American Testament: The Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible and is a record of God's dealings with His chosen people in the New World. The main purpose of the Book of Mormon is "to the convincing of Jew and Gentile that JESUS is the CHRIST, the ETERNAL GOD, manifesting himself unto all nations." (Book of Mormon Title Page) It was written by ancient American prophets for our day (Mormon 8:35) and is an American testament of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Improvements at American Testament

You may have noticed some changes to the American Testament blog. For one, we're experimenting with Google's AdSense to display LDS-relevant advertisements under each post. One hundred percent of the monetary proceeds of people clicking on these ads will go toward funding improvements for LuckyHill Orphanage near Accra, Ghana. So, spread the word! :)

If you see an ad that seems out of place for the theme of the blog, please bear with me. I'm trying to tweak which sites are allowed to display their ads here. Needless to say, if you see ads selling "Discounts on LDS Garments!", chances are you're not going to find what you're looking for there. That's because so many advertisers target keywords and just slap them together with their boilerplate ad text on the off chance that you're looking for an item to buy described by that keyword.

We've also added a custom search engine to further enhance the value of the site. It's the search box on the top right of the page. With this search engine, you can simultaneously search the multiple LDS Web sites for content. This helps people who want to do research into the LDS Church and doctrinal topics, but don't want to be exposed to anti-Mormon propaganda, salacious rumors, adult web sites, and incomplete or outright deceptive "research". Here are the sites (in no particular order of importance) the search currently covers.

fair-lds.org
maxwellinstitute.com
mormon.org
lds.org
ldscatalog.com
deseretbook.com
americantestament.blogspot.com

If you wish to see others included, please provide a URL in the comments.

2 comments:

AnonymousMarch 29, 2009 at 2:57 PM
The blog looks great Rob. I'm a big fan. By the way, how is Steve? I see he hasn't posted in a while, and I haven't seen him on MADB for a long time.

Thanks.

James (Lehi's Library)
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AmericanTestament.comApril 5, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Thanks, James! We love fans! Steve is rather occupied with school, methinks. I just got back from preparing for and taking a vacation, so I'm getting back into the swing of things. I'm really looking to continue blogging chapter-by-chapter to help expose the world to what the BoM actually says vs. what they think it says. I've also got some original research I've been brewing up, but it's going to take more time to get my hands around a tight thesis for those articles. One involves what the Title of the Lords of Totonicapan describes as "Glorious Package", which some take to mean the Liahona or other artifacts brought with Lehi and passed down. Last year, I got some clues into some other fascinating possibilities that I want to explore.
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