[Ron Jeremy]

What a joker. Of course they could have done all this. Jesus helped them! They had faith! I can't believe anyone would think this means that Joseph Smith just made everything up to fleece money from people and sleep with their wives.

[svcw]

When you say Jesus helped them you mean he was one of the 8 men or what?

[conservative cat]

I have a few good friends who are Mormon, so I tread lightly in public, but hmmmmmmmm...

[count-your-change]

“....wherefore, it could not be built like unto Solomon’s temple. But the manner of the construction was like unto the temple of Solomon...”
It was and it wasn’t, it could be and couldn’t be. See how easy it is to believe two contradictory things at once?

[Tennessee Nana]

Some LDS apologists have written me saying that the Nephites went all the way to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to get their copper.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Why didnt they go to Polk County, TN ???????

Big copper mines there...

I’m sure their peep stones would have told them that...

[Eastbound]

"Let us look at more claims."

Quetzlcoatl (Thoth/Nin.Gish.Zida) may fit the time line. Somebody had to come over from the mid east to get the mines located on higher ground and up and running after the flood. Who else would have been better fitted to the task than Marduk's brother? He was the chief temple builder, and a skillful worker in brass and other metals and held a position in the ranks of the early rulers of earth, the pantheon of the Anunnaki. If the mythology is more than myth, I'd put my money on Quetzlcoatl, who, according to the myth, came through Mexico and the Americas in his quest to keep the production lines operational. (According to Z. Sitchin's "Earth Chronicles.")

[Elsie]

Of course they could have done all this. Jesus helped them!

There you go!

You've answered your own question!

[Dog Gone]

I haven’t really heard a good explanation of how the Jews made a golden calf statue at the base of Mt. Sinai, either.

[fproy2222]

How could a few people run a complex metallurgical culture in the wilderness and at the same time make shelters, get food and just plain survive?

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With the same type of ability Moses had when he opened the Red Sea and created dry ground where the water had been.

you know, with God,s help.

[sevenbak]

To discredit the idea of ancient metallurgy is also to discredit the bible.

Psalms 18:34
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

Job 20:24
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

Jeremiah 15:12
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

2 Samuel 22:35
He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

Gen. 4: 22 every artificer in brass and iron.
Deut. 8: 9 land whose stones are iron.
Deut. 27: 5 thou shalt not lift up any iron tool.
Josh. 8: 31 altar . . . over which no man hath lift up any iron.
2 Kgs. 6: 6 iron did swim.
Ps. 2: 9 break them with a rod of iron.
Prov. 27: 17 Iron sharpeneth iron.
Eccl. 10: 10 If the iron be blunt.
Isa. 60: 17 for iron I will bring silver.
Jer. 1: 18 have made thee this day . . . an iron pillar.
Jer. 17: 1 sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron.
Jer. 28: 13 shalt make for them yokes of iron.
Ezek. 4: 3 iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron.
Dan. 2: 33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron.
Dan. 2: 41 be in it of the strength of the iron.
Dan. 7: 7 it had great iron teeth.

Ex. 30: 18 (Ex. 38: 8) Thou shalt also make a laver of brass.
Deut. 8: 9 out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Deut. 28: 23 heaven . . . shall be brass.
1 Chr. 15: 19 appointed to sound with cymbals of brass.
Isa. 60: 17 for brass I will bring gold.
Dan. 2: 32 his belly and his thighs of brass.
Dan. 2: 39 another third kingdom of brass.
Micah 4: 13 make thine horn iron, and . . . thy hoofs brass.

[sevenbak]

And while we're on the subject, here's a few good examples of ancient metal records discovered throughout the world, many containing sacred texts of one sort or another.