“The Book of Mormon is claimed to have been translated from documents antedating by thousands of years the King James version of the Bible. Strange that it should so closely resemble it. Well, I guess that proves how miraculous it really was, huh?”
Of course the Book of Mormon is similar to the Bible. How could it not be? Does God teach a different truth to one people than to another? Additionally, as the Book of Mormon states, the ancient Americans had access to a good deal of the Old Testament, and they taught from it. A goodly chunk of Isaiah is quoted in it.
Odd that Joseph Smith "translated" Reformed Egyptian(which Egyptian scholars all say did not exist) into King James English that the King James Bible was translated in.
Why did Joseph Smith create his own translation of the Bible that Mormons recognize by footnotes in the King James Version?
Was it inspired?