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Response to "Difficult Questions for Mormons: Book of Mormon Geography"
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- Response to claim: "Why isn't the terrain of Central America described?"
- Response to claim: "Why is it that numerous LDS books and papers describe proposed Book of Mormon locations for cities and the 'narrow neck of land'? No city has been identified as being Nephite, Lamanite, Jaredite, etc."
- Response to claim: "Why didn't any of the place names from the Book of Mormon still exist when Columbus arrived?"
- Response to claim: "Where was the Hill Cumorah? Was it in New York or Central America?"
- Response to claim: "Why don't gaps exist in the archeological record of Mesoamerica if these missing people existed?"
- Response to claim: "Did the Book of Mormon take place outside of Mesoamerica?"
- Response to claim: "Why don't any archeologists theorize any Hebrew or Egyptian linkages or influences in Mesoamerica?"
Response to claim: "Why isn't the terrain of Central America described?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why isn't the terrain of Central America described?"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Why is it that numerous LDS books and papers describe proposed Book of Mormon locations for cities and the 'narrow neck of land'? No city has been identified as being Nephite, Lamanite, Jaredite, etc."
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why is it that numerous LDS books and papers describe proposed Book of Mormon locations for cities and the 'narrow neck of land'? No city has been identified as being Nephite, Lamanite, Jaredite, etc. For example, Zarahemla was occupied for hundreds of years, but we still don't have any real evidence of it ever existing. The Book of Mormon describes a time period from 2000 BC to 400 AD and millions of people. No city they occupied has yet to be found."
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Why didn't any of the place names from the Book of Mormon still exist when Columbus arrived?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why didn't any of the place names from the Book of Mormon still exist when Columbus arrived?"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Where was the Hill Cumorah? Was it in New York or Central America?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Where was the Hill Cumorah? Was it in New York or Central America? If it was in Central America, why hasn't it been found? If it was in New York, how did they move that quickly and where are all the remains?"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Why don't gaps exist in the archeological record of Mesoamerica if these missing people existed?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why don't gaps exist in the archeological record of Mesoamerica if these missing people existed?"
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Did the Book of Mormon take place outside of Mesoamerica?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Did the Book of Mormon take place outside of Mesoamerica? The History of the Church records an incident from June, 1834 in which JS identified a skeleton found in an Indian burial mound in Illinois: ". . . the visions of the past being opened to my understanding by the Spirit of the Almighty, I discovered the person whose skeleton was before us was a white Lamanite, a large, thick-set man, and a man of God. His name was Zelph . . . who was known from the Hill Cumorah, or eastern sea to the Rocky mountains." (HOC 1948 ed., II: 79-80)."
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: "Why don't any archeologists theorize any Hebrew or Egyptian linkages or influences in Mesoamerica?"
The author(s) of Difficult Questions for Mormons make(s) the following claim:
Response to claim: "Why don't any archeologists theorize any Hebrew or Egyptian linkages or influences in Mesoamerica?"
FAIR's Response
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