It seems that there are several books that are spotlighted as the origin of the book in question. Among them are The Solomon Spaulding Manuscript titled Manuscript Found! While another is the View of the Hebrews by Ethan Smith. There are many others aside from those featured below (like The History of Mexico, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Westminster Confession, and Wonders of Nature) that I would like to eventually read and make similar comparisons. From the books featured blow, I have carefully pulled out similarities to The Book of Mormon and have set them on display for you to see and decide for yourself if Joseph Smith did indeed plagiarize TheBook of Mormon. 

I wish to say here that I did not chart every single similarity that I found. That would be like me trying to argue that one book is more like Harry Potter than another because the protagonist also wears glasses. It would have to be pointed out that 61% of the population wears glasses! This similarity therefore becomes moot and is no longer worth noting. I ran into many of these “glasses” similarities and pitched them because they were too common. For example: Spaulding’s main character points out his belief in heliocentrism on page 21 [of the linked source] which compares to the same belief stated in The Book of Mormon in Helaman 12:15, and since this theory was embraced between the 1500-1600’s I decided it wasn’t worth pointing out at all (except that I just did). I am therefore only presenting to you those passages that are unique and pose possible questions of debate.