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Cold-Dodger
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Date: April 06, 2016 09:03AM
One of the best things you can do is get a copy of "An Insider's View of Mormon Origins" by Grant Palmer. Large sections of the book are specifically highlighting just how elaborately the Book of Mormon drawn upon the exact wording of the King James to prove that it cannot have been composed in any language but English first.
But here's a couple articles that will help you on your way:
http://infidels.org/library/modern/curt_heuvel/bom_kjv.htmlhttp://infidels.org/library/modern/curt_heuvel/bom_bible.htmlAnd one example from Grant Palmer's book: The scene in the book of Alma in which Aamon raises King Lamoni from his sleep steals not only phrases of exact language from the King James but an entire plot line: the raising of the Lazereth by Jesus.
I quote, "The story of jesus raising lazarus from the dead in John 11 arguably serves as a source for Alma 19. Note the common phrases, which I have placed in italics, and the seven common motifs in both stories. In Alma, about 90 B.C., Lamoni and his wife
"SENT and desired that he [Ammon] should come ...and some say .. HE STINKETH ... He is not dead, [Ammon said,] but SLEEPETH ... [and] he SHALL RISE AGAIN ... Ammon SAID UNTO HER: BELIEVEST THOU THIS? AND SHE SAID UNTO HIM ... I BELIEVE ... [And] HE AROSE ... (ALma 19:2, 5, 8-9, 12)
"Lazarus, in about A.D. 33, is dying and his sisters
"SENT unto him ... [Jesus saith,] This sickness is not unto death, ... [for] Lazarus SLEEPETH ... [Then] jesus Saith unto her, Thy brother SHALL RISE AGAIN ... Jesus SAID UNTO HER ... BELIEVEST THOU THIS? SHE SAITH UNTO HIM, Yea, Lord: I BELIEVE ... [but] by this time HE STINKETH ... [Jesus spoke a]nd he that was dead CAME FORTH ... (John 11:3-4, 11, 23, 26-27, 39, 44)"
That's the end of my quoting Palmer's book, but I want to make one more point. If you watched the Mormon Stories episode with Jeramy Runnells, Jeramy makes a potent point about what he calls Joseph Smith's "modus operandi" –– that is that Joseph would take someone else's material and creatively switch letters around, switch plot points around, and pass it off as his own original work. Watch that interview here:
http://mormonstories.org/jeremy-runnells-and-his-letter-to-a-ces-director/On my mission, I couldn't help but notice that every verse in the Book of Mormon had a "sister" verse or story in the Bible, but I was drinking the koolaid too deeply back then to realize what I was on to. I thought it was part of a divine plan to corroborate the Bible: an example that two similar stories could happen on two different continents to two different peoples who believed in the same God. The truth? One book was an informant for the writer of the other. Who, how, when, where the book of mormon was composed: none of these can be proven perfectly. The main thing to focus on is that there is sufficient proof that the Book of Mormon was composed in the English language first relying heavily on the King James Bible. It is no translation of a lost language called reformed Egyptian and it is no real history of a people who ever existed.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/06/2016 09:06AM by Cold-Dodger.