Without Disclosing My True Identity
(^16) BOM, 1 Nephi 17:22.
(^17) PGP, Articles of Faith 1:11. See also DHC, 4:535–41.
(^18) Matthew 5:44.
(^19) Matthew 7:28; 21:23–37; Acts 4:5–9; TSP, 9:29–30.
(^20) See BOM, 1 Nephi 1:16 and 2:1–2 for how Lehi received his revelations.
(^21) BOM, 1 Nephi 2:1–2.
(^22) HR, 16:42.
(^23) BOM, Alma 31:12–26.
(^24) BOM, 1 Nephi 3:2–4.
(^25) BOM, 1Nephi 4:10 (6–13).
(^26) BOM, 1 Nephi 4:11–13.
(^27) BOM, 1 Nephi 1:9.
(^28) BOM, Mosiah, chapters 9–22.
(^29) BOM, 3 Nephi 23:9.
(^30) Compare D&C, Official Declaration—2. See also BOM, 3 Nephi 23:9; Helaman 13: 2–5. In the
DHC, Joseph was sometimes referred to as “the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator” (e.g., see DHC, 2:164, n.
(*) and DHC, 6:24).
(^31) BOM, Helaman 16:1.
(^32) BOM, Alma 43:45–56.
(^33) BOM, Moroni 7:14.
(^34) BOM, Alma, chapters 23–7.
(^35) BOM, Alma, chapters 45–63.
(^36) BOM, 3 Nephi, chapters 8–28.
(^37) BOM, 3 Nephi 11:37–8.
(^38) BOM, 3 Nephi 19:8, emphasis added.
(^39) BOM, 3 Nephi, chapters 12, 13, and 14.
(^40) BOM, 2 Nephi 26:1.
(^41) JSH 1:34.
(^42) Matthew 13:13.
(^43) BOM, 1 Nephi 1:9.
(^44) JSH 1:34.
(^45) BOM, 3 Nephi 15:1.
(^46) Matthew 7:24, 26; BOM, 3 Nephi 14:24, 26.
(^47) BOM, 3 Nephi 15:1–2.
(^48) BOM, 3 Nephi 15:9–10.
(^49) BOM, 3 Nephi 17:4.
(^50) John 17:4.
(^51) BOM, 3 Nephi 17:1.
(^52) Compare BOM, 3 Nephi 17:1–2.
(^53) BOM, 3 Nephi 17:13.
(^54) BOM, 3 Nephi 17:14.
(^55) See BOM, Jacob 4:14.
(^56) BOM, 3 Nephi 19:8.
(^57) See TSP, chapter 9.
(^58) “For an overview, see Terryl L. Givens, By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture
That Launched a New World Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 155–84; and Louis C.
Midgley, ‘Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Critics and Their Theories,’ in Book of
Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah:
FARMS, 1997), 101–39. An earlier overview with the same conclusions is Hugh Nibley, ‘Just
Another Book?’ in The Prophetic Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1989),