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To: Auntie Dem
So then you've got a map that matches the cities named in the Book of Mormon to those found by archaeologists?

Oh wait, underneath all that bluster, you never said you actually had one. Or anybody else has one, for that matter. I wonder why I'm having no difficulty finding a map that matches up New Testament city locations with real world locations?

BTW, never heard of Michael Coe. Even if he asked the same question in 1973, it's still a valid question. Except that my question can now include the fact that the LDS Church, and all those Book-Of-Mormon-guided archaeologists have managed to let 31 years pass without producing one.

158 posted on 04/24/2004 6:58:21 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy
So then you've got a map that matches the cities named in the Book of Mormon to those found by archaeologists?

All this time I thought were were such a deep thinker...at least you've tried to make everyone think you are. If you can be satisfied with a simple "map", you are indeed, a simpleton.

In your mind it is a simple thing to reduce thousands of years of a complex civilization, which to this day has defied nearly 200 years of "modern" scholars' attempts to explain its origins, or provide a consenus on who they are or were, into a "map"?

That you do not know who Michael Coe is tells me you are ill-prepared to discuss any aspect of Mayan archaeology with even an amateur arm-chair archaeologist such as myself.

There are several Mormon author's maps available in their books published on the subject of archaeology and the Book of Mormon, but none of them are likely to pass a sign-seeker's muster.

The New Testament map you mention has the advantage of having nearly constant contact with European "historians" since the Bible was made known to Europe, and even with that tremendous advantage, you still can't pinpoint Sodom and Gomorrah on that map, or find Jesus' tomb, or the stable he was born in, or with any degree of certainty, the exact location of his crucifixtion. Map indeed.

165 posted on 04/25/2004 4:43:11 PM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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