David Journal

Tag: Title Page

  • What we need to know

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    The introduction to the Book of Mormon (a modern text, unlike the Title Page) concluded with a list of things that sincere readers can come to know through the book. Of all the things listed, the most important one is that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world.

  • Author’s foreword

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    I love how clearly and concisely Moroni articulates the origin and purpose of the Book of Mormon in the title page. I would think any honest seeker of truth who read that would be interested to learn what such a record contained.

  • A fresh start on the Book of Mormon

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    I am excited to study the Book of Mormon again this year in church. I have been pondering recently on its place as a special witness of Christ and the restoration and the keystone of a testimony of the restoration. I am hopeful that we can find a way to help the children actually engage…

  • A divine product

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    The title page and introduction to the Book of Mormon always remind me how much work was put forth to make the Book of Mormon available to the restored church even before Joseph Smith received the plates.

  • Intriguing

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    The pending testimonies and introduction to the Book of Mormon would certainly get the attention of any reader with an open mind. They declare no doctrine but the origin story they expose would pique the interest.

  • A solid beginning

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    I am constantly amazed at how straightforward and powerful the opening of the Book of Mormon is as it lays out what it is and how it came to be along with testaments to those claims. Men may choose to disbelieve but they can’t imagine that the book was intended as anything other than a…

  • My testament of Christ

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    I am trying the challenge that Elder Teh described, reading the Book of Mormon and marking the passages about the Atonement of Christ and then producing a single page summary of what I have learned. that they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off forever—And also to the convincing…

  • Historical record

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    Every time I read the Book of Mormon I think of what it would take for it’s origin story to be fictitious and realize that man could descend from apes more easily than such an elaborate lie be acted out. Conceptually it could be a lie but that would require that many things which we…

  • Stumbling on the cornerstone

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    In reading the introduction tot he Book of Mormon again I am reminded of the words of Elder Holland that the Book of Mormon stands as an impediment to any who want to abandon the church – one which they must crawl over, around, and through in order to make their exit. The book is…

  • Adding on

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    We have been told that the title page was written anciently – that it was not something Joseph Smith added. I wonder if it was started by Mormon, completed by Moroni, and then Joseph Smith added “Translated by Joseph Smith, Jun.”