The Book of Mormon clarifies ambiguities and fills in
gaps in the Bible with regard to a number of key doctrinal issues such as the
restoration of Israel (1 Ne. 22; 2 Ne. 10; 3 Ne. 16; 20-21); the fall and the
atonement (2 Ne. 2; Mosiah 3); the resurrection and judgment (2 Ne. 9; Alma 12;
34; 40-41); the purpose of the law of Moses (2 Ne. 25; Mosiah 12-13; 3 Ne. 15);
church regulation (Mosiah 26; 3 Ne. 18); the nature of faith (Alma 32; Ether
12; Moron. 7); the reconciliation of God’s justice and mercy (Alma 42); and
proper procedures and liturgical wording for baptism, the Eucharistic, and
ordination (3 Ne. 11; Moro. 2-6; 8). Strikingly, several Nephite prophets
insist that God’s covenants with Israel will remain in force even after the establishment
of the Christian Church (1 Ne. 19:13-16; 2 Ne. 29:5; 3 Ne. 29; Moro. 10:31),
and that salvation for Gentiles will come as they are adopted into the house of
Israel. (Grant Hardy, “How the Book of Mormon Responds
to the Bible,” in The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, ed.
Taylor G. Petrey, Cory Crawford, and Eric A. Eliason [Salt Lake City: The University
of Utah Press, 2023], 147-48)
