Without Disclosing My True Identity
(^41) TSP, 16:45, 47–8; 20:44–5; 67:52; 76:14, 17.
(^42) James 4:1.
(^43) Romans 8:6; BOM, 2 Nephi 9:39.
(^44) Matthew 26:41.
(^45) BOM, Mosiah 3:19.
(^46) BOM, Mosiah 3:26.
(^47) BOM, 1 Nephi 10:19; Alma 26:22; D&C, 63:23; 1 Corinthians 4:1; James 1:5; 4:3.
(^48) BOM, 2 Nephi 2:26; Ether 3:13.
(^49) BOM, 2 Nephi 2:26.
(^50) Matthew 13:11; D&C, 11:7.
(^51) BOM, Ether 4:15; Compare D&C, 35:18; 42:61; 76:7; Romans 16:25; Ephesians 3:9–10;
Colossians 1:26.
(^52) BOM, Moroni 7:12–17.
(^53) BOM, 2 Nephi 2:26.
(^54) Matthew 5:17; 7:12; 15:20; 16:6; 22:40; 23:15, 23; 2 Corinthians 3:3, 7–8, 13–16; Galatians 5:6,
14; Colossians 2:20–2; Hebrews 7:22; 8:6–13; 10:9; 13:20.
(^55) Matthew 7:12.
(^56) Mark 12:30; Matthew 22:37; Luke 10:27; Deuteronomy 6:5; D&C, 59:5.
(^57) James 1:25; BOM, 2 Nephi 2:27.
(^58) 2 Chronicles 17:9; Nehemiah 8:9; Compare BOM, 3 Nephi 26:6, 13.
(^59) TSP, 23:65–7.
(^60) BOM, 3 Nephi 26:6.
(^61) BOM, Introduction: “Concerning this record the Prophet Joseph Smith said: ‘I told the
brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our
religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.’”
(^62) Matthew 13:11; D&C, 107:19.
(^63) John 10:34–6; Acts 17:29; Romans 8:16–17; 1 John 3:2.
(^64) BOM, 3 Nephi 13:10; JST, Matthew 6:10–11; Compare Luke 11:2.
(^65) Genesis 11:1–9.
(^66) BOM, Ether 1:33.
(^67) “Adam and Eve figuratively represent every human being created on this earth. ...‘Adam’
and ‘Eve’ were not the only first individuals upon this earth, but instead, figuratively represent those
mortals given bodies patterned after their Creators and placed on the earth at the premier of human
history.” (SNS, 40, 42 [34–45].)
(^68) BOM, Ether 1:41; 2:6.
(^69) BOM, Ether 3:1: “And it came to pass that the brother of Jared...went forth unto the mount,
which they called the Mount Shelem, ...upon the top of the mount, and cried again unto the Lord ....”
Compare Exodus 19:20: “And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and
the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.”
(^70) BOM, Ether 1:34–42.
(^71) “Elder George Reynolds has left us this account of the circumstances under which the full
name was revealed by the Prophet: ‘While residing in Kirtland, Elder Reynolds Cahoon had a son
born to him. One day when President Joseph Smith was passing his door he called the prophet in and
asked him to bless and name the baby. Joseph did so and gave the boy the name of Mahonri
Moriancumer. When he had finished the blessing, he laid the child on the bed, and turning to Elder
Cahoon he said, the name I have given your son is the name of the brother of Jared; the Lord has just
shown (or revealed) it to me. Elder William F. Cahoon, who was standing near, heard the Prophet
make this statement to his father; and this was the first time the name of the Brother of Jared was
known in the Church in this dispensation.’” (Juvenile Instructor 27:282; Improvement Era 8:704–5 as
cited in Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1979], 463.)