Posted by:
baura
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Date: August 13, 2016 12:48PM
Joseph Smith's big claim was that he could (by the power of
God) translate ancient languages. The BOM and BOA are just two
examples of this claim of his.
We don't have the plates, but we do have much of the papyri
that Joseph Smith "translated" the BOA from. Apologists have
gone to great lengths to muddy the waters on whether the
translation manuscripts are what they obviously are--Joseph
Smith's "translation" of the sen-sen papyrus into the Book of
Abraham.
But I think there is an air-tight case against these apologetic
claims and it's right in the Book of Abraham itself.
Parts of facsimiles 2 and 3 contain Egyptian hieroglyphs that
are identified by Joseph Smith and then their supposed meaning
given by Joseph Smith. No "scribes did it" or "missing scroll"
silliness, just Joseph Smith, himself, telling the world what
text he's interpreting and what it says in English.
Now the interesting point is that every time he does this he
gets it completely, 100% WRONG.
So here's where it stands. Everywhere we can test Joseph
Smith's ability to translate ancient languages he fails
miserably. However, we are supposed to believe him on all the
cases where we can't test him.
Yeah right.
Here's a detailed look at one of Joseph Smith's spectacular
fails:
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1569142,1569142#msg-1569142