cowdry claims...By this authority, they proclaim to the world
- Source:Palmyra Register:28 June 1820:5 July 1820:It was far from our intention to charge the Methodists with retailing ardent spirits while professedly met for the worship of their God
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:13 Mar 1852:Four-fifths, or perhaps nine-tenths of the vast population of Peru, as well as of most other countries of Spanish America, are of the blood of Lehi
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:15 Nov 1841:with it their prophecies and their testimony of Jesus as the risen Messiah and the Saviour of the world, not of Asia only, but of America also
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:Aug 1840:excavating in the neighbourhood of Bahia, in Brazil...bearing a strong architectural resemblance to the ruins existing in the northern parts of Norway, in Iceland, and in Greenland
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:Feb 1841:What heart can be so indifferent as not to wish to peruse the record of half a world?
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:Mar 1842:Mr Stephens...penetrated a dense forest, till then unexplored by modern travellers , and actually finds the ruins of those very cities mentioned by Mormon
- Source:Parrish:Painseville Republican:1838:penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven
- Source:Parry:Symbolic Action as Prophetic Curse:This prophetic symbolic action by Isaiah represented a prophetic curse that destruction and ruin would come upon the Egyptians
- Source:Paul R. Cheesman:Nov 1968:There are those who believe that there are two Hill Cumorahs...Advocates of this theory establish their analysis primarily from the internal evidences of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Peace and Violence:Gospel Topics:Danites
- Source:Penrose:Conference Report:1911:he was speaking of the class of people to whom the Sadducees referred...the marriages under consideration were for time only
- Source:Penrose:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:Baptism for the dead—How do we know which of our deceased relatives are to be baptized for
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:1912:Do you believe that the President of the Church, when speaking to the Church in his official capacity is infallible?
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married
- Source:Peter Whitmer, Jr. Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Peterson:CES Letter:the crocodile god Sobek
- Source:Peterson:FR 16:1:makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'
- Source:Peterson:FR 17:2:They are an indigestible lump in the throats of people like him who contend that there were no Nephites
- Source:Peterson:Some Reflections on That Letter to a CES Director:the Book of Mormon Witnesses as empirical, rational, nineteenth-century men
- Source:Peterson and Roper:FR 16:1:We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists
- Source:Phelps:The Evening and The Morning Star 1:58:through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)
- Source:Pietro Martire d'Anghiera:Herds of deer
- Source:Plowman:Christianity Today:1977:Mormon archivists have assembled a large amount of evidence -- some of it impressive -- to rebut the Spalding theory
- Source:Plowman:Christianity Today:1977:Mormon archivists have assembled a large amount of evidence—some of it impressive—to rebut the Spalding theory
- Source:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Gospel Topics:Divorce was therefore available to women who were unhappy in their marriages
- Source:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Gospel Topics:During the years that plural marriage was publicly taught, all Latter-day Saints were expected to accept the principle as a revelation from God
- Source:Preach My Gospel:many other nations and cultures have been blessed by those who were given that portion
- Source:Priesthood:Millennial Star 14:38:none are required to tamely and blindly submit to a man because he has a portion of the Priesthood
- Source:Prothero:American Jesus:2003:in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing
- Source:Rediscovering the Book of Mormon:Ch:19:1:Kingship patterns in Mosiah 1-6
- Source:Reexploring the Book of Mormon:Ch:26:1:Excavations at the Post-Classic site of Mayapan in Yucatan in 1957
- Source:Reexploring the Book of Mormon:Ch:36:three types of wild barley have long been known to be native to the Americas
- Source:Revelations in Context:The Word of Wisdom:Nevertheless, it required time to wind down practices that were so deeply ingrained in family tradition and culture
- Source:Revelations in Context:The Word of Wisdom:it required time to wind down practices that were so deeply ingrained
- Source:Revelations in Context:Word of Wisdom:The Word of Wisdom rejected the idea of a substitute for alcohol. “Hot drinks”
- Source:Revelations in Context on history.lds.org:Oliver Cowdery's Gift:Cowdery was among those who believed in and used a divining rod
- Source:Reverend Richmond Taggart:2 March 1833:Joe Smith...had seen Jesus Christ and the Apostles and conversed with them
- Source:Ricks:'Holy War' in the Book of Mormon and the Ancient Near East:every conflict...was considered to be prosecuted under the divine direction of the gods or of God
- Source:Ricks:Some Notes on Book of Mormon Names:Interpreter:Three altar inscriptions containing NHM
- Source:Rigdon:Manuscript found:in all of my intimacy with Joseph Smith he never told me but one story
- Source:Robert D. Hales:The Divine Law of Tithing:The First Presidency has written what the law of tithing is for us today
- Source:Robert F. Smith:Some 'Neologisms' from the Mormon Canon:Sheum
- Source:Robinson:The Exclusion by Misrepresentation:the presentation of anomalies as though they were the doctrine of the Church
- Source:Roper:Eyewitness Descriptions of Mesoamerican Swords:the Mesoamerican weapon the macuahuitl fits the criteria for the Book of Mormon "sword"
- Source:Roper:FR 16:2:Critics of the Book of Mormon have claimed that the limited geography is only a late, desperate attempt
- Source:Roper:Laban’s Sword of “Most Precious Steel”:Sophisticated iron technology
- Source:Roper:Laban’s Sword of “Most Precious Steel”:archaeologists have discovered a carburized iron sword near Jericho
- Source:Roper:Review of Books on the Book of Mormon:While apparently not used for the burnt offering, firstlings could and frequently were used along with other animals in the sacrificial peace offering
- Source:Roper:Right on Target: Boomerang Hits and the Book of Mormon:FairMormon Conference 2001:Sheum
- Source:Roper:Swords and "Cimeters" in the Book of Mormon:JBMS 8:1:a strange double-curved weapon held in the left hand of the warrior figure on the Loltún cave relief
- Source:Roper:The Mythical "Manuscript Found":Subsequent variants of this hypothesis have been published from time to time
- Source:Roper: Swords and "Cimeters" in the Book of Mormon:JBMS 8:1:a strange double-curved weapon held in the left hand of the warrior figure on the Loltún cave relief
- Source:Roper et al:Joseph Smith, the ''Times and Seasons'', and Central American Ruins:have applied the latest iteration of computer analyses to the unsigned editorials that appear in 1842 in the Times and Seasons
- Source:Roper et al:“If there be faults:BYU Studies 53:3:Nephi had been a Jew politically, but his ancestors were of Manasseh
- Source:Saints: Vol. 1 (2018): The Church's official history does not name the hill in which Joseph found the plates
- Source:Samuel Smith Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Samuel Smith as one of eight witnessses
- Source:Snow:An Experience of My Father’s:Improvement Era:1933:It was right here that the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me at the time of the death of President Woodruff
- Source:Sorensen:Ancient American Setting:184:Amaranth
- Source:Sorensen:Ancient American Setting:232:Linen and silk textiles in ancient America
- Source:Sorensen:Ancient American Setting:285:Lumps of hematite, magnetite and ilmenite used in Oaxaca
- Source:Sorensen:Ancient American Setting:289-290:Swine
- Source:Sorensen:Ancient American Setting:290:Swine
- Source:Sorensen:Ancient American Setting:294:Cattle
- Source:Sorensen:Ancient American Setting:297-298:Elephants
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:184:Amaranth
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:232:Linen and silk textiles in ancient America
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:284:Iron use in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:285:Lumps of hematite, magnetite and ilmenite used in Oaxaca
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:289-290:Swine
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:290:Swine
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:294:Cattle
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:297-298:Elephants
- Source:Sorenson:JBMS 15:2:By 1400 BC, smiths in Armenia had discovered how to carburize iron by prolonged heating in contact with carbon
- Source:Sorenson:Seasonality of Warfare in the Book of Mormon and in Mesoamerica:war was normally carried on by the pre-Columbian inhabitants during a short annual period
- Source:Sorenson:Several puzzles about the history of the Nephites and Lamanites are linked to the question of whether they found others already living in their promised land
- Source:Sorenson:Silk and Linen in the Book of Mormon:Ensign:April 1992
- Source:Sorenson:Viva Zapato! Hurray for the Shoe!:RBBM:6:1:Linen and flax
- Source:Sorenson:the Opata of northern Mexico used a drink made from native grapes
- Source:Southerton:2008-2014:if a small group...entered a massive population...it would be hard to detect their mitochondrial or Y chromosome DNA
- Source:Spencer W. Kimball:Feb 1977:There are probably sixty million Lamanites in America
- Source:Sperry:Some Problems of Interest Relating to the Brass Plates:1995:Questions arise as to how Jeremiah's prophecies appeared on the brass plates
- Source:Stephen E. Robinson:1998:an often misunderstood concept: the great and abominable church of the devil
- Source:Stephen Robinson:BYUS 27:4:1987:In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place
- Source:Steven E. Snow:Deseret News:9 Dec 2013:The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve both have been very supportive of this process
- Source:Stewart W. Brewer:JBMS:8:1:1999:Professor M. Wells Jakeman...claimed that the scene carved in bas-relief on the stone was a representation of Lehi's vision of the tree of life
- Source:Stick of Ephraim/Erastus Snow statement
- Source:Szink:An Oath of Allegiance in the Book of Mormon:Often, to instill this loyalty, an oath of allegiance is administered to recruits
- Source:Teachings of Presidents of the Church:Joseph Smith:2007:The doctrines and principles relating to plural marriage were revealed to Joseph Smith as early as 1831
- Source:Tertullian:Away with all attempts to produce a mottled Christianity of Stoic, Platonic, and dialectic composition!
- Source:Testimony of Jacob Gates:Improvement Era:March 1912:My eyes saw, my ears heard...It was no dream, no vain imagination of the mind—it was real
- Source:The Apocalypse of Abraham:Go out from thy father Terah, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain
- Source:The Church also addressed issues of Book of Mormon geography in the Gospel Topics essays available on the Church's official website
- Source:The Palmyra Reflector:14 Feb 1831:Cowdery and his friends had frequent interviews with angels
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Dec 1844:As to the original inhabitants of the continent of America, the Book of Mormon, backs up the description of immense "ruins" in central America
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Jan 1842:Christopher Columbus...the discovery of America—the land of Joseph—a land more blessed of the Lord than any other land
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Jul 1841:I have always thought that there had been a more enlightened people on this continent, than the present Indians
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Jun 1841:We feel great pleasure in laying before our readers the following interesting account of the Antiquities of central America
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Nov 1841:The bible was written by a people upon the Eastern continent, but the Book of Mormon by a people upon this continent
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Sep 1842:these wonderful ruins of Palenque are among the mighty works of the Nephites
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Sep 1842:we read in the Book of Mormon that Jared and his brother came on to this continent...and covered the whole continent from sea to sea
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 Jan 1842:Near Newark in the county of Licking, Ohio, is situated one of the immense works or fortifications of the ancient nations of America
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 Jan 1844:We have been informed by a gentleman who has traversed a large portion of the Indian country of Northern Texas...that there are vestiges of ancient cities and ruined castles or temples
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 May 1843:the wealth, architecture and splendor of ancient Mexico; when recent developements proved beyond a doubt, that there was ancient ruins in central America
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 May 1843:the wealth, architecture and splendor of ancient Mexico; when recent developments proved beyond a doubt, that there was ancient ruins in central America
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 Oct 1842:The city of Zarahemla, burnt at the crucifixion of the Savior, and rebuilt afterwards, stood upon this land
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 Oct 1843:a very interesting work entitled 'Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,'...This is a work that ought to be in the hands of every Latter Day Saint
- Source:Times and Seasons:2 May 1842:The Book of Mormon gives an account of a number of the descendants of Israel coming to this continent
- Source:Times and Seasons:Mar 1840:The ancient events of America now stand revealed in the broad light of history, as far back, at least, as the first peopling of the continent after the flood
- Source:Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham:Gospel Topics:Some evidence suggests that Joseph studied the characters on the Egyptian papyri and attempted to learn the Egyptian language
- Source:Ulrich:Believest thou:2005 FAIR Conference:How do the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when someone speaks in a testimony meeting differ
- Source:W.W. Phelps:Feb 1835:The first one is where you sat day after day and wrote the history of the second race that inhabited this continent
- Source:W.W. Phelps:Jan 1836:The book of Mormon has made known who Israel is, upon this continent
- Source:W.W. Phelps:Oct 1835:the Indians, whose history and doings, upon this western continent, it unfolds as plainly
- Source:Walker:Joseph Smith's Introduction to the Law:129-130:Under New York law, being just thirteen, Joseph's testimony about the work he had performed was admissible only after the court found him competent
- Source:Walter Scott:1 May 1841:Having already shown that the Book of Mormon describes the christian religion as being on the Western Continent
- Source:Warren:Secret Combinations, Warfare, and Captive Sacrifice in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon:The source of secret combinations in the Book of Mormon
- Source:Washburn and Washburn:1939:An Approach to the Study of Book of Mormon Geography:Book cover
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:10:Preexistent Jesus and a divinized humanity
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:11:Do Mormons make too much of Jesus Christ
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormon reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:14:Joseph Smith could hold his own in early Christian debates
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:15:Christian beliefs do not need to have Neo-Platonic influence to be true
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:17:Creedal Christians can learn from Mormon views about Jesus and creation
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:18:Joseph Smith's doctrine and character demand our amazement
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:19:Vastness of Joseph Smith's theology - it is not pagan
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:20:Joseph Smith does not deny grace or claim to earn salvation
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:21:Joseph Smith's theosis does not supplant God or veer into polytheism
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:3:Mormonism does justice to glory and majesty of Christ
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:4:Mormons don't know where to stop giving glory to Jesus
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:8:Revelation vs historical guesswork about Jesus
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic
- Source:Welch:Exemption from Military Duty:people of Ammon...the grant of this exceptional privilege was consistent with ancient Israelite law
- Source:Welch:JBMS 8:2:this sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures
- Source:Welch:The Destruction of Ammonihah and the Law of Apostate Cities:Alma effectively showed in the record that this fate befell them in accordance with divine law
- Source:Welch:Warfare in the Book of Mormon:even war cannot be conducted successfully in a total state of anarchy or chaos
- Source:When the Prophet Speaks, Is the Thinking Done?
- Source:Whitmer:David Whitmer Proclamation, 19 March 1881:I do now again affirm the truth of all my statements, as then made and published
- Source:Wickersham:Examination of the Principles of Mormonism:the ruins of Central America...the existence of such ruins were known long before the publication of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Widtsoe:Encyclopedia of Mormonism:Earth:The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits
- Source:Widtsoe:Evidences and Reconciliations:Did Joseph Smith Introduce Plural Marriage:that he practiced it himself are amply proved by existing facts
- Source:Wikipedia:Amaranth
- Source:Wikipedia:Bighorn sheep:Native to North America
- Source:Wikipedia:Mammoth:Mammoths are members of the family Elephantidae
- Source:Wilford Woodruff:13 Sep 1841:a flood of testimony in proof of the book of mormon in the discovery & survey of the city Copan
- Source:Wilford Woodruff:27 Aug 1843:the Book of Mormon...it gave a history of all those cities that have been of late discovered by Catherwood & Stephens, that it named those cities
- Source:William Owen:Skeptical account:Ten persons say they have seen them and hefted them, three declare that an angel of God appeared to them and showed them to them
- Source:William Smith:Jan 1837:a remnant of the branches or seed of Joseph are represented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America
- Source:William Smith:Sermon preached by Bro. William B. Smith:1884:When the plates were brought in they were wrapped up in a tow frock. My father then put them into a pillow case
- Source:William Smith:The Old Soldier's Testimony:1884:It was not written from the Spaulding Romance. That story is false
- Source:William Smith:The Old Soldier's Testimony:1884:When the plates were brought in they were wrapped up in a tow frock. My father then put them into a pillow case
- Source:William Smith:William Smith on Mormonism:1883:he escaped to the house and brought the plates with him, wrapped up in a tow frock
- Source:William Smith:Wm. B. Smith's last Statement:1893:I handled them and hefted them while wrapped in a tow frock and judged them to have weighed about sixty pounds
- Source:Winchester:1 Mar 1841:The antiquities of America spread from the great lakes of the North and the West to Central America, and the Southern parts of Peru on the South
- Source:Woodruff:1842:to translate through the urim & Thummim Ancient records & Hyeroglyphics as old as Abraham
- Source:Woodruff:Collected Discourses 2:1890:General Conference:the Father and the Son both appeared to the Prophet Joseph
- Source:Woodruff:General Conference:1892:the Father and Son both appeared to the man whom He had chosen
- Source:Woodruff:General Conference:1894:Both the Father and the Son presented themselves unto him in the clouds of heaven
- Source:Woodruff:JD 13:158:seeing the workings of the Spirit of God with him, and the revelations of Jesus Christ unto him and the fulfilment of those revelations
- Source:Woodruff:JD 2:196:By the ministering of an holy angel from God, out of heaven, who held converse with man
- Source:Wright:Heartland as Hinterland:The core locations and events detailed in the text of the Book of Mormon took place in Mesoamerica, but many Nephites and Lamanites migrated and established settlements far northward
- Source: Charles W. Penrose in ''Improvement Era'' 1909 on the age of the earth
- Source: David Whitmer literal experience quotes
- Source: Egyptian Scimiter from Tell El-Dab'a in the Eastern Nile Delta
- Source: Hyrum Smith's character
- Source: John A. Widtsoe in ''Improvement Era'' 1909 on the age of the earth
- Source: K. Codell Carter: "Epistemology" in Encyclopedia of Mormonism
- Source: Martin Harris literal experience quotes
- Source: Oliver Cowdery literal experience quotes
- Source: Testimony of Eight Witnesses
- Source: Testimony of Three Witnesses
- Source of the temple endowment
- Southerton (2008/2014): "It's true that if a small group (say 10 people) entered a massive population (say 1 million), that it would be hard to detect their mitochondrial or Y chromosome DNA"
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