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Date: July 11, 2015 10:21PM
1. Could an uneducated boy come up with 531 pages of ancient scripture on his own that was historically accurate and prophetic in nature?
Oliver Cowdery was not uneducated. He was a school teacher and he lived in the same town as Ethan Smith. He would have known about "A View of the Hebrews.
The BM is NOT historically accurate. There is no evidence for it, contrasting it with the abundance of evidence for the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Aztecs, Incas, Olmecs and other ancient civilizations.
It is not prophetic. Nothing "prophesied" has come true since its publication in 1830. It is only "accurate" for things happening before 1830, almost as if the author lived in the early 19th C.
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 ?
He didn't. There is nothing Hebraic about the BM. Chaismuses are a red herring and can easily be found all over literature. They are not unique to Hebraic scripture, and Joseph Smith stole whole passages from the KJV Bible.
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.
He didn't. How did Lehi take his family 200 km from Jerusalem to the Red sea in 4 days on foot? Why did he then send them back to retrieve the brass plates, a 400 KM round trip. There is no Valley that resembles the Valley of Lemuel, nor River of Laman.
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?
How did Shakespeare come up with so many more? What about Tolkien and JK Rowlings? What about GRR Martin?
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.
First of all, there is no devil. He is a myth invented to scare you into submission.
The writing is easy to explain: Per Lucy Smith, JS loved to make up tales about the burial mounds near their home. When he met OC, a school teacher, he learned about a View of the Hebrews. Together, they cobbled together a novel by heavily stealing from a View and the Bible. It's no different than wondering how Harper Lee wrote the much better "To Kill a Mockingbird", and she didn't have to plagiarize.
6. Who were the “other sheep” that would hear Jesus’s voice in John 10:16?
The Romans, or any other culture that would adopt Christianity in the early AD.
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?
I don't know of a single one. Michael Coe thinks the Book of Mormon is utter horseshit historically.
http://mormonstories.org/michael-coe-an-outsiders-view-of-book-of-mormon-archaeology/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?
JS was cribbing from the Bible. That's like me betting on the SB 6 months later.
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.
Because OC and MH were collaborators in writing the BM. Whitmer was the financier. The 8 witnesses were named Whitmer and Smith, with Page being Whitmer's BIL. Not tough to get "witnesses" who are either in on the fraud or close family members.
"I could not feel more satisfied and at rest if the entire Whitmer family had testified." -Mark Twain
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.
Why does the Book of Mormon condemn polygamy? Why does it not mention the Celestial Kingdom? Why is there no Hebrew culture in at all? Where is the Passover?
There are entire websites dedicated to pointing out the holes in the Book of Mormon. Michael Coe, the great Mesoamerican archeologist calls the Book of Mormon unhistorical. Guns, Germs and Steel proves, without ever mentioning it, that the Book of Mormon could have never happened. There has never been any steel found in the New World before Columbus. The Pre-Columbine Americans never used wheeled vehicles, never had beasts of burden other than the llamas. DNA evidence shows that the American Indian is Mongolian descent, not Hebrew. There is no such thing as Reformed Egyptian, and why would exiled Jews write in Egyptian, not Hebrew?
The Book of Mormon is an obvious fraud, and these 10 points are cherry picked, easily refuted and prove nothing other than the desperation to believe.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/11/2015 10:23PM by axeldc.