The Three Nephites: And Other Translated Beings

By Bruce E. Dana

Book Overview

This powerful, interesting book provides answers about the mission, purpose and activities of the Three Nephites. the book also shares well-documented visits with both the Three Nephites and other... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555176879
• ISBN13: 9781555176877
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cedar Fort
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Short and sufficient

Every religious tradition has some revelative beginnings. It can be angels or gods appearing and giving eternal truths. But the revelations don't stop here. They continue thru saints, Mary and thru the richest and most modern expression of Christianity, the Latter Day Saints movements, with more than 150 different groups, originating from the theologian and prophet Joseph Smith Jr. Joseph became a prophet thru the appearances of Jesus and God and he revealed to the 19th century woman and man new scriptures, re-defining many of the traditional dogmas of Christianity: one of them being the only-bible dogma. In the first revealed book, Book of Mormon, and in the coming disserations by the prophet we get to know a new revelative experience, that of the translated beings: men (not one single woman) who are immortalised by the power of god and live on earth or in heaven - awaiting the said second coming of the Christian Messiah. Mr Dana is a believer in the LDS church and has gathered information from the LDS scriptures: Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants (revelation of Jospeh) and other authoritative writing of the church presidents. The translated beings come from both Book of Mormon and the bible, for those not acquainted with neither of these books, I will give some examples. Enoch is a famous one, who lived like some hundreds of years before the mythical great Flood and then was "taken up" to heaven, see the beginning of Genesis in bible. Alma, the St Paul of Book of Mormon, was as prohpet living in 90 BCE somewhere in Central America and preached about Jesus and the gospel. He vanished from earth and is supposed to be translated. Without saying too much about the three Nephites: these were three of the American apostles of Jesus, which begged Jesus to be immortalised. This happened when Jesus visited his American adherent in 34 CE. These and other charactors are among some ten or so that Dana covers in his book even though the three Nephites are the focus of the book. I found it so interesting reading about the state of being translated, what sort of a body does the being have, do you need to eat and what is the purpose of just wandering around and be invisible? It is a pity that the book is a bit correct, it doesn't make any reference to the hundreds of occasions that the three Nephites have been seen. Mr Dana mentions rather those cases that are believed to be authentic by the church and are from the days of Joseph Smith (1830s-40s). It is a short, easy-read book, with rather large fonts, divided in 18 chapters and very informative. I don't believe in this phenomenon but one learns to respect this wonderful tradition which for many LDS believers is a witness to the authenticity of the Book of Mormon and the bible. The BYU unit of Book of Mormons studies, FARMS, has criticised this book for being a copy of another author's work!