APTER ONE 
      In 1830 Joseph Smith presented the world with a novel called The Book of Mormon (BkM) that today bears the label of, ‘Another Testament of Jesus Christ’.   In the first printing, he was listed as the author on the title page.(1)   In the second printing Smith changed his claim on the title page from author to translator.  In that printing Smith claimed to have actually translated golden plates upon which twenty-two recorded authors through fifteen separate books followed the lineage and chronicles of a man named Nephi, his father Lehi, and Lehi's descendents.  The BkM is the alleged production from those golden plates.  Was Smith actually the author, or was he the translator of golden plates?
     This book will examine evidence from the Holy Bible and from within the BkM that will show the true author of the BkM must have been Joseph Smith himself.  It will be discovered that not one of the alleged twenty-two authors within the book ever existed.  If they did not exist, they could not have penned the words found in the BkM.  They who have never existed cannot tell the truth!  Who then was Nephi’s author by proxy?
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1 An actual photograph of the original 1830 title page showing Smith’s claim to authorship of The Book of Mormon can be found in a Mormon publication, THE RESTORED CHURCH, Twelfth Edition, C 1961, William Edwin Berrett, (pub. by Deseret Book Company, Deseret News Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1965) p. 40, and also on the web at www.inephi.com/1.htm .

 



CHAPTER TWO
A Picture of Nephi. What’s in the Background?
     Have you ever seen a picture that has obviously been tampered with?  When I was younger, my three brothers and I went hunting and had each of our pictures taken separately with the same four-point buck.  One of my brothers eventually modified the pictures and put them together to form one panoramic view of four brothers in the same location having bagged four four-point bucks.  At a glance the picture looked real enough, but up close under greater scrutiny one could see that each hunter had the same weeds near their knees.  The mountains in the background were similar like a string of paper dolls cut from the same sheet with a few variations.  The four bucks had the same tilt on each tine and looked suspiciously similar except for the different angles in which they lay in the picture.  To the simple eye this was the luckiest day ever for the four brothers, but for the inquisitive eye, the panoramic view was a glaring forgery.
     In 1830 Joseph Smith introduced the world to a young author named Nephi, the alleged author of the books of First & Second Nephi (I & II Nephi) in the BkM.   In our minds we paint a picture of this young man as we read of the challenges and victories he lived through while following God’s lead in a difficult time as he begins to record a family history.   On the surface Nephi appears to be a young man full of faith and desire to obey God, but to see the picture clearly we must step back and view the picture of Nephi with all of its background and then move in close and scrutinize every detail.   Where and when was this picture taken?  Who is standing in the background?  What events are happening or have recently happened that may affect how we view this picture?  Are there any eyewitnesses to the events portrayed here?  All of these questions and more must be considered before we can be sure the picture of Nephi we paint in our minds is not a forgery.
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THE BOOK OF MORMON
An account written by the hand of Mormon upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi...

This Mormon publisher proves by the picture in their book that Joseph Smith claimed to be the author of the original Book of Mormon!
This Mormon publisher proves by the picture in their book that Joseph Smith claimed to be the author of the original Book of Mormon!
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If you three don't get to work I'll pulverize all of you!
If you three don't get to work I'll pulverize all of you!