Trent Horn argues that demonic influence imitating divinity may be the source of the Book of Mormon.
Trent Horn, transcript of "The Incredible Shrinking Book of Mormon" Counsel of Trent, catholicanswers.org, accessed July 10, 2025
For Mormon apologists, this ends up being the refuge of last resort. Perhaps there is no natural way the Book of Mormon could have been written on a small number of golden plates. Maybe God performed a miracle. Maybe God helped the ancient authors write possibly small letters. Maybe God inspired them to write in a language that can’t naturally exist. Or maybe God just gave all of this information to Joseph Smith by divine revelation. But this still doesn’t solve the problem because that revelation could be superhuman but not divine. It could be demonic rather than inspired. Now, one might ask though, why would Satan inspire all of this to cause people to become wholesome Mormons? Well, you can be wholesome and still have a false religion. The Amish are very wholesome people, but Mormons and Catholics agree they have a false religion. Catholics just say the same thing about Mormonism.
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But sometimes miracle may be taken in a wide sense for whatever exceeds the human power and experience. And thus demons can work miracles. That is things which rouse man’s astonishment by reason of their being beyond his power and outside his sphere of knowledge. For even a man by doing what is beyond the power and knowledge of another leads him to marvel at what he has done so that in a way he seems to that man to have worked a miracle. It is to be noted however, that although these works of demons which appear marvelous to us are not real miracles, there’s sometimes nevertheless something real. We have good reason to believe that Jesus Christ was and is the God man, and that means we can trust what Jesus Christ taught, including his teaching, that the gates of hell would not prevail against the church. Mormons believe the gates of hell did prevail, however, in an event called the Great Apostasy, which is why Joseph Smith had to restore the church that Jesus founded in the 1830s. And to a certain extent, Protestants believed this visible, authoritative church defected in some way. But if Catholicism is true, then both of these groups are wrong, and this includes Mormonism claim that God had to reestablish his church through Joseph Smith’s impossible translation of the Book of Mormon. So I hope this was all helpful for you and I hope that you have a very blessed day.