Who has ever read the Book of Mormon, and if you haven't - why not? It is a testament of Jesus Christ just like the Bible, and a good read if nothing else.
2007-12-28 07:08:20 · 24 answers · asked by catalyst 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It seems a lot of people are afraid of the word 'Mormon'.
2007-12-28 07:13:11 · update #1
(I'm not saying convert to Mormonism, all I'm saying is open the book. If you haven't, then your opinion about it means nothing)
2007-12-28 07:14:37 · update #2
If anyone wants to take a look at it, you can read it online at http://www.scriptures.lds.org or you can go to http://www.mormon.org and order a free hard copy.
2007-12-28 07:18:04 · update #3
The Bible is the word of God. False interpretations are not. The Book of Mormon is not a replacement to the Bible, it is a compliment. It verifies and clarifies it.
2007-12-28 07:20:29 · update #4
You're right - the Second Coming hasn't come yet.
2007-12-28 15:21:24 · update #5
Sure, send me one.
2007-12-28 07:15:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain said, "All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy, such an insipid ;mess of inspiration.
It is chloroform in print.
If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle-keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate. If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason.
"The book seems to be merely a prosy detail of imaginary history, with the Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New Testament. The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James' translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel-half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. The latter is awkward and constrained; the former natural, but grotesque by the contrast. Whenever he found his speech growing too modern-which was about every sentence or two-he ladled in a few such scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore," "and it came to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again.
"And it came to pass" was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet.
". . . The Mormon Bible is rather stupid and tiresome to read, but there is nothing vicious in its teachings. Its code of morals is unobjectionable-it is "smouched" from the New Testament and no credit given."
But I will tell you what's vicious about the Book of Mormon teachings: It is FICTION and is not the Word of God like the Hebrew Bible. The Book of Mormon was produced by a 19th century occultist (not a Christian) practicing magical writing which is a sin against God. Jospeh Smith failed at transcribing ancient records, by the way, (the Book of Abraham and the Kinderhook plates), and he certainly failed at interpreting and rewriting the Hebrew Bible.
The Mormon Jesus is not the real historical Jesus. The Mormons have created a fake Jesus and they call him their brother and they call him the brother of Satan and they call him the son of Satan's father, but they do not pray to, or worship, the historcal Jesus as their Lord and God so therefore Mormon are not Christians. The historical Jesus was not ministering in America to an unrealistically large population of Hebrews. It just didn't happen. DNA research has conclusively shown that Native Americans are of East Asian origins, not Hebrew.
Matthew
24:23 "At that time, if someone says to you, `Look! Here's the Messiah!' or, `There he is!' don't believe him. 24 For there will appear false Messiahs and false prophets performing great miracles -- amazing things! -- so as to fool even the chosen, if possible. 25 There! I have told you in advance! 26 So if people say to you, `Listen! He's out in the desert!' don't go; or, `Look! He's hidden away in a secret room!' don't believe it. [Or 'Look! He was in America and we have a book about it!'] 27 For when the Son of Man does come, it will be like lightning that flashes out of the east and fills the sky to the western horizon.
FYI - the second coming hasn't happened yet.
2007-12-28 14:55:46 · answer #2 · answered by kirstycristy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to be Mormon and will never go back. I was deceived for years just like you and the rest of the Mormons. The book of Mormon contradicts The Bible (Which is Gods word) so it goes against Gods word and therefore is not a testament of Jesus Christ but a false doctrine created by a false prophet.
2007-12-28 07:18:33 · answer #3 · answered by Jen 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I have a testimony that the Book of Mormon is true. I dont care what other people say of it. Your right, if anything people should just read it. Otherwise they have no reason to comment about it. I find it funny that people can read the Book of Mormon and still claim that Joseph Smith made it up...wow hes pretty good.
2007-12-28 07:27:17 · answer #4 · answered by Kim 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I haven't red it because God hasn't led me to read it.I am a born again Christian, delivered from drugs and was led to a Pentecostal church and I read KJV bible no new age stuff.I pray and worship more then I read and the only true way to lay a hold of God is thru prayer and worship.
2007-12-28 07:22:12 · answer #5 · answered by Gizmo3 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
that would be nothing else, and all that text just comes across as boring to me, i spent some time in Utah and read it for awhile but it is a lot like the bible which i also read and didn't care for, not very good fiction at all if you ask me. Harry Potter was much better
2007-12-28 07:13:55 · answer #6 · answered by shanobi187 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have read the Book of Mormon 3 times and is going to read it again this year with Sunday School. :D I'm excited.
2007-12-28 07:41:51 · answer #7 · answered by LDS~Tenshi~ 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I have read it many times. It's amazing to me that every time I read it I find something new, or understand something better.
Those who say they have read it and find nothing interesting, or nothing spiritual in it weren't reading in the right frame of mind. The spirit needs to be present to understand a lot of the concepts, and if you read it without that understand, then you aren't getting what you really need to get out of it. It's the same with the bible.
2007-12-28 07:56:07 · answer #8 · answered by odd duck 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I feel no need to read it since I don't follow the Mormon religion and consider the prophet of the Mormons to be a false teacher and a good showman. I don't believe there are any additional testaments of Jesus Christ, except called such by those who wrote them.
2007-12-28 07:11:44 · answer #9 · answered by Son of David 6 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Yes, I did open the book or Mormon and what I found was an obvious pastiche of the Bible, so I set it aside.
2007-12-28 07:27:04 · answer #10 · answered by caulk2005 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
ahh, I recognize the temple.... (living in Utah how could I not).
Of course I have read and studied the book of morman, doctrine and covenents, pearl of great price - and many orther LDS documents and sources.
How could you have read it and still believe it? Seriously, I do not mean to be a jerk, but come on...
No one ever saw the gold plates - those first five that said they did, several later recanted.
The book of the Abraham?
Polygamy.
The blatant copying of the ideas and exact words from books published at that time (to include editorial errors).
Ms. Harris's destruction of the first parts he translated, so he starter over but with different material?
Urim and Thumum? Magic sere stones, magic hats.
Really....
2007-12-28 07:20:23 · answer #11 · answered by Twist 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋