What is the Origin of the Book of Mormon?
In 1820, a 14-year-old boy named Joseph Smith in upstate New York prayed about which church he should join. In what Latter-day Saints often call the first vision, he visited in response by God and Jesus Christ and instructed to join none of the existing churches. Several years later, Smith said he was visited by the angel Moroni (the same person who had buried the plates in 421 A.D.) and instructed to retrieve and translate the plates, which were written in reformed Egyptian. The Book of Mormon is the resulting translation, and began the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. How Does the Book of Mormon Compare to the Bible? Both the Bible and the Book of Mormon are part of the LDS canon. The Eighth Article of Faith reads: “We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.” Mormons believe that the Bible as it was originally written was the perfect word of God, but has sinc
