TwilightPrincess wrote:
The Book of Mormon was written for Mormons by John Smith. It’s not relevant outside of Mormonism. No other Christian religion follows it. It was nothing to do with the framework of Christianity. It was written in the 19th century. Much of it borrows from the King James Version of the Bible, but some of it gets pretty far out there.
NonChristian societies often have similar values in terms of what’s considered right and wrong.
It was published by
Joseph Smith in 1830.
It does take a lot from the King James bible in terms of its structure and narrative, and the Latter Day Saints, who The Book of Mormon is for, follow the idea of Jesus Christ as a saviour, so I don't see how it doesn't share some of the framework of Christianity? At least the new testament part of the bible, anyway.
I would say the religion is an off-shoot of traditional Christianity, updated for 19th century North America.
has some pretty whackadoodle stuff in it, such as the prophets coming to the Americas in ancient times (there’s no proof of that and it seems extremely unlikely) and Jesus coming after his resurrection.
The book is poorly written. Smith didn’t translate into English of the time period but into the language of the King James Version of the Bible which is an imperfect translation of ancient texts to begin with. Smith made some of the same mistakes in his writing.