Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon

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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Book of Mormon Concerns & Questions"

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"What are 1769 King James Version edition errors doing in the Book of Mormon?"

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"What are these 17th century italicized words doing in the Book of Mormon?"

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"DNA analysis has concluded that Native American Indians do not originate from the Middle East"

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Anachronisms

Template:CESLetterItem During Joseph Smith's lifetime, most of the "archaeology" of the Book of Mormon did not match what was known about the early Americas.

By 2005, a number of features of the Book of Mormon text were known in the ancient Americas.  Yet, in 1842, many of these would have been seen as "errors" or "anachronisms".

Archaeology

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Book of Mormon Geography

Template:CESLetterItem Location.of.alma.jpg Vernal.holley.name.list.jpg

Template:CESLetterItem Geography as proposed by Vernal Holley (1983).  Z = proposed city of Zarahemla site.  Bright blue line is the model's "River Sidon." Names in red represent towns not in existence at the time of the Book of Mormon's publication.  Note that the maps available at Mazeministries contain the following errors: 1) Jerusalem and Jacobsburg are too far apart; 2) Alma is too far to the east; 3) Mount Ephrim should be north-east, not north-west of Sherbrooke. An illustration of some of the geographical errors present in the version of the Holley geography that is used in "A Letter to a CES Director"

Hill Cumorah

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Modern map of the Comoros Islands
1830 Book of Mormon showing the spelling "Camorah"

"'View of the Hebrews' compared to the Book of Mormon"

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"The Book of Mormon taught and still teaches a Trinitarian view of the Godhead"

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== Notes ==

  1. [note] Reflections of the Past : the story of Rama Township : a joint project of the Township of Rama and the Orillia Public Library, off-site