WELL, amazing......
you need to read more than one side of an issue. The validity to the Book Of Abraham is not in what someone said Smith was able or unable to do but the text itself which is now baffling non member scholars as they compare it to recently recovered ancient writings which agree with stupid old JOE Smith who don't know nuttin or is just a big bad fraud. name calling can't change the facts.
What about those young Mormon Missionaries.....up until they go on a mission few have any real in depth knowledge of the church or it's doctrine...but most have a conviction that the church is true which is confirmed by the end of their mission.
they have a specfic set of teachings they persue. The Lord nor the church is sending Bible scholars out to try and convince people by superior intellect of the scriptures thruth. WE teach that everyone has to seek GODS answer whether we teach a true or false docrine. Some questions are asked by people which the missionaries don't know or think they know. Some answer them wrong....the doctrines of the church have not change since the prophet first saw GOD and JESUS CHRIST in the grove of trees near his home in up state NY
Equating the American Indian with the Book Of Mormon Peoples is inaccurate and does not account for a host of other vital details. It is not certain, but it is commonly held by most Mormon scholarship that Lehi and his family landed in Mezoamerica just below Mexico and remained there for the entire saga of their history. Other previous migrations to the Americas are numerous and are not accounted for in the Book...some are.....The American Indian may have some of the blood of Lehi's decendants but that is pure speculation.
J. Smith was not Jesus Christ and never claimed superiority to HIM. He was given a gun after he entered the jail because the govenor who swore to protect him and his brother so a fair trial could conviene, skipped out of town so he could be assasinated. J. Smith was brought before judges and magistrates all of his life and was only convicted once for something equivalent to disturbing the peace..when he was around 18 years old.
QUANTUM IS A GREAT TEACHER he doesn't spell very well though
Edited by - QUANTUM on 11 July 2002 20:32:21
Edited by - QUANTUM on 11 July 2002 20:33:50