"Not translations in the usual sense" Book of Abraham Defence.

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"Not translations in the usual sense" Book of Abraham Defence.

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https://www.huarc.org/home/Old Testament/week07

This is n interesting coverage of the Book of Abraham with videos by LDS apologists

With this search for https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/7/7/86
Believing Selves and Cognitive Dissonance: Connecting Individual and Society via “Belief”

How do folks deal with dissonance when confronted with information challenging.?

The Book of Abraham isn’t on the Joseph Smith Papyri.
Egyptologists are wrong.
​Missing papyrus theory.
Somewhere in the missing 87%?
Biblical stories in Egyptian religious texts.
ᴊsᴘ as catalyst for revelation.
D&C 7 & ᴊsᴛ as “translations.”
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Re: "Not translations in the usual sense" Book of Abraham Defence.

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Why don’t Joseph’s explanations match?
Original meanings as Egyptian funerary documents.
Attached to Book of Abraham and given new meanings.
By an ancient Jewish-Egyptian scribe?
By Joseph Smith?
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Steven “Bukake” Smoot has a new book out which explains everything. I wonder if anyone has picked it up yet.
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drumdude wrote:
Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:03 pm
Steven “Bukake” Smoot has a new book out which explains everything. I wonder if anyone has picked it up yet.
I'm sure Robert Boylan will soon have a new GoFundMe page to raise funds so he can purchase a copy.
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drumdude wrote:
Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:03 pm
Steven “Bukake” Smoot has a new book out which explains everything. I wonder if anyone has picked it up yet.
Link?
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Fence Sitter wrote:
Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:14 pm
drumdude wrote:
Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:03 pm
Steven “Bukake” Smoot has a new book out which explains everything. I wonder if anyone has picked it up yet.
Link?


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Re: "Not translations in the usual sense" Book of Abraham Defence.

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Fence Sitter wrote:
Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:14 pm
drumdude wrote:
Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:03 pm
Steven “Bukake” Smoot has a new book out which explains everything. I wonder if anyone has picked it up yet.
Link?
https://www.amazon.com/Pressing-Forward ... B07C85SLMC

The date says 2018 but for some reason he was presenting it at the 2023 fair conference.
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“But if you are told by your leader to do a thing, do it. None of your business whether it is right or wrong.” Heber C. Kimball, 8 Nov. 1857
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Re: "Not translations in the usual sense" Book of Abraham Defence.

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Here's my main issue: no matter how the book was produced, its cosmology is complete nonsense. So either (1) Abraham misheard Elohim, or (2) Elohim must have been on mushrooms when he talked to Abraham. That's assuming the book is an accurate record of what Abraham thought God said. The third option, of course, is that MAYBE JOSEPH SMITH MADE THE WHOLE DAMN THING UP!!! Or something. Or am I mistaken? Thank you.
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drumdude wrote:
Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:03 pm
Steven “Bukake” Smoot has a new book out which explains everything. I wonder if anyone has picked it up yet.
Steven claims he learned Bukake from the urban dictionary.
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