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Work #417

The Book of Mormon

Joseph Smith (translated, on his own account, from golden plates inscribed by ancient American prophets and revealed by the angel Moroni; on the academic-historical account, composed by Smith between 1828 and 1830)
1827–1830 (translated/dictated); 1830 (first published, Palmyra, New York) · English (Smith's dictated translation, on his account, from "reformed Egyptian")
Scriptural narrative (purported ancient American religious-historical record) · Restorationist Christianity / Latter-day Saint movement

The restored scripture of the ancient American peoples — proof of continuing revelation and the Restoration of the original Church

Attribute Fingerprint

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Attribute The Book of Mormon
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Mediated
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method Confessional
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

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Time

The Book of Mormon

Linear restoration time; the dispensation of the fullness of times.

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Space

The Book of Mormon

Substantival created cosmos with multiple inhabited worlds (LDS cosmology).

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Matter

The Book of Mormon

Substantival — Smith held that all spirit is also matter, of a finer kind.

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Observer

The Book of Mormon

Plural embodied (and eternally embodied) observers. Personal metaphysical agency.

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Energy

The Book of Mormon

Standard substantival physics within an embodied-deity cosmology.

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Information

The Book of Mormon

Personal spirit conserved; eternal progression toward exaltation.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

The Book of Mormon

Modern archaeology, linguistics, and genetics have not found evidence for the historical existence of Nephites/Lamanites as the Book of Mormon describes them, and the LDS Church has, since the 1990s, increasingly framed the account as theological narrative rather than literal historical record (the "limited-geography" and "expansive-translation" frameworks). The book's authority within the tradition does not depend on its historical literalness.