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Jul 3, 2018 · The Know Several passages in the Book of Mormon speak of eternal torment in a “lake of fire and brimstone [sulfur]” as the fate of sinners who die without having reconciled themselves to God. The prophet Jacob, brother of Nephi, for instance, assured that “as the Lord liveth . . . they who are filthy are the devil and his angels; and they shall go away into everlasting fire, prepared for ...
These passages were modified in the 1837 edition of the Book of Mormon so that they no longer seemed Trinitarian, but enough remained unmodified that, without the benefit of Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo teachings or the exposition on the Father and the Son published by the First Presidency in 1916, the convert from a Trinitarian tradition could find ...
As previously cited, the “three” and “eight” witnesses will testify to the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon (2 Nephi 27:12–13). 4. Some of the words of the First Vision are noted (2 Nephi 27:25–26; compare JS-H 1:19), including the reference from Isaiah quoted by Nephi regarding the restoration of the gospel “I will proceed to ...
The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421. [1] [2] It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates ...
Yes, in some ways. The Book of Mormon is an ancient account of competing ethnic clans over the course of about 1,000 years.[1] Sometimes those clans' records include racist rhetoric.[2] There are also more explicit verses in the Book of Mormon that say that God cursed Lamanites with "a skin of blackness."[3] 38.
There Nephi taught that “according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ.”. Beginning with this first reference, the name “Jesus” is found in common use in the Book of Mormon, and it appears a total of 161 times. In 1 Nephi 10:7, Nephi began the report of his father’s ...
Nephite Declaration of Faith. 1 We “believe in the Son of God, 2 that he will come to redeem his people, 3 and that he shall suffer and die. 4 to atone for their sins; 5 and that he shall rise again from the dead, 6 which shall bring to pass the resurrection, 7 that all men shall stand before him, to be judged”.
