“If we can’t agree on where [the Book of Mormon] took place, how can people take us seriously?” he said.
Yup. (That's quite an uphill climb there)
From the article: Stephen L. Carr, senior vice president of the Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum...The goal of the Book of Mormon Archaelogical Forum is to provide an open forum to discuss theories... "We are a group that promotes the understanding of the culture and the geography of the Book of Mormon,” Carr said.
Well, that's an interesting personal revelation. Carr says the focus of this "archaelogical" group is...
(a) "Book of Mormon culture" -- in effect literary gleaning...
(b) Reading some historical claims by Joseph Smith in Times & Seasons -- so basic 19th century Mormon U.S. History of a very select document
(c) "Book of Mormon...geography" -- on the one hand, what would be simple, pure elementary level education in a Christian school were this the Bible...but there's no maps in the Book of Mormon, are there? So, instead, it's more of a mix between "Where's Waldo?" and "Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?" -- only there's not only absolutely no concensus where Waldo or Carmen SanDiego is...but the church has gone on record so many times showing no consideration for MesoAmerica that Waldo or Carmen SanDiego could NOT be in Guatamala or Southern Mexico.
Simply put, I thought archaeology was primarily about having real archaelogical finds you can hold...like coinage...similar to what we have for both the Old and New Testaments...It's surprising that most Christians could easily purchase Old and New Testament archaelogy such as coinage relatively cheaply on e-Bay...
Instead...what is masquerading as "archaelogy" before BYU students -- who are being recruited to join an association majoring in...
...Book of Mormon literary skimming?
...And 19th century U.S. history of select Times & Seasons quotes?
...And mapless Book of Mormon geography reviews that wouldn't pass an elementary school level publishing standard for religious educators?
Shouldn't archaelogy forums being doing real archaelogy in real places with real finds?
um... wasn’t this written by a guy here in US of A not long ago?
Where did he live? that’s not too hard, is it?
Got a question for you: Whatever happened to the Mayans? No one knows. To this day, it’s a mystery.
Or reach Antarctica...
There be dragons?
(Or Cureloms)
Ping
The conference drew 280 attendees — the conference’s biggest crowd ever
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Supposedly 13 Million members and only 280 can be persuaded to attend a conference on a basis of their religion ???
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Mormonism doesnt seem as important to its members as Joey Smith said it would be...
Millions of Christians go to Israel every year...
Millions of Moslems make a pilgrimage to Mecca every year...
Only 280 mormons turn up to a conference on the bom lands ???
I think there might be a “revelation” in the future...
“Yea and it came to pass, all good mormons are to and it came to pass, go forth to the and it came to pass conference, yea and it came to pass, yearly”...D&C 100001:200002
It was Joseph Smith as editor of the publication who suggested the Book of Mormon events took place in Mesoamerica
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If joey smith said it it must be so...
However of 13 million mormons,...
12,998,720 dont seem to believe him...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4HPIC_enUS349US349&q=mormon+tours+location&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Pick one.
Heck; you may even run across Noah’s Ark while tromping around!
And here we're told the Lds church is a "top-down" structured church...seems a revolt is going on at the grass roots..."Your Book of Mormon tales," the grassroots seem to be saying, "are not plausible. We will reconstruct it for you, lest we otherwise toss out our faith completely -- as what we've been told all these years cannot possibly be so."
And there's the rub: Whose been right all these years? The Lds "prophets" and general authorities and Book of Mormon teachers who've gone on ecclesiastical record & spoken out on the subject? Or these johnny-late-comers who realize the Book of Mormon geography just doesn't square with these leaders' accounts?
All of the requirements come from the Book of Mormon’s text and only Mesoamerica fits all the criteria, according to the organization’s Web site.
Except one - Hill Cumorah is in New York State, not mesoamerica.