Certain essential Mormon doctrines are curiously (and conspicuously) absent from the Book of Mormon. The reason that these absences are significant is because all of these doctrines are connected to "the restored gospel", and yet the Book of Mormon claims to contain the "fulness of the gospel. " Yet these essential Mormon doctrines are entirely absent from the Book of Mormon, and are found only in other subsequent LDS scriptures or writings. Therefore, the Book of Mormon cannot contain the "fulness of the gospel" as it claims.