Joseph Smith claimed the BoM was the most correct book on earth (History of the Church 4:461) and even today the Church wastes no opportunity to repeat his statement yet they never fail to give excuses as to why outsiders don’t share the same views.
BYU Professor Monte Nyman (1929-2011) was just one of the many who paraded the excuses in the LDS publication June 1984 Ensign. He made the outrageous statement that the most correct book “implies that it may not be absolutely correct”.
With the excuses aside we need to hold strong to the absolutely correct book, that being the word of God. The Bible doesn’t make excuses. God introduces Himself in Genesis 1:1 by revealing what He’s done and through the rest of the Bible He continues to reveal Himself through the covenant relationship He makes with man. We never find one single verse telling us that if the scriptures are wrong it’s because of its author.
God used various authors to write the Bible while allowing their distinct personalities to show forth, but make no mistake my friend, every single word written was placed in the thoughts of the author by God, not man.
In the chart below you’ll see a side-by-side comparison of the contradictory claims made in the Book of Mormon on whether their message is true or not true. Keep in mind this is what the Mormon is supposed to hang their hat on at the end of the day. How could you ever trust this is from God if the authors are saying there might be errors in their message?
Each major author in the BoM stated their writings were true, but simply stating you’re writing scripture and claiming it’s true doesn’t make it so! In addition to the examples below, also see 2 Nephi 33:10-15, Jacob 6:1, 12-13; Ether 5:6, 3 Nephi 8:1 and Mormon 3:14.
Nowhere in the Book of Mormon do we find any evidence this is from God as their writings contradict not only themselves, but the Bible as well. The few examples we’ve listed here provide sufficient evidence none of the authors in the Book of Mormon qualify as a spokesperson for God.
| No Worries –
It’s All True |
Um…Not so Fast…
There May Be Some Errors |
| 1 Nephi 14:30 –
“…if all the things which I saw are not written, the things which I have written are true. And thus it is. Amen.” |
1 Nephi 19:6 –
“…And now, if I do err, even did they err of old; not that I would excuse myself because of other men, but because of the weakness which is in me, according to the flesh, I would excuse myself.” |
| 1 Nephi 22:30 –
“Wherefore, my brethren, I would that ye should consider that the things which have been written upon the plates of brass are true…” |
Alma 10:5 –
“…I never have known much of the ways of the Lord, and his mysteries and marvelous power. I said I never had known much of these things; but behold, I mistake, for I have seen much of his mysteries and his marvelous power…” |
| Mosiah 1:6 –
“O my sons, I would that ye should remember that these sayings are true, and also that these records are true. And behold, also the plates of Nephi, which contain the records and the sayings of our fathers from the time they left Jerusalem until now, and they are true…” |
3 Nephi 8:2 –
“And now it came to pass, if there was no mistake made by this man in the reckoning of our time, the thirty and third year had passed away…” |
| 3 Nephi 8:1 –
“And now it came to pass that according to our record, and we know our record to be true, for behold, it was a just man who did keep the record— for he truly did many miracles in the name of Jesus…” |
Mormon 8:12 –
“And whoso receiveth this record, and shall not condemn it because of the imperfections which are in it…” |
| Moroni 10:4, 29 –
“…I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth… 29 And God shall show unto you, that that which I have written is true.” |
Mormon 9:31, 33 –
“Condemn me not because of mine imperfection, neither my father, because of his imperfection, neither them who have written before him; but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections… 33 And if our plates had been sufficiently large we should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no imperfection in our record.” |