Golden plates. According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden Bible)[1] are the source from which Joseph Smith said he translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.
Some witnesses described the plates as weighing from 30 to 60 pounds (14 to 27 kg),[2] being golden in color, and being composed of thin metallic pages engraved on both sides and bound with three D-shaped rings. Smith eventually obtained testimonies from eleven men, known as the Book of Mormon witnesses, who said they had seen the plates.[4] After the translation was complete, Smith said he returned the plates to the angel Moroni.
Therefore the plates cannot now be examined. Latter Day Saints believe the account of the golden plates as a matter of faith, while critics often assert that either Smith manufactured the plates himself[5] or that the Book of Mormon witnesses based their testimony on visions rather than physical experience. Beliefs and People of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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You might find the following of some interest. During my college days a group of us fellows used to get together to discuss religion. We all belonged, more or less, to different churches, but none of us was very devout or spiritual, and we realized that our lack of enthusiasm for the churches of our birth was because we weren't certain that we were in the "true church" of our Lord. But we felt we needed something in our lives, and so we met regularly with our New Testaments and studied carefully, making notes of what points we might look for, to find the True Church. We parted, and our lives took us each in a different direction.
Teachings of the True Church: 1. Members of the True Church can be recognized by the following: 9. I confess that I never found a church that fulfilled all twenty of these points as described in the New Testament. Famous Mormons. The Journal of Discourses. Mormon.org. Mormons - Information about the church and its people. 50 Answers - FAIRMormon. Anti-Mormon literature tends to recycle the same themes.
Some ministries are using a series of fifty questions, which they believe will help "cultists" like the Mormons. One ministry seems to suggest that such questions are a good way to deceive Latter-day Saints, since the questions "give...them hope that you are genuinely interested in learning more about their religion. " This ministry tells its readers what their real intent should be with their Mormon friend: "to get them thinking about things they may have never thought about and researching into the false teachings of their church.
" Thus, the questions are not sincere attempts to understand what the Latter-day Saints believe, but are a smokescreen or diversionary tactic to introduce anti-Mormon material.[1] The questions are not difficult to answer, nor are they new. NOTE: It should be remembered that this particular list of questions was put together by an Evangelical Christian ministry.
Questions About LDS Prophets Question:1. Archive Publishers Mormon Books.