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- Thu May 02, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Trump and Joseph Smith as King
- Replies: 10
- Views: 383
Re: Trump and Joseph Smith as King
MAGA Mormons need to buy Trump a white horse.
- Wed May 01, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2920
Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
Why go to all of these unprovable theories? Who wrote the Book of Mormon? Joseph Smith.period Because it's interesting to find out where he got his ideas. If God can just wave his magic wand, why ask how something was done? Religion is so much more interesting when one no longer believes in divine ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:32 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Trump and Joseph Smith as King
- Replies: 10
- Views: 383
Re: Trump and Joseph Smith as King
Crowned? Not so much. More like he was nominated and voted on. Here are the minutes from the Council of the Fifty meeting where he was voted in as King. Er Erastus Snow arose to repeat the expression of Er [George J.] Adams the other evening for he feels this to be the happiest moment he ever enjoye...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2920
Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
Weird how the Church tries to hide documents that don't prove Smith made stuff up.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2920
Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
I look at it this way.
We have the Book of Mormon.
It was clearly created in the 19th century in a very specific 19th century milieu.
How exactly that was done is irrelevant to the fact it was a 19th century production.
We have the Book of Mormon.
It was clearly created in the 19th century in a very specific 19th century milieu.
How exactly that was done is irrelevant to the fact it was a 19th century production.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:35 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2920
Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
The last time I expressed my skepticism in these parts regarding the "Dartmouth Connection," I was chided for materializing out of the blue to mock people (in that instance, Randy Bell) and for not keeping an open mind. I thought my emphatic rejection of Nielsen's theory on the other board as "utte...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2920
Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
There is an interesting thread about this going on over at MAD here. With a poster named Zosimus arguing that this Kircher was a well known figure who could have influenced Joseph Smith. (Kirsher was known to John Smith at Dartmouth who taught Hyrum.) Ben McGuire is arguing that Kirsher was not that...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: My Encounter with Kerry Muhlestein online
- Replies: 15
- Views: 799
Re: My Encounter with Kerry Muhlestein online
Robert Ritner has checked his translations and found errors. Nibley mastered Egyptian just like Joseph Smith mastered Hebrew. Ritner just didn't find the errors in Nibley's Egyptian translation of the Hor scroll, he also described Nibley's Egyptian translations as "gibberish". While intended to hig...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: US LDS Attendance numbers.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 324
US LDS Attendance numbers.
An interesting recent poll in the United States using cell phone data showed that only 1 in 345 Americans are weekly attending Mormons. See here . US population is about 342 million which means that about 1 million Americans are weekly attending Mormons. Church statistics show 6,800,000 US members s...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Temple sealings as a solution in search of a problem
- Replies: 7
- Views: 335
Re: Temple sealings as a solution in search of a problem
Unlike the mafia who will really burn down your house if you don't pay, organized religion offers protection for problems that don't exist.