Oh, great, you again. Didn’t we have an exchange on this exact issue here five or so years ago?
We sit “in” the table
We sit “at” the table
Do these phrases mean the same thing? No. “At” signifies something close to or adjacent. Bethlehem is adjacent to Jerusalem. When people ask me where I’m from I tell them I live at “Vancouver, Canada” despite I actually live in Burnaby, which is adjacent to Vancouver since it won’t be possible for them to be familiar with the micro geography of my region.
Am I lying? No, I am merely giving them a frame of reference or geographic designator.
Regardless, if you knew your history, like the Amarna Letters, you would’ve known Bethlehem was described as located in the “land of Jerusalem.”
“Land of Jerusalem,” not “city of Jerusalem.”
Besides, I find it ludicrous anti-Mormons claim Alma 7:10 is an error when any child in 19th century America would’ve known the Christmas carols and popular biblical teachings of
Jesus being born in Bethlehem. Could Joseph Smith have made such a basic error? Not likely.
It’s a good thing them Magi dudes had a more accurate guide to the ChristChild, or else ol’ Herod would have killed a LOT more babies in JERUSALEM, the Land of!!!
I do the same, for people KNOW where Indianapolis is, but I get a blank look when I tell them Greenfield area!
I have only been on FR for 2.5 years. I havn’t, until now engaged in a debate of the meaning of the word ‘at.’