TWENTY-EIGHT
(1833)
The Book of Mormon counters the falsehood that men are not created as equals. The reality
of the existence of the “Three Nephites” is established. The people of the world are divided into two groups only.
Joseph’s mission was to offer an alternative to the “church of the devil.” Men in the early LDS church sought
for power and authority over the people. The disharmony between the Mormons and the Missourians
was the result of LDS dogmatism, but inexcusable as to the violence.The Purpose For and Composition of the Book of Mormon
It has now been recognized that the true purpose of the Book of Mormon was to
present a believable, biblically structured, and conclusive explanation that dark-skinned
people are absolutely equal in all respects in God’s eyes with white-skinned people,
although virtually all readers miss that point. By using a “biblically structured” explanation,
the advanced editors were able to play on the pre-existing prejudices of those who believe
the Bible to be the word of God. And by picking up the Book of Mormon story at known
events in Jewish history, they were able to relate the two books together in the minds of
Bible believers. Beyond that, the Book of Mormon was crafted by advanced editors into a
believable Bible-like tapestry of quasi-history using a combination of Jewish myth and
folklore and actual historical events. In creating the text that they sent to Joseph through the
Urim and Thummim, advanced editors plagiarized the manner in which free-willed mortals
composed the Bible.
It was by the use of free will that Jewish leaders, historians, and scribes composed the
Old Testament from oral legends, stories, and ancient myths,^1 based loosely on actual historical
events. Later, their Christian counterparts used the same methodology in creating the canon of
New Testament scripture. Most importantly, the people were allowed the use of their individual
free will to accept the Bible as “divine” and the ultimate “word of God”—or not.
According to eternal laws that mandate guidelines on how advanced humans can
interact with those going through their mortal stage of development, free will cannot be
impeded in any way. Following these guidelines, the Book of Mormon was composed by
lightly basing the record on actual historical events that occurred in the Western
Hemisphere from 600 B.C.E. to 400 C.E. (exactly 1,000 years of human existence). Its
advanced writers “plagiarized” the Bible’s Jewish oral legends, stories, and ancient myths to
conform to what the people believed at the time when the Book of Mormon record was
introduced to the world.
The “Three Nephites” Are Real, Semi-Mortal Human Beings
The LDS/Mormon people who believe in the Book of Mormon often overlook the role
that the Three Nephites played throughout the history of the Western Hemisphere. Critics
might conclude that, because Joseph himself, through this biography, has admitted that some
of the Book of Mormon is parabolic in nature, then perhaps the Three Nephites are a metaphor
in kind and do not actually exist, but were introduced into the story for some yet-to-be-