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Fact 1608

The non-Ether sections of the Book of Mormon begin around 600 BCE, when Lehi’s family of devout Jews purportedly lived in Jerusalem. Mormons claim the book was written on golden plates in Reformed Egyptian, though there has never been evidence of this written...

Fact 1607

“Both the Nephite and Jaredite civilizations fought their final great wars of extinction at and near the Hill Cumorah (or Ramah as the Jaredites termed it), which hill is located between Palmyra and Manchester in the western part of the state of New York. It was here...

Fact 1606

“It has been truthfully said that organic evolution is Satan’s chief weapon in this dispensation in his attempt to destroy the divine mission of Jesus Christ. It is a contemptible plot against faith in God and to destroy the effective belief in the divine...

Fact 1605

“Mormon Hill had been long designated as the place in which countless treasures were buried;’ Joseph [Smith, Sr.], the elder, had spaded up many a foot of the hill side to find them, and Joseph Jr., had on more than one occasion accompanied him.” Newark Daily...

Fact 1604

“A man named Walters … was sent for three times to go to the hill Cumorah to dig for treasure. People knew there was treasure there. [Alvah] Beman was one of those who sent for him. He came. Each time he said there was treasure there, but that he couldn’t get...

Fact 1603

“[The Book of Mormon] as all will conclude who have read it, or even given it a cursory review, is not that of an educated man or woman. The bungling attempt to counterfeit the style of the Scriptures; the inter-mixture of modern phraseology; the ignorance of...