{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc10_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc10_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc10_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mor/dc/dc10.htm","summary":"This is a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) revelatory text, recorded as a divine communication to Joseph Smith in 1828 following the loss of 116 manuscript pages \u2014 translated Book of Mormon content that Martin Harris borrowed and lost. The revelation addresses a specific crisis: Smith is warned that his opponents have deliberately altered the lost pages in order to expose a contradiction if he retranslates them, a trap the text attributes directly to Satan's orchestration. God's solution is to instruct Smith to translate instead from the plates of Nephi, a separate but overlapping source covering the same period, which will render the altered pages irrelevant and confound the scheme. The text makes the distinctive claim that this apparent disaster was foreknown and providentially prepared for \u2014 the plates of Nephi were engraved precisely so this backup record would exist. The latter half broadens into ecclesiology and universalism, asserting that the Book of Mormon's gospel was intended for all nations and ethnicities, including the Lamanites and \"other nations\" who might possess the American continent, and closing with a definition of Christ's church as simply whoever repents and comes to him. The revelation is notable for its strategic theological reframing of a potential fraud scandal as divine wisdom outmaneuvering deception.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 10. Revelation to Joseph Smith, Harmony, Pennsylvania, summer of 1828.","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","translated_text":null,"word_count":2024}