The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

[_Lemmie]

:eek: Did mentalgymnast just respond twice in a row to my exact same post? He even quoted the same part twice! Talk about a troll needing attention.

It's that pesky pretzel thingy.

He must have gotten the Mobius strip pretzel, then!

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

So. What have we learned from the thread?

MG doesn't think anything in the Book of Mormon is untrue.

MG realizes Jacob 5 is an anachronism. How he squares that the above is a mystery.

MG learned a lot from other things.

MG thinks an angel did it. Or something.

MG is a hardliner who says he's a centrist because he says it.

MG can spend 20+ pages talking about feelings but can't be bothered to answer direct questions in any sort of detail probably because there's nothing there.

Zerinus know more than anyone because feelings.

Zerinus didn't know Joseph Smith attempted to sell the copyright.

Zerinus can't answer questions without resorting to an insult and a testimony.

Elder Callister has a superficial understanding of the Book of Mormon's production, at best. Most likely he believes the correlated version with some FAIRpologia sprinkled in.

Let me know if I missed anything, and thank you for helping me pass the time while working in the private sector to make other people wealthy.

- Doc

[_Jersey Girl]

MG can spend 20+ pages talking about feelings but can't be bothered to answer direct questions in any sort of detail probably because there's nothing there.

Nailed.

[_mentalgymnast]

Let me know if I missed anything...

Nope. I think that from where you're sitting, that's the way you see it.

I'll let you have the last word here. I know THAT is important to you.

Regards,
MG

[_mentalgymnast]

MG can spend 20+ pages talking about feelings but can't be bothered to answer direct questions in any sort of detail probably because there's nothing there.

Nailed.

Well, of course.

HIgh five.

Regards,
MG

[_Jersey Girl]

Let me know if I missed anything...

Nope. I think that from where you're sitting, that's the way you see it.

I'll let you have the last word here. I know THAT is important to you.

Regards,
MG

I'll let you have the last word but I'll write one more post so you don't.

Insanity.

[_Jersey Girl]

MG can spend 20+ pages talking about feelings but can't be bothered to answer direct questions in any sort of detail probably because there's nothing there.

Nailed.

Well, of course.

HIgh five.

Regards,
MG

You mistake being in agreement for "high five". I've said nearly the same thing about you myself.

You're ridiculous.

[_mentalgymnast]

I'll let you have the last word but I'll write one more post so you don't.

Insanity.

I was referring to the list Doctor CamNC4Me cobbled together and "nailed it". Your words. I'm not going to continue down that road with him. Like I said, from where he sits, that what he thinks. I'm OK with that. I think he is mistaken, but I'm not going to fight him. It's not worth the time. I've already said what I needed to say during this thread and as I've said before, I know what I'm all about. And it's not what he thinks.

This last post of yours is interesting and tells me something about you that I didn't fully realize until now.

I will make no further comment than that.

Regards,
MG

[_Jersey Girl]

This last post of yours is interesting and tells me something about you that I didn't fully realize until now.

I will make no further comment than that.

Regards,
MG

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[_mentalgymnast]

Earlier in the thread I mentioned that I subscribe to some of the ideas that Blake Ostler has put out there.

For those that are interested, here is the publicly available link to his testimony:

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/407/blake-t-ostler

IHAQ believes that if a person subscribes to some of the ideas that Blake proposes in the Expansionist Theory, they are in a state of apostasy against the Church and/or its leaders.

For the record, I don't think that is true, and I don't think it can be shown to be.

As far as I know, folks who subscribe to loose translation theories, tight translation theories, or the expansion theory, or derivative thereof, have not been questioned as to their testimony and/or support of the mission/message/doctrine of the church or the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.

Let's see if we can now 'round off' this thread and close it...having steered it back to some semblance of a 'sane' conversation having to do with the original OP.

Regards,
MG