Posted by:
randyj
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Date: July 05, 2016 04:40PM
One of my TBM relatives "liked" a FB post by a Mormon guy named Tarik David LaCour. Since that "like" alerted me to the page, I commented on it. LaCour's post was a criticism of a John Dehlin podcast in which he had commented on some statements by apostle Russell Nelson re: the historicity of the BOM. My response:
Just a comment on Russell Nelson's statement re: the Book of Mormon: "It is not a record of all former inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, but only of particular groups of people.” Actually, according to LDS Church doctrine, the BOM is the history of the *first* inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere. LDS doctrine holds that the Noachic flood circa 4500 YBP was literal and global, and that every human on earth was drowned except for those aboard Noah's ark. The ark landed in the Middle East (presumable Mount Ararat in Turkey), and the human race was repopulated from there. Shortly thereafter came the scattering at the Tower of Babel, which led to the Jaredites emigrating to the western hemisphere. Therefore, the Jaredites had to be the first human inhabitants in the western hemisphere after the flood. Any emigrants from Asia had to arrive in the Americas after the Jaredites, circa 4000 YBP. So, DNA research should show that the first inhabitants of the western hemisphere would have been Semites from the Middle East. For more info, see
https://www.lds.org/.../the-flood-and-the-tower-of-babel...
End quote. I took care to only recite orthodox LDS church doctrine and writings. Now I'll see if my post gets deleted or if some Mopologist responds with "Maybe the flood wasn't really global," as Jeff Lindsay did years ago.