Eight (1813)(^18) BOM, 1 Nephi 4:10, 18.
(^19) See HR, 16:51–2 for a discussion of this topic.
(^20) D&C, section 129 describes the nature of resurrected messengers (“angels”) and quasi-mortal
(“translated”) messengers and clearly states that face-to-face meetings with these two type beings are the
only true “administrations from God”, in that “whether by me or by my servant it is the same.”
Otherwise, the “voices in our head” that we cannot shake hands with may become “the devil
transforming into an angel of light,” because they are not true messengers of “flesh and bones.” See also
HR, 15:28.
(^21) Acts 10:34; D&C, 1:35; 38:16.
(^22) The Bible appears in the number one spot on the following lists of bestselling books of all time: see
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/literature/21-best-selling-books-of-all-time.htm;
http://home.comcast.net/~antaylor1/bestsellingbooks.html;
http://www.soyouwanna.com/soyouwanna-ten-popular-books-time-7062-p4.html;
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/bestsellerFARQ.html; and
http://www.soyouwanna.com/soyouwanna-ten-popular-books-time-7062-p4.html.
(^23) Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
(Boston, Josiah P. Mendum: 1852) 19. (First printed in Paris, 1794.)
(^24) For a list of similarities between Paine’s words and Joseph’s scriptures, see “Age of Reason
and Joseph Smith,” on lds-mormon.com, 8 Apr. 2011 http://www.lds-mormon.com/tp_js.shtml.
(^25) See “Deism in the United States,” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 31 Mar. 2011, Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc., 8 Apr. 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism#Deism_in_the_United_States.
(^26) 666 America, 26, 305.
(^27) HR, 1:36.
(^28) BOM, Alma 27:9.
(^29) “Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a
termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him,
which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse
is pronounced upon the same race—that they should be the ‘servant of servants;’ and they will be,
until that curse is removed.” (Brigham Young, “Intelligence, Etc.,” JD, 7:290 (290–1));
“And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was
continued through Ham’s wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through
the flood? Because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well
as God.” (John Taylor, “Discourse by President John Taylor,” JD, 22:304.)
(^30) BOM, 1 Nephi 4:13.
(^31) BOM, Alma 30:28; see also ch. 6, n. 5.
(^32) Numbers 31:9–12.
(^33) Numbers 31:17–18.
(^34) Deuteronomy 2:33–5.
(^35) Paine, 19.
(^36) BOM, 1 Nephi 4:13.
(^37) BOM, 1 Nephi, chapter 4.
(^38) BOM, 1 Nephi 4:15–17.
(^39) TSP, “Appendix 2, The Book of Lehi,” 1:23–66.
(^40) This account was part of what was contained in the Lost 116 page manuscript, which
Martin Harris lost and Joseph Smith never retranslated. As part of this author’s assignment to
translate The Sealed Portion—The Final Testament of Jesus Christ, that material was again translated and
is contained in Appendix 2, titled “The Book of Lehi.”
(^41) BOM, 1 Nephi 1:20.
(^42) Ephesians 6:12; SNS, 60.
(^43) HR, 15:24–5, 27.