Returning him back to his mother to be nursed until he reached an older age, he was then adopted by the Pharaoh's daughter.19 As he grew older and began to understand that the Hebrews were his people, he killed an Egyptian man who was hitting a Hebrew.20 Out of fear of dying under the Pharaohs hand, Moses ran away. ...
Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mormon. ... Many people who had become exposed to Smith's revelations had questioned it, as it was all too conveniently parallel to the day in age which they lived (Marty, pages 198-201). ...
In the 16th century, and the beginning of what we consider to be the modern age (1492), three great Muslim empires were established: Ottoman empire in Asia Minor, which wielded substantial world power until after World War I; Safavid Empire in Iran (the major Shiite nation); and the Moghul empire on the Indian subcontinent. ... The people of these societies believed that the golden age was in the past, that the next generation might be likely to have less than the current one, and education should be focused not on new inventions and moving forward, but hanging on to what now exists. ...
