Category Archives: Book of Mormon

The Great Secret of The Book of Mormon

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Aaron Shafovaloff

My corny and melodramatic way of getting the word out on Moroni 8:18. Don’t forget about the first explanation video. Enjoy. I’m also releasing the new Moroni 8:18 four-step tract, which you can download here. Print it double-sided, fold it … Continue reading →

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Courage to View the Gold Plates

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Sharon Lindbloom

Pomeroy Tucker was a contemporary of Joseph Smith. Living in Palmyra, New York, he knew the Smith family, counted Martin Harris among his friends, and was actively engaged in the 1830 printing process of the Book of Mormon. In 1867 … Continue reading →

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An Interesting Discovery: A Map of the Travels of Moroni

Posted on July 7, 2011 by grindael

In the ongoing Mormon Apologist Wars on the location of the Book of Mormon lands, one advocate of the LGT (Limited Geography Theory) is Michael Ash. In February of this year, he published an article entitled, “How Moroni and the … Continue reading →

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What Happened to the Trinity in Mormonism?

Posted on June 16, 2011 by grindael

I often wonder about certain teachings in the Mormon Church that sort of ‘fell by the wayside’ so to speak. One of those was the doctrine of the Trinity. Once, it seems, Mormons believed in the doctrine of the Trinity, … Continue reading →

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A Bad Religious Theory

Posted on January 6, 2011 by setfree

Over at “Darwin’s God” is a link to a “survey of failed evolutionary predictions” – the website DarwinsPredictions.com. The featured article is a lengthy explanation of some predictions inherent in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, and how they have failed. The … Continue reading →

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First Nephi and the Son of God

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Sharon Lindbloom

The book of First Nephi (in the Book of Mormon) reflects four significant (and similar) additions that Joseph Smith made to the original text before the publication of the second edition in 1837. The changes are indicated by italics in … Continue reading →

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Gospel Questions

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Sharon Lindbloom

This may seem like a silly question, but can anyone tell me what comprises “the Gospel” according to Mormonism? I ask because I recently came across a video on You Tube titled “Sharing the Gospel with Elder Hartman Rector Jr., … Continue reading →

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The Three Witnesses and Reality

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Sharon Lindbloom

On March 18, 2010 LDS professor Daniel Peterson authored a guest blog for Mormon Times. In “The three witnesses and the reality of the Book of Mormon” Dr. Peterson writes, “Serious critics of the Book of Mormon must neutralize the … Continue reading →

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Joseph’s Orb: Undeniable Sign of Truth?

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Sharon Lindbloom

I am at a loss. I can’t find the logic in a statement found in Mormon Times (or the article that follows it). Maybe the Mormon Coffee community can suss this out and make some sense of it for me. … Continue reading →

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“Joseph’s name should be had…”

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Sharon Lindbloom

When Mormon Times, reported on the 2009 BYU Campus Education Week some months ago, it told of a soon-to-be-available collection of online documents titled “19th Century Publications on the Book of Mormon.” When it becomes available, this set of documents … Continue reading →

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