Oh my.
Well, that’s pretty much how I sum of the hemispheric model! It’s truly a stretch of the imagination and you can forget about time & space within any degree of reality because that model has none. Zilch! It’s hard to believe that early readers of the Book of Mormon fell for the idea and allowed it to gain traction in light of what the text actually says. It’s the text that counts! Like I told Vogel earlier, it doesn’t matter what Smith said after the fact. I don’t care if he preached the Panama-Neck and planned to canonize it in the D&C. It simply would have served to be another lie and would have set off a lot of BS meters later on.