Mormon Dilemma 771 View of the Hebrews and Book of Mormon

Studies of the Book of Mormon, pg 240; “Did Ethan Smith’s View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith’s Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other. Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that make them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith’s story of the Book of Mormon’s origin.” – B.H. Roberts, Mormon Seventy and LDS  Historian

Deuteronomy 13:1-3; “If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”

The Lord is so good to us!  There are many times in a person’s life where God will manifest Himself through other people to either warn us of danger or confirm when He’s giving us an okay. 

The example today is proof of that. The View of the Hebrews is a huge red flag to every member of the Mormon Church.  Also keep in mind that God uses the saved and unsaved to lead people to Himself and the remarks of BH Roberts was God’s tool to warn Mormons of the danger.

Here we hava a died in the wool TBM (True Blue Mormon) who believed in the Church to the day he died and yet he knew the truth about Joseph Smith and his lying ways. For whatever reasons he submitted his findings about the BoM and the Church published them.

If ever there was a time Mormons should give pause about evidence the BoM isn’t true, this would be it.