The Gold Plates
Posted by dashagua on .
Syntax, I'd like to see the source of your quote. Have you ever read an original document relating to the plates? Sounds to me like you've been snooping around in the anti-Mormon section of your local library, rather than honestly searching for facts.
Smith's Egyptological critics have been successfully refuted several times. I believe their arguments were made in the early 1920s, and they were (unsurprisingly) financed by strong anti-Mormon causes in Salt Lake city. Their opinions are out of date, and they still don't prove anything, since the few fragments that were rediscovered after the great Chicago Fire do not compose the entire Book of Abraham.
Want more information? http://farms.byu.edu/publications/bookofabraham.php?selection=abr&cat=boa
"Wer macht hat, der gewinnt."
They were quote: "solid gold rectangular plaques with unusual engravings" and yes they did. Three local farmers confessed to have carved meaningless symbols that they made up into the plaques and then buried them for the explicit reason of Joseph Smith finding them and thinking they are the words of Jesus (or whatever). They were even willing to be charged for fraud and misleading authorities and prosecuted. Should I also mention that the "holy scriptures" that Smith "translated" were later given to expert archaeologists who identified them as common Egyption burial scrolls? And should I also mention that over half of the Book of Mormon was copied from someone else's book that was published ten years earlier? Luckily for Smith, the other book wasn't popular so nobody at the time came forward about his blatant plagiarism.
In my opinion, if you're going to follow a religion, at least follow one that doesn't have FAKE written all over it. Jesus and his followers never came to North America. 'Night.
In my opinion, if you're going to follow a religion, at least follow one that doesn't have FAKE written all over it. Jesus and his followers never came to North America. 'Night.