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  • Mary Siever
    Unless you are including the eleven other individuals close to Joseph Smith who testified they saw the original documents (i.e. the golden plates), not that I know of. Without having the original documents, I'm not sure how anyone would be able to verify it.
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  • Mister IT has a Liahona equipped COAT
    If you define "independent sources" as experts external to the LDS Church. The answers are as follows: BOOK OF MORMON = No. [Note: the only remaining original manuscripts are tighly held in LDS Church Archives and only available for review to faithful and loyal LDS Scholars http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/book_of_mormon/manuscripts.html] DOCTRINE & COVENANTS = No. [However, how would one "verify" a book of revelations and declarations anyhow? You can really only "verify" the credible of the person giving the revelations and declarations and external opinions vary in the case of Joseph Smith, Jr.] PEARL OF GREAT PRICE: * Introductory Note = No. * Selections from the Book of Moses = No. * The Book of Abraham = Discredited by Independent Sources. * Joseph Smith - Matthew = No. * Joseph Smith - History = No. [However, some passages have been challenged by Independent Sources as containing assertions not supported by the Historical Record.] * The Articles of Faith = Not applicable. Articles of Faith can neither be verified nor discredited, they just are.
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  • Moongrim
    No. Cause there is NOTHING absolutely NOTHING to indicate the plates even existed, let alone was an authentic account of the history of the early americas. No jewish genetic traits, no temple, no "Reformed Egyptian" writing anywhere else whatsoever.
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  • Anonymous
    Independent sources? Verify? Do you understand what scripture is? The Book of Mormon, like the Bible, is something that ultimately has to be taken on faith because archaeology and history will always find the texts themselves objectively lacking.
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  • SanityClause
    Do require similar verification of the bible?
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