A supremely important artifact to early Christians was the cross; slivers of it were cherished as the most valuable of relics. Over time, the cross has been repudiated by latter-day Saints, who instead mark their most sacred buildings with a statue of Moroni. Arguably the most important artifact of Mormonism, the object on which its …
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Did Joseph Smith Use The Bible As A Rosetta Stone To Translate The Golden Plates?
The Book of Mormon contains nineteen chapters of Isaiah. If their position on the Golden Plates were marked, Joseph Smith had five years to use them to decipher Reformed Egyptian without magic. Could the sealed two-thirds of the plates witness Jesus Christ in America in other languages? Book of Mormon authenticity doesn’t require historicity. Terry …