The Role Of Jesus In The Book Of Mormon

Another testament of Jesus Christ

There are some signs in the bible that point to the Book of Mormon. One has to be seeking the truth to find it. God puts up road signs, but we fail to read the directions. How many wives have pulled out the map only to hear their husband say “I know what I’m doing – I know this part of town like the back of my hand”.

Jesus established that “in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established” (Matthew 18:16). He did not limit his witnesses to just the Old and New Testaments. In St. John 10:16 He says “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd”. How do people hear God’s word? Through His prophets and through their written word, as dictated by Him. If He had other sheep, which were not of that fold, is it so unusual that God would provide them prophets, whose words would be recorded?

In Isaiah 29:4 it says “thou…shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust”. Also in Isaiah 29, verses 11-12, it says “And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee, and he saith, I am not learned”. Joseph Smith found an ancient language expert to look at the symbols that needed translating. The scholar, denying the existence of angels (to have delivered the gold plates to Joseph Smith) said he could not translate a sealed book. Joseph Smith was an unlearned man who did translate the