BYU Prof John L Lund Stealing Artifacts - What Happened?
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_Daheshist
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Re: BYU Prof John L Lund Stealing Artifacts - What Happened?
I believe John L. Lund was threatened with a Church Court for embarassing the Church in the Media, so he resigned and became a Baha'i.
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_Joey
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Re: BYU Prof John L Lund Stealing Artifacts - What Happened?
It would not surprise me in the least if he just walk on the bail/bond he posted and decided to never go back to Israel and face charges. The cost of defense and publicity to the Church are most likely driving his decision. I suspect his hands are not clean and he concluded a $7500 bond was a cheap price to pay. He never goes back to Israel but can do his tour schtick elsewhere. He just has to stay out of the artifact trade.
"It's not so much that FARMS scholarship in the area Book of Mormon historicity is "rejected' by the secular academic community as it is they are "ignored". [Daniel Peterson, May, 2004]
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_harmony
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Re: BYU Prof John L Lund Stealing Artifacts - What Happened?
Joey wrote:It would not surprise me in the least if he just walk on the bail/bond he posted and decided to never go back to Israel and face charges. The cost of defense and publicity to the Church are most likely driving his decision. I suspect his hands are not clean and he concluded a $7500 bond was a cheap price to pay. He never goes back to Israel but can do his tour schtick elsewhere. He just has to stay out of the artifact trade.
Makes me wonder who paid his bail, if he's worried about publicity to the church.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
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_Joey
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Re: BYU Prof John L Lund Stealing Artifacts - What Happened?
harmony wrote:Joey wrote:It would not surprise me in the least if he just walk on the bail/bond he posted and decided to never go back to Israel and face charges. The cost of defense and publicity to the Church are most likely driving his decision. I suspect his hands are not clean and he concluded a $7500 bond was a cheap price to pay. He never goes back to Israel but can do his tour schtick elsewhere. He just has to stay out of the artifact trade.
Makes me wonder who paid his bail, if he's worried about publicity to the church.
I'm sure he got help from contacts at BYU Jerusalem.
"It's not so much that FARMS scholarship in the area Book of Mormon historicity is "rejected' by the secular academic community as it is they are "ignored". [Daniel Peterson, May, 2004]