Case Study The Mormon Church foundation was laid down during the 1920’s in what came to be known as the burned over distract Joseph smith apparently went into the woods to ask the important questions to god, this is when he had his first religious experience with God and Jesus as they both visited him. Smith did not hide this from anyone, but no one believed him he went through persecution his whole life something he did not know at the time would happen. His next visitation happen when he was 18 this was probably the most important for him as it led to the discovery of the golden plates, which hold the main beliefs that Mormons still have today. Smith translated these plates with relative ease and this is what we now call today the book of Mormon. …show more content…
Lehi, the father, was a Jewish prophet who had been told by God that the city was destined for obliteration. Under Lehi’s route, the family, jointly with some acquaintances and neighbors, built a little vessel and sailed eastward. Their likely route was the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the South Pacific, for ultimately they reached the western coast of America. You had some people that believed and some that didn’t, the ones that didn’t called the plates a fake and even if they were real someone only 23 years old would not be able to translate something that even scholars have a problem with. Doubters also look at the book of Mormon as trying to paraphrase the bible; the supporters deny all these statements by saying there were 11 witness who gave their account of what happened, but these are the same witnesses that left the Mormon church and renounced their ties fully. This eventually lead to joseph smith being shot to death for what he