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- Source:John Whitmer:Letter to Mark Forscutt:1876:Oliver Cowdery would not have denied his witness "at the peril of his life"
- Source:Joseph Smith:15 Jul 1842:Stephens and Catherwood's researches in Central America abundantly testify of this thing
- Source:Joseph Smith:Bernhisel letter:1841:I received your kind present...of all histories that have been written pertaining to the antiquities of this country it is the most correct
- Source:Joseph Smith:I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature
- 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:Wentworth letter:1 Mar 1842:The remnant are the Indians that now inhabit this country
- 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: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: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:116:2:It is not a mere belief
- Source:Martin Harris:Letter from George A. Smith:All would be damned that rejected it
- Source:Martin Harris:Millennial Star 2:52:Martin Harris...gave me a particular description of the plates
- Source:Matthias F. Cowley:Obedience:Talks on Doctrine:160-161:true obedience to the Lord's commands is an indication of moral courage
- 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 1842:as the western continent is separate from the eastern
- 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 equity
- Source:New Era:Feb 2016:What does the Church believe about dinosaurs?
- 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:Orson Pratt:15 Feb 1871:they landed on the south-west coast of South America
- Source:Orson Pratt:JD 7:309-310:to obtain those revelations and visions that belong to the High Priesthood and to the Apostleship
- 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: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: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:Revelations in Context:Word of Wisdom:The Word of Wisdom rejected the idea of a substitute for alcohol. “Hot drinks”
- 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: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:Roper:Eyewitness Descriptions of Mesoamerican Swords:the Mesoamerican weapon the macuahuitl fits the criteria for the Book of Mormon "sword"
- 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 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: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:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:289-290:Swine
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:297-298:Elephants
- 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:the Opata of northern Mexico used a drink made from native grapes
- Source:Stephen E. Robinson:1998:an often misunderstood concept: the great and abominable church of the devil
- 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