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Book of Mormon Sandbox
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Book of Mormon Sandbox
Summary: Critics have made numerous claims against the Book of Mormon. This page gathers others that respond to the various claims.
Authorship
- Book of Mormon
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor
- Spalding theory
- View of the Hebrews theory
- Late War theory
- Golden Pot theory
- Sidney Rigdon theory
- Mushrooms and entheogenics theory
- Creative fiction theories
- Possible 19th Century influences on Book of Mormon
- Theory of Book of Mormon place names from area around Joseph Smith's home
- Theory of Book of Mormon place names from Comoros Islands
- Understanding accusations of plagiarism
Translation Process
- Seer stones and the Urim and Thummim
- Gold plates and the translation process
- Artistic depictions of the translation
- Joseph Smith and the translation process
Gold Plates
- Weight and size
- Plates too heavy to run?
- Engravings and sealed portion
- Stone box where the gold plates were deposited
- Attempts to steal the gold plates from Joseph Smith
- Gold plates and the translation process
- Metal plates in ancient Israel
Geography
- Church statements on Book of Mormon geography
- Evaluating Book of Mormon geography theories
- Old world geography in the Book of Mormon
- Lehi's journey in the Old World
- Possible locations for the Valley of Lemuel
- Possible locations for Shazer
- Possible locations for Nahom
- Possible locations for Nephi's Bountiful
- The Hill Cumorah
- Mesoamerican Model
- Hemispheric Geography Model
- Great Lakes Model
- Heartland Model
- Hoaxes related to Book of Mormon geography claims
- Geographical issues related to DNA and the Book of Mormon
DNA
- DNA and the Book of Mormon
- Identifying ancient DNA related to Book of Mormon people
- Geographical issues related to DNA and the Book of Mormon
Anachronisms
Witnesses
- Eleven official witnesses
- Statement of the Three Witnesses
- Oliver Cowdery
- David Whitmer
- Martin Harris
- Statement of the Eight Witnesses
- Christian Whitmer
- Jacob Whitmer
- Peter Whitmer Jr.
- John Whitmer
- Hiram Page
- Joseph Smith Sr.
- Hyrum Smith
- Samuel Smith
- Other witnesses to the Book of Mormon
The Bible and the Book of Mormon
- Bible passages in the Book of Mormon
- The New Testament and the Book of Mormon
- KJV italicized text in the Book of Mormon
- KJV translation errors in the Book of Mormon
- Joseph Smith Translation and the Book of Mormon
- The Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon
- Isaiah and the Book of Mormon
- The documentary hypothesis and the Book of Mormon
Language and the Book of Mormon
- Hebraisms
- Chiasmus
- Names in the Book of Mormon
- Hebrew and Native American languages
- Reformed Egyptian and the Book of Mormon
- The Book of Mormon as an ancient text
Doctrine and Teachings
- Moroni's promise
- The fulness of the gospel
- The Book of Mormon as the most correct book
- The nature of God
- Name of Jesus Christ
- Virgin birth of Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ bled from every pore
- The Holy Ghost
- Baptism
- Priesthood authority
- Temples
- The Book of Mormon as the Stick of Ephraim
- Plural marriage
- Freemasonry
- Nephite burnt offerings
- The great and abominable church
- The tree of life
- Baptism before or after remission of sins
- One versus multiple creators
Lamanites
- Identity of the Lamanites
- Native Americans and the Lamanites
- Relationship of the Maya and the Olmec to the Lamanites and the Jaredites
- Polynesians and the Lamanites
- The Lamanite curse
- Wrath of God on the Lamanites
Other
- Population and demographics
- The Nephite calendar
- Biblical archaeology compared to the Book of Mormon
- Thomas Stuart Ferguson and Mormon archaeology
- Attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright in Canada
- Textual changes
- The Book of Mormon as history
- Legal codes in the Book of Mormon
- Lehi's ancestry and place of residence
- Three days of darkness
- The killing of Laban
- Human sacrifice
- Warfare in the Book of Mormon
- Events in Ether
- The death of Shiz