The Book of Mormon: The Hand of Mormon - Couverture rigide

Smith, Dr Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 159547496X ISBN 13 : 9781595474964

Editeur : NuVision Publications, 2009

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Book Description:

"The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is regarded by Latter Day Saints as divinely revealed and is named after the prophet-historian Mormon who, according to the text, compiled most of the book. It was published by the founder of the LDS movement, Joseph Smith, Jr., in March 1830 in Palmyra, New York, USA. Its purpose, as stated on its title page, "is to show the remnant of the House of Israel what great things the Lord has done for their fathers" and to convince "Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself to all nations."

Joseph Smith, Jr. said the book was a translation of golden plates. He said that the angel Moroni told him the plates were buried in a hill near his home (which was later called the Hill Cumorah). He said the translation was made through the power of God with aid of the Urim and Thummim, which were with the plates. During the production of the work Smith obtained the affidavits of Three Witnesses and Eight Witnesses who testified they saw the plates. These affidavits are published as part of the book. When the book was complete, he said he returned the plates to the angel Moroni.

Along with the Bible, which is also held by Latter Day Saints to be the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of canon by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Community of Christ and other churches that claim Joseph Smith as their founder. In 1982, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints added the subtitle Another Testament of Jesus Christ to its editions of the book to help clarify and emphasize its purpose. Prior to 1982, some editions of the Book of Mormon had included the subtitle, A Second Testament of Jesus Christ." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The piesent effition of the Book of Mormon is an accurate reprint of the third American edition, originally published at Nauvoo, eighteen years ago, under the omciai sanction of the leaders of the Church or SeSS r Christ. flie apostacy of the great body of the Church, through the influence of false teachers, who priTJ ly brought into the Church Damnable Heresies, even denying the Lord, that bought them; together with the fact that they hare for a long time suppressed the Book, on ac-count of its pointed condemnation of their practices, has appeared to the Publisher as a sufl Scieut reason for reissuing it; so that the many firm believers of the Book that are scattered through the land, earnestly desiring the spread of truth, may hare an opportunity to avail themselves of its precious truths, and put into their own and their neighbors possession the real weapon with which to put down Polygamy and its kindred institutions. In this republication, the Publisher has yielded to a general desire for information in regard to the nature and origin of the Book, and has placed in the introduction a mere synopsis of the evidences of its Divinity, and what it purports to be.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NuVision Publications
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 159547496X
• ISBN 13: 9781595474964
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 572
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible