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Date: July 22, 2011 12:33PM
I've told this before-
When my son, (an avid reader of all things Egyptian) was 11 years old we were sitting in church and he was looking at the facsimiles and kept pointing out that the bald priest was supposed to be Anubis, and the canopic jars were not gods. He pointed to the female Isis and said it could not possibly be the Pharoah standing behind Abraham. He also correctly pointed out that it was a scene where the dead is brought to be judged before Maat.
His words were "Dad, I think the Caldeans got it wrong".
This was happening while we were sitting in Sacrament meeting and a young woman was giving a talk about honesty, and she was quoting some GA and the Gospel Principles manual about how even allowing someone to believe a falsehood is the same as lying. At this point we had already begun visiting other churches...
When we got home I showed him this website to let him know he was correct:
http://www.bookofabraham.com/boamathie/BOA_TOC.htmlLater when he was asked how he felt in sacrament meeting that day he said it was like "a ghost had walked right through me".
Sadly, this event ruined his enthusiasm for egyptian studies.