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| == Plain and Precious Book of Mormon Doctrines ==
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| === Criticism ===
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| Critics claim that the Book of Mormon is nothing more than a "bad copy of the Bible"; that anyone could have churned out such pedestrian, warmed-over ideas by borrowing liberally from the Bible and his own personal experiences.
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| === Response ===
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| The Book of Mormon has many marvelous and unique doctrines that expand on the Biblical text. The prophet Nephi in the Book of Mormon makes the bold claim that it would contain "many plain and precious" doctrines that originally existed in the Bible, but were subsequently removed, either deliberately or by error (1 Nephi 13:26-40). The following is a partial list of some of these "many plain and precious" doctrines that are found in the Book of Mormon, but not in the Bible.
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| ==== Doctrines relating to the Savior and his mission ====
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| *Christ offereth himself unto all who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit (2 Nephi 2:7)
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| *All men shall be resurrected, and stand before Christ to be judged (2 Nephi 2:10)
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| *Christ shall redeem men from their sins, not in their sins
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| *Why Christ, being perfect, still needed to be baptized (2 Nephi 31:4-10)
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| *The perfect plan of mercy and justice
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| *In addition to our sins, the Savior took upon him our pains, afflictions and temptations, that he might know how to comfort and strengthen us (Alma 7:11-12)
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| *The infinite nature of the atonement
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| ==== What the devil doesn't want us to know ====
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| *Murmuring quenches the Spirit (1 Nephi 3:5-6)
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| *How Satan will be bound during the millenium (1 Nephi 22:26)
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| *Satan is the father of all lies (2 Nephi 2:18)
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| *Satan is the father of all contention (3 Nephi 11:29)
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| *The evil spirit teaches that a man must not pray (2 Nephi 32:8)
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| *Satan whispers to people that there is no devil (2 Nephi 9:..)
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| *What motivates Satan - retribution for his misery (2 Nephi 2:18, 2 Nephi 2:27)
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| *Laboring diligently in the vineyard protects us from sin and the cunning snares of the devil (Alma 28:14)
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| ==== The purpose of life ====
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| *"Adam fell that men might be, and men are, that they might have joy" (2 Nephi 2:25)
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| *The fall of Adam and Eve was part of God's plan - had he not fallen, they would have remained in the garden forever, knowing no joy or misery, doing no good nor evil, having no children. (2 Nephi 2:22-25)
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| *"For it must needs be that there is an opposition in all things" (2 Nephi 2:11)
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| *In mortality, men are given all choices, and "they are free to choose liberty and eternal life through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil." (2 Nephi 2:27)
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| ==== Qualifications for baptism ====
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| *We must be willing to follow the Savior with full purpose of heart and with real intent. (2 Nephi 31:3)
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| *We must repent of our sins, thereby witnessing unto the Father that we are willing to take upon us the name of Christ. (2 Nephi 31:3, Moroni 6:2-3)
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| *We must be willing to come into the fold of God, and to be called His people (Mosiah 18:8)
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| *We must be willing to bear one another's burdens, willing to mourn with those that mourn, comfort those that stand in need of comfort. (Mosiah 18:9)
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| *We must be willing to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all places, even until death. (Mosiah 18:10)
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| *We must be willing to serve God, keep His commandments, and desire to have His Spirit poured out more abundantly upon us. (Mosiah 18:10, Mosiah 21:35)
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| *Notwithstanding the Savior being holy, he was baptized to witness to the Father that he was willing to keep his commandments. (2 Nephi 31:7)
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| *We must repent, be baptized and become as a little child or we can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God. (3 Nephi 11:37-38)
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| *We must have a broken heart and a contrite spirit. (Moroni 6:2-3)
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| ==== Other plain and precious doctrines ====
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| *"By small and simply things are great things brought to pass, and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls" (Alma 37:6, 1 Nephi 16:9)
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| *We are not to perform anything without first praying, that God will consecrate the performance for the welfare of your soul. (2 Nephi 32:9)
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| *The importance of opposition in all things
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| *This life is a probationary state
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| *Men are free to choose liberty and eternal life, or captivity and death
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| *No unclean thing can enter into the kingdom of heaven (1 Nephi 10:21, 1 Nephi 15:34, Alma 7:21, Alma 40:26)
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| *The fruits of pride (3 Nephi 6:10-16)
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| *The only source of inequality of men is due to sin and transgression (Alma 28:13)
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| *The Lord will not give a commandment without preparing a way for us to obey it. (1 Nephi 3:7, 1 Nephi 17:3)
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| *How to understand the things of God (1 Nephi 15:2-4)
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| *The guilty take the truth to be hard (1 Nephi 16:2)
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| *Preparation precedes revelation (1 Nephi 16:23,24,28,29)
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| *The answer to the age-old question 'How can God be a god of love, yet command the Israelites to destroy the Canaanites?' (1 Nephi 17:32-45)
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| *The still, small voice of the Spirit is felt (1 Nephi 17:45)
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| *To profit and learn from the scriptures, we are to 'liken' them unto ourselves (1 Nephi 19:23)
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| *Baptism existed before John the Baptist
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| *Trust not in the arm of flesh
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| *Under what circumstances we are justified in going to war
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| ==== Conclusion ====
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