Why Does The Book Of Moroni Resemble The Didache?

[consiglieri]

Perusing the Didache again this morning at 3:00, and it being the end of the year when we are approaching the last books of the Book of Mormon in gospel doctrine class has led me to see certain resemblances between the Book of Moroni and the Didache.

Moroni, like the Didache, seems to be a manual for the church; both give high priority to describing the manner of performing the blessings on the eucharist, covering the precise words to be used in blessing both the wine and the bread.

Both also deal with the subject of baptism in practical terms.

The first part of the Didache is an extended discourse on the subject of the Two Ways, delineating which path leads to God and which path away from God.

Similarly, Moroni 7 contains an extended discourse on how to judge between good and evil, which is continued in the first part of Moroni 10.

The Didache ends abruptly with a statement regarding Jesus coming in the clouds of heaven. Moroni offers an interesting twist, ending with a proclamation by Moroni that he himself shall be brought forth through the air.

The similarities are palpable, I think.

Is this just coincidence?

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

[DispensatorMysteriorum]

Perusing the Didache again this morning at 3:00, and it being the end of the year when we are approaching the last books of the Book of Mormon in gospel doctrine class has led me to see certain resemblances between the Book of Moroni and the Didache.

Moroni, like the Didache, seems to be a manual for the church; both give high priority to describing the manner of performing the blessings on the eucharist, covering the precise words to be used in blessing both the wine and the bread.

Both also deal with the subject of baptism in practical terms.

The first part of the Didache is an extended discourse on the subject of the Two Ways, delineating which path leads to God and which path away from God.

Similarly, Moroni 7 contains an extended discourse on how to judge between good and evil, which is continued in the first part of Moroni 10.

The Didache ends abruptly with a statement regarding Jesus coming in the clouds of heaven. Moroni offers an interesting twist, ending with a proclamation by Moroni that he himself shall be brought forth through the air.

The similarities are palpable, I think.

Is this just coincidence?

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

I'm pretty sure the Didache was another book in Joe Smith's barn.

[emeliza]

That is pretty neat. From what I read the Didache was re-found again in 1873 and was assumed to be dated by most scholars to the late first/early second century.

[LifeOnaPlate]

Interestingly, Brant G. noticed some similarities as well.

http://frontpage2000.nmia.com/~nahualli/LD.../Moronichap.htm

[Mark Beesley]

I do not know what coincidence you are seeing. It appears to have been written by someone who had some instruction in some points of the gospel, but it is also apparent that the author was on the road to apostasy. The alternative form of baptism by sprinkling finds no comparison in the writings of Moroni.