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Worthy of Another Look: The Historicity of the Book of Mormon

TitleWorthy of Another Look: The Historicity of the Book of Mormon
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsOaks, Dallin H.
JournalJournal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture
Volume21
Issue2
Pagination66-72
Type of ArticleWorthy of Another Look
KeywordsAncient America; Book of Mormon; Evidence; Historicity; Methodology; Negative Proof; Revelation
Abstract

In recent years the idea has been promoted that the Book of Mormon should be viewed as a great moral work but not as the actual history of peoples in the Americas. In this paper, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles defends the historicity of the Book of Mormon from the standpoint of faith and revelation. He demonstrates that scholarship cannot create faith and that secular evidence will never be able to prove or disprove the Book of Mormon. He also illustrates how the burden of negative proof lies squarely on the shoulders of skeptics, how God values the witness of revelation more than the witness of man, and how historians’ methodologies are unable to sufficiently account for the Book of Mormon.

URLhttps://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol21/iss1/7