I laugh at your futile attacks.
Posted by dashagua on .
Syntax, give me one account where Joseph Smith names Moroni "Nephi". It doesn't exist. I've read every one.
A fragment of the Book of Abraham was allegedly discovered in the late 1960s. Whether it has anything to do with the Book of Breathings or not is incedental. It's clear that we don't have every piece of the puzzle, which means that you can't assume that the Book of Abraham is a complete fraud. In fact I don't see how you come to that conclusion at all.
What remains to be asked is what you think of the Book of Mormon itself. Have you even read the work? I'd suggest you put down your Anti-Mormon book (or, more accurately, stop looking for quick arguments against the church online) and take it seriously.
We give the Book of Mormon out for free and tell people to pray about it to find out for themselves if it's true. It works, trust me. I've seen it with my own eyes multiple times. There's more here than meets the eye, and speculating about Egyptology (more accurately, quoting the works of those who've speculated about Egyptology) isn't going to get you very far.
Were the Book of Abraham a work of fiction, it would be considered one of the best works of spiritual fiction in existance. Have you read it?
"Wer macht hat, der gewinnt."
I wasn't talking about the golden plates, clearly those were destroyed or buried by Smith so that he could never be proven wrong. I was talking about the "holy scriptures" that he translated into the Book of Abraham, which were Egyptian papyrus scrolls thought to have been burned in a 1871 fire in Chicago. But fragments of the scrolls were rediscovered in a museum in 1967 and Egyptologists identified them as a copy of the Book of Breathings, an ancient manual on how to preserve corpses and speed the journey of the deceased to the gods and afterlife. It had nothing to do with Christ or Abraham, so Smith clearly made the whole thing up. And if he did that, who's to say he didn't also make up the Book of Mormon?
You claim Smith's story was never changed and that the angel Moroni took the golden plates back to heaven, but in fact the angel's name was always Nephi in all of his accounts and was only changed to Moroni after he died. It made more sense, because it was Moroni who was alleged to have buried the plates in the first place. I'm not trying to piss on your cornflakes or anything, but evidently I know more about this subject than you think.
You claim Smith's story was never changed and that the angel Moroni took the golden plates back to heaven, but in fact the angel's name was always Nephi in all of his accounts and was only changed to Moroni after he died. It made more sense, because it was Moroni who was alleged to have buried the plates in the first place. I'm not trying to piss on your cornflakes or anything, but evidently I know more about this subject than you think.
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| Re: I laugh at your futile attacks. | Syntax -- 10/14/2005 5:49 am UTC |