BrainCleaned: Exactly! Point being all that you believe are old fantasies of our ignorant forefathers!
You have some nerve laughing at JWs when you have a simailar delusion!... and follow a known prankster (to be kind)...
I'm hoping that most people here can tell the Mormons from the Morons.
And you don't have to be kind. I've been reading that stuff for years. People can't debate the theology or historicity of the Book of Mormon and they have to resort to discredited affidavits. Read Hyrum Andrus' book on Joseph Smith. People who knew Smith for years also left affidavits, and they weren't acquaintences like the affidavit signers who besmirched his name, often years later at the behest of known anti-Mormons.
At the time the Book of Mormon came forth, no gold, brass or other metal records had been discovered. Since then, they've been found in Iran, Mesoamerica, the Dead Sea caves and many other places. Smith said he found the plates in a stone box and that they were made of fine gold. A century later, they found these Persian plates of gold in a stone box very much like the one Smith described:
Again, how did Joseph do it? If he was a guesser, then this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Book of Mormon is full of complex Hebraisms like chaimus. In fact, some of the most complex and beautiful chiasms come from the Book of Mormon. In the last decade, we've sent historians, geologists, botanists, ancient scripture experts and archaeologists to Arabia to finally track down Nephi's route as described in the Book of Mormon. Not only were there no dead end wadis, deserts where there should have been water, fruits and grain, Smith was right about every, single direction given, every valley, twist and turn, and it culminated in the perfect spot to build a ship! In fact, there is no way that anyone living in Smith's day outside of Arabia could have even known all this. Plus there are scriptures (Isaiah 29 and Gen. 49) that point specifically towards the Book of Mormon, and Isaiah 11:11 even predicts Smith as the Root of Jesse. Isaiah said he would be an "ensign" to the gentiles and would live at the time the gathering of Judah would commence to Jerusalem. Again, bullseye, bullseye. (See more here.)
So please stick to the thread's topic and if you want to beat up the Mormons, start your own thread.
Oh, and Outlaw. No need to bring up Southpark. The writers got just about everything but the names wrong.
Want to debate it?
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...OUTLAW