Book of Mormon original
Posted by dashagua on .
Johnross, you can view the original of the Book of Mormon just as easily as you can view the original copies of the Koran, the Old and New Testaments and all Buddhist scripture, Hindi scripture, etc. In other words, the closest you'll ever get are manuscript copies of manuscripts that have already been retranslated. The Greek New Testament is a great example of this. Textual Critics still pound away at the thousands upon thousands of "original" manuscripts that vary slightly in different spots. The same goes for Old Testament scripts, none of which are older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest of which was still written 200 years after Malachi's death.
No matter how you look at it, taking scriptures up into heaven seems pretty darn plausable. Apparently we're not the only church that believes in a book without a researchable original copy. Seems that God's used that as a pattern in normal Christianity. You can't condemn the church for that.
"Wer macht hat, der gewinnt."
You throw the fact around that Moroni took the plates to heaven- when in fact that name appears never in the Old or New Testament (only a few angels are named, and he's not one of em) and you use a piece of the book of Mormon... to prove the validity of the book of Mormon. Wouldn't it have been more convenient to leave the plates here so we all could see?
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| Re: Book of Mormon original | Syntax -- 10/14/2005 5:21 am UTC |