Alexander Campbell

Alexander Campbell, a religious reformer of the American Restoration movement, observed the modern nature of the Book of Mormon in 1832. Campbell said: “This prophet Smith, through his stone spectacles, wrote on the plates of Nephi, in his Book of Mormon, every error and almost every truth discussed in New York for the last ten years. He [Smith] decides all the great controversies- infant baptism, ordination, the trinity, regeneration, repentance, justification, the fall of man, the atonement, transubstantiation, fasting, penance, church government, religious experience, the call to the ministry, the general resurrection, eternal punishment, who may baptize, and even the question of freemasonry, republican government, and the rights of man. All these topics are repeatedly alluded to in the Book of Mormon.” ~Alexander Campbell, 1832