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How is the Phrase "Make a Record" an Evidence for the Book of Mormon?
“Wherefore, I Nephi, did make a record upon the other plates...”1 Nephi 19:4The KnowThe writers of the Book of Mormon often stated that they would “make a record” of the things that they had seen or...
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What Is So Good about Nephi’s Name?
“I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days, nevertheless, having been...
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Why Does the Book of Mormon Warn that a Lake of Fire and Brimstone Awaits...
“They shall go away into everlasting fire, prepared for them; and their torment is as a lake of fire and brimstone, whose flame ascendeth up forever and ever and has no end.”2 Nephi 9:16The KnowSeveral...
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How Can We Be Delivered through the Lord’s Tender Mercies?
“But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance.” 1...
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Why Did Nephi Clarify That the Messiah Was the Savior of the World?
“Yea, even six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem, a prophet would the Lord God raise up among the Jews—even a Messiah, or, in other words, a Savior of the world.”1 Nephi 10:4The...
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What Does the Abish Story Signal About the Resurrection?
“And it came to pass that she went and took the queen by the hand, that perhaps she might raise her from the ground; and as soon as she touched her hand she arose and stood upon her feet.”Alma 19:29The...
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What Can an Ancient Christian Text Tell us About the Book of Mormon?
“And the church did meet together oft, to fast and to pray, and to speak one with another concerning the welfare of their souls.”Moroni 6:5The KnowIn 1873, a Greek Orthodox bishop named Philotheos...
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Why Did Some in Lehi’s Time Believe that Jerusalem Could Not Be Destroyed?
“Neither did they believe that Jerusalem, that great city, could be destroyed according to the words of the prophets. And they were like unto the Jews who were at Jerusalem, who sought to take away the...
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What Was on the Lost 116 Pages?
“Wherefore, the Lord hath commanded me to make these plates for a wise purpose in him, which purpose I know not.”1 Nephi 9:5The KnowIn the summer of 1828, Joseph Smith let Martin Harris borrow the...
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How Are Oliver Cowdery’s Messenger and Advocate Letters to Be Understood and...
“I made this record out of the plates of Nephi, and hid up in the hill Cumorah all the records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord, save it were these few plates which I gave unto my...
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What Do the Kinderhook Plates Reveal About Joseph Smith’s Gift of Translation?
“Knowest thou of any one that can translate? For I am desirous that these records should be translated into our language; for, perhaps, they will give us a knowledge of a remnant of the people who have...
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What Does Mary Whitmer Teach Us About Enduring Trials?
“Wherefore, the Lord God will proceed to bring forth the words of the book; and in the mouth of as many witnesses as seemeth him good will he establish his word; and wo be unto him that rejecteth the...
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Is the Path to Eternal Life “Strait” or “Straight"?
“And I also beheld a strait and narrow path, which came along by the rod of iron, even to the tree by which I stood.”1 Nephi 8:20The KnowSeveral passages in the most recent editions of the Book of...
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What Did It Mean for Lehi to be a Visionary Man?
“And it had come to pass that my father spake unto her, saying: I know that I am a visionary man.”1 Nephi 5:4The KnowTwice in the Book of Mormon the prophet Lehi was called a “visionary man”; once by...
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How is the Name Zoram Connected with Pride?
“Yea, and he also saw that their hearts were lifted up unto great boasting, in their pride.”Alma 31:25The KnowIt doesn’t take long for readers of the Book of Mormon to come across the name Zoram (see 1...
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Why Are Lehi’s First Visions So Similar to Much Later Apocalyptic Writings?
“And being thus overcome with the Spirit, he was carried away in a vision, even that he saw the heavens open, and he thought he saw God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of...
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Why Are People Exhausted by Powerful Spiritual Experiences?
“The light of everlasting life was lit up in his soul, yea, ... this had overcome his natural frame, and he was carried away in God.”Alma 19:6The KnowThroughout the Book of Mormon, there are occasions...
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Where Is the Narrative Transition in 1 Nephi?
“Behold, I make an abridgment of the record of my father, upon plates which I have made with mine own hands; wherefore, after I have abridged the record of my father then will I make an account of mine...
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Why Was It Significant that Nephi Was Made ‘a Ruler and a Teacher’ Over His...
“And inasmuch as thou shalt keep my commandments, thou shalt be made a ruler and a teacher over thy brethren.”1 Nephi 2:22The KnowEarly on in the book of 1 Nephi, the Lord promised Nephi that if he...
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How Could Nephi Have Known about Jeremiah’s Imprisonment?
“For behold, the Spirit of the Lord ceaseth soon to strive with them; for behold, they have rejected the prophets, and Jeremiah have they cast into prison.”1 Nephi 7:14The KnowIn a series of...
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