It might be well to consider the time period in which the destruction is described in the Book of Mormon. Eastern seaboard doesn’t seem to fit very well. Here’s a good place to start:huckelberry wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 5:34 pmMG, I do not quite see why you are asking about volcanic activity. I read in the Book of Mormon about destruction from tempest storm lightning fires earthquakes, a city sinking into the sea and another being buried. I do not see volcanoes. As physics guy mentioned the darkness does not fit a Volcano. Believe me I was in the darkness created by Mt St Helens. It was very dark but did not prevent fire or sources of light.MG 2.0 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 4:34 pm
The volcanic/tectonic activity described in the Book of Mormon could not have occurred on the eastern seaboard. If Joseph used Delmarva geography to create his ‘fiction’ he sure blew it by inserting the cataclysmic narrative that doesn’t COME CLOSE to fitting in with reality. It’s funny, at times folks want to make Joseph out to be a genius (aware of and having read every book being published at his time) and at other times a country bumpkin who was fumbling around neither making heads or tails of reality.
The fact that these chapters/verses ARE in the Book of Mormon acts as another witness that Joseph wasn’t the author. It’s a red flag, of sorts. To say that he inserted these chapters/verses into the Book of Mormon “for effect” is just silly. If he had concocted a false Delmarva geography and then inserted such a wild and unrealistic narrative of earthquakes and volcanic activity he would be shooting himself in the foot.
You’re saying he was THAT dumb?
C’mon.
Regards,
MG
I suppose you might project the idea of volcano because there are volcanoes in the area you prefer to see the books events taking place. I think the destruction described could have happened on the US eastern seaboard as likely or unlikely as most anyplace else.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/vie ... ntext=jbms
https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/ ... -34th-year
Regards,
MG