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Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon: Difference between revisions
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|claim=The document claims "Many Book of Mormon names and places are strikingly similar to many local names and places of the region Joseph Smith lived." | |claim=The document claims "Many Book of Mormon names and places are strikingly similar to many local names and places of the region Joseph Smith lived." | ||
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*The Book of Mormon contains 345 names. The theory that the author is relying on is that 28 of these names were derived by Joseph Smith by looking at the names of places in the surrounding region, then altering the names slightly. The original map from which the author obtained this information | *The Book of Mormon contains 345 names. The theory that the author is relying on, proposed by Vernal Holley and posted by Mazeministries, is that 28 of these names were derived by Joseph Smith by looking at the names of places in the surrounding region, then altering the names slightly to create a map of Book of Mormon lands. The original map from which the author obtained this information included names of places which didn't even exist in Joseph Smith's time. The map used in "Letter to a CES Director" is a derivative of the Holley map which no longer includes those names, however, the list of names used by the author still includes quite a few of these. | ||
*The author lists the following correspondences. In order to obtain this list of parallels, a huge geographical area must be scanned: Five states and two Canadian provinces yield this list of parallels, and it gets even smaller when one actually tries to locate many of these places on a map. In the list below, | *The author lists the following correspondences. In order to obtain this list of parallels, a huge geographical area must be scanned: Five states and two Canadian provinces yield this list of parallels, and it gets even smaller when one actually tries to locate many of these places on a map. In the list below, | ||
*<span style="color:red">Names in red indicate places which either did not have that name until after 1830, or cannot be found on a map or in the Book of Mormon.</span> | *<span style="color:red">Names in red indicate places which either did not have that name until after 1830, or cannot be found on a map or in the Book of Mormon.</span> | ||
Revision as of 01:01, 31 July 2013
A FAIR Analysis of:
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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Book of Mormon Concerns & Questions"
- Response to section: "What are 1769 King James Version edition errors doing in the Book of Mormon?"
- Response to section: "What are these 17th century italicized words doing in the Book of Mormon?"
- Response to section: "The Book of Mormon includes mistranslated biblical passages that were later changed in Joseph Smith’s translation of the bible" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "DNA analysis has concluded that Native American Indians do not originate from the Middle East"
- Response to section: Anachronisms
- Response to section: Archaeology
- Response to section: Book of Mormon Geography
- Response to section: Hill Cumorah
- Response to section: "'View of the Hebrews' compared to the Book of Mormon"
- Response to section: "The Book of Mormon taught and still teaches a Trinitarian view of the Godhead"
Response Section
"What are 1769 King James Version edition errors doing in the Book of Mormon?"
"What are these 17th century italicized words doing in the Book of Mormon?"
"DNA analysis has concluded that Native American Indians do not originate from the Middle East"
Anachronisms
Archaeology
Book of Mormon Geography
Hill Cumorah
"'View of the Hebrews' compared to the Book of Mormon"
"The Book of Mormon taught and still teaches a Trinitarian view of the Godhead"
== Notes ==