
In today’s Book of
Mormon the Testimony of the Three Witnesses is at the front. Where was it in
the first edition?
A)
At the end of the book
B)
Never included in the first edition
C)
At the start, like today
D)
Found in the Doctrine and Covenants
Yesterday’s answer:
(D) Ancient
writings from South America
The most authentic source book for these legends
is the Popol Vuh, a rare manuscript written in the Quiche language and
translated into the Spanish by Francisco Jimenez, a well-known Catholic priest
who lived among the Indians of Guatemala during the early Spanish rule of
America. This interesting volume is replete with stories so closely akin to
those of the Hebrews that one noted scholar, Le Plongeon, declared that these
stories originated in America and were later carried to the old world where the
Hebrews adopted and improved upon them. Le Plongeon claimed to have found upon
the walls of old buildings at Chichen-Itza and Uxmal, in Central America, mural
paintings of the creation, the temptation of Eve in the garden of Eden, the
story of Cain and Abel, and many others of the Hebrew legends.
William Edwin Berrett, The Restored Church (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1973),
64.
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