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Source: Religion News Service
By Kimberly Winston
(RNS) — In a nail-biting, down-to-the-wire bidding war, a version of a book that can be had for free in many hotel room drawers was sold this week at auction for $80,000.
A first edition of the Book of Mormon, the founding text of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was auctioned by EBTH, an online auction house. The starting bid was $1, but the final 15 minutes of the weeklong auction were punctuated by rapidly rising bids in mostly $500 increments.
While not a record for a first-edition Book of Mormon — that was set at $180,000 in 2007 — it is almost double the price for another first-edition Book of Mormon sold in 2014 and significantly higher than another sold for $52,500 in 2016.
The first edition, printed in 1830, is most precious to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because Joseph Smith, the faith’s founder, personally oversaw its production in a small storefront printer’s shop in Palmyra, N.Y. Thousands of Mormons visit a restored version of the shop in Palmyra each year.
Appraising another first edition of the Book of Mormon for “Antiques Roadshow” in 2013, rare book specialist Ken Sanders said, “It isn’t technically the rarest of the editions of the Book of Mormon, but for LDS people, it’s the one that everyone knows and understands and wants.”
Last year, the Community of Christ, which traces its roots to Smith, sold the printer’s manuscript of the first edition of the Book of Mormon to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for $35 million, the highest price ever paid for a religious manuscript.
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What I am so impressed with Mormon faith is that the one of the qualification to be elected as a leader must a successful entreprenuer.
A leader should a role model of success. Second he should has a good faith on Mormon’s faith.
It seems to me that Mormon follow our prophet Muhammad how to earn money for living. Prophet Muhammad as was a good example, a successful entreprenuer at his time, but unfortunately most Islamic clerics neglect the sunnah of prophet.
As a reasult we see most Muslim’s clerics live in poverty as well his followers. Very sad and embarrassing.
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I wouldn’t be impressed. I live in Utah, Mormon Mecca. False religion created by a murderous criminal, Joseph Smith. Mormon faith is a joke. Islam the only true religion!
Told that Islam us the only true religion!!
Ok, which Islam is the one true religion?
Allah say: All followers of prophet Ibrahhim are Islam
All prophets were Islam from Adam to Muhammad pbuh. Q.22:78.
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