Book of Mormon Daily Brings Safety from Pornography and Other Addictions

 President Nelson promised Church members that “as you prayerfully study the Book of Mormon every day, you will make better decisions — every day. I promise that as you ponder what you study, the windows of heaven will open and you will receive answers to your own questions and direction for your own life. I promise that as you daily immerse yourself in the Book of Mormon, you can be immunized against the evils of the day, even the gripping plague of pornography and other mind-numbing addictions.”

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Serve a Mission, Prepare for Life

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Elder Holland: "This is the truth. This is God's truth. When everything is said and done, when you've talked about challenges and hopes and dreams and convert parents and less active cousins and hard days with investigators who don't want to join the church. When everything is all said and done, the simple declarative fact of it all is that it's true. Is that Joseph saw the Father and the Son and the Book of Mormon's true and there really were plates and there really are angels and not much else matters. So we're still saying that half a century later. Maybe the Lord's hoping we'll get it right..."

The Book of Mormon as one of Americas Greatest Works of Literature

The Book of Mormon is an intricate work of American literature. Howe states: "True or not, the Book of Mormon is a powerful epic written on a grand scale with a host of characters, a narrative of human strug- gle and conflict, of divine intervention, heroic good and atrocious evil, of prophecy, morality, and law. Its narrative structure is com- plex" (314). Howe's reliance on Bushman is further apparent when he (Howe) admits that, although the Book of Mormon reflects some elements of nineteenth-century culture (like anti-Ma-

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sonry), the book's primary themes are biblical, prophetic, and patriarchal, not democratic or optimistic. Howe concludes: "The Book of Mormon should rank among the great achievements of American literature, but it has never been accorded the status it deserves, since Mormons deny Joseph Smith's authorship, and non-Mormons, dismissing the work as a fraud, have been more likely to ridicule than read it"