Being a convert to the church I was guided to it by a High School friend. In that moment back in 1994 when I put faith forward in learning more about the LDS Church my life has totally changed for the better. See all I had to do was believe first put faith first into it and after going through lesson after lesson of guidance what the LDS Church taught me I started to change my life in accordance to the things that I was being taught and soon after I did this I started feeling such beautiful wonderful things inside my body . Look all I did was put faith in the LDS Church and it has grown soo greatly inside my body to a direct connection to the Heavenly Father and the beautiful Savior and his sweet spirit. Don't ask if it's true or not just believe and put faith forward. I did and now my life is soo worth liveing and there are things that I feel inside my body thats beyond this lifetime. Please listen to me. You won't regret it. I promise you the Mormon LDS Church is the answer to everything that you've been asking about life in general. Just Believe and everything will start happening for you greatly in your life.
“Don’t ask if it’s true” my friend, that was the biggest mistake you ever made. Jesus Christ is the first and the last, alpha and omega, the son of God in the flesh sacrificed upon the cross for our sins and he is the only way to the father. I was an atheist for many years until I encountered demonic spirits, through them I recognized that they fled me in terror when I used the name Jesus Christ. I ASKED HIM to show me the truth, and he did. You must ask, the Church of Mormon was created through a deception Satan gave to Joseph Smith. You’re close, but not close enough. God bless!
The comment above is 100% true. You cannot trust the feeling that you get in relation to the lds church, or any feeling, unless it abides by the word of God. Jeremiah 17 9: "the heart is deceitful above all things, and is desperately wicked. Who can know it?" The church and its founders directly contradict the word of God. Therefore, any feeling of good relating to the church is of the devil not God. For it is written that the devil disguises himself as an "angel of light". All the devil needs is for you to believe in a different christ, a christ that is not God in the flesh, but is Lucifers brother, and your soul is gone. The church preaches that we can become Gods, which is one of the oldest lies made by Satan. You must realize that the devil was the most intelligent of God's angels, and is far smarter than us. So no matter how intricate or detailed the lie is, do not put it past him. God bless.
The Book of Mormon says in the last days, the lamanite descendants would accept the gospel. Now, the most spoken language in the church is Spanish, not English. Go figure.
Excellent video! I really appreciate your work on this. As a side note the narration goes much quieter for about 40 seconds between about 2:00 and 2:45 when going over the table. Other than that this was excellent.
@@Bookofmormoncentralofficial I wonder if there is a way to see prophecies fulfilled from the Bible in The Book of Mormon and these last days using that program.
Love your other videos but I don’t think this qualifies as an evidence. Some could say, as many have in these comments, that Joseph Smith wrote and fulfilled the prophecies himself
In the LDS Church, a "prophet" is someone who receives inspiration and teaches it to others. We don't predict the weather or the World Series in baseball. You make a great point, though. Keep the questions coming.
Can you name 1 BOM prophecy that was brought to pass after the BOM was revealed? Anything that can compare to the bible's Isaiah 53 which was written hundreds of years before Christ based on the physical ancient sources?.
when does the first resurrection happen ? 13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. John 3:13 39 And these all,👈🏻having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Hebrews 11:39-40 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 New Living Translation But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back. 1 Corinthians 15:23 Revelation 20:4-6 Introduction to the Book of Mormon: …On September 21, 1823, the same Moroni, then a glorified, resurrected being,🤔appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith and instructed him… 17and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some. 2 Timothy 2:17-18 40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6:40
JS said an angel came to him. Yet did he test the angel? Paul speaks of it. “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.” (Gal 1) Just as 1 John 4 says test the spirit and see if they’re from God. Many false prophets (and the inspiring false prophet spirit/fallen angels) can speak. Jesus said that many false signs and deception would precede his coming. But best of all we don’t have to be deceived as we know His word.
These internal consistencies were written by the Ethiopian Jews that wrote they BOM. They were intentionally mimicking the Bible and writing about their land in those religious terms. Once you realize the BOM takes place in Ethiopia, many more internal consistencies will emerge. Here's one example. The Jaredites started in Ethiopia, and settled in Israel. This is why Nephi says the prophets of old were stoned and cast out. Omer is the prophet of old Nephi is talking about. He was stoned and cast out and forced to immigrate to Africa just like Lehi.
Deuteronomy 18:21-22 You may be wondering among yourselves, “How can we tell the difference, whether it was God who spoke or not?” Here’s how: If what the prophet spoke in God’s name doesn’t happen, then obviously God wasn’t behind it; the prophet made it up. Forget about him.
Words of Jesus after resurrection and visiting this land. 3 Nephi 11: 14, 17, 27, 36. Words of God out of Joseph Smith's mouth when giving revelation: D&C 14: 1-9, D&C 39: 1-6.
@@tonymason9855Where is that scripture in the Bible about Jesus visiting America after his resurrection, John 5:39 Jesus said search the scriptures, the Scriptures are from Genesis to Malachi , So where is that scripture
The point is, Joseph Smith would have had to be this organized and internally consistent while taking a mere two months to write the whole 500 page book, all without notes. No author does it that fast. So either he was a genius or he was inspired.
Woah…so like Joseph made up a prophecy and then like, when he made up the rest of the book he made the made-up prophecy come true? Wow. No other author has ever made up something in one part of the book, and then - through their godly powers - made it came to pass the declaration of polygamist past? The day man commeth ☀️
You gotta admit though, it's an impressive level of internal consistency. And despite how much Joseph Smith was persecuted, he sure stuck by that book no matter what. If he were a con artist I'm pretty sure he would've changed what he was teaching to make it more popular lol. Getting tarred and feathered is not a good business model.
Plural marriage is not mentioned in the BoM. It was a custom of the children of Israel (you know "The bible"). Good luck in your journey. It's good to ask questions
The point is, Joseph Smith would have had to be this organized and internally consistent while taking a mere two months to write the whole 500 page book, all without notes. No author does it that fast. So either he was a genius or he was inspired.
@@stevenschmidt It actually took three years to translate and assemble the BoM (1823-1829). Joseph Smith had what we call an elementary level education.
@@CadillacBunner Yeah, the span of time to beginning to end including the lost portion was three years, but the span of time that he worked on the original transcript for the part that was published was only like two and a half months. And yes I agree he only had an elementary school education. So honestly the only good explanation for the Book of Mormon's existence is that Joseph had divine (or other external) help. I believe it was divine help.
You legit gave no evidence. All you said was that the Book of Mormon cross references itself multiple times. That isn't evidence at all. Just a sort of book summary.
@@karliesukowatydid you know Joseph didn’t dictate the book in the order you have it today? A lot of the most “impressive” prophesies were written after he had already written the “fulfillment”
It’s not that it repeats itself, but that there is an immense level of consistency for a book that was dictated in the circumstances that all of the witnesses to its creation attested to. As a writer I have to go over things multiple times and use notes and outlines to keep my stories nearly as consistent. Especially things like the exact of similar phrasing when previous parts of the translation were not being referred to is incredible.
You can find the same phenomenon in the works of Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, JK Rowling, and about ten thousand other authors. It's a normal part of story telling.
It takes each of those authors years to write their books. They go through dozens if not hundreds of rough drafts. They all had several editing sessions with editors, and none wrote by dictating to a handful of designated scribes without written outlines of researched notes all in under 65 days actual working days while living in a time without computers, typewriters or gel pens. Good grief. Joseph was either a genius to have memorized 531+ pages of typed text, starting where he left off after each interruption (he had to eat, work, sleep, fight off thieves, stay a husband etc.) that sometimes lasted years or months, or The Book of Mormon was translated by him through the “gift and power of the Holy Spirit” as he states and many others can verify to. With that said, it truly is extraordinary, other worldly, supernatural even to believe a young man only 22-25 years of age could do this as he claimed. So I’m not trying to attack you, I’m just pointing out a few things that argue against what you said. I hope not to offend, just as I’m sure that you’re not here to offend or destroy the faith of a mere .001% population of the world of active members of the LDS faith so you feel better about your own incredulous ideas on the Book of Mormon, I 100% know you would never do that.
@@MichaelSmith-fq3pg can you recreate what Joseph Smith had done then? Can you prepare a child for years and then wait for the day that he/she can dictate a whole book memorized and prepared for years?
@@blenderesque708My family was very poor growing up. Crap, violent, public schools were my only option but I was an ambitious autodidact. I accomplished bigger, more complex, projects, at an earlier age, and in less time, than Joe did with the BoM. Just because you think it's impossible, doesn't mean it it is.
@@MichaelSmith-fq3pg such a bold claim to say that. You might have that experiences in life but you still haven't achieved things similar to the Prophet Joseph Smith. Where are the fruits of your works then? Does it have a similar spiritual fruit just like what the Prophets has done? Can you also claim that you have been called of God today?
@@m.r.p5674 I agree with you if what Joseph smith says is true. Quick note I’m not arguing, I’m simply questioning the integrity of this gospel due to bible scriptures that warn me against different gospels. Do you have an explanation for Galatians 1? Maybe I’m misunderstanding. BOM clearly contradicts alot of teachings according to what I’ve read and it doesn’t settle well with my spirit.
Being a convert to the church I was guided to it by a High School friend. In that moment back in 1994 when I put faith forward in learning more about the LDS Church my life has totally changed for the better. See all I had to do was believe first put faith first into it and after going through lesson after lesson of guidance what the LDS Church taught me I started to change my life in accordance to the things that I was being taught and soon after I did this I started feeling such beautiful wonderful things inside my body . Look all I did was put faith in the LDS Church and it has grown soo greatly inside my body to a direct connection to the Heavenly Father and the beautiful Savior and his sweet spirit. Don't ask if it's true or not just believe and put faith forward. I did and now my life is soo worth liveing and there are things that I feel inside my body thats beyond this lifetime. Please listen to me. You won't regret it. I promise you the Mormon LDS Church is the answer to everything that you've been asking about life in general. Just Believe and everything will start happening for you greatly in your life.
“Don’t ask if it’s true” my friend, that was the biggest mistake you ever made. Jesus Christ is the first and the last, alpha and omega, the son of God in the flesh sacrificed upon the cross for our sins and he is the only way to the father.
I was an atheist for many years until I encountered demonic spirits, through them I recognized that they fled me in terror when I used the name Jesus Christ. I ASKED HIM to show me the truth, and he did. You must ask, the Church of Mormon was created through a deception Satan gave to Joseph Smith.
You’re close, but not close enough. God bless!
The comment above is 100% true. You cannot trust the feeling that you get in relation to the lds church, or any feeling, unless it abides by the word of God. Jeremiah 17 9: "the heart is deceitful above all things, and is desperately wicked. Who can know it?" The church and its founders directly contradict the word of God. Therefore, any feeling of good relating to the church is of the devil not God. For it is written that the devil disguises himself as an "angel of light". All the devil needs is for you to believe in a different christ, a christ that is not God in the flesh, but is Lucifers brother, and your soul is gone. The church preaches that we can become Gods, which is one of the oldest lies made by Satan. You must realize that the devil was the most intelligent of God's angels, and is far smarter than us. So no matter how intricate or detailed the lie is, do not put it past him. God bless.
Beautiful graphics, BMC! 💛🙏🏽
Excellent breakdown and visuals. Love this channel and your work.❤
Outstanding job! Thanks for breaking down these events in the table you created.
The Book of Mormon says in the last days, the lamanite descendants would accept the gospel. Now, the most spoken language in the church is Spanish, not English. Go figure.
Excellent video! I really appreciate your work on this. As a side note the narration goes much quieter for about 40 seconds between about 2:00 and 2:45 when going over the table. Other than that this was excellent.
What program did you use to create the chart found at 3:23?
After Effects 😀
@@Bookofmormoncentralofficial I wonder if there is a way to see prophecies fulfilled from the Bible in The Book of Mormon and these last days using that program.
I am a convert also and I approve this message.
Love your other videos but I don’t think this qualifies as an evidence. Some could say, as many have in these comments, that Joseph Smith wrote and fulfilled the prophecies himself
In the LDS Church, a "prophet" is someone who receives inspiration and teaches it to others. We don't predict the weather or the World Series in baseball. You make a great point, though. Keep the questions coming.
@@CadillacBunnerbut this video presents prophecies exactly in the way that someone might predict weather or baseball.
Also, that wasn't a question.
Can you name 1 BOM prophecy that was brought to pass after the BOM was revealed? Anything that can compare to the bible's Isaiah 53 which was written hundreds of years before Christ based on the physical ancient sources?.
No
when does the first resurrection happen ?
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. John 3:13
39 And these all,👈🏻having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Hebrews 11:39-40
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 1 Corinthians 15:20-23
New Living Translation
But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.
1 Corinthians 15:23
Revelation 20:4-6
Introduction to the Book of Mormon:
…On September 21, 1823, the same Moroni, then a glorified, resurrected being,🤔appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith and instructed him…
17and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.
2 Timothy 2:17-18
40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6:40
I'm confused what you're trying to say
@@DarthMomo how could a glorified Resurrected Maroni appear to Joseph Smith when the resurrection has not happened yet?
JS said an angel came to him. Yet did he test the angel? Paul speaks of it. “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.” (Gal 1) Just as 1 John 4 says test the spirit and see if they’re from God. Many false prophets (and the inspiring false prophet spirit/fallen angels) can speak. Jesus said that many false signs and deception would precede his coming. But best of all we don’t have to be deceived as we know His word.
These internal consistencies were written by the Ethiopian Jews that wrote they BOM. They were intentionally mimicking the Bible and writing about their land in those religious terms.
Once you realize the BOM takes place in Ethiopia, many more internal consistencies will emerge. Here's one example.
The Jaredites started in Ethiopia, and settled in Israel. This is why Nephi says the prophets of old were stoned and cast out. Omer is the prophet of old Nephi is talking about. He was stoned and cast out and forced to immigrate to Africa just like Lehi.
Deuteronomy 18:21-22
You may be wondering among yourselves, “How can we tell the difference, whether it was God who spoke or not?” Here’s how: If what the prophet spoke in God’s name doesn’t happen, then obviously God wasn’t behind it; the prophet made it up. Forget about him.
Words of Jesus after resurrection and visiting this land. 3 Nephi 11: 14, 17, 27, 36. Words of God out of Joseph Smith's mouth when giving revelation: D&C 14: 1-9, D&C 39: 1-6.
@@tonymason9855 ok so you can't support that using the bible
@@tonymason9855Where is that scripture in the Bible about Jesus visiting America after his resurrection, John 5:39 Jesus said search the scriptures, the Scriptures are from Genesis to Malachi , So where is that scripture
@@james8996 John 10: 6-16
@@james8996 ok so it's not between Genesis and Malachi but it's Jesus himself saying what he's gonna do
Totally bs
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You know this is just plot right? Like any fiction book could be internally consistent.
The point is, Joseph Smith would have had to be this organized and internally consistent while taking a mere two months to write the whole 500 page book, all without notes. No author does it that fast. So either he was a genius or he was inspired.
@@stevenschmidtit says a lot that you think it takes a genius to think up basic storytelling elements.
Woah…so like Joseph made up a prophecy and then like, when he made up the rest of the book he made the made-up prophecy come true? Wow. No other author has ever made up something in one part of the book, and then - through their godly powers - made it came to pass the declaration of polygamist past? The day man commeth ☀️
You gotta admit though, it's an impressive level of internal consistency. And despite how much Joseph Smith was persecuted, he sure stuck by that book no matter what. If he were a con artist I'm pretty sure he would've changed what he was teaching to make it more popular lol. Getting tarred and feathered is not a good business model.
Plural marriage is not mentioned in the BoM. It was a custom of the children of Israel (you know "The bible"). Good luck in your journey. It's good to ask questions
The point is, Joseph Smith would have had to be this organized and internally consistent while taking a mere two months to write the whole 500 page book, all without notes. No author does it that fast. So either he was a genius or he was inspired.
@@stevenschmidt It actually took three years to translate and assemble the BoM (1823-1829). Joseph Smith had what we call an elementary level education.
@@CadillacBunner Yeah, the span of time to beginning to end including the lost portion was three years, but the span of time that he worked on the original transcript for the part that was published was only like two and a half months. And yes I agree he only had an elementary school education. So honestly the only good explanation for the Book of Mormon's existence is that Joseph had divine (or other external) help. I believe it was divine help.
You legit gave no evidence. All you said was that the Book of Mormon cross references itself multiple times. That isn't evidence at all. Just a sort of book summary.
How could Joseph have kept all that in his head though
@@karliesukowatydid you know Joseph didn’t dictate the book in the order you have it today? A lot of the most “impressive” prophesies were written after he had already written the “fulfillment”
So because the book repeats itself, that means that it is proof of prophecy fulfillment? That's not how that works.
It’s not that it repeats itself, but that there is an immense level of consistency for a book that was dictated in the circumstances that all of the witnesses to its creation attested to.
As a writer I have to go over things multiple times and use notes and outlines to keep my stories nearly as consistent. Especially things like the exact of similar phrasing when previous parts of the translation were not being referred to is incredible.
You can find the same phenomenon in the works of Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, JK Rowling, and about ten thousand other authors. It's a normal part of story telling.
It takes each of those authors years to write their books. They go through dozens if not hundreds of rough drafts. They all had several editing sessions with editors, and none wrote by dictating to a handful of designated scribes without written outlines of researched notes all in under 65 days actual working days while living in a time without computers, typewriters or gel pens. Good grief. Joseph was either a genius to have memorized 531+ pages of typed text, starting where he left off after each interruption (he had to eat, work, sleep, fight off thieves, stay a husband etc.) that sometimes lasted years or months, or The Book of Mormon was translated by him through the “gift and power of the Holy Spirit” as he states and many others can verify to.
With that said, it truly is extraordinary, other worldly, supernatural even to believe a young man only 22-25 years of age could do this as he claimed. So I’m not trying to attack you, I’m just pointing out a few things that argue against what you said. I hope not to offend, just as I’m sure that you’re not here to offend or destroy the faith of a mere .001% population of the world of active members of the LDS faith so you feel better about your own incredulous ideas on the Book of Mormon, I 100% know you would never do that.
@@dcarts5616 The dictation part didn't take long, sure. But he had more than ten years to work things out and polish stories prior to dictation.
@@MichaelSmith-fq3pg can you recreate what Joseph Smith had done then? Can you prepare a child for years and then wait for the day that he/she can dictate a whole book memorized and prepared for years?
@@blenderesque708My family was very poor growing up. Crap, violent, public schools were my only option but I was an ambitious autodidact. I accomplished bigger, more complex, projects, at an earlier age, and in less time, than Joe did with the BoM.
Just because you think it's impossible, doesn't mean it it is.
@@MichaelSmith-fq3pg such a bold claim to say that. You might have that experiences in life but you still haven't achieved things similar to the Prophet Joseph Smith. Where are the fruits of your works then? Does it have a similar spiritual fruit just like what the Prophets has done? Can you also claim that you have been called of God today?
Or demons could have inspired him
@@m.r.p5674 the Mormon Christ is a false Christ
Bible says the devil can transform into an angel of light, BOM was given by an angel of light. 🤔
@@alkalinespring486 exactly!
@@m.r.p5674 do you think it’s okay to write a novel that includes Jesus and call it inspired word of God? That’s heresay
@@m.r.p5674 I agree with you if what Joseph smith says is true. Quick note I’m not arguing, I’m simply questioning the integrity of this gospel due to bible scriptures that warn me against different gospels. Do you have an explanation for Galatians 1? Maybe I’m misunderstanding. BOM clearly contradicts alot of teachings according to what I’ve read and it doesn’t settle well with my spirit.