Posted by:
baura
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Date: July 29, 2016 03:52PM
Wow, the BOM prophesied that the Catholic Church would start
selling indulgences.
One of my "selling points" for the bogusness of the BOM is the
fact that it has so many detailed prophesies--not those vague
ones like the Bible has. It tells Jesus's name centuries
before he's born (both first and last name too: "Jesus
Christ"), it tells Jesus's mother's name--Mary (I don't know
what use this is to people living in the Americas back then) it
talks about Columbus and the revolutionary war. But then for
anything after that it gets vague and conditional. IF they are
righteous then good things will happen, yadda yadda.
But every spot-on prophecy in the BOM is something that Joseph
Smith would have known. Things that weren't common knowledge
in 1830 don't get prophesied--Civil war, WWI, WWII, etc.
There's lots of discussion of religious issues that were "hot"
in JS's time and place. As Alexander Campbell pointed out in
his review of the BOM shortly after it was published:
"This prophet Smith, through his stone spectacles, wrote on the
plates of Nephi, in his book of Mormon, every error and almost
every truth discussed in N. York for the last ten years. He
decides all the great controversies - infant baptism,
ordination, the trinity, regeneration, repentance,
justification, the fall of man, the atonement,
transubstantiation, fasting, penance, church government,
religious experience, the call to the ministry, the general
resurrection, eternal punishment, who may baptize, and even the
question of freemasonry, republican government, and the rights
of man. All these topics are repeatedly alluded to. How much
more benevolent and intelligent this American Apostle, than
were the holy twelve, and Paul to assist them!!! He prophesied
of all these topics, and of the apostacy, and infallibly
decided, by his authority, every question. How easy to prophecy
of the past or of the present time!!"
--Alexander Campbell, "The Millenial Harbinger" 7 Feb. 1831
http://www.lds-mormon.com/campbell.shtmlNotable for their absence in the list are the great "moral
issues" (according to the Morg) of our day: abortion and
homosexuality--the BOM doesn't mention them.