Q What is the Book of Mormon and how does it relate to the Bible?
A The Book of Mormon is a sacred text that Latter-day Saints revere as scripture alongside the Holy Bible. Believed to be a record of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from roughly 600 BC to 400 AD, it was translated by Joseph Smith from golden plates. Church members view the Book of Mormon as "Another Testament of Jesus Christ" that supports, clarifies, and works in tandem with the Bible.
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A The Book of Mormon is a sacred text that Latter-day Saints revere as scripture alongside the Holy Bible. Believed to be a record of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from roughly 600 BC to 400 AD, it was translated by Joseph Smith from golden plates. Church members view the Book of Mormon as "Another Testament of Jesus Christ" that supports, clarifies, and works in tandem with the Bible.
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Who are the Mormonism?Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism. This is the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, initiated by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the Mormons followed Brigham Young to what would become the Utah Territory. Today, most Mormons are understood to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Some Mormons are also either independent or non-practicing. The center of Mormon cultural influence is in Utah, and North America has more Mormons than any other continent, though the majority of Mormons live outside the United States.
What is The Bible?The Bible is a canonical collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. There is no single "Bible" and many Bibles with varying contents exist. The term Bible is shared between Judaism and Christianity, although the contents of each of their collections of canonical texts is not the same. Different religious groups include different books within their Biblical canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books. The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, contains 24 books. Christian Bibles range from the 66 books of the Protestant canon to the 81 books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church canon. The first part of Christian Bibles is the Old Testament, which contains, at minimum, the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible divided into 39 books and ordered differently from the Hebrew Bible. The Catholic Church and Eastern Christian churches also hold certain deuterocanonical books and passages to be part of the Old Testament canon. The second part is the New Testament, containing 27 books: the 4 Canonical gospels, Acts of the Apostles, 21 Epistles or didactic letters, and the Book of Revelation.
