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1051. Joseph Could Neither Have Written nor Directly Translated the Book of Mormon (Without the help of God!)

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This article gives several scientific reasons that the Prophet Joseph couldn't have written The Book of Mormon himself, with the education etc. that he had.    No one, even a college graduate with a doctorate could!   I love the Book of Mormon, and I have a firm testimony that it is the Word of God, and translated by the Prophet Joseph Smith.   Joseph Could Neither Have Written nor Directly Translated the Book of Mormon By Mark J. Stoddard  · July 1, 2018 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Cover image via Mirror Films.  Take a quick word quiz. How many of these words do you know:  censure, consignation, cumber, durst, exult, impenitent, indolence, lamentation, lasciviousness, penitent, solemnity, stratagem . I asked my class of seniors in college which of these words they knew. Few recognized more than two. When Joseph Smith presented the world the Book of Mormon in 1829, at age 23, he was a senior at Oxford studying