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www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm?lang=engTitle page - SkipTitle page of the Book of Mormon <---------Read thisIntroduction - Word of man, skipTestimony of Three Witnesses - readTestimony of Eight Witnesses - readTestimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith - Africans were here a century before English AmericansBrief Explanation - ~Illustrations - skip1 Nephi2 NephiJacobEnosJaromOmniWords of MormonMosiahAlma <----------- this one is real longHelaman3 Nephi <----------- Jesus shows up Ch. 114 NephiMormonEtherMoroni
Lehi teaches that their promised land would be “choice above all other lands” and “kept from the knowledge of other nations” (2 Nephi 1:5-8). This description matches the Americas, which were unknown to the Old World before Columbus. Africa, by contrast, was well known, heavily populated, and part of established trade routes in Lehi’s day. The Book of Mormon requires a land that was divinely hidden until the latter days, not an already inhabited and familiar continent.Nephi’s record gives a clear itinerary. They left Jerusalem, traveled along the Red Sea, then “did travel nearly eastward” to a coastal land they called Bountiful (1 Nephi 17:4-5). There they “did go down into the ship” and “were driven forth before the wind” upon “many waters” (1 Nephi 18:8). Africa lies only a short coastal journey from Arabia, not a vast ocean crossing. The long voyage, guided by the Liahona, implies a transoceanic journey to a land far distant, consistent with reaching the New World.Nephi foresaw “a man among the Gentiles” who would cross “many waters… unto the seed of my brethren” (1 Nephi 13:12). This prophecy aligns perfectly with Christopher Columbus. He also saw Gentile nations coming “out of captivity” and being “set up by the power of God upon the face of this land” (1 Nephi 13:13, 19). That description matches the founding of the United States, not any African nation. No African setting fits the pattern of Gentile discovery and colonization foretold by Nephi.Christ and the prophet Ether prophesied that the New Jerusalem would be built “upon this land, unto the remnant of the seed of Joseph” (Ether 13:4-6; 3 Nephi 21:22-24). Doctrine and Covenants 84:2-4 identifies that New Jerusalem as being “in the western boundaries of the State of Missouri.” Therefore the Book of Mormon’s “land of promise” must be the same continent where that prophecy will be fulfilled, meaning the Americas.
>>18054991Helaman 3:7-11 describes people who “built houses of cement,” “spread upon all the face of the land,” and constructed “exceedingly large cities.” Archaeological parallels in Mesoamerica show advanced urban centers, road systems, and cement construction long before European contact. Ancient sub-Saharan Africa of Lehi’s time had neither the same materials nor the same cultural context. The internal details fit the American setting best.Nephi’s visions emphasize separation from Jerusalem and the lands of their fathers (1 Nephi 13:12-14). The record consistently speaks of being “brought out of the land of Jerusalem” to a new and distant continent “across the great waters” (1 Nephi 17:36; Ether 2:9-10). Africa was part of the same Old World sphere, not a land “far from the knowledge of other nations.” The whole narrative depends on total geographic and covenantal separation.Mormon and Moroni testify that the record will come forth in the last days “by way of the Gentiles” on “this land” (Mormon 7:8-10; Ether 2:8-12). The book’s actual appearance through Joseph Smith in New York fulfills that prophecy directly. If the ancient setting were Africa, the prophecy of its latter-day emergence “on this land” would fail.Doctrine and Covenants 10:48-51 reiterates that the Lord will “give unto the Gentiles this land for their inheritance” and that the Nephite record testifies concerning “this land.” Every restoration-era revelation locates the covenant land in the Americas, confirming the internal witness of the Book of Mormon itself.
>>18054991https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He
>>18054991>No African setting fits the pattern of Gentile discovery and colonization foretold by Nephi.White people did completely occupy Africa for a period, and they still live there in many places.>New JerusalemSpiritual, from heaven.>>18054995>this landDifferent land.
>>18054995>Mormon and Moroni testify that the record will come forth in the last days “by way of the Gentiles” on “this land” (Mormon 7:8-10; Ether 2:8-12).Missionaries put the book everywhere. It now has a home in Africa, where it belongs.
>>18054840But I thought Jesus Christ came to the Americas.
>>18055039He did:www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/110?lang=eng
>>18055019>>18055024Colonialism in Africa does not match the details of Nephi’s prophecy. Nephi specifically saw a man “wrought upon by the Spirit of God” who crossed “many waters” to a land where the seed of his brethren already lived (1 Nephi 13:12). That man’s arrival initiated the rise of “a mighty nation among the Gentiles” upon that same land (1 Nephi 13:15, 19). The sequence and context describe the European discovery and colonization of the Americas, not Africa. Africa was known to the Old World since before Abraham’s day, and Israelites, Egyptians, and Arabs traded and traveled there freely. Nephi’s land had been “kept from the knowledge of other nations” until God revealed it in the latter days (2 Nephi 1:8). That description cannot apply to Africa under any historical timeline.When Nephi, Jacob, and later prophets speak of “this land,” they all refer to the land where Lehi’s family was led after crossing the ocean (1 Nephi 18:23; 2 Nephi 1:5-9; Alma 37:45; Ether 2:8-10). Moroni writes centuries later using the same phrase about that identical land, saying the record would come forth “on this land” (Mormon 7:8-10). There is no textual hint of a shift in geography. The narrative maintains one continuous covenant land from Lehi to Moroni. The words “this land” never refer to Africa or any other continent within the record.Missionaries have indeed spread the Book of Mormon worldwide, but the book itself foretells that it would come forth in the latter days “by way of the Gentiles” on the same land where its ancient peoples lived (Mormon 7:9; Ether 2:8-12). The text defines “come forth” as its translation and publication, not later missionary distribution. That event occurred through Joseph Smith in America, fulfilling the prophecy precisely. Its global spread afterward is part of the Restoration’s outreach, not the book’s place of origin.
>>18055052Looks like ChatGPT confused 1 Nephi 13 with 1 Nephi 22.
Aw sweet, schizo thread
>>18055076>my chatbot got defeated>defer to ad hominem2 robots looks like
>>18054991there were no such thing as 'Lehi's days', the whole text is bullshit made up by Joseph Smith, who did not think his followers would exist two hundred years later and would search for the geography he was making up.
>>18054840@grok is this true?
>>18054840Joseph Smith and his big brother Muhammad are burning in hell.
>>18055146>>18055972Jews say the same thing about Jesus.
Only a book of Solid Gold would filter people this much.
>>18056798That was never seen by anyone trustworthy, "translated" out of a hat with a magic seer stone, and mysteriously vanished.Also do you realize how heavy such a book would be? Yet Joseph describes running around with it.
>>18056827The Holy Spirit attests that this Book is true.
>>18056844Your feelings, and what makes you "fell good" are not the Holy Spirit>>18056757Jews also say that Jesus is not God, as Muslims do and you Mormons do by saying he became God.Your Jesus is not the same Jesus of the New Testament. If you really worship Jesus as you say, why can't you pray directly to him?Answer Me, what makes your movement so special, in comparison with many other that originated in the same era? Your little book?Muhammed also composed his book that allegedly came from God, and yes this is not enough reason for you to follow his teachings.Also your Book is so fake that it could not even get the birthplace of Jesus right. Alma 7:10
>>18057083You cut yourself off from the Holy Ghost at your own peril and that of your hope of salvation in this world, and in worlds to come.
>>18057083At Jerusalem there is Bethlehem.
>>18057083Jews also say, ministers of the Gospel would be stoned under Moses and the old covenant. They and you are both false.
>>18057083>>18057083You confuse word of men with the Word in the book of Mormon which is faithful and true and correct and Orthodox. I am unanswerable for claims I do not make. Jesus is divine.
>>18057083Where do you get the idea that praying to Jesus as a separate being from God is acceptable under the law of Moses?
>>18057083The Book of Mormon is a great and wise read, that is faithful to the true Gospel of Jesus Christ which he gave the world. You are enjoined to read it and to study it out for yourself, to think critically at every step of the journey, of growing in faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
>>18057083what denom
This book is really quite something special. It is truly unique. No book confounds the reader like this one.
>>18057399Your Jesus is not the same Jesus other people talk about. Your Bible fanfiction is not a translation of anything. Your religion is 19th Century scientology. >>18057650Chloroform in print. So boring.
>>18057083Alma 32 gives a promise, and it does deliver, to whoever is worthy to receive of God the Word.>>18057662You are clearly of the father of contention which is the devil and you have apostatized from the precepts of the Gospel of Jesus in sowing discord.
>>18057083>2016-era reddit-tier memeologyCringe bro. You should, touch grass.
>>18057752Book of Abraham controversyJoseph Smith was a false prophetCope
