Without Disclosing My True Identity
In order to reduce the fear of the unfamiliar, while at the same time not interfering
with free will, advanced humans used familiar biblical verbiage and concepts to help
mortals unlock austere biblical paradigms, giving them a choice that they had not received
prior to this divine (“advanced”) intervention. When given the choice to treat all humans as
equals and not suppose that one race, color, or creed is greater than another,^48 would they
comply with and use their “Holy Ghost”^49 to see the light, or would they continue to believe
in the Bible and its inhumane principles (i.e., the idea of “calling and election;”^50 the use of
force, punishment, and bloodshed; separateness by supposing they were the “chosen
people” of God)? The Book of Mormon was constructed in such a way that it would present
them with choices and each person would then be responsible for the choice he or she made
according to their own light (understanding).
The Book of Mormon was purposefully set up with hidden messages of real truth
subtly camouflaged by traditional biblical concepts. If there is too much contrast to
established beliefs, people tend to reject the new concept or information being
presented. For this very reason, Jesus was rejected by people who could not give up
their customs and traditions of church ordinances, orthodox worship practices, and
other religious rites and rituals, when all he did was teach a simple new concept of all
religious law being based on “love thy neighbor as thyself.”^51
In an attempt to help the people understand new concepts, Jesus referenced the
Jewish beliefs relating to “old wine” and “old garments” in his parables. Well did he say:
No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which
is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and
the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into
new bottles, and both are preserved.^52Nevertheless, for the most part, because of the “old bottles” of religious belief that the Jews
had trouble parting with, they had retained a “hardness of heart” against the new ideas that
opposed their traditions, leading to a “blindness of mind.”^53 Stated plainly, the people had,
first, refused to believe that they could be wrong^54 and, second, upon choosing to so refuse,
they would not or were unable to consider anything outside of the Jewish paradigm they
had always blindly accepted as “truth.”^55
The Passion and Emotion of Joseph Because of Unbelief
(In the interest of topical vs. chronological flow), while the following was written
many years later, how could the young Joseph possibly have known the emotions and
suffering to which he would be subjected because of the religious creeds and traditions of
his enemies as Lehi and our Christ had? In one of the most emotional statements ever
attributed to the mortal Joseph while in the hell of Liberty Jail, he wrote the following:
It is an imperative duty that we owe to God, to angels, with whom we shall
be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives and children, who
have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most
damning hand of murder, tyranny, and oppression, supported and urged on
and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the