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===Critics' comparison: The phrase "it came to pass" is more common in the Bible than in ''The Late War'' <ref name="latewarcomparison">Chris Johnson, Duane Johnson, "A Comparison of The Book of Mormon and The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain," http://wordtreefoundation.github.io/thelatewar/</ref>=== | ===Critics' comparison: The phrase "it came to pass" is more common in the Bible than in ''The Late War'' <ref name="latewarcomparison">Chris Johnson, Duane Johnson, "A Comparison of The Book of Mormon and The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain," http://wordtreefoundation.github.io/thelatewar/</ref>=== | ||
[[File:Johnson comparison late war bom it came to pass.jpg|frame|700px|center|Chris Johnson, Duane Johnson, ""A Comparison of The Book of Mormon and The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain," <nowiki>http://wordtreefoundation.github.io/thelatewar/</nowiki>]] | [[File:Johnson comparison late war bom it came to pass.jpg|frame|700px|center|Chris Johnson, Duane Johnson, ""A Comparison of The Book of Mormon and The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain," <nowiki>http://wordtreefoundation.github.io/thelatewar/</nowiki>]] | ||
| − | Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War'' was deliberately written in the "biblical style," and therefore uses the phrase "it came to pass" frequently. There really isn't any reason to believe that Joseph, if he were actually the author of the Book of Mormon, would have been more likely to have picked up the phrase from ''The Late War'' than from the Bible itself. | + | One critic of the church believes that the presence of "A bunch of “it came to pass”" phrases in ''The Late War'' is evidence that Joseph used this phrase in the Book of Mormon. <ref>Jeremy Runnells, "Letter to a CES Director" (October 2014 revision).</ref> However, Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War'' was deliberately written in the "biblical style," and therefore uses the phrase "it came to pass" frequently. There really isn't any reason to believe that Joseph, if he were actually the author of the Book of Mormon, would have been more likely to have picked up the phrase from ''The Late War'' than from the Bible itself. |
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Question: Was the Book of Mormon phrase "it came to pass" derived from Gilbert Hunt's The Late War?
Critics' comparison: The phrase "it came to pass" is more common in the Bible than in The Late War [1]
Chris Johnson, Duane Johnson, ""A Comparison of The Book of Mormon and The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain," http://wordtreefoundation.github.io/thelatewar/
One critic of the church believes that the presence of "A bunch of “it came to pass”" phrases in The Late War is evidence that Joseph used this phrase in the Book of Mormon. [2] However, Gilbert Hunt's The Late War was deliberately written in the "biblical style," and therefore uses the phrase "it came to pass" frequently. There really isn't any reason to believe that Joseph, if he were actually the author of the Book of Mormon, would have been more likely to have picked up the phrase from The Late War than from the Bible itself.
Notes
- ↑ Chris Johnson, Duane Johnson, "A Comparison of The Book of Mormon and The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain," http://wordtreefoundation.github.io/thelatewar/
- ↑ Jeremy Runnells, "Letter to a CES Director" (October 2014 revision).