19. Do You Believe That America is Already the New Jerusalem or Will Some Group Build One in Independence Missouri?

a. We do believe the government of the United States of America, with its inspired constitution at its core, IS the New Jerusalem, and that it fulfills every prophecy foretold. What Mormon's fail to realize is that the New Jerusalem would be built upon "The Promised Land" of the Book of Mormon, which they on all accounts believe is somewhere near Mexico. Therefore, they should be looking forward to building, moving, and living in a New Jerusalem in Mexico not Independence, Missouri.

b. Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union in Albany, New York, was the forerunner to our Constitution, and was a joint effort by the Colonists and the Iroquois Nation - the current inhabitants of The Promised Land, thus fulfilling all Book of Mormon prophecies concerning a New Jerusalem to be built jointly by the Gentiles and the Lamanites. Indian treaties still exist between the two nations.

For more details see The Geography Of

20. With America Under Threat By Non-Christian Nations, How Important Do You Feel This Information Is?

a. We believe the Bible to be the word of God and we believe the Book of Mormon substantiates it, that Jesus is the Christ, the very Son of God, that he died and rose again the third day and now lives, that he is the Savior appointed by God for all of mankind, and no one can approach the throne of God unless they respect His choice. All Christians should therefore support this work and cling to this book - the Handbook for the Promised Land - the New Jerusalem, the tool by which God would subdue all nations for the Second Coming of our Lord, the rightful ruler of all.

b. To this end we pledge our support and encourage all Book of Mormon believers to study these materials and take them back to their own congregations and use them to make a difference where they are.

21. Is Book of Mormon Christian Having an Impact on the Mormon Church?

Yes. They changed their Gospel Principles manual to be more in line with the teachings of the Book of Mormon and less like the teachings of Joseph Smith.

22. Is Book of Mormon Christian Justified In Its Evolved Position?

Yes. In the words of B.H. Roberts:

And let me here say a word in relation to new discoveries in our knowledge of the Book of Mormon, and for matter of that in relation to all subjects connected with the work of the Lord in the earth. We need not follow our researches in any spirit of fear and trembling. We desire only to ascertain the truth; nothing but the truth will endure; and the ascertainment of the truth and the proclamation of the truth in any given case, or upon any subject, will do no harm to the work of the Lord which is itself truth.

 

Nor need we be surprised if now and then we find our predecessors, many of whom bear honored names and deserve our respect and gratitude for what they achieved in making clear the truth, as they conceived it to be — we need not be surprised if we sometimes find them mistaken in their conceptions and deductions; just as the generations who succeed us in unfolding in a larger way some of the yet unlearned truths of the Gospel, will find that we have had some misconceptions and made some wrong deductions in our day and time.

 

The book of knowledge is never a sealed book. It is never "completed and forever closed;" rather it is an eternally open book, in which one may go on constantly discovering new truths and modifying our knowledge of old ones.

 

The generation which preceded us did not exhaust by their knowledge all the truth, so that nothing was left for us in its unfolding; no, not even in respect of the Book of Mormon; any more than we shall exhaust all discovery in relation to that book and leave nothing for the generation following us to develop. All which is submitted, especially to the membership of the Church, that they may be prepared to find and receive new truths both in the Book of Mormon itself and about it; and that they may also rejoice in the fact that knowledge of truth is inexhaustible, and will forever go on developing. (B. H. Roberts, New Witnesses for God, 3 vols. [Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1909], 3: 503 - 504.)