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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the sacred books of the Mormon Church, published in 1830 by Joseph Smith and considered by Mormons to be a historic record of the migration of ancient Israelites to the Americas and their eventual encounter there with Jesus after his resurrection.
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- proper noun Mormonism A sacred text of the Latter-Day Saint movement, published in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.
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- noun a sacred text revealed to Joseph Smith in 1830 by an ancient prophet Mormon; supposedly a record of ancient peoples of America translated by Joseph Smith
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For Ostenson, the Book of Mormon is a expression of Christ's doctrine summarized in Doctrine and Covenants 10: 67 as repenting and coming unto Christ and in 1 Nephi 1: 20 as Christ's tender mercies.
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You should not consider yourself a living being if you don’t read this book and understand it. read allFrankly, I think that encouraging someone who has never read a book before to start with the Book of Mormon is a good way to ensure that that person will never read another book.
Lehi goes to Africa shunn 2003
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You should not consider yourself a living being if you don’t read this book and understand it. read allFrankly, I think that encouraging someone who has never read a book before to start with the Book of Mormon is a good way to ensure that that person will never read another book.
Lehi goes to Africa shunn 2003
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In response to media requests before the musical's preview, the LDS Church released the following: "The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people's lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ."
Mormons find musical 'Book of Mormon' surprisingly sweet 2011
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The Book of Mormon's Josh Gad will make his Modern Family debut on Wednesday — and if you can imagine, his character is even more awkward than Phil Dunphy Ty Burrell.
Modern Family First Look: Book of Mormon's Josh Gad Loves to Man-Shake 2011
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The Book of Mormon's teaching of the accursedness and, therefore, the inferiority of blacks -- if blacks are cursed, then by definition they are inferior to the divinely acceptable whites -- was reaffirmed by numerous Mormon leaders for a century and a half.
Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.: Mitt Romney And The Curse of Blackness Obery M. Hendricks 2012
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The Book of Mormon puts it simply and directly: . . .
The 7 Glenn Beck 2011
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Mr. Stone: Joseph Smith is from Palmyra N.Y., so we went up there to watch the annual Mormon pageant, which is the story of the Book of Mormon.
The 'South Park' Boys Take Broadway Lauren A. E. Schuker 2011
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The Book of Mormon puts it simply and directly: . . .
The 7 Glenn Beck 2011
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On Thursday afternoon at Brigham Young University in the conservative town of Provo, students in the hushed halls of the Joseph Smith Center studied the Book of Mormon in front of a glass diorama.
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