Is the Book of Mormon true? Yes.

*I’m following an extremely short post with an extremely long one. I don’t expect most people (or anyone) to read all my notes and information at the end, but I’m still posting it to illustrate how seriously I’ve looked into this. Don’t ever doubt if I take this seriously.

**I was asked to share my testimony of the Book of Mormon with high school students. This is what I wrote.

I recently read in a Doctrine and Covenants commentary a quote from George Q. Cannon, relating a time that Parley P. Pratt preached to the early saints of the restoration. George Q Cannon stated:

“[Parley P. Pratt] brought forth from the prophesies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and other prophets, abundant proofs concerning the work which the Lord had established through His servant Joseph. A great many of the Latter-day Saints were surprised that there were so many evidences existing in the Bible concerning this work. The Church had then been organized some five months, but the members had never heard from the Elders these proofs and evidences which existed in the Bible.”

That commentary added:

“Studying the Scriptures without the guidance of the Spirit does not reveal their true meaning to us. But if we have the Spirit, we shall not fall into error, even if we are not great Bible scholars.”

I have good and bad news for you young people. At this point in your life you’ve heard it said countless times that you’re a choice generation. You are! I state it unequivocally and with as much force as I can muster. YOU ARE A CHOICE GENERATION. Sent here by your Heavenly Father for THIS MOMENT. Look around you. How many are in this room? How many compared to the countless young people you associate with at school? You are God’s choicest soldiers. His chosen. Never doubt it.

With this honor comes a great responsibility. You can no longer plead ignorance as the saints of 1830, not knowing the truth that exists out there. You have all the information of the world literally at your fingertips. If you use your mobile phones and the internet to play Candy Crush and scroll through Instagram, you waste a great power. One day you will stand before God and you will report. At that time you can say, “I didn’t know.” And He will reply, “You didn’t look. I put you on that earth with a responsibility and all the power of information to find everything you could seek. You didn’t look.”

It is out there for you to find the “proof” you need to know the Book of Mormon is true. There are countless resources: books, the internet, commentaries, podcasts. These things can be used to confirm in your mind and soul, without a shadow of a doubt, that the Book of Mormon is true, that this is Christ’s Church, that this is His work. You must find it. You cannot plead ignorance. You have been chosen for an extraordinarily significant purpose. Don’t ever doubt it. If you ever wonder why you’re here or what you’re meant to do, I don’t know. But God does. And I assure you, because you’re in this room right now, at early morning seminary, studying the word of God, that you’re on this earth for something powerful, significant, and important. NEVER FORGET IT.

Now, finding the proof in the Book of Mormon is not easy. It’s not something you discover casually. I’ve studied the Book of Mormon alongside commentaries every single day since I came back to church 8 and a half years ago. I know I’m just scratching the surface of all the proof that exists out there that the Book of Mormon is true. Find a reason to study the Book of Mormon that excites you and it will make your study so much easier and rewarding. For me, this passion project of finding “proofs” of the Book of Mormon started with a friend who could not accept that the Book of Mormon is true because of a lack of evidence. I believe I’ve found sufficient “proof” that the Book of Mormon is true. But you need to find that for yourself.

I’ll provide a list of reading materials, talks, podcasts, and people to get you started. Just know, my list isn’t close to all that is out there to prove to you that the Book of Mormon is true. I hope the list I provide overwhelms you. It should! The evidence that the Book of Mormon is true is out there, it is irrefutable, it is overwhelming. You just have to see it.

I say this next part not to brag but to show an example. It is possible to use the power at your fingertips for good. You don’t need to spend so much (or any) time on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.

My sister sent this to me the other day:

I replied with this:

I replied that I only use my phone at this point to reply to texts, take notes, and study the scriptures. This brings me joy. I hope it can bring the same to you.

Now I must apologize to you. You can no longer walk blindly and ignorantly through the world wondering if the Book of Mormon is true. You have the tools, you know how to use them. It is up to you now to find your own proof and confirm your testimony so that when someone asks you if the Book of Mormon is true, you can reply without hesitation that you know it is.

I leave this, my testimony of the Book of Mormon, with you, in the name of Jesus Christ.

This list is from LeGrand Richards’s book Just to Illustrate.

The Bible is the Lord’s Blueprint. Any church that is God’s church should fit God’s blueprint. The below is a list of biblical scriptures that fit “God’s Church Blueprint”. Other churches have no explanation or guesses about the meaning of these scriptures. We know.

John 10:16 (other sheep I have)

1 Corinthians 15:29 (baptism for the dead)

1 Peter 3:18-20 (Christ preaches to spirits in prison)

Revelations 4:1 and 14:6-7 (angel with Gospel preached to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people)

Acts 3:19-21 (Christ to come after the restitution of all things)

Daniel 2:27-28, 34-35, 44 (is there a church that claims it is God’s kingdom on the earth?)

Malachi 3:1 (messenger sent to prepare the way for Christ’s second coming)

Amos 3:7 (God reveals nothing except to His prophets)

Malachi 4:5-6 (Send Elijah lest the earth be smitten with a curse)

Isaiah 2:2-3 (In the last days, Lord’s house in the tops of the mountains)

Luke 24:25 (are we slow of heart to believe what the prophets have spoken?)

Ezekiel 37:15-20 (Stick of Joseph, verse 18 wilt thou tell us what the Bible means?  Answer – verse 19)

My own Added:

Matthew 12:25 (House divided amongst itself)

Ezekiel 37:21-22 (where else is this gathering taking place but the Church of Jesus Christ?)

Isaiah 24:5 (changed ordinances, broken the everlasting covenant, what is the everlasting covenant?)

Ephesians 4:5 (one faith, one Lord, one baptism)

Acts 8:15-17 (laying on of hands)

Jer. 1:5, Job 38:4,7, Acts 17:29, John 9:2, 2 Pet. 2:4, Jude 1:6, Rev. 12:7-9 (pre existence)

Why are these promises in the Bible if they are not a part of God’s blueprint and if He does not intend for them to be fulfilled?

The Bible is the Lord’s blueprint, and it will fit no other church in the world.

Proofs of the Book of Mormon:

The below lists coincide with this link (When I wrote this in 2022 this first list was 139 items long, in the past two years it has grown to the current 306 and is still growing) –

A Cultural Commentary

1. Nephi 4:28 hebraism from before 
2. Nephi 10:7 first note, Zacharias murder, supportive texts discovered after Joseph Smith’s death. 
3. Nephi 10:10 Lamb of God, writings of Joseph of Egypt that Lehi took from Jerusalem 
4. Nephi 10:18 chiasmus
5. Nephi 11:6-7 Son of God
6. Nephi 12:4 thunderings: Book of rolls 
7. Nephi 12:20-21 population 
8. Nephi 13:26-28 all about truths removed from bible. 
9. Nephi 15:28
10. Nephi 16:10 curious – Semitic 
11. Nephi 16:13 hebraism 
12. Nephi 16:20 murmur exceedingly 
13. Nephi 16:21 hebraism 
14. Nephi 16:23 bow and sling. How would joseph smith know those details? 
15. Nephi 17:1 Joseph ridiculed for 100 years about this route 
16. Nephi 17:5 Nephi’s Journey (Aston theory)
17. Nephi 17:5 Irreantum-Egyptian, how could joseph smith know that word?
18. Nephi 18:9 lack of adverbs
19. Nephi 18:13 geography 
20. Nephi 18:23 promised land
21. Nephi 18:25 words for corn/wheat 
22. Nephi 20/21 Isaiah translation 
23. Nephi 20/21 Isaiah – chiasmus- Bible deletions
24. Nephi 20/21 Isaiah – authenticity
25. Nephi 20/21 use of Isaiah in joseph smith’s day 
26. Nephi 21:1 portion added to Isaiah by “Joseph Smith” is perfect chiasmus 
27. Nephi 22:31 Egyptian closing 
28. 2 Nephi 2:4 perfect doctrine of the fall 
29. 2 Nephi 2:15 inverted quotations 
30. 2 Nephi 2:17 Satan 
31. 2 Nephi chapter 3 heading – chiasmus
32. 2 Nephi 3:12 sticks of Judah and joseph 
33. 2 Nephi 3:12 fruit of thy loins
34. 2 Nephi 3:14 PROPHESIES OF A FUTURE JOSEPH
35. 2 Nephi 3:15 Messiah ben Joseph
36. 2 Nephi 3:15 meaning of Hyrum 
37. 2 Nephi 3:15 pretty much every note for that verse (9 notes)
38. 2 Nephi 3:17 historicity of spokesman for Moses in Genesis and BoM and Jewish tradition
39. 2 Nephi 4:10 and it came to pass
40. 2 Nephi 4:11 cultural inheritance consistent with bible and ancient israel 
41. 2 Nephi 4:16 Nephi’s psalm, chiasmus, Hebrew literature 
42. 2 Nephi 5:15 and conjunctions Hebraisms 
43. 2 Nephi 5:16 why are there temples in America after same pattern to Jerusalem?
44. 2 Nephi 6:4 linguistics 
45. 2 Nephi 8:15 variations of Isaiah translation 
46. 2 Nephi 8:20 Ephraim and Manasseh importance explained 
47. 2 Nephi 9:2 doctrines taught in chapter 9
48. 2 Nephi 9:7 “atonement” New Testament vs Book of Mormon 
49. 2 Nephi 9:40 unique use of word by author (Jacob) 
50. 2 Nephi 12 (heading) Isaiah plagiarized? Modern language 
51. 2 Nephi 12:2 missing phrase and upon all the ships of the sea 
52. 2 Nephi 12:20 HE hath made
53. 2 Nephi 13:12 and my people (translation correction) 
54. 2 Nephi 13:14 And (translation correction – send to Zach)
55. 2 Nephi 12:16 footnote for “sea”
56. 2 Nephi 15:5 I will – Septuagint 
57. 2 Nephi 20:29 Ramath, more ancient spelling 
58. 2 Nephi 23:3 mistranslation of Isaiah in kjv
59. Page 60 and 61 of “temple worship” book- parallels of current temple rituals and ancient rituals that Joseph Smith knew nothing about. 
60. 2 Nephi 24:4 Isaiah not found in KJV but in codex Alexandrinus
61. 2 Nephi 25:19 name of Jesus and Mary used in ancient records 
62. 2 Nephi 27:1-5 chiasmus (note on verse 1)
63. 2 Nephi 27-2 Book of Mormon consistent with Syriac texts 
64. 2 Nephi 27:15 the Anthon transcript 
65. 2 Nephi 27:32 BoM consistent with Syriac and Septuagint 
66. 2 Nephi 28:10 note – blood types in americas 
67. 2 Nephi 29:3 note -“teachings of joseph smith” on the Bible and why we need BoM
68. 2 Nephi 29:3 adding to the Bible 
69. 2 Nephi 29:6 incompleteness of the Bible 
70. 2 Nephi 29:12 Hebrew poetic device 
71. 2 Nephi 29:13 books of scripture 
72. 2 Nephi 33:9 Polysyndeton- repetitive use of and (no punctuation in Hebrew) 
73. Jacob 2:2 different voices of BoM
74. Jacob 4:1 engraving on metal plates 
75. Jacob 5:1 olive tree allegory proof of BoM note 
76. Jacob 5 section heading: note “Horticulure – Joseph Smith knowledge of and proof of BoM”
77. Jacob 5:3 Joseph Smith use of the word vineyard 
78. Jacob 5:16 Hebrew syntax
79. Jacob 7:20 Hebrew idiom
80. Jacob 7:27 all three notes on adieu 
81. Enos 1 and and and vav-consecutive 
82. Enos 14 intricacies and subtleties in reference to Jacob and Esau
83. Jarom 1:7 fortifications 
84. Jarom 1:8 preposition repeated hebraism 
85. Omni 1:1 different writing styles 
86. Omni 1:8 Hebrew name 
87. Omni 1:12 Mosiah 
88. Omni 1:15 how did Joseph Smith come up with Mulek (note on this verse) 
89. Pretty much all of notes in Omni chapter. 
90. Omni 1:18 note about the potential royal and priestly lineage of Mulek, son of King Zedekiah. 
91. Words of Mormon heading 
92. Words of Mormon 1:5 why Isaiah in the BoM
93. Words of Mormon 1:17 stiffneckedness 
94. Mosiah 1:1 absence of colophons (different voices for an abridged record vs first person account). 
95. Mosiah 1:2 and it came to pass – Maya 
96. Mosiah 1:2 He had…He called…He caused (third person account) note – new voices in translation / no errors. 
97. Mosiah 2 chapter heading. Multiple notes on the chapter heading. 
98. Mosiah 2:7 tower more correct translation (note from Matthew roper) 
99. Mosiah 3:1-3 chiasmus (note on verse 1) 
100. Mosiah 3:18-19 chiasm 
101. Mosiah 4:16 parallels between jubilee celebration and king Benjamin’s Speech 
102. Mosiah 5:10-12 first chiasmus found in BoM (this is a good note and proof of BoM) 
103. Mosiah 5:11 God’s name spoken 7 and 3 times for a total of 10, just like ancient Israel. 
104. Mosiah 7:9 scribe for King Limhi
105. Mosiah 7:17 8 features of covenant tradition 
106. Mosiah 7:21 language structure 
107. Mosiah 7:26 minor proof of the BoM. Good point about how difficult to keep things straight. 
108. Mosiah 10:20 slew slaughter Hebraic phrase 
109. Mosiah 11:25 tradition of fasting while covered in ash 
110. Mosiah 12:1 prophesies fulfilled, keeping track 
111. Mosiah 12:3 Dead Sea scrolls, Hugh Nibley, need to look at this one closer. 
112. Mosiah 15:7 crucified 
113. Mosiah 15:7 cross in Americas
114. Mosiah 15:20-23 chiasmus 
115. Mosiah 17:2 Alma 
116. Mosiah 20:19 Semitic device 
117. Mosiah 21:2 how did Joseph Smith incorporate those voices seamlessly? 
118. Mosiah 23:31 Hebrew poetry word pairs 
119. Mosiah 25:2 Ezekiel prophesy fulfilled 
120. Mosiah 26:39 Semitic language 
121. Mosiah 29:7 plot, keeping track of everything, see also 28:9
122. Alma 1:1 Hebraism 
123. Alma 1:2 Arabic idiom judgement-seat
124. Alma 1:29 Hebrew writing form polysyndeton
125. Alma 1:29 flocks and herds consistent with Old Testament 
126. Alma 2:1 another Hebrew literary device hal-clause
127. Alma 2:15 river Sidon – how did joseph know the name Sidon?
128. Alma 2:20 tents 
129. Alma 2:22 meaning of names 
130. Alma 2:37 hermounts – what a coincidence! This is a good one. 
131. Alma 3:1 Epanalepsis, writing styles of BoM authors
132. Alma 3:13 mark of red, another Hebraism 
133. Alma 3:26 Semitic repeating of number 
134. Alma 5 superscription. Pretty amazing joseph smith kept this all straight. 
135. Alma 5:7 behold
136. Alma 5:9 soul expands – works better in Hebrew than English 
137. Alma 5:9 song of redeeming love, old world temple rite 
138. Alma 11:15 barley 
139. Alma 36:9 Semitic language
140. Alma 5:19 more inverted quotations (Seidel’s law, see 2 Nephi 2:15)
141. Alma 5:26 amazing joseph smith kept these voices and phrases from time periods straight. 
142. Alma 5:28 Semitic idiom 
143. Alma 5:37 Semitic expressions 
144. Alma 5:40 antithetical parallelism
145. Alma 7:10 land of Jerusalem 
146. Alma 7:11 pains and sickness more accurate translation  
147. Alma 8:6 how did Joseph  Smith know maya place names ended in “ha”/“hah”?  
148. Alma 8:7 bountiful and desolation connection to Hebrew 
149. Alma 8:7 custom in mesoamerica to name after kings who first settled
150. Alma 8:13 additional “and” additional proof of BoM authenticity
151. Alma 8:18 it came to pass (same as 2 Nephi 4:10)
152. Alma 9:19 having…having…
153. Alma 11:15 barley 
154. Alma 10:11 women wives Hebraism 
155. Alma 10:20 singular for plural 
156. Alma 11:4 perfect monetary system 
157. Alma 11:5 monetary system with ties to ancient civilizations 
158. Alma 11:13 how did joseph smith know onti was a unit of value in Egyptian? 
159. Alma 11:15 how did joseph smith know that Egypt measured in barley before the world knew? 
160. Alma 11:16 Hebrew word 
161. Alma 11:43 limb and joint
162. Alma 12:11 different voices 
163. Alma 13:9 chiasm 
164. Alma 13:25 “would to God” how did Joseph Smith know that meant it wouldn’t happen? 
165. Alma 14:8 fire Epistrophe
166. Alma 15:17 altar – deliverance 
167. Alma 16:5 Aha – warrior in Egyptian 
168. Alma 17:14 precious stones 
169. Alma 18:9 horses (multiple notes) 
170. Alma 18:9 wheels (multiple notes) 
171. Alma 18:13 Rabbanah Aramaic, melek Hebrew, good thing joseph smith knew that. 
172. Alma 18:18 Hebrew idiom 
173. Alma 22:31 Desolation and Bountiful 
174. Alma 23:1 epanalepsis Hebrew writing device
175. Alma 23:7 double negative Hebrew authorship 
176. Alma 25:1 prisoners of war needed to establish a new king – consistent with maya rituals
177. Alma 27:15 compound subject proper Hebrew 
178. Alma 27:22 Jershon = Semitic to inherit 
179. Alma 29:9 authorship 
180. Alma 30:51 Put Forth His Hand – different phrases by different authors
181. Alma 31:7 Helaman Egyptian name 
182. Alma 31:7 Shiblon and Corianton Hebrew and Arabic 
183. Alma 31:21 rameamptom Semitic
184. Alma 32:8 Semitic idiom 
185. All of Alma chapter 32 on faith. An unlearned farm kid wrote this? 
186. Alma 33:13 writings of Zenos discovered in 1906
187. Alma 34:8 voice of Alma 
188. Alma 34:10 A great and last sacrifice, voice of Amulek
189. Alma 35:13 Joseph Smith returning to things previously mentioned during dictation 
190. Alma 35:16 Passover father talk to sons Old Testament tradition
191. Alma chapter 36 odds of chiasmus being random
192. Alma 36:9 Semitic language
193. Alma 36:22 exact quote of Lehi 
194. Alma 37:5 Proof of brass/bronze existing from 6th century BC
195. Alma 37:23 Gazalem and Liahona Egyptian and Hebrew meanings 
196. Alma 37:23 Onyx or chocolate colored seer stone tribe of Joseph in ancient Israel 
197. Alma 37:37 ancient Hebrew poetic form, known as merismus
198. Alma 37:37 Liahona – very good Hebrew
199. Alma 39:3 Isabel – Lack of Baal names – Jaredite
200. Alma 39:9 cross yourself – John Gee, awkward English 
201. Alma 41:13-15 Hebrew parallelistic writing 
202. Alma 43:21 armor terms in BoM differ from those used in bible. 
203. Alma 43:26 voice of Moroni, land in quarters 
204. Alma 45:19 mistranslation of Bible about Moses translation, Joseph would have had to keep track of this in his Bible translation. 
205. Alma 46:17 Dead Sea scrolls, land of desolation and land of bountiful before a war
206. Alma 46:29 Hebraisms
207. Alma 46:21 Hugh Nibley – Battle Scroll – proof of BoM
208. Alma 46:22 simile oath 
209. Alma 46:24 coat of the Garden of Eden
210. Alma 46:40 no cold words in BoM 
211. Alma 49:13 proof of fortifications 
212. Alma 51:5 king men, historical correlation with what is happening in Book of Mormon 
213. Alma 51:33 climate in new year 
214. Alma 53:7 seasons of war. Such a tiny detail. But what you’d expect if this is a legitimate record. How amazing that joseph smith considered the seasonality of war in middle America when making up this book… 
215. Alma 54:1 Egyptian 
216. Alma 57:5 Joseph Smith did this timeline stuff off the top of his head?
217. Alma 63:5 Hagoth Mycenaean name 
218. Helaman 1:3 Egyptian and Nephite judge names
219. Helaman 1:3 Paanchi- indisputably Egyptian
220. Helaman 1:9 Kishkumen and Akish tied together in way different parts of the book 
221. All the notes in Helaman 3 (especially verses 4 and 5) about the evidence of vast civilizations in the americas. 
222. Helaman 3:5 deforestation 
223. Helaman 3:5 blood types
224. Helaman 3:7 cement – proof 
225. Helaman 3:7 more on cement + all other notes about cement on this verse 
226. Helaman 3:12 “sea south” changed to “ocean of the peaceful people” (bottom part of that note). 
227. Helaman 3:14 “and” – Semitic language
228. Helaman 3:14 shipping and calendar 
229. Helaman 3:15 undisputed now that Mesoamerican people kept written records. 
230. Helaman 3:36 fifty and second year, Semitic numbering 
231. Helaman 5:39 Semitic names 
232. Helaman 6:8-9 free trade
233. Helaman 6:10 good chiasmus 
234. Helaman 6:10 Mulek, which was after the son of Zedekiah – think about how long it took you to connect reading the scriptures that King Zedekiah of Jerusalem had all his sons killed – and you with all your commentaries and explanations and internet- then think of 24 year old joseph smith putting that together and applying it to a “fiction” he wrote implying that one of the sons got away and was established in the americas but that’s tied in just in a side part of his main “fiction”, a guy who didn’t even know Jerusalem had walls. Insane. 
235. Helaman 6:22-26 good chiasm 
236. Helaman 7:10 chief market, highway, gardens (5 notes in total). 
237. Helaman 8:15 parallelism 
238. Helaman 8:18 Semitic expression 
239. Helaman 11:36 Anabasis staircase parallelism 
240. Helaman 12:13 if and Hebraism 
241. Helaman 13:11 anaphora Hebrew literary device 
242. Helaman 13:33 quote from Enoch text 
243. Helaman 14:25 how did Joseph Smith insert a “missed” prophesy INTO a chiasm? 
244. Helaman 16:22 Hebrew preposition usage 
245. 3 Nephi 1:1 Mexican record mentions age of 600 years
246. 3 Nephi 1:1 both notes about Lachoneus – ch to k and why a Greek name is in BoM
247. 3 Nephi 1:8 Native American legends of the “dawn star” 
248. 3 Nephi 1:13 Olmec-Maya long count calendar correlates with Book of Mormon account
249. 3 Nephi 2:8 birth of Christ same as birth of Quetzalcoatl
250. 3 Nephi 3:9 Giddianhi Egyptian name 
251. 3 Nephi 9 jaredite records references to secret societies that would tie in later 
252. 3 Nephi 3:12 robbers vs thieves distinction 
253. 3 Nephi 3:22 horse bones archaeology 
254. 3 Nephi 4:4 7 years and ancient Israel custom 
255. 3 Nephi 4:7 polysyndeton, religion of and 
256. 3 Nephi 5:10 poetic structure and Mormon and Nephi having similar testimonies 
257. 3 Nephi 8:5 Quetzalcoatl same birthdate as Christ 
258. 3 Nephi 8:11 Great destruction in Mexican history correlates with Book of Mormon
259. 3 Nephi 8:12 Volcano activity 34 A.D.
260. 3 Nephi 8:23 Hebrew idioms 
261.   3 Nephi 9:3 great cities and Book of Mormon parallels to Mesoamerican cities 
262.   3 Nephi 9:5 circular repetitive parallelism Hebraism 
263. 3 Nephi 9:8 volcanic lava covering cities from time of Christ 
264. 3 Nephi 9:10 another and, and, and Hebraism 
265. 3 Nephi 9:10 known ancient city of Lamonai buried
266. 3 Nephi 11:14 Mesoamerica depictions of a god with marks in his hands 
267. 3 Nephi 11:14 Jesus Christ and Quetzalcoatl parallels
268. 3 Nephi 11:14 Parallel names between Christ and god of Mesoamerica
269. 3 Nephi 11:15 Ancient Aztec record, Quetzalcoatl with prints in hands and feet
270. 3 Nephi 11:19-20 another polysyndeton
271. 3 Nephi 11:21 Baptism in ancient Mesoamerica
272. 3 Nephi 11:27 3 Gods in one parallel in Mesoamerica – remarkable
273. 3 Nephi 12:1 Hebraism – conjunctions and parenthesis
274. 3 Nephi 12:6 filled with the Holy Ghost correct 
275. 3 Nephi 12:10 persecuted for my name’s sake closer to Aramaic 
276. 3 Nephi 12:17 likely Paul criticism removed from Book of Mormon 
277. 3 Nephi 12:20 another example of perfectly adjusted text to adjust from an old world audience to a new world audience, how did JS do this off the top of his head? 
278. 3 Nephi 12:21 old world oral law new world written law, amazing thought by JS
279. 3 Nephi 12:22 Book of Mormon matches earliest manuscripts (this is a good one). 
280. 3 Nephi 12:29 further case where sermon at temple seems more like what Christ would have said 
281. 3 Nephi 12:48 temple setting in BOM amplifies sacred covenant concept 
282. 3 Nephi 13:1 another more accurate translation than Bible almsgiving for poor
283. 3 Nephi 15:16-17, 21 Joseph and Judah uniting, Jewish readings 
284. 3 Nephi 18:5 Christ/Quetzalcoatl ordained priests 
285. 3 Nephi 18:6-7 sacrament in the new world 
286. 3 Nephi 18:7 remembrance as a covenant 
287. 3 Nephi 19:4 names in the Book of Mormon don’t use vowels not found in Hebrew
288. 3 Nephi 19:6 Mesoamerican temple dedicated to Father, Son, Holy Ghost, and 12 helpers 
289. 3 Nephi 19:25 more accounts from Mesoamerica that align with BoM record of a white God (Christ) visiting 
290. 3 Nephi 20:1 And = but Hebraism
291. 3 Nephi 20:6-7 ancient records show Quetzalcoatl fed a multitude like BoM 
292. 3 Nephi 20:10 another chiasm 
293. 3 Nephi 20:10 Jesus’ covenant people discourse significance of chiasm
294. 3 Nephi 24:1 Aztec belief in white god and letter from Cortez to Spain 
295. 3 Nephi 24:9 Hebraism
296. 3 Nephi 26:5 joseph smith keeping straight quotes he’d have to make later 
297. 3 Nephi 27:14 specific example of pre Spanish cross 
298. 3 Nephi 27:20 baptism in Americas 
299. 3 Nephi 28:1 “that” Hebraism
300. 3 Nephi 28:23 Aztec names with Hebrew roots 
301. 4 Nephi 1 evidence of religious change around 34 A.D.
302. 4 Nephi 1:5 polysyndeton (repeated ands)
303. 4 Nephi 1:6 annal-like recounting 
304. 4 Nephi 1:17 double negative hebraism 
305. 4 Nephi 1:24 pearls 
306. 4 Nephi 1:26 Teotihuacan pride cycle coincides with BoM timeline 

Defense of Mormon theology:

1. 2 Nephi 29:9 Polytheism, idolatry, and the patriarchs
2. Mosiah 4:6 note premortal life references in bible 
3. Mosiah 4:6 note Ancient texts – Christ in premortality
4. (Godhead)- Mosiah 15:2 note about suzerain and vassal relationship. How Christ is the father and the son. 
5. Mosiah 16:13 grace 
6. Alma 1:4 faith and works 
7. Matthew 21:30 faith and works 

Proof of restoration:

1. 2 Nephi 21:1 “Gentiles, Israel, and the olive tree allegory” note
2. 2 Nephi 21:12 only church to prophesy of the Jews returning to Jerusalem 
3. 2 Nephi 26:4 defense against an example of accused “plagiarism” 
4. Jacob 5:35 apostasy 
5. Mosiah 4:3 baptism (this is a good note explaining importance of baptism) 

Defense of Book of Mormon:

1. 2 Nephi 29:3 Bible anachronism 
2. 2 Nephi 33:4 BoM Christ focused 
3. Enos 1:21 horses 
4. Omni 1:15 DNA
5. Mosiah 2:3 offering sacrifices 
6. Mosiah 3:2 the name of Jesus Christ 
7. Mosiah 9:9 wheat and barley 
8. Mosiah 16:7 quoting Paul (who quoted Hosea) 
9. Mosiah 16:8 pretty much same as above with additions 
10. Alma 2:12 bows 
11. Alma 2:15 Sidon without Tyre (“Sidon – historical” note)
12. Alma 4:6 silks 
13. Alma 4:6 silks and linens 

Kind of:

1. 2 Nephi 24:19 remnant – raiment 
2. Mosiah 2:9 how did joseph smith connect that “this day” was linked to temple worship in Hebrew? 
3. Mosiah 2:28 choirs and kingly coronation 
4. Mosiah 2:28 king farewell (note on about to go down to my grave) 
5. Mosiah 2:30 Similarities between Mosiah coronation and Old Testament coronations 
6. Mosiah 8:15 defense of seer stones, used in ancient Egypt 
7. Mosiah 19:24 peace ceremony 
8. Mosiah 27:29 
9. Mosiah 27:34 how did Joseph smith know Himli could be a Hebrew name? 
10. Mosiah 28:9 keeping track of plot
11. Alma 3:15 “and again” meant to be read aloud, without punctuation in the ancient writing 
12. Alma 3:14 this is kind of complex but I think it adds to the complexity of the lost 116 pages, how could JS plan this? 

These are my own additions of books, talks, podcasts, scriptures, etc. that I’ve found provide particularly strong proofs of the restoration:

Joseph Smith:

1. D&C 135:4 note from Jeffrey R Holland about Joseph Smith and Hyrum BoM testimony unto death. 
2. Hebrews 9:16 
3. D&C 42:64

Old Testament:

1. Isaiah 2:3 why are Zion and Jerusalem different places? We know. 
2. Isaiah 2:16 how did Joseph Smith know about the Greek and Hebrew? (Subscript a)
3. Isaiah 54:16 explanation? This coincidence combined with a 14 year old who likely never read this verse claiming to see God, then writing an extraordinary book, then spawning a worldwide religion. Coincidence? “Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.” 
4. Malachi 2:4 where do other churches believe the covenant of God is today? 
5. Malachi 3:1 what temple do other churches think Christ will come back to?
6. Malachi 3:7 What ordinances do other churches believe they need to return to? 

Books:

1. A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
2. Just to Illustrate 
3. A Case for the Book of Mormon
4. Those Gold Plates – From Those Gold Plates (book by Peterson – the Book of Mormon claimed to be in reformed Egyptian. Many names of people and places in the BoM have roots in Egyptian. How did Joseph Smith do that? Ancient Writing on gold plates has since been found across the globe. Even the cement box Joseph Smith described the plates residing in has been found as an ancient way to store precious items, like records. Page 72- the 29th chapter of Isaiah says the book would come forth before the flourishing of Lebanon, which started to happen in the mid 19th century. 
5. Temple Worship by Andrew C Skinner (item 59 of list above) 
6. 1000 Evidences for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Haven’t read yet) 

Podcasts:

1. LDS Perspectives (especially Episode 6 on DNA)
2. Church History Matters

Talks:

1. What is the blueprint of Christ’s church? By Tad R Callister
2. The profile of a prophet by Hugh B Brown (YouTube video of his talk – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnhPeGI__DY). 
3. “Prophecy of war, prescription of peace” by Matthew S. Holland. Details D&C 87 and Joseph Smith’s prophesy of the civil war. 

People:

1. Hugh Nibley – specifically his “challenge” (jefflindsay.com/BOMchallenge.shtml) 
2. LeGrand Richards

The list of 306 items above have to be compared to the website StepByStep to get the true message. A couple examples are –

1. 2 Nephi 2:15 inverted quotations (https://stepbystep.alancminer.com/a-cultural-commentary/volume-2/2-nephi-2/).

According to David Bokovoy, when the Book of Mormon appeared in 1830, the Western world had only a limited knowledge of the literary techniques utilized by Semitic authors. One such discovery came to light in 1955 when a scholar named Seidel published a study on parallel statements in Psalms and Isaiah. His work prepared the way for further analysis of what has come to be called “inverted quotations” in the Bible, and today scholars refer to such inverted quotations of earlier sources as an example of Seidel’s law. The Bible contains many examples of inverted quotations. Since Bible scholars in Joseph Smith’s day had not yet recognized the existence of Seidel’s law, its attestation in 2 Nephi 2:15 and elsewhere in the Book of Mormon (e.g., Alma 5:19; compare Psalm 24:4) provides additional evidence that the Book of Mormon is an authentic record of ancient origin.

How did Joseph Smith know about inverted quotations?

2. 2 Nephi 4:10 and it came to pass (https://stepbystep.alancminer.com/a-cultural-commentary/volume-2/2-nephi-4/)

Royal Skousen reports that the original text of the Book of Mormon contains expressions which seem inappropriate or improper in some of their uses. For example, in the original text a good many occurrences of the phrase “and it came to pass” are found in inappropriate contexts. In his editing for the 1837 edition, Joseph Smith removed at least 47 of these apparently extraneous uses of this well-worked phrase. In most cases, there were two or more examples of “it came to pass” in close proximity; in some cases, nothing new had “come to pass.” Now the King James phrase “and it came to pass” corresponds to a Hebrew word meaning “and it happened.” When translating the Hebrew Bible, the King James translators avoided translating this Hebrew word whenever it wouldn’t make sense.

English, especially when too many events were “coming to pass” or when nothing had really “come to pass”–in other words, in those very places that the original text of the Book of Mormon “inappropriately” allows “and it came to pass” to occur. Consider the following example (where the deleted phrase “it came to pass that” is in brackets) with a corresponding example from Genesis, given in the original before the King James translators took it out:

2 Nephi 4:10–and it came to pass that when my father had made an end of speaking unto them behold [it came to pass that] he spake unto the sons of Ishmael yea and even all his household (1837).

Genesis 27:30–and it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and [it came to pass that] Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Other Book of Mormon examples of multiple occurrences of “it came to pass” which were edited by Joseph Smith in 1837 are found in Alma 8:18-19 and Alma 14:4-5.

What is important here is to realize that the original text of the Book of Mormon apparently contains expressions that are not characteristic of English at any place or time, in particular neither Joseph Smith’s upstate New York dialect nor the King James Bible. Subsequent editing of the text into standard English has systematically removed these non-English expressions from the text–the very expressions that provide the strongest support for the hypothesis that the Book of Mormon is a literal translation of a non-English text.

How did Joseph Smith know to have multiple “and it came to pass”es in the Book of Mormon when the same pattern had been removed from any Bible? Then, if he originally had these “it came to pass”es, why did he remove them if he did understand their significance?

3. 2 Nephi 3:15 “His name shall be called after me [Joseph] (https://stepbystep.alancminer.com/a-cultural-commentary/volume-3/2-nephi-3/)

Joseph McConkie makes this sidenote:

Having learned of the special meaning associated with the Prophet’s name, I was especially interested when I discovered the following in the patriarchal blessing of the Prophet’s older brother Hyrum. “Behold thou art Hyrum, the Lord hath called thee by that name, and by that name He has blessed thee.” It then dawned on me that Hyrum is also a Hebrew name which means “my brother is exalted.” What more appropriate name could have been given to the man who was destined to go with Joseph to Carthage and seal his testimony with his blood? So the testimony of the Restoration has been sealed on this dispensation with the blood of two prophets who, according to the ancient tradition, bore the right names.

Me – interesting coincidence.

I intentionally didn’t pick the best ones from my list. I took a random sample of three. You’ll have to dig into the list yourself to find the best ones and shore up your own testimony of the Book of Mormon. True faith and real testimony takes effort.

Any one of these may not be enough to say the Book of Mormon is true. But when taken together, all these coincidences, hundreds of evidences, it is true.

I didn’t compile this list in a couple weeks. This has been 8 years of study, a little bit every day, to compile this list. I’m not close to finished. My point is that you can find your own proof. It’s there. Just look for it.

Is the Book of Mormon true? Yes, it is.