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To: ejonesie22
That's a valid question. Nephi spoke of this some 550 years before the Crucifixion. http://scriptures.lds.org/1_ne/19/

1 Nephi 19


11 For thus spake the prophet: The Lord God surely shall visit all the house of Israel at that day, some with his voice, because of their righteousness, unto their great joy and salvation, and others with the thunderings and the lightnings of his power, by tempest, by fire, and by smoke, and vapor of darkness, and by the opening of the gearth, and by mountains which shall be carried up.
12 And all these things must surely come, saith the prophet Zenos. And the rocks of the earth must rend; and because of the groanings of the earth, many of the kings of the isles of the sea shall be wrought upon by the Spirit of God, to exclaim: The God of nature suffers.
13 And as for those who are at Jerusalem, saith the prophet, they shall be scourged by all people, because they crucify the God of Israel, and turn their hearts aside, rejecting signs and wonders, and the power and glory of the God of Israel.
14 And because they turn their hearts aside, saith the prophet, and have despised the Holy One of Israel, they shall wander in the flesh, and perish, and become a hiss and a byword, and be hated among all nations.
15 Nevertheless, when that day cometh, saith the prophet, that they no more turn aside their hearts against the Holy One of Israel, then will he remember the covenants which he made to their fathers.
16 Yea, then will he remember the isles of the sea; yea, and all the people who are of the house of Israel, will I gather in, saith the Lord, according to the words of the prophet Zenos, from the four quarters of the earth.
17 Yea, and all the earth shall see the salvation of the Lord, saith the prophet; every nation, kindred, tongue and people shall be blessed.
18 And I, Nephi, have written these things unto my people, that perhaps I might persuade them that they would remember the Lord their Redeemer.

20 posted on 09/11/2009 9:32:16 AM PDT by Lachoneus
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To: Lachoneus; ejonesie22
That's a valid question. Nephi spoke of this some 550 years before the Crucifixion.

Flawed assumption. This was written by Smith some 1830 years after the crucifixion. It is circlar logic to use it to prove it's inspiration.

24 posted on 09/11/2009 10:05:17 AM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: Lachoneus
So basically god set the local Jews, including the ones that actually participated in the death of christ, out into the general populations to wonder the nations of Europe as rejects (Something long established as historical fact) but destroys a large number of the Children of Israel that traveled half way around the world and had nothing to do with the death of christ, to the point of wiping them out so thoroughly that there is no remnant of their existence...

Like I said, makes sense, since god is just a grumpy old guy with powers from another planet...

42 posted on 09/11/2009 1:21:18 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (There's something socialist in the neighborhood, who ya gonna call? MITTBUSTERS!)
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To: Lachoneus
6 times were found 'saith the prophet'.

None were found of...

"Thus saith the LORD!"

72 posted on 09/12/2009 10:56:31 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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