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well obviously YOU believe he translated it. He did read the bible so he could have gotten ideas from there "I can take my Bible, and go into the woods, and learn more in two hours, than you can learn at meetings in two years, if you should go all the time." [Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations (Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853), p. 90]

baloney? So you are saying Joseph Smith completely did not write the Book of Mormon?

well like a historian yourself. why don't most scholars in that area accept the Book of Mormon like they do the Bible. Most believe(non mormons) that is believe it is nothing more than a fictional book.

No actually Im a college student who has been wondering about the religion and you are making a horrible case for it with your attitude.

general? we are talking about two books? one fictional and one the supposed TRUTH OF GOD. how can they be similar. Then if they are Ethan Smith must have been a prophet too.

why attack so quickly? and why MUST my point always be the wrong one? thats the way it works huh. I actually just want to know the truth. So I ask it. and must you be ignorant to attack my intelligence because I am going against what you THINK or consider is right. Thats the way it goes. Ethan Smith was his teacher for 5 years or so. Ethan Smith did write that book. Never said Joseph Smith DID read it just said he could have and could have got ideas from it. Same with the bible.

how can it be stolen from the BOM? It was published beforehand. Do you really not think that it the BOM is merely a re-done version of the View of the hebrews mixed with some bible similarities and the mind of Joseph Smith. There are a few similarities between the two books. extensive quotation from the prophecies of Isaiah in the Old Testament the Israelite origin of the American Indian the future gathering of Israel and restoration of the Ten Lost Tribes the peopling of the New World from the Old via a long journey northward which encountered "seas" of "many waters" a religious motive for the migration the division of the migrants into civilized and uncivilized groups with long wars between them and the eventual destruction of the civilized by the uncivilized the assumption that all native peoples were descended from Israelites and their languages from Hebrew the burial of a "lost book" with "yellow leaves" the description of extensive military fortifications with military observatories or "watch towers" overlooking them a change from monarchy to republican forms of government the preaching of the gospel in ancient America.

says who it wasn't fiction? Ethan Smith wrote that and Joseph Smith was a student of his for many years. Doesn't that seem a little fishy?

but that is reference from the BOM give me something from the Bible.

commandment? aren't there only 10 commandments from God? Then why would the Church not God take that out of the Church if God put it there? Also it didn't grow very much considering there are only 14 million members

a commandment from God? Thought there were only 10 Commandments? The church still needs to grow I guess only 14 million

sorry don't have a Book of Mormon. Can you just answer it?

well the View of the Hebrews is considered to be one that influenced the BOM

is it a fictional book?

why does it seem acceptable that Brigham Young and Joseph Smith had multiple wives?