Has the church ever decided on an actual location? Zarahemla always seems to be *just* within reach...

It would be really cool if such a lost city actually existed. Oh well, we'll always have Atlantis ;)

Quaker Heights, Cleveland, OH.

Ron

Zarahemla = palmyra

Zarahemla
Some LDS apologists state that according to the BOM, the land of Zarahemla and the land of Cumorah are near enough that travelers from the land of Nephi in the south could confuse the general area of the two. Some interpret LDS scripture to indicate land of Cumorah being in the Finger Lakes region of western New York.

Since it was all made up BS, it never existed.

I typed Zarahemla into Google Earth, just to see where it would take me and I got nothing. So I tried Zarahemla, New York, and it took me to Palmyra. LOL

Zarahemla is a Spanish lds ward in the Montreal area ;)



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It is in the imagination of a man who wanted money and chicks......how unusual that a young man would lie to obtain those things huh?

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, there's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby!

"Are the LDS Prophets revelators or not? Joseph would just ask God and he supposedly got instant answers in most cases. The Prophets are obviously the second worst communicators because should they not just ask God for the tiny revelation of the location of Book of Mormon history? The angel Moroni supposedly told Joseph that it is a history of the people on this continent. Where exactly? Where to look? A small request is it not? Do they not have the ‘power of discernment’?

If the Prophets haven’t asked, why haven’t they? If they have asked who is having the problem communicating, God or the Prophets? Since the Prophets seem to be the only ones authorized to receive this information for the Church it seems they should be doing the asking. They are certainly righteous enough and all the teachings are that they would indeed receive if they would just ask. Is it reasonable to assume that God would withhold the Book of Mormon location information when the angel already said it was history of real people? I believe not."

The silence from prophets, seers and revelators on this subject that inevitably tears families apart, makes them deliberately complicit in the continuing deceit IMO. They know it’s not real. They also know that the world would convert "IF" we could show a shred of verifiable evidence for BOM peoples, yet they remain silent and waste the very powers of the supposed priesthood that they hold the members accountable to.



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All of the make believe lands in the Book of Mormon are inside the heads of the mormons that believe it. They are all made up.

south of Lake Ontario
West of the Genesee River

I would tell you to write to the prophet and ask him, but they don't want to talk to members any more. It's just getting to be too much of a burden to answer doctrinal, geographical, or any other questions. Just pray about it, and pay your tithing. You will get the answer in the next life.

I also think that it's Palmyra. What I feel are the most accurate BoM maps show that. Though imaginary, the BoM was sketched out over the eastern Great Lakes area.

Zarahemla - the city mentioned in the BoM - doesn't exist. But I am pretty sure that the authors of the BoM had a great Mayan city in Mesoamerica in their mind at the time they wrote it.

I've met PhD BYU admins who swear that Zarahemla is Teotihuacan near Mexico City, and the temple complex there is the great Nephite Jesus temple of Zarahemla. Oooohhhh yeeaahhh...