2 Nephi 29

(February 9, 2015)

                Nephi’s love for Isaiah clearly shows in how he acts as the Lord’s mouthpiece.  There is such a similarity between their writings that it becomes impossible to ignore.  Even the passage between the words of Nephi and the words of the Lord are consistent with the way Isaiah moved from his own words to the words of the Lord.  Isaiah is a book of scripture studied for thousands of years written over the course of the life of one of the greatest prophets who has ever lived.  It is absurd to think that Joseph Smith could not only write language to rival it, but to write a fictional character who writes prophecy to rival it – and to do it in such a short period of time.

                I understand that the only way to truly gain a testimony is through the Spirit (which I have been blessed to receive), and I understand each of us has the capacity for self-deception, but the verisimilitude of the Book of Mormon screams to me from every page in a manner impossible to come from a construct.