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To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] A 'prooftexter' vs a 'contexter'
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:33:32 EDT
In a message dated 7/26/2005 8:47:54 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Blaine, I had posed a few questions to you regarding the bom, and I fear
you
got sidetracked by Kevin's posts...lets try again, if you will...
Most books, fiction and non-fiction, have internal consistency. But, they
are typically written by a single author, so internal consistency is not
remarkable in such books.
The Bible was written by many authors over thousands of years, and shows
internal consistency across author as well as time periods.
1. How many authors wrote the bom over how many years?
2. Is there consistency between the various authors of the bom?
The Bible has hundreds if not thousands of external consitencies.
3. What external consistencies does the bom show?
Perry
Perry,
Sorry, yes, you are right, I got sidetracked by Kevin's antiquated
anti-Mormon perspective stuff which for the most part, nobody in the
Mormon Church
believes or worries about.
Oh, yeah, your questions--well, the BoM first of all is a very complex
book. It is a translation of a set of plates written by two
men--Mormon, and
his son, Moroni. This set of plates, referred to as the Gold Plates, is
a
digest of other plates which these two men had access to, called the
Large Plates
of Nephi and the Small Plates of Nephi, plus other plates that showed up
along the time period the BoM covers, which basically began when the
Jaredites
left the Tower of Babel, crossed the ocean in barges, and arrived in the
Americas. Much later, around 600 BC, another group led by Lehi and his
son Nephi
left Jerusalem and disembarked off the coast of Arabia in a ship, and
arrived
somewhere off the coast of Middle America. About the same time, the
Jaredites for the most part succeeded in wiping themselves off the face
of the
land.
Uh, sorry perry, I have to go now, but will post this and get back to it
later. Meantime, stay tuned. Thanks for you civil questions.
Blainerb
