From Richard Packham's website. The word "Mormon" The word 'mormo' or 'mormon' can be found in any dictionary of classical Greek. It means "scarecrow, bugbear, ghost, demon." Apparently someone who knew some Greek tried to make something of this, and Joseph Smith responded with a "letter to the editor": Editor of the Times and Season
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He has more than two piercings.
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It seems to me that they we'd all said after the Spaulding idea had been thought. Why should we believe them?
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What reasons do we have to believe that the Spaulding witnesses are credible?
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What reasons do we have to believe that the Spaulding Witnesses are reliable?
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I just got back from seeing it and I assure you that it was AWESOME.
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You what m8? Is Nibley dumb?
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No I'm talking about something completely different.
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And why is that theory more plausible to you?
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Skeptic'a annotated Bible is good. Skeptics annotated BofM is not so much. They left so much out. I wish a real Mormon Critic would annotate the Book of Mormon.
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What an interesting response. I don't see the problem with writing stories in a way that keeps you coming back. It's better than what the Book of Mormon did.
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Or better yet, come up with a time personal revelation has "helped" you.
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The topic is on personal revelation. Any ideas on what I can talk about?
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Not to mention he obviously takes everything the apologists say as fact. The monetary system screams of complete bullshit to me.
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The Book of Mormon explains a monetary system that happens to not only be closely related to the ancient Egyptian one, but that also constitutes the most efficient money system the world has ever known. (This one is also pretty darn cool) Stay tuned for more details. According to who? Apologists? Of course they claim stuff like this. It's easy to draw connections between different systems a
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Like, a deep feeling in the heart of pain that you thought would never go away. Kinda like your whole reality being torn from you.
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It was built by a small ordinary family of Jews.
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The idea that the Indians thought a white male would come to them was already known in Joseph's time. It was speculated that they meant the Apositle Paul or Jesus himself.
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Paraguay isn't even anywhere near where Mormon scholars say this happened. LDSliving is probably the most crackpot of all the crackpot Mormon websites.
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Well this is certainly a new one. This approach is very interesting though, thanks for the links.
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And good and hilarious summary of this debate can be seen here. http://m.imgur.com/a/yZcP9
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Godel Escher Bach. Search it up and find out if it's the type of book that would interest you.
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Wikipedia is a bias source since all of the Mormon articles are rewritten by FAIR
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Actually, Google might not be his friend in his case. When you try and search up Isiah all that pops up are several apologetic websites.
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Wait, what? Explain please.
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How is it like that?
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Weirdest response I've ever seen.
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http://publications.mi.byu.edu/publications/jbms/18/1/S00004-5074648ca9094McGuire.pdf What is your opinion on this writing. Has anyone refuted it already? I'm not very good at research.
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What is the pre exilic source of the David and Goliath narrative?
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Can I have sources on this?
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