Funny verses in the Book of Mormon

Post by **_Blixa** » Fri May 18, 2007 2:59 pm

Wait...that kind of rambling is actually characteristic of a coke rant, now that I think about it...Cocaine Cowboys of Mesoamerica?

Post by **_The Nehor** » Fri May 18, 2007 3:00 pm

Blixa wrote:Wait...that kind of rambling is actually characteristic of a coke rant, now that I think about it...Cocaine Cowboys of Mesoamerica?

They must have left that out of the animated cartoon I watched as a kid.

Post by **_SatanWasSetUp** » Fri May 18, 2007 3:44 pm

Interesting the difference in the way apologists and critics think. Over on the MAD board, these verses are faith promoting and help prove the Book of Mormon true. I see them as evidence against it's truthfulness.

Post by **_Who Knows** » Fri May 18, 2007 3:47 pm

SatanWasSetUp wrote:Interesting the difference in the way apologists and critics think. Over on the MAD board, these verses are faith promoting and help prove the Book of Mormon true. I see them as evidence against it's truthfulness.

Yeah, I don't know how you CAN'T see some guy (Joseph Smith) rambling on and on, screwing up here and there, correcting himself - but not wanting his scribe to know that he 'screwed up'.

baffling.

Post by **_Who Knows** » Fri May 18, 2007 3:49 pm

Satan - I just noticed your first sig-line. Holy cow, that is priceless. Where did you get that?

Talk about irony... rotflmao.

Post by **_Dr. Shades** » Fri May 18, 2007 3:51 pm

The Nehor wrote:In some languages those tangents would take one or two characters. The issue is that English is wordy.

In which languages would those tangents only take one or two characters, The Nehor?

Back to the topic, here's a classic:

Ether 2:17:
And they were built after a manner that they were exceedingly tight, even that they would hold water like unto a dish; and the bottom thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the sides thereof were tight like unto a dish; and the ends thereof were peaked; and the top thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the length thereof was the length of a tree; and the door thereof, when it was shut, was tight like unto a dish.

When Oliver Cowdery wrote that down, he probably thought Joseph was feeling tight like unto a dish.

And now, for something EXTREMELY bizarre: The "tight like unto a dish" guy

Post by **_SatanWasSetUp** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:01 pm

Who Knows wrote:Satan - I just noticed your first sig-line. Holy cow, that is priceless. Where did you get that?

Talk about irony... rotflmao.

GBH said that during conference last month. He criticized Christians for the Nicean Creed, and said he doesn't understand it. Then he expressed his gratitude that LDS don't have to rely on man-made statements about deity because their knowledge comes from Joseph Smith. It was classic. It's on lots of Christian blogs.

Post by **_Runtu** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:04 pm

SatanWasSetUp wrote:GBH said that during conference last month. He criticized Christians for the Nicean Creed, and said he doesn't understand it. Then he expressed his gratitude that LDS don't have to rely on man-made statements about deity because their knowledge comes from Joseph Smith. It was classic. It's on lots of Christian blogs.

Yeah, I remember hearing that. Absolutely brilliant. Way to go, Gordon!

Post by **_Who Knows** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:07 pm

Dr. Shades wrote:And now, for something EXTREMELY bizarre: The "tight like unto a dish" guy

That dude is freaky. Funny, but freaky.

TIGHT LIKE UNTO A DISH - BITCH!

Post by **_SatanWasSetUp** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:09 pm

Here's another one of my favorites.

4 Nephi 1:6

And thus did the thirty and eighth year pass away, and also the thirty and ninth, and forty and first, and the forty and second, yea, even until forty and nine years had passed away, and also the fifty and first, and the fifty and second; yea, and even until fifty and nine years had passed away.

I'm trying to picture a guy engraving all this on a gold plate when he could just as easily abridge it to say "And thus did fifty and nine years pass away." Mormon was supposedly an abridger, right?