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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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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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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“If any man shall add unto these things…” Critics quote Revelation 22:18 to prove nothing can be added to the Bible. But “this book” is John’s own prophecy, Moses gave the same warning in Deuteronomy 4:2 before God sent Joshua, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the whole New Testament, and the warning binds men who tamper with God’s word, not God.
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“Though we, or an angel from heaven…” Galatians 1:8 is the verse critics quote first against Latter-day Saints. Read in context, Paul was condemning a gospel contrary to his own, the circumcision-and-Moses message of the Judaizers, and he put himself under the same test. Here is what the Greek says, how Paul kept receiving revelation, and how the Book of Mormon measures up.
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