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In Mormon and Moroni. The following prophets are those mentioned in Mormon's abridgement of the large plates of Nephi ( Mosiah through Moroni, excluding Ether ). King Benjamin. Mosiah [ 1] Ammon. Abinadi. Alma the Elder. Alma the Younger. Sons of Mosiah.
In the Book of Mormon, Moroni is the son of Mormon. [ 1] Moroni shares a name with Captain Moroni, a much earlier Book of Mormon figure, of whom Mormon wrote highly. [ 2] Moroni works under his father, the commander in chief of a Nephite army, who battles against the Lamanites. Upon the Nephites' defeat at Cumorah, Moroni goes into hiding to ...
Aaron4, Lamanite king (c. AD 330) Abinadi, Nephite prophet sent to people of Lehi-Nephi - converted Alma 1 (c. 150 BC) Abinadom, son of Chemish, Nephite historian, and Nephite warrior. Abish, Lamanite woman, servant of Lamoni's wife. Aha, Nephite military officer (c. 80 BC) Ahah, son of Seth 2, Jaredite king.
Mormon / ˈmɔːrmən / is believed by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be a prophet-historian and a member of a tribe of indigenous Americans known as the Nephites, one of the four groups (including the Lamanites, Jaredites, and Mulekites) described in the Book of Mormon as having settled in the ancient Americas .
v. t. e. Adherents to the Latter Day Saint movement view the Book of Mormon as a work of divinely inspired scripture, which was written by ancient prophets in the ancient Americas. Adherents mostly believe Joseph Smith 's account of translating ancient golden plates inscribed by prophets. Smith preached that the angel Moroni, a prophet in the ...
t. e. The historicity of the Book of Mormon is the historical actuality of persons and events that are written in it, meaning the quality of it being part of history instead of being a historical myth, legend, or fiction. Most, but not all, Latter Day Saints hold the book's connection to ancient American history as an article of their faith.
The Book of Mormon is a foundational sacred book for the church; the terms "Mormon" and "Mormonism" come from the book itself. The LDS Church teaches that the Angel Moroni told Smith about golden plates containing the record, guided him to find them buried in the Hill Cumorah , and provided him the means of translating them from Reformed Egyptian .
297 pp. History of Joseph Smith by His Mother is a biography of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, according to his mother, Lucy Mack Smith. It was originally titled Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations and was published by Orson Pratt in Liverpool in 1853.