Dallin H. Oaks, “Historical Authenticity” bookofmormontruth.com
by Elder Dallin H. Oaks
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies Annual Dinner Provo, Utah, October 29, 1993
Some who term themselves believing Latter-day Saints are advocating that Latter-day Saints should “abandon claims that [the Book of Mormon] is a historical record of the ancient peoples of the Americas.”1 They are promoting the feasibility of reading and using the Book of Mormon as nothing more than a pious fiction with some valuable contents. These practitioners of so-called “higher criticism” raise the question of whether the Book of Mormon, which our prophets have put forward as the preeminent scripture of this dispensation, is fact or fable—history or just a story.
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John Hilton III, “The Book of Mormon Will Change Your Life” (Excerpt), bookofmormontruth.com
BYU Education Week 2005
The Book of Mormon is the Keystone of our Religion
“The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion. This was the Prophet Joseph Smith’s statement. He testified that ‘the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion’ (History of the Church, 4:461). A keystone is the central stone in an arch. It holds all the other stones in place, and if removed, the arch crumbles.
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By Michael De Groote
Mormon Times
Monday, Mar. 02, 2009
PROVO, Utah — Layers of symbolism are under the surface of the Book of Mormon according to Joseph Ostenson, a doctoral candidate in theoretical and philosophical psychology at Brigham Young University. These symbols build on each other like layers of translucent paint — each adding a color while changing the color underneath to create a masterpiece describing the mercy of God.
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