What LDS specific beliefs are in the Book of Mormon?

[_zzyzx]

Well bs-space cadet. I have read the Book of Mormon and agree with Mark Twain: chloroform in print. Have sat through Book of Mormon classes in Sunday School for too many years. Seminary and BYU as well.
One can read the Book of Mormon and learn nothing about LDS, Inc. at all, or very little. Few of the major teachings of The Church, Joseph Smith or even the latest iteration of 'mouthpiece for the Lard' are in the Book of Mormon. Now the Book of Abraham does tell us some juicy stuff about blacks... but that is being denied these days.
While we are on it how come Moroni, Nephi, the Three Nephites and even Jesus himself never got to be PRESIDENT of anything? We never hear of President Adam, President David or President Solomon. Could it be Joseph Smith invented the office, kind of like the Ray Stevens song Shriners Convention, but Joseph thought President was a bigger deal than 'illustrious Potentate'? though Joseph did have himself crowned King of the Universe by the Council of Fifty, didn't' he?

Back to Book of Mormon and its relation to LDS, Inc. Nephites were white. Lamanites were cursed with a skin of blackness to be 'loathsome' to the 'white and delightsome' folk. Jesus came to the new world and taught The Lords Prayer, but not the same version as Joseph wrote in the 'inspired version' as well as telling the parable of the fig tree, even though the inhabitants had been out of Jerusalem so darned long I doubt any of them knew what a fig was.
What actual LDS doctrine does the book teach? Not much that can't be found in many other religions, is there?

[_Jason Bourne]

I assume you mean what specific beliefs are in the Book of Mormon that are unique to LDS? If you don't meant that well then there are tons of things in the Book of Mormon that represent what LDS believe. But here are a few off the top of my head that seem unique to LDS.

1: The LDS View of the fall as a necessity in 2 Nephi 2.
2: The doctrine that there is a branch of the House of Israel in the Americas.
3: No need for infant baptism
4: The calling of High Priests after the order of Melchizedek in I believe Alma 13-I am doing his off the top of my hear.
5: The doctrine that Jesus, and by default the Father, is embodied even as a spirit as seen in the Ether chapters 2-4 or somewhere there about.
6: Sexual Sin being next to murder from the story of Alma scolding his son for leaving a mission and sleeping with a prostitute in I believe around Alma 34-38 or there about.
7: I believe the Book of Mormon clarifies moral agency as well as preached strongly against any Calvinist dogma.
8: That the New Jerusalem is to be in the Americas.



Well there are a few quick ones.

[_Gadianton Plumber]

1: The LDS View of the fall as a necessity in 2 Nephi 2.

This is not unique to LDS. It was also a Cambellite teaching. Also present in other denominations at other times.

2: The doctrine that there is a branch of the House of Israel in the Americas.

Was excluded in the OP. However, the location of the lost tribes of Israel have been a point of speculation in European civilization for over a thousand years. Many writers as early as the late Roman period suggested they existed overseas on a mythical island to the west. Later, others just assumed that the Indians were part of the House. See Bushman.

3: No need for infant baptism

Not unique to LDS. This is one of the main tenets of the Anabaptists and modern Baptists.

4: The calling of High Priests after the order of Melchizedek in I believe Alma 13-I am doing his off the top of my hear.

If the text says "Melchizedek" then you are correct. If it says "high" or "higher" it does not describe anything unique to Mormonism. Or Judaism.

5: The doctrine that Jesus, and by default the Father, is embodied even as a spirit as seen in the Ether chapters 2-4 or somewhere there about.

I don't know enough to say one way or the other. Maybe?

6: Sexual Sin being next to murder from the story of Alma scolding his son for leaving a mission and sleeping with a prostitute in I believe around Alma 34-38 or there about.

Come on. Read the Old Testament.

7: I believe the Book of Mormon clarifies moral agency as well as preached strongly against any Calvinist dogma.

Mormonism is not the only denomination to reject Calvinism or preach moral agency.

8: That the New Jerusalem is to be in the Americas.

Almost universally applied by other denominations in the Americas. From the Puritans to the Utopian socialists of the 19th century. You would be shocked to see how many project were called just that.

So, perhaps the idea that Jesus existed as spirit before coming down as the Christ?