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Plain and Precious Book of Mormon doctrines
Plain and Precious Book of Mormon Doctrines
Criticism
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.
Response
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.