“Let me say once and for all, so as to avoid what might otherwise call for repeated explanation, that what is herein set forth does not represent any conclusions of mine. This report [is] ... for the information of those who ought to know everything about it pro and con, as well that which has been produced against it as that which may be produced against it. I am taking the position that our faith is not only unshaken but unshakeable in the Book of Mormon, and therefore we can look without fear upon all that can be said against it.”
How does Roberts explain it?
Sadly, you omit the proper citation for your quote that followed -
“Let me say once and for all, so as to avoid what might otherwise call for repeated explanation, that what is herein set forth does not represent any conclusions of mine. This report [is] ... for the information of those who ought to know everything about it pro and con, as well that which has been produced against it as that which may be produced against it. I am taking the position that our faith is not only unshaken but unshakeable in the Book of Mormon, and therefore we can look without fear upon all that can be said against it.”
Lets fill in the gaps of your rebuttal, shall we. For starters, this is an extract from a letter written in 1922 before he had published "A Book of Mormon Study". As such, it is temporally removed from any conclusions he later came to after writing "A Book of Mormon Study" nor could it be a cover for a bom study.
Secondly, place Robert's letter in better context (from which you cited, but not fully), its first sentence states You will perhaps remember that during the hearing on "Problems of the Book of Mormon" reported to your Council January, 1922. . . . Please note, the letter from which you cited was addressing another item all together different from the "A Book of Morman Study".
Finally, it still doesn't support what Roberts himself concludes, such as -
"There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators... they are all of one breed and brand; so nearly alike that one mind is the author of them, and that a young and underdeveloped, but piously inclined mind. The evidence I sorrowfully submit, points to Joseph Smith as their creator. It is difficult to believe that they are a product of history, that they came upon the scene separated by long periods of time, and among a race which was the ancestral race of the red man of America.”
- Studies of the Book of Mormon, by B.H. Roberts, p. 271
So where is the bom geography L? So please tell us all where the events of the bom took place?
You did so well explaining this; can you explain to us just what Joseph Smith found to be UNTRUE about PRESBYTERIANism of his day?