iwanttotalk wrote:Since laban was “delivered” it was totes cool that nephi hacked his head off. No sin as he then fled.
If Ted Bundy had an apologetics lawyer he could be preparing for spring break brunch.
Exactly Moshka. It was the legal an ethical code of a bronze age civilization which had nothing like the sophistication we enjoy today.
Solomons wisdom was that he was going to cut a baby in half and it worked because he would have cut a baby in half!
Most scholors view that state of religion as the codification of law and not really religious in nature at all. It was statecraft. Most of the nuance has been lost because we no longer live in that world. Between poor translations and lack of context it has itself become a kind of absurdism if one devoutly follows it today.
It would be like robots in the future worshiping the united states civil code. Now let us recite USCC 1236.96 Amen!
LittleNipper wrote:[...] Good and Evil MUST exist or GOD cannot. [...]
It is quite the rascally nut to crack.
Is God eternal? Is God good, evil, or neither? Can something be good if there is no such thing as evil? If God is good, and He stopped being good, would God still be God? Is goodness an inseparable part of God? How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center? *brain-splode*
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." ~Charles Bukowski
LittleNipper hasn't been around here in a while. Anyway, in my opinion, the biggest problem (anachronism) within the Book of Mormon is the mentioned of many horses.
Enos Chapter 1 21 And it came to pass that the people of Nephi did till the land, and raise all manner of grain, and of fruit, and flocks of herds, and flocks of all manner of cattle of every kind, and goats, and wild goats, and also many horses.
But there weren't many horses on the American Continent around 500 BCE.
North American horses disappeared around 8,000 - 10,000 years ago. Multiple factors including hunting by early Natives, climate change, and disease are thought to have helped contribute to their demise. They disappeared around the same time as other large mammals like Wooly Mammoths.
Horses returned to the Americas thousands of years later, well after domestication of the horse, beginning with Christopher Columbus in 1493. These were Iberian horses first brought to Hispaniola and later to Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, and, in 1538, Florida.[19] The first horses to return to the main continent were 16 specifically identified horses brought by Hernán Cortés in 1519. Subsequent explorers, such as Coronado and De Soto brought ever-larger numbers, some from Spain and others from breeding establishments set up by the Spanish in the Caribbean.[20]