Re: The Artful Dodger tells a whopper!
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 2:51 pm
It drives me batty knowing those grifters knowingly push the Book of Abraham schlock on the one hand while discussing secular history on the other. The Book of Abraham is the silver bullet against Mormonism (as if the Book of Mormon wasn’t). There’s no way around it. An angel shoulda swiped them scrolls while he had the chance.Shulem wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 6:20 pmDaniel C. Peterson, FAIR Mormon Conference, August 8, 2014 wrote:Unas or Wenis, for example, was the last king of the fifth dynasty, around 2300 B.C., and his pyramid still stands at Saqqara, south of modern Cairo.
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The Book of Abraham states that the kings of Egypt were descended from the loins of Ham via Egyptus and Pharaoh, the first king of Egypt. But according to Joseph Smith and biblical chronology, it’s impossible for the last king of the Fifth Dynasty to have built a pyramid at that date (2300 BC) because based on Smith’s timeline, Unis hadn’t yet been born!
Peterson knows this. And yet he (like John Gee) use misinformation to appropriate a false connection between the Book of Abraham and conventional Egyptology. This is a classic example of Mormon apologetic lying. It also goes to show how Mormons will throw Joseph Smith under the bus in order to save his Book of Abraham.
Wikipedia wrote:Unas or Wenis was a pharaoh, the ninth and last ruler of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom. Unas reigned for 15 to 30 years in the mid-24th century BC (circa 2345–2315 BC), succeeding Djedkare Isesi, who might have been his father.
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