America Mormons believe that the U.S. Constitution is the result of divine inspiration. Fundamentalists believe in the related 'White Horse' prophecy. The LDS Church believes that the United States is a unique place; that its adherents are God's chosen people, selected for a singular destiny. The Book of Mormon alludes to the United States as being the Biblical Promised Land, with the Constitution of the United States being divinely inspired, and argues that America is an exceptional nation. In Upstate New York in 1823, Joseph Smith claimed to have had a vision in which the Angel Moroni told him about engraved golden plates buried in a nearby hill. According to Smith, he received subsequent instruction from Moroni and, four years later, excavated the plates and translated them from "reformed Egyptian" into English; the resultant Book of Mormon–so called after an ancient American prophet who, according to Smith, had compiled the text recorded on the golden plates–recounts the history of a tribe of Israelites, led by the prophet Lehi, who migrated from Jerusalem to the Americas in the 7th century BCE. There they multiplied and split into four peoples: Jaredites, Nephites, Lamanites, and Mulekites. The virtuous Nephites, who prospered for a time, were eventually exterminated by the hostile Lamanites. In Mormonism, these Israelite tribes who migrated to the Americas centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ are regarded as the ancestors of pre-Columbian Native Americans.
America Mormons believe that the U.S. Constitution is the result of divine inspiration. Fundamentalists believe in the related 'White Horse' prophecy. Mormon theology teaches that the United States is a unique place; that its adherents are God's chosen people, selected for a singular destiny. The Book of Mormon alludes to the United States as being the Biblical Promised Land, with the Constitution of the United States being divinely inspired, and argues that America is an exceptional nation. In Upstate New York in 1823, Joseph Smith claimed to have had a vision in which the Angel Moroni told him about engraved golden plates buried in a nearby hill. According to Smith, he received subsequent instruction from Moroni and, four years later, excavated the plates and translated them from "reformed Egyptian" into English; the resultant Book of Mormon–so called after an ancient American prophet who, according to Smith, had compiled the text recorded on the golden plates–recounts the history of a tribe of Israelites, led by the prophet Lehi, who migrated from Jerusalem to the Americas in the 7th century BCE. In Mormonism, these Israelite tribes who migrated to the Americas centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ are among the ancestors of pre-Columbian Native Americans.
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