Category: Plagiarism
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Similarities Between the Freemasonry of the 1830s and the Mormon Endowment (pre-1940)
By Richard Packham The following is excerpted with permission from the original page at: http://packham.n4m.org/mason-endow.htm [Note]: The list of similarities below is given in no particular order, since the order of presentation in both ceremonies differs slightly. The information on 19th century Masonry is based on William Morgan’s Illustrations of Freemasonry, 1827. click to enlarge…
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The Book of Mormon: Another Bible or Another Bible Forgery? Part 2
Despite the Book of Mormon’s similarities to the Bible, it bears the marks of intentional engineering.
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The Book of Mormon: Another Bible or Another Bible Forgery? Part 1
Forgery techniques shed light on the Book of Mormon and its possible origin.
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The Solomon Spalding Theory
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner A study of Book of Mormon authorship relating toSolomon Spalding The following article is an excerpt from our book, Joseph Smith’s Plagiarism of the Bible in the Book of Mormon (Chapter 9) The authorship of the Book of Mormon has been hotly debated since it was first published. The title…
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Where Did Joseph Smith Get His Ideas for the Book of Mormon?
By Sandra Tanner One of the claims often made by LDS people is that there was no information on the Indian ruins in Mexico and Guatemala available prior to 1830. Actually, numerous books recounting similar ideas as those in Joseph Smith’s Book of Mormon had already been published. Many of the books published on the…
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Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon?
Does chiasmus in the Book of Mormon prove authentic Jewish authorship, or is it just part of Joseph Smith’s efforts to mimic biblical style, which also appears in his other writings? By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Excerpted from our book, Joseph Smith’s Plagiarism of the Bible in the Book of Mormon, chp. 8. In trying…
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Possible Sources for Book of Mormon Names
By Sandra Tanner The Book of Mormon contains over 300 proper names. Many LDS assume that this is evidence that Joseph Smith could not have made up the Book of Mormon. However, when we examine the list of names at the end of the Book of Mormon we notice that 141 of the names are…
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King James 1611 Preface and Joseph Smith’s “Cloud of Darkness”
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Evidence of Joseph Smith’s possible plagiarism from the Preface of the King James Bible into the Book of Mormon [Excerpt from Salt Lake City Messenger #84] Cloud of Darkness Robert Williams, of North Wales, discovered an important parallel between the Book of Mormon and the Preface of the King James…
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Temple Ritual Altered
Mormon Leaders Delete Some of the “Most Sacred” Parts of Ceremony By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In response to Fawn M. Brodie’s book, No Man Knows My History, the noted Mormon apologist Hugh Nibley declared: Yet of all churches in the world only this one has not found it necessary to readjust any part of…
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The Black Hole in the Book of Mormon
What a computer study reveals about missing details in the Book of Mormon.