30 years ago today - Aug 25, 1984
BYU anthropology professor Ray T. Matheny, speaking at a Sunstone Symposium states, "All these [Book of Mormon cultural traits] paint a scene that seem[s] to be quite foreign to what I am familiar with in the archaeological record of the New World. . . And the terminologies and the language used and the methods of explaining and putting things down are nineteenth century literary concepts and cultural experiences one would expect Joseph Smith and his colleagues would experience. . . If I were doing this cold like John Carlson is here. I would say in evaluating the Book of Mormon that it had no place in the New World whatsoever. . . It seems like these are anachronisms. It seems like the items are out of time and place, in trying to put them into the New World. And I think there's a great difficulty here for we Mormons in understanding what this book [of Mormon] is all about."
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ReplyDeleteThere is absolutely no difficulty at all for us in The Church of Jesus Christ (WHQ: Monongahela, Pennsylvania) in understanding what the BOM is all about.
ReplyDeleteAll those who reject sacred book no.2 (the Book of Mormon - sacred book no.1 is of course the KJV Bible), will not live to see the coming forth of 11 more sacred books - the 10 sacred records of the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel who are the Aboriginal/Indigenous peoples of Asia, Australia, the Pacific Islands, Nunavut, and Greenland, plus the 2/3 sealed portion of the BOM gold plates.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pity! What a tragedy!