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View Poll Results: How True do you think the Book of Mormon is? | |||
Every word of it is true. | 8 | 22.86% | |
It's mostly true, but with a couple of errors. | 11 | 31.43% | |
The events are more or less true, but reported with an extreme historical bias. | 6 | 17.14% | |
The text could very roughly correlate to a plausible series of events. | 3 | 8.57% | |
Some Joe pulled the thing out of his hat. It's false. | 7 | 20.00% | |
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04-29-2007, 05:52 AM | #31 |
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The LDS apparently also revere a prophecy Thomas Jefferson made about the restoration. I learn more things from SU . . .
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04-29-2007, 08:34 PM | #32 |
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When I was a missionary a major portion of the discusisons was adapted from his theories.
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04-29-2007, 08:54 PM | #33 | |
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I served from 80-82 and never heard of the guy on my mission. Didn't know much about him until I visited the museum in Oslo a few years back.
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04-30-2007, 02:49 AM | #35 |
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I'm not sure what is meant by "true." For example, if I think Nephi fudges a little, but that Nephi existed, do I say that the Book of Nephi is true?
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04-30-2007, 04:09 AM | #38 |
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You were right after me. You just thought you didn't know about his theories. Read the Wiki article I posted. He started all that stuff about aborigines thinking Europeans were white gods returning. If you showed Christ in America, Ancient America Speaks, etc., you were teaching stuff adapted from Hyerdahl.
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04-30-2007, 04:39 AM | #39 | |
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When I was a missionary a major portion of the discusisons was adapted from his theories. So the church missionary dept. rewrote the discussions based on his theories? And I was teaching those theories but was just too ignorant to know better? Wow. And all this time I thought it came from the BOM.
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04-30-2007, 04:45 AM | #40 |
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If you think he accidentally misses a number or two here or there, you'd pick the second one. If you think he has a tendency to tell the story in a way that promotes his agenda, it'd be the third. Your scenario sounds more like the third.
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