Historicity of The Book of Mormon

[Blueintheface]

Then who's Robin?

Charles Darwin

[Donuthole]

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Here is the bottom line. If the Book of Mormon is true, then Joseph Smith was a prophet. If Joseph Smith was a prophet, then the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the same Church that Christ established while He was on the earth. It’s as simple as that. So the question of all questions deals with the truthfulness of Book of Mormon. All of the other things that come up are only worth talking about if the Book of Mormon is true which is why I can’t figure out why so many people spend so much time criticizing all of the other aspects or doctrines of the Church.

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If you’re ever having doubts about the restoration or about Joseph Smith, just read the Book of Mormon and ask your self these 11 questions:

1. Could an uneducated boy come up with 531 pages of ancient scripture on his own that was historically accurate and prophetic in nature?
2. Would it be possible for that boy to understand and include ancient Hebrew literary writing styles such as idioms and Chiasmus, some of which weren’t even discovered until long after Joseph Smith was gone ?
3. How would Joseph Smith have been able to know so much about the Middle East, especially the Arabian Peninsula where Lehi and his family traveled? The book includes findings in that region that no one had discovered yet.
4. How could Joseph Smith come up with roughly 200 new names in the Book of Mormon and then have them turn out to be Semitic in nature?
5. If you think Joseph Smith couldn’t have written this book, then where did it come from? If one says the devil put him up to it…then why would Satan want to publish another testament of Jesus Christ and a book that does nothing but promote righteousness. Jesus said that a house divided against itself would fall.
6. Who were the “other sheep” that would hear Jesus’s voice in John 10:16?
7. Why are there volumes of books written by non-LDS authors stating that Christ came and visited the America’s a couple thousand years ago just like it says in 3rd Nephi? (See Example “He Walked The America’s”) How would Joseph Smith have known this when at the time no one even considered it?
8. If we have the stick of Judah (record of the Jews or the Bible), then where is the stick of Joseph that is referenced in Ezekiel 37:15-20? The Book of Mormon is the only explanation for this scripture. Lehi was a descendant of Joseph. Think Joseph Smith could have gotten that right by sheer chance?
9. How could there be so many witnesses of the Book of Mormon and the plates and not one of them deny their testimony even when some of them became bitter toward Joseph Smith? With so many people involved…a hoax of this magnitude could never go uncovered.
10. How could the Book of Mormon never contradict itself while being an extremely complex book? After all these years…someone would have found something…but no.

http://www.gregtrimble.com/so-you-th...on-is-a-fraud/

[Northwestcoug]

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http://www.gregtrimble.com/so-you-th...on-is-a-fraud/

The mic has been dropped.

[Pheidippides]

The mic has been dropped.

Geez, can everybody just stop clicking on this Trimble guy's stuff? He's a troll searching for Web clicks. Never mind that this was ripped of from Nibley in the 1960s and has more holes in it than swiss cheese.

The funny thing is that I see articles like this (and this one in particular) trotted out on Facebook with a tag like, "OMG! Look at the crazy shit the TBMs are tossing on Facebook all over the place." But the only place I ever see it is from the exmos. Maybe my TBM friends are just bad (er, good) at social media.

[Blueintheface]

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http://www.gregtrimble.com/so-you-th...on-is-a-fraud/

I thought it ended in May.

[jay santos]

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http://www.gregtrimble.com/so-you-th...on-is-a-fraud/

I'm interested in #7. Does he offer any detail on this?

[TripletDaddy]

The mic has been dropped.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

I'm interested in #7. Does he offer any detail on this?

He provided you a link of a "volume." What more detail do you want?

He Walked In America.jpg

[creekster]

He provided you a link of a "volume." What more detail do you want?

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It surprises me there are only about 15,830 books more popular than this one on amazon.

[Donuthole]

Historicity of The Book of Mormon

I only believe in science! Nevermind.

[TripletDaddy]

Worst thread bump ever.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Worst thread bump ever.

I don't get it either.

[CardiacCoug]

DH had linked this -- maybe then figured out it is old?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...eria-genetics/

[Dwight Schr-ute]

DH had linked this -- maybe then figured out it is old?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...eria-genetics/

Cut Donut some slack. He's new to science.

[Donuthole]

DH had linked this -- maybe then figured out it is old?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...eria-genetics/

Yep. I'm surprised it was an old link, since the guy who posted it on FB is usually all over anything scientific that could possibly prove the veracity of the BOM. FWIW, he is also the first one to emphasize the importance of faith whenever anything scientific contradicts the veracity of the BOM.