NUMBER 1:
Bible:
Genesis 11:9 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Contradicting BoM passages:
Ether 1
[33] Which Jared came forth with his brother and their families, with some others and their families, from the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people, and swore in his wrath that they should be scattered upon all the face of the earth; and according to the word of the Lord the people were scattered.
[34] And the brother of Jared being a large and mighty man, and a man highly favored of the Lord, Jared, his brother, said unto him: Cry unto the Lord, that he will not confound us that we may not understand our words.
[35] And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did cry unto the Lord, and the Lord had compassion upon Jared; therefore he did not confound the language of Jared; and Jared and his brother were not confounded.
[36] Then Jared said unto his brother: Cry again unto the Lord, and it may be that he will turn away his anger from them who are our friends, that he confound not their language.
[37] And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did cry unto the Lord, and the Lord had compassion upon their friends and their families also, that they were not confounded.
The confounding of the language of "of all the earth", as described in Genesis, would have made Jared and his nameless brother and their friends' and families' trip to the new world impossible, so the author of the BoM had to "undo" the Word of God in order to not have a logical fallacy. Instead, they contradicted the bible to do this.
NUMBER 2:
Contradicting BoM passages:
Ether 1
[43] "And there will I bless thee and thy seed, and raise up unto me of thy seed, and of the seed of thy brother, and they who shall go with thee, a great nation. And there shall be none greater than the nation which I will raise up unto me of thy seed, upon all the face of the earth. And thus I will do unto thee because this long time ye have cried unto me."
Here, the Mormon god, speaking to Jared and his nameless brother, said "And there shall be none greater than the nation which I will raise up unto me of thy seed."
Now, surely so great a nation (of which there is "none greater") would be known today. But, I know of no one who has ever heard of a Jaredite. There is neither historical nor archeological records of any such nation. Not only that, but the visions given to Nebuchadnezzar and interpreted by Daniel the prophet, indicated that there wold be 4 great kingdoms...the Babylonian, the Medo-Persion, the Greek, and the Roman. Now either God of the Bible made a terrible error and forgot about the Jaredites, or the BoM god lied, or never existed anyway. The bottom line...a fictional story with fictional characters.
Oh, by the way, one does not have to drink a whole carton of milk to find out it is sour...usually one sip tells the whole story. Same with the BoM. one does not have to read the whole thing to find out it is false. Once one finds a few blatent plaigerisms of and contradictions to the Bible, there is no need to continue to waste any more time with it.
Perry
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