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How Can We Be Thankful During Times of Hardship?
“When he had traveled three days in the wilderness, he pitched his tent in a valley by the side of a river of water. And ... gave thanks unto the Lord our God.”1 Nephi 2:6-7The KnowOn October 3, 1863,...
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How Can Sally Conrad’s Witness of the Book of Mormon Strengthen Our Faith?
“And the Lord said: I will prepare unto my servant Gazelem, a stone, which shall shine forth in darkness unto light.”Alma 37:23The KnowGenerally, when we think of witnesses of the Book of Mormon, we...
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How Did Emma Smith Help Bring Forth the Book of Mormon?
“And it shall come to pass that the Lord God shall bring forth unto you the words of a book, and they shall be the words of them which have slumbered.”2 Nephi 27:6The KnowAccording to religion...
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Why Doesn’t God Punish Us the Moment We Sin?
“And it came to pass that my sorrow did return unto me again, and I saw that the day of grace was past with them, both temporally and spiritually; for I saw thousands of them hewn down in open...
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Why Bother Studying the Textual Variants in the Book of Mormon?
“And I, Mormon, pray to God that they may be preserved from this time henceforth. And I know that they will be preserved; for there are great things written upon them, out of which my people and their...
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What Can Stylometry Tell Us about Book of Mormon Authorship?
“For, for this intent have we written these things, that they may know that we knew of Christ, and we had a hope of his glory many hundred years before his coming.” Jacob 4:4Editor’s Note: This KnoWhy...
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What Impact Do My Actions Have on Others?
“Behold, O my son, how great iniquity ye brought upon the Zoramites; for when they saw your conduct they would not believe in my words.”Alma 39:11The KnowOften, as we going about our daily lives, we...
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Why Are So Few Women Mentioned in the Book of Mormon?
“He inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female.”2 Nephi 26:33The KnowOne element of the Book...
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Why Did the Wise Men Give Jesus Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh?
“Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered.”2...
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How Can the Book of Mormon Survivors Give Us Hope?
“I even remain alone to write the sad tale of the destruction of my people.”Mormon 8:3The KnowHugh Nibley once described the Book of Mormon as a “tragic book” which begins and ends with destruction and...
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Did the Nephites Have a “Holiday Season” Like We Do Today?
“That they might give thanks to the Lord their God, who had brought them out of the land of Jerusalem, and who had delivered them out of the hands of their enemies, and had appointed just men to be...
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Why Is David Whitmer’s Witness of the Book of Mormon So Compelling?
“They were perfectly honest and upright in all things; and they were firm in the faith of Christ, even unto the end.”Alma 27:27The KnowAfter traveling nearly 100 miles to reach Harmony, Pennsylvania,...
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How Do the Book of Moses and Book of Mormon Help Us Understand the Endowment?
“As I sat pondering in mine heart I was caught away in the Spirit of the Lord, yea, into an exceedingly high mountain, which I never had before seen, and upon which I never had before set my foot.”1...
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Why Would God Choose an Uneducated Man to Translate the Book of Mormon?
“Wherefore it shall come to pass, that the Lord God will deliver again the book and the words thereof to him that is not learned; and the man that is not learned shall say: I am not learned.”2 Nephi...
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How a Tangent About Foreordination Helps Explain Repentance
“And this is the manner after which they were ordained—being called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God, on account of their exceeding faith and good...
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Is It Possible That a Single Author Wrote the Book of Mormon?
"For the Lord God hath said that the words of the faithful should speak as if it were from the dead.”2 Nephi 27:13Editor’s Note: In a previous KnoWhy, a brief introduction to stylometry and a review of...
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Why Do We Have Three Different Accounts of the Creation?
“And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in...
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What Was the Sword of Laban Like?
“The hilt thereof was of pure gold, and the workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine, and ... the blade thereof was of the most precious steel”1 Nephi 4:9The KnowThe sword of Laban is one of the most...
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Why We Still Have to Cling to the Iron Rod Even Though the Path is Strait
“And as I cast my eyes round about, ... I beheld a river of water; and it ran along, and it was near the tree of which I was partaking the fruit. And I looked to behold from whence it came; and I saw...
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Are the Accounts of the Golden Plates Believable?
“Joseph Smith, Jun., the translator of this work, has shown unto us the plates of which hath been spoken, which have the appearance of gold”Testimony of the Eight WitnessesThe KnowNearly two dozen...
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