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Let’s talk about Enoch: Biblical, Extra Biblical & Joseph Smith’s Account.
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The Strongest Case for the Book of Mormon and the Restoration
Six lines of evidence that work together: a book dictated in one draft, eleven witnesses who never took it back, Hebrew structures nobody was looking for, an old-world journey that checks out on the map, a falling away the Bible predicted, and a restoration it promised.
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“One” in the Bible: What Jesus Meant When He Said “I and My Father Are One”
The Shema uses echad, the same Hebrew word as “one flesh.” John 10:30 uses the Greek neuter hen, not “one person.” And in John 17 Jesus prays that His disciples “may be one, as we are.” A word study on what the Bible means by “one,” with scholars on both sides.
“One” in the Bible: What Jesus Meant When He Said “I and My Father Are One”
The Shema uses echad, the same Hebrew word as “one flesh.” John 10:30 uses the Greek neuter hen, not “one person.” And in John 17 Jesus prays that His disciples “may be one, as we are.” A word study on what the Bible means by “one,” with scholars on both sides.
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Matthew 16:18 and the Gates of Hell: What the Promise Really Means
Critics quote Matthew 16:18, “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it,” as proof the church could never fall away. But “hell” there is hadēs, the realm of the dead, and gates hold people in. Christ went into Hades and came out with “the keys of hell and of death,” the gospel was preached to the dead, and Peter received the keys of the kingdom. Here is what the Greek, the keys, and the New Testament’s own apostasy warnings say.
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The Great Apostasy in the New Testament’s Own Words
Critics call the Great Apostasy a Latter-day Saint invention, but Paul, Peter, John, and Jude wrote it down first. From the “falling away” of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and the wolves of Acts 20 to “doth already work,” “so soon removed,” and “even now are there many antichrists,” the New Testament records the apostles watching the falling away begin, and it promises a “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21).
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Priesthood Authority: Korah, Uzziah, and Hebrews 5:4
Korah was sincere, Saul had a good reason, Uzziah was a good king, and Simon offered to pay. The Bible’s verdict on all of them is the same: zeal doesn’t give anyone the right to act for God. From Numbers 16 to Hebrews 5:4 and Acts 19, authority comes by God’s call through the hands of those who hold it, which is why Latter-day Saints teach that the priesthood was restored by John the Baptist and by Peter, James, and John.
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Book of Mormon Evidence, Part 7 of 10: Alma 36, Built as a Mirror
Alma 36 runs its ideas forward, reaches Jesus Christ at the exact center, then runs them back in reverse. Two physicists tested whether that could be chance, and how it compares with the Bible, a computer manual, and Joseph Smith’s later revelations. Part 7 of 10.
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Bible Contradictions Critics Ignore: 2 Samuel 24 vs. 1 Chronicles 21
Critics say one mistake would prove the Book of Mormon false. But the Bible tells the story of David’s census twice, and the accounts differ on who moved David (the LORD or Satan), how many men were counted, how long the famine would last, and what David paid. Here is how evangelical scholars harmonize them, what those answers concede, and why “the mistakes of men” was never a problem for Latter-day Saints.
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