The primary purpose of the Book of Mormon is to convince all people “that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations” ( title page of the Book of Mormon).
Since then, the Book of Mormon has been translated into many other languages.
By the gift and power of God, the Prophet Joseph translated the record into English. On September 22, 1827, an angel named Moroni-the last Book of Mormon prophet-delivered these records to the Prophet Joseph Smith. The Lord declared that the Book of Mormon contains “the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ” ( Doctrine and Covenants 20:9 see also Doctrine and Covenants 42:12). Prophets of the Lord engraved the original records on gold plates. It is a record of God’s dealings with the people who lived in the ancient Americas. The Book of Mormon came forth in this dispensation by the will of the Lord. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ We can receive strength, comfort, and guidance from the biblical accounts of God’s dealings with His people. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we revere the Bible and its sacred teachings. In English, the King James Version of the Bible is accepted as scripture by the Church. It concludes with the ministry of the Savior’s disciples.īecause the Bible has been translated many times, it is printed in different versions. The New Testament records the birth, mortal ministry, and Atonement of the Savior. It includes the teachings of such prophets as Moses, Joshua, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel. The Old Testament is a sacred record of God’s dealings with His covenant people in the Holy Land. The Bible is divided into two parts: the Old Testament and the New Testament. It builds faith, fortifies against temptation, enlightens, and helps individuals draw near to our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son. Daily, meaningful scripture study helps individuals be receptive to the guidance of the Holy Ghost. They exhort us to “search the scriptures” ( John 5:39) and “feast upon the words of Christ” ( 2 Nephi 32:3). They encourage us, as Nephi encouraged his brethren, to liken the scriptures to ourselves, finding ways that the sacred accounts of old apply in our lives today (see 1 Nephi 19:23–24).
They encourage individual and family scripture study. Latter-day prophets counsel people everywhere to study the scriptures daily, including the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. God, who is the same “yesterday, today, and forever” ( 2 Nephi 29:9), continues to reveal scripture in modern times as He did in ancient times. “And land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at the right hand of God in the kingdom of heaven, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers, to go no more out” ( Helaman 3:29–30). “Whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked. The Book of Mormon prophet Mormon taught: The principal purpose of scriptures is to testify of Christ and to guide the children of God so they can come unto Him and receive eternal life (see John 5:39 20:31 1 Nephi 6:4 Mosiah 13:33–35). The official, canonized scriptures of the Church, often called the standard works, are the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. When holy men of God write or speak by the power of the Holy Ghost, their words “shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation” ( Doctrine and Covenants 68:4).
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