Is the "Book of Mormon," true?

Question

Then why do all American Indian tribes show that their DNA came from North East Asia?

Answer 1

Only If you want it to be ! Pity my imagination isn't deluded with fantasy I'd be packing to go to Hogwarts School of Wizardry. When scientist first discovered the human D.N.A genetic code. Religious leaders throughout the world wanted any further research into the human D.N.A stopped knowing public knowledge of this discovery would destroy and fictionalize all religious beliefs. Scientist refuse and announced their discovery to the world. Within just under fifteen years of the discovery of the human D.N.A. Everyday since there are new discoveries being made with research into human D.N.A. Which has changed the quality of life for all humans on the planet. By catching criminals, curing cancer and other life threating illness, finding the true identity of a murdered person, paternity, the list now is very long and more discovery's are made each day. The Joseph Smith theory of the American Indians has also now been exposed. All human D.N.A has been traced back to Sumeria north east Asia.
Which has many people questioning the true facts or the new discovered fictions in there religions and why so many people are leaving the church. I respect any person who chooses a religion or a belief to be part of there life as long as there happy in what they believe and it never harms them or preached at me.

Answer 2

To me, no.

What is the Book of Mormon? - Is it True?

According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a.k.a. "The Mormons"), the Book of Mormon was written c. 400 AD by, among others, a prophet named Mormon and finished by his son, an angel named Moroni. Supposedly, it was originally recorded in reformed Egyptian on several gold plates which were discovered in the back woods of New York state by Joseph Smith, a young farm boy at the time.

It was the angel Nephi who was said to have appeared to Smith up to the printing of the 1851 Pearl of Great Price. It is now accepted as the Angel Moroni who appeared to Smith in 1823 and told him that he would be able to find these golden plates at a hill near his home four years later, in 1827. Smith spent the next three years translating the plates into what is now known as the Book of Mormon, published in 1830. Interestingly, Mormon literature records a story of Joseph Smith running through the woods while carrying these golden tablets to avoid being discovered by those he'd heard in the distance. This seems rather impossible in light of the fact that the total weight of the gold has been calculated to be 276 pounds. It is alleged that Smith ran about 5 miles while carrying the golden tablets.

The claims of the Book of Mormon depend on verifiable truth and the veracity of its sources. Joseph Smith was known in his town as a person given to wild enthusiasms and had a reputation as a person with an overactive imagination. He died in a gunfight while in jail.

The people described in the text, the Nephites and the Lamanites, have no other historical documents or texts from their era (c.600 BC) making mention of them - these people groups are literally unheard-of in history outside the writings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

According to official church position, all one would need to do in order to verify its truthfulness is to read the book, pray about it, and ask God if it is true and indeed from His hand. This is obviously an exercise in subjectivism and has serious implications if the same practice were applied to such historical documents as "Mein Kampf," "The Kama Sutra," or "Alice in Wonderland," for that matter.

Answer 3

Oblio dances around semantics in his response. There is a huge difference between "at" and "in" Jerusalem. The city of Jerusalem was, maybe still is, about 500 square kilometers, hence the term "at" in the scriptures. If you were to say you had been at the County Fair that doesn't mean a particular, pin-point location, but in the vicinity of the County Fair. So it is when it said "at" Jerusalem.

In other verses of the Book of Mormon the place of the Savior's birth is quite explicit--"in" Bethlehem.

But, of course, when one wants feverishly to denounce the Book of Mormon that person will strain at a gnat and swallow a camel to do so.

Answer 4

I think The Book of Mormon is as true as any other holy book in that it is full of holes and obviously not written with the scientific foresight I would expect from a "true" religion.

Answer 5

Yeah, come on people. Some guy is led by an angel to find buried gold plates that are written in some other language. He translates them, and then gives the gold plates back to the angel....how preposterous....

Now the bible, I believe, God gives the 10 commandments to Moses, written on stone, in their language....that sounds reasonable......now wait, where did we put those tablets?......did Moses give them back to the same angel as Joseph Smith?

Why do the angels keep taking back these things??????

Answer 6

Joseph Smith was a huckster with a police record for fraud before he supposedly found those inscribed "Golden Plates" that he showed nobody else and that supposedly miraculously disappeared immediately after he had transcribed them.
(A person taking dictation behind a curtain who was never even allowed to sneak a peek at the "plates")
Along with being a huckster, he was also a racist and a homophobe, sounds like a thoroughly unpleasant chancer to me.

Answer 7

It's true to those that follow it. At the end of the day it's what kind of person you are, not what religion you are. And if you are a good person and your faith influences that, than your religion can't be wrong. The only ones that would believe so need to prove all others wrong to justify their belief. A truly secure person neither feels above nor below anyone else and therefore doesn't need to disprove one faith to feel their's is correct. That is what even Jesus taught.

Oh, and Antihero... there is more religion in science than science in Western religion.

Answer 8

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If you're just trying to open a dialogue to trash Mormons or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, be honest about it.
Have a nice day

Answer 9

No - For example, the book of Mormon tells us that Jesus was born at Jerusalem as opposed to being in Bethlehem. While they are only 12 miles apart, it is important because Biblical prophecy states that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem.

Alma 7:10 And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God.

From the Bible: Place of Birth of Jesus: Micah 5:2; Matt 2:1, Luke 2:1-7, John 7:42

Micah 5:2 "But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, {Too} little to be among the clans of Judah, From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, From the days of eternity."

Luke 2:4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

Mat 2:1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,

John 7:42 "Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

Answer 10

Mormons...laughable.