Category: The Book of Mormon
“No Archaeology for the Book of Mormon”? The Exodus, Jericho, and the Standard Critics Won’t Use on Their Own Book
Critics say no ruins means no Book of Mormon. Run that rule on the Exodus, Jericho, and Ai with mainstream archaeologists, and see whose book survives.
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The Con Man Who Never Ran the Con: What Joseph Smith Never Said
If Joseph made it all up, a con man would have pointed at every hit and said SEE, PROOF. He never pointed to Nahom, Bountiful, chiasmus, or the verse with his name in it. His witnesses broke with him and never denied it. He died in debt and went back to Carthage. So what exactly was the con?
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Who Wrote the Gospels? Anonymous Authors and the Thou Hypocrite Standard
No Gospel names its author in the text. Here’s where Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John got their names, and why the Book of Mormon has the better paper trail.
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Anachronisms in the Bible (KJV Edition): The Standard Critics Won’t Use on Their Own Book
Critics call every Book of Mormon anachronism a fatal blow. The Bible has camels too early, Philistines too early, a city named Dan before Dan, and Easter in Acts. Same standard for both books, or no standard at all.
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The Hypocritical Book of Mormon Denier: Every Argument That Hits the Bible Harder
No archaeology, no originals, anonymous authors, missing artifacts, a changing text. Critics fire all of it at the Book of Mormon. Every one of those arguments hits the Bible just as hard or harder. Then look at what the Book of Mormon has that the Bible doesn’t.
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Moses Broke the Tablets: The Double Standard on Missing Plates
Critics say no plates, no proof. But Moses broke the tablets God wrote, the Ark vanished, and no original page of the Bible survives. Same standard for both, or none.
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Read It and Ask: Moroni 10:4–5 and James 1:5
The Book of Mormon asks readers to do one thing: read it, then ask God. Joseph Smith did exactly that with James 1:5. Here’s Moroni 10:3–5 next to James 1:5–6, what the Bible says about the Spirit teaching truth, and why the Westminster Confession rests the Bible on the same witness critics call “just feelings.”
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Works and Grace: 2 Nephi 25:23 Next to James 2
Critics quote “after all we can do” as proof the Book of Mormon teaches works salvation. Read 2 Nephi 25:23–26 in context, see how often the Book of Mormon teaches grace, then hold James 2:24, Ephesians 2:10, Philippians 2:12, and Revelation 20:12 to the same standard.
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DNA and the Book of Mormon (2026 Edition)
Critics say DNA disproved the Book of Mormon. But the book never claims Lehi’s family were the only ancestors of the Americas, nobody knows what DNA they carried, and founder effect, drift, and bottlenecks can erase a small group’s signal. Plus an honest correction on haplogroup X2, and the genetic test nobody runs on the Bible.
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Book of Mormon Evidence, Part 10 of 10: The Witnesses Who Never Recanted
All three of the Three Witnesses left the Church after falling out with Joseph Smith, and so did at least two of the Eight. They had every reason to recant. David Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, Hiram Page, John Whitmer, and even outsider William McLellin left statements affirming what they saw, and none is on record expressing doubt. The series finale. Part 10 of 10.
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“A Different Jesus”? The Christ of 3 Nephi 11 and the New Testament
Critics say Latter-day Saints worship “another Jesus” (2 Corinthians 11:4). Put the Christ of 3 Nephi 11 beside the Christ of the New Testament, from the Father’s voice to the wounds in His hands, and see the four fallacies the slogan depends on.
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Book of Mormon Evidence, Part 9 of 10: Could the Plates Work?
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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