Posted by DNA on July 06, 1998 at 12:04:23:
In Reply to: Joseph Smith - Boy Genius posted by SWN on July 06, 1998 at 00:29:18:
: If Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon, then he was one of the most
: intelligent writers of our century. Within the Book of Mormon there are
: multiple complex story lines all related to each other in some way. Given
: his level of education, it would have been impossible for him to remember
: where one story left off and the other began, much less make up variations
: of all the names from the Bible. Can you name one person living today,
: geven simular circomstances and level of education, that could write a book
: as complex as the Book of Mormon?
Did it ever occur to you that JS didn't write the BoM, but copied it from other sources? Such sources were available.
One thing I can tell you for certain, despite what Nibley says, is that there is no evidence whatsoever that the cultures described in the BoM ever existed anywhere in the New World.
If these cultures actually existed, why can't we find *any* physical evidence of them?
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