Lecture Five of the Lectures on Faith is often brushed aside today as an “early” or “incomplete” attempt to define the Godhead. I think this comes, in part, from the committee that removed the Lectures from the Doctrine and Covenants.…

“Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death, for instance, is not terrible,…But the terror consists in our notion of death that it is terrible. When therefore we are hindered,…

Although no single comprehensive description of the Book of Mormon plates has been preserved, the Prophet Joseph Smith and several people closely associated with him made various statements that include partial descriptions of the plates. When we consider all the sources together, quite a detailed picture emerges of the physical characteristics of the ancient Nephite record.