Why was it critical for Nephi to retrieve the plates?
Question Gramps, I was thinking about the urgent need for Nephi to retrieve the plates of brass and also how the Mulekites lost so much knowledge because they didn’t have plates (history). I wonder, if they had a revelation and wouldn’t need the...
Angel retrieves gold plates
Where is it recorded in the LDS scriptures that an angel retrieved the gold plates from Joseph Smith? People in the South have said that story sounds suspicious or “fishy”. They have no problem believing the parting of the Red Sea or that the Lord opened...
Location of the Gold Plates
Dear Gramps, What happened to the stone box that the gold plates, liahona, sword of Laban were found in? Christine Dear Christine, When the Prophet Joseph Smith went to the Hill Cumorah the first time he describes the setting for the gold plates, the Urim and Thummin...
Book of Mormon Location
GRAMPS, Thanks for answering, but what is the tale? Kimball is quoted in the J. of D. V 4 PG 105 as making the statement of the vision, and as to sticking with what Joseph has said, in 1843 he was editor in chief of the church newspaper, and said that the towns...
Have you found any reference where Joseph Smith actually called the hill of the golden plates Cumorah?
Gramps, Jerry Ainsworth has spent a lifetime on Book of Mormon archaeology. He supports the Central America theory and claims Joseph Smith never identified the place he got the records as Cumorah, even though later church leaders have. Have you found anywhere where...
What happened to the golden plates after Joseph Smith finished translating the Book of Mormon?
The plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated were received by Joseph Smith in September 1827, and returned to the Angel Moroni sometime afte June 11, 1829.
Did the Mormon Church once promise to show the Golden Plates to the world?
The Mormon Church has never claimed to have the Golden Plates, but claims that one the angel Moroni will return them so that the last part can be translated.
Was there a room in the Hill Cumorah in addition to the place where the plates to the Book of Mormon were found by Joseph Smith?
There is a room in the Hill Cumorah where Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery of the Mormon Church, under the direction of the the Angel Moroni, returned the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated.
How long did Mormon prophet Joseph Smith have the gold plates?
The exact date when Mormon Prophet returned the golden plates to the Angel Moroni is not known. People can only guess.
