Ripliancum,
You must have a really low threshold on your amaze-a-meter! I reread your post from Nephi 13 and I assume the all-caps were either yours or Joseph Smith’s. Either way it is a lot like how people read Nostradamus:
Two brothers shall die, the nation shall mourn (THAT’S GOT TO BE THE KENNEDY’S.)
A storm shall displace many, a leader shall fall (Obviously, that’s KATRINA and GEORGE W BUSH!)
A false prophet shall arise in a time of trouble and shall attract a huge crowd to himself proclaiming Change! Change! (BARACK OBAMA OR IS THAT GLENN BECK! or any other of a million other leaders in history)
Seriously! None of the sentences you highlight would have taken one library book to know, not one!
Incredible. You are making absolutely no sense, and to top it off, are speaking out of both sides of your mouth.
I asked you if Columbus was inspired to come to the Americas, and you said “No”. Now you are telling me that it was common knowledge that the Holy Ghost led him here, so Joseph Smith would have known this.
You can’t have it both ways! Why should an uneducated boy be expected to know this but you didn’t, in today’s wide open world of communication and education?
Don’t be lukewarm on this, pick a position and stick to it.
How long halt ye between two opinions?