Introduction
Who wrote the Book of Mormon's title page?
Moroni
What is a Witness?
1 : attestation of a fact or event : testimony
2 : one that gives evidence specifically : one who testifies in a cause or before a judicial tribunal
3 : one asked to be present at a transaction so as to be able to testify to its having taken place
4 : one who has personal knowledge of something
5a : something serving as evidence or proof : sign b : public affirmation by word or example of usually religious faith or conviction
What angel visited Joseph Smith the evening of September 21, 1823.
Moroni
The Book of Mormon is a sacred record of peoples in ancient America, and was engraved upon sheets of Metal. How many kinds of metal did they consist of?
4
True or False:
The crowning event recorded in the Book of Mormon is the personal ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Nephites soon after His resurrection. It puts forth the doctrines of the gospel, outlines the plan of salvation, and tells men what they must do to gain peace in this life and eternal salvation in the life to come.
True
True or false? The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible?
True
What is a Testimony?
A testimony is a spiritual witness given by the Holy Ghost. The foundation of a testimony is the knowledge that Heavenly Father lives and loves His children; that Jesus Christ lives, that He is the Son of God, and that He carried out the infinite Atonement; that Joseph Smith is the prophet of God who was called to restore the gospel; that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Savior’s true Church on the earth; and that the Church is led by a living prophet today. With this foundation, a testimony grows to include all principles of the gospel.
How many times did Moroni visit Joseph Smith on the night of September 21, 1823.
3
"After the third visit, he again ascended into heaven..."
The Book of Mormon is a sacred record of peoples in ancient America; which can be broken up into three groups. What are the groups?
Nephites, Lamanites and Jaredites.
In or about what year did Moroni seal the sacred record and hid it up unto the Lord, to be brought forth in the latter days?
A.D. 421
Who wrote the Book of Mormon?
many ancient prophets
Name all of the Three Witnesses.
Oliver Cowdery
David Whitmer
Martin Harris
What was also deposited in the hill with the gold plates?
“Also, that there were two stones in silver bows—and these stones, fastened to a breastplate, constituted what is called the Urim and Thummim—deposited with the plates; and the possession and use of these stones were what constituted ‘seers’ in ancient or former times; and that God had prepared them for the purpose of translating the book. …"
The Plates of Ether is the history of which group?
Jaredites
Who said the following: “A man would get nearer to God by abiding by [the Book of Mormon’s] precepts, than by any other book.”
Joseph Smith
Who wrote the Book of Mormon on gold plates?
a prophet-historian named Mormon
Name 4 of the Eight Witnesses.
Christian Whitmer; Jacob Whitmer; Peter Whitmer, Jr.; John Whitmer; Hiram Page; Joseph Smith, Sr.; Hyrum Smith; and, Samuel H. Smith
Where is the hill Cumorah located.
“Convenient to the village of Manchester, Ontario county, New York, stands a hill of considerable size, and the most elevated of any in the neighborhood. On the west side of this hill, not far from the top, under a stone of considerable size, lay the plates, deposited in a stone box. This stone was thick and rounding in the middle on the upper side, and thinner towards the edges, so that the middle part of it was visible above the ground, but the edge all around was covered with earth.
Fill in the blank:
The Book of Mormon comprises ___ main parts or divisions, known, with one exception, as books, usually designated by the name of their principal author.
15
In what year was the first English edition of the Book of Mormon published?
1830
In what hill did Moroni hide the plates?
the hill Cumorah
Which witness lost 116 pages of the Book of Mormon
Martin Harris (see D&C Sections 3 and 10)
Moroni visited Joseph Smith 3 times the night of September 21,1823; what year or how long after that did Joseph actually obtain the plates?
4 yrs or 1827
“At length the time arrived for obtaining the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate. On the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, having gone as usual at the end of another year to the place where they were deposited, the same heavenly messenger delivered them up to me with this charge: that I should be responsible for them; that if I should let them go carelessly, or through any neglect of mine, I should be cut off; but that if I would use all my endeavors to preserve them, until he, the messenger, should call for them, they should be protected.
Name all the names of the Book of Mormon (also know as the divisions or titles, etc.)
Hint: the First Book of Nephi
must name all 15
What were the 116 pages that were lost called?
"The Book of Lehi" (see D&C Section 3)