Why do they hate us? The responses (Mormonism-Open)

But when I read the Bible or the Book of Mormon I felt peace and comfort!

Well, could it be, Resty, that upon picking up the BoM in those early days, you were reading 2 Nephi at length? ('Cause if so, you were reading the Bible indirectly -- and of course, the Bible gives "peace and comfort").

2 Nephi 7 --> a copy of Isaiah 50
2 Nephi 8 --> a copy of Isaiah 51 [Ralson notes: "even italicized words that were added later to the King James Version for clarification, are found here"]
2 Nephi 12 --> a copy of Isaiah 2
2 Nephi 13 --> a copy of Isaiah 3
2 Nephi 14 --> a copy of Isaiah 4
2 Nephi 15 --> a copy of Isaiah 5
2 Nephi 16 --> a copy of Isaiah 6
2 Nephi 17 --> a copy of Isaiah 7
2 Nephi 18 --> a copy of Isaiah 8
2 Nephi 19 --> a copy of Isaiah 9
2 Nephi 20 --> a copy of Isaiah 10
2 Nephi 21 --> a copy of Isaiah 11
2 Nephi 22 --> a copy of Isaiah 12
2 Nephi 23 --> a copy of Isaiah 13 [and please note...that the italicized words of Isaiah 13, KJ Version during Joseph Smith's day, were not in the original Hebrew from which the KJV was translated...So if they weren't in the Hebrew, how did Nephi get them? Did he reach into the future of 1611 in the UK, and superimpose them into golden plates between 559 and 545 BC?]
2 Nephi 24 --> a copy of Isaiah 14
2 Nephi 27 --> a copy of Isaiah 29

And in addition to the above, thousands & thousands of 17th-century English phrases & sentences & vocab that originated in the KJV Bible just "happened" to pop up as the Nephite equivalents in the 1st century A.D. and before... (Gee, wow! How did that happen?)

Anyway, as you would have read many of those English tidbit phrases in the BoM -- not knowing that they were published in English (1611) LONG BEFORE the BoM (1830) -- they would have likewise emitted a degree of "peace and comfort."

So, here's the Q, Resty: Was the Bible as the original source of much of the BoM -- your original source of that "peace and comfort?"

(If you have any journals from that time period, I dare you...look @ the BoM references you wrote down...any from 2 Nephi? A LOT of them from 2 Nephi??? Are those references similar to what can be found in the Bible???)

If you review your journal history, you may have a case of mistaken sourcing on your hands...

(Lds lurkers...I dare you to consult your own early journals referencing BoM refs with detailed diligence)

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