Critics say gold plates would weigh too much and could never hold the Book of Mormon. Josh Coates modeled 4,164,048,000 versions of the plates against the witnesses’ descriptions, and about 865,000 still fit. Here is the math, the alloy, the copper disc test, ancient writing on metal, and the fair caveats. Part 9 of 10.
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Book of Mormon Evidence · Alma 7:10Critics have laughed at Alma 7:10 since 1831. Read the verse...
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In Hebrew, faith (emunah) means steadiness, the word used for Moses’ steady hands in Exodus 17:12. In Greek, pistis covers belief, trust, and faithfulness. A word study on what the Bible means by faith, with non-LDS scholars Teresa Morgan, Matthew Bates, and Nijay Gupta.
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Drop a Christian from first-century Ephesus into 2026 and hand him a New Testament checklist: apostles and prophets (Ephesians 2:20; 4:11–13), the Twelve kept full (Acts 1), the seventy (Luke 10:1), elders, bishops, and deacons, baptism by immersion, the Holy Ghost by laying on of hands (Acts 8:17), baptism for the dead (1 Corinthians 15:29), revelation, and Christ’s name. A fair, verse-by-verse comparison.
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The Bible defines a Christian in one verse: “the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch” (Acts 11:26). Jesus’ own tests are fruits, love, and keeping His commandments. Then Nicaea (325), a 380 imperial edict, Constantinople (381), and Chalcedon (451) added vocabulary no apostle used and enforced it with anathemas. If God didn’t reveal it, no one gets to require it.
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