Badman, and these texts provide extensive narrative parallels to the Book of Mormon , often containing unique characteristics shared only by Bunyan and Smith. Predating all of these controversies, however, is the debate about the historical authenticity of the Book of Mormon itself.
Mormons claim that in an angel named Moroni revealed to Joseph Smith the location of a set of gold plates — which recorded that sacred history — buried in a hill south of Palmyra in upstate New York, known today as the Hill Cumorah. Several theories of the origin of the text have emerged , but they lack solid evidence and require leaps of speculation. The wider academic community steered clear of the debate, leaving serious inquiry into the Book of Mormon to a small group of scholars and enthusiasts.
As with most scripture, however, claims to historical authenticity remain a central issue. When Bunyan composed his stories in the late seventeenth century, he did so by cobbling together narrative elements, concepts and ideas from multiple biblical and literary sources along with his vivid imagination and events from his own life.
As the pilgrims enter the city, their presence causes a disturbance among the citizens, and the travel companions are 1 bound and thrown into prison.
In the Book of Mormon , the prophet Abinadi enters the now-wicked city of Lehi-Nephi and begins preaching to the people. His presence causes a great disturbance among the citizens, and Abinadi is 1 bound and thrown into prison. Furthermore, the parallels tying the stories together occur on multiple levels, both in the underlying structural framework and in the specific language used to express ideas and events which accounts for the unusual appearance of a sixteenth-century, Protestant reconfiguration of traditional martyr narratives in the year B.
In the mid-nineteenth century, converts were encouraged to gather with the members in America. Swelling ranks of immigrants from Europe and the eastern United States soon provided fuel for growing opposition as well. To escape the escalating turmoil, Church headquarters moved from New York to Ohio, then to Missouri and later to Illinois.
In the Latter-day Saints established the community of Nauvoo Illinois on a tract of inhospitable swampland bordering the Mississippi River. Under the leadership of Joseph Smith, they drained the swamps and began erecting a community of beautiful homes, prosperous farms and businesses.
They also built a temple. By Nauvoo rivaled Chicago in population. But mounting suspicion and anxiety within neighboring communities fed an atmosphere of extreme agitation and distrust.
Newspapers in neighboring towns began to call for the Latter-day Saints' extermination. At the height of this turmoil, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were shot to death by an armed mob in nearby Carthage, Illinois. Mobs attacked Latter-day Saint settlements in the region, burning crops, destroying homes and threatening to exterminate the people. Church leaders knew a move was once again at hand. This one would become one of the most visionary and prodigious journeys in American history.
They struggled across Iowa, eventually establishing a settlement called Winter Quarters near modern-day Omaha, Nebraska. Soon the community expanded to include hundreds of lodgings, many of them just dugouts or sod huts, on both sides of the river.
Pursuing a vision initially articulated by Joseph Smith, Brigham Young prepared his people -- perhaps 17, of them by that time -- for a historic trek across the vast wilderness to the Rocky Mountains, 1, miles to the west. The first pioneer party departed from Winter Quarters early the next spring and arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake on 24 July During the next few years, thousands of other Latter-day Saints struggled across the American Great Plains to the newly found refuge.
Some of the pioneers crossed the plains in wagons. Others were equipped with small, lightweight handcarts. Ten handcart companies crossed the American plains in the next four years. Joseph went home and told his family. They supported him, although the local churches, not surprisingly, were highly critical. Three years later, Smith was visited by the angel Moroni and told that he should unearth and translate a holy book written on plates of gold, which contained the religious writings of the prophets of ancient America.
Smith wanted to take the plates immediately but was advised by Moroni not to do so. Four years later Smith removed the plates, and spent 3 months translating the words engraved on them into the Book of Mormon.
Before Joseph could fulfil the task of restoring the Church it was necessary for him to get the authority to do it. This authority could come only from God. In Joseph was visited by John the Baptist. The Baptist laid hands on the heads of Smith and his colleague Oliver Cowdery and gave them the authority of the Aaronic Priesthood.
Joseph set about building the restored church, continuing to receive direct guidance from God on how to do it. During the rest of his short life he translated further scriptures , and wrote down further revelations from God, which form a major part of Church doctrine today.
He also founded the missionary programme of the Church, built several towns and was a candidate for US President. He suffered much persecution, being jailed over thirty times although never found guilty , as well as being tarred and feathered.
The persecution eventually led to his death at the age of Joseph and his brother Hyrum were shot on 27 June by a mob of men while they were jail in Illinois on charges of riot and treason. Search term:. Read more. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled.
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