You probably haven’t read the Book of Mormon. If you have, you have read it the way DUers read articles about conservative principles.
No religion that denies the Book of Mormon can be true. Jesus Christ brought forth this book. You are rejecting something you don’t understand.
The Bible says take nothing awayfrom it,nor add to it. In other words the Bible, itself, is the only word of God.
The book of Mormon was written by a fellow who was likely hallucinatng, poor guy. Joseph Smith even likened himself to Mohammad, Count. Romney is like a 32nd degree Mason. He knows what it is all about because he is a Temple Mormon. Until the members of the organization reach that level, they know nothing. I have friends who are Mormons. They are generally a very sweet people. But they are so terribly misled!
I think Jesus would say the same thing. He came to teach the Jews they were errant in their concept of the Holy Father. God loved us so much he sent His only begotten Son to die for our sins, to pay the price so we have everlasting life with Him clean as snow from our sins.
I’ve read the BOM twice, with pens and markers to take notes and highlight stuff.
Second time through, I marked all of the word for word extractions from the KJV, including the italicized words, which did not exist until the 1600’s.
I also have the 1830 edition, before the 3913 changes, not including spelling and punctuation.
Weakest literature this side of Dianetics.
“No religion that denies the Book of Mormon can be true. Jesus Christ brought forth this book. You are rejecting something you don’t understand.”
I gagged my way though the book or morons to see what all of the folks around me in SE Idaho were so excited about.
Jesus Christ and joe smith have absolutely NOTHING in common. The former was the Son of God, the latter was a con-man and a philanderer. Lil’ joe’s followers have been conned in to a cult and the men WISH they could still be philanderers (and many of them are).
Please don’t get your magic underwear in a knot reading what I have posted. Facts are facts. Deal with it.
On an agreement with a friend, my wife read the BoM, and read much of it aloud to me. I have to tell you that I have NEVER heard such a contrived effort, or such a feeble attempt at imitating Elizabethan English except in the company of a band of half-drunk Renaissance Faire visitors. About the only places the Book of Mormon sounds authentic at all, are where portions are lifted almost verbatim from the King James Bible.
The author REALLY would have been FAR MORE convincing had he stuck to the American English of his own era. As it is, the whole thing just comes off as a sham.
You are rejecting something you don’t understand.
If there is any misunderstanding, at all, I'd lay the blame squarely on the aforementioned linguistic failure. Where the text is decipherable, it is clearly hogwash; it conflicts with the earlier revelations (old and new testaments) in fundamental, irreconcilable ways. Either the Bible is true or the Book of Mormon is true; BOTH cannot be true, and based on the farcical nature of the language used in the BoM, and with eternal life and death on the line, I'll side with the Bible.
“Hinckley bells, Hinckley bells, Hinckley all the way...”
Merry Smithmas, y’all, and if your sacred texts weren’t full of references to the Catholic Church as “the great and abominable church” and “the whore of Babylon”, this mackerel snapper wouldn’t care one way or another about Mormonism and its book with the made up names (”Mosiah” is my favorite) and tales of Jewish Indians wiping out the “white and delightsome” Nephites without leaving one trace of evidence.