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I offer you Chiasmus ... an ancient poetic structure of the Hebrews, Rediscovered in the 1960s(?).
....and yet the book of Mormon has multiple examples of this literary antiquity!
Hmmmm .... not bad for being authored by an uneducated 22 year-old living on the frontier!
I don’t think the Hebrews ever used 16th century English.
However, I’ve heard tell that the apostle Paul only used Nobel Fir’s for Christmas trees.
Did they ever find the “gold plates”?
Truly you can't believe Joseph Smith is legitimate?
What boy in his teens wouldn't want to screw any female that came his way and then rationalize is through an “angel” that this is legitimate? LOL!!! It's ridiculously false and SELF SERVING.
But ow wait, if you adhere to Mormonism, when you die, you'll get a PLANET with VIGINS to service you sexually and otherwise for eternity? Doesn't that sound eerily similar to another FALSE religion called Islam? A Muslim believes they too will have female SEX SLAVES but no planet as of yet.
This was not rediscovered in the 1960s, but was a known literary tradition in both the Old and New Testaments, as well as in classical Greek and Latin literature, and on up to Shakespear, and then used in the Mormon text. No basis for belief here.
not bad for being authored by an uneducated 22 year-old living on the frontier!
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AH Joey Smith wasnt living on the frontier...
Joey Smith was living in and near civilization when he and his cronies authored/plaguarized the ficticious “book of mormon”
New York and Eastern Pennsylvania were not exactly the frontier (In all his 38 years I doubt if Joey Smith ever saw a “hostile” Indian)
The book was a plaguarized mixture of the writings of Ethan Smith (a remote cousin of Joey Smith) and Samuel Spaulding and the Christian Bible and pagan myths....
It was written with a profit in mind...Joey Smith “prophecized” that if his buddies took the new book to Canada they would sell numerous copies and become rich and famous with lots of babes for groupies with their New York Times run away Best Seller (1830 style)
But Oh noez...(Home Alone hands-on-cheeks)
It did not sell...
The mormon god had lied to Joey Smith...
not bad for being authored by an uneducated 22 year-old living on the frontier!
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AH Joey Smith was at least 25 when he wrote the bom..
and even an uneducatred 22 or 25 yo has some intelligence...
My father had to drop out of school at age 13 to get a full time job to support his mother and all his younger siblings...
But that didnt stop him from having his own successful businesses and being his own accountant and reading and learning for himself...
and that didnt stop him from being asked to be the treasurer for the club he belonged to...
and that didnt stop him from doing his own building and renovations on our 100 year old house and any plumbing and wiring and electrical repairs and improvising/inventing anything he needed but didnt have...
and that didnt stop him from teaching himself how to can trout at home so he could eat the trout he caught all year round...(thats for the fishermen)
Our family was well off because my father was a self educated and motivated man...
And all his siblings were successful and wealthy adults too...
One went on to be the matron of a large hospital...
The lack of formal education in 1920 was not a hinderance to my father who rejected all mormonism types of cultish beliefs...
What was also lacking in Joey Smith in 1830 that he never could hold down a regular job but had to be a con artist ???
My mother never went to high school but she taught me how to read and write...when I started school at five, I only stayed in Kindergarten a few weeks...I skipped classes and did the first 4 grades in 2 years...my mother had prepared me for school so well..
My mother could write desciptive passages about people and places better than many published authors.....When she would write to me about weddings etc, I felt like I was there and saw it all for myself...
Both my parents spoke and wrote very good English...and insisted that we did too..
Near where I live now is a self made multi millionre who dropped out of school in the 6th Grade...His family were Baptists...(How coulod that be???)
President Abraham Lincoln never had much formal education...and yet he was a vety good orator, and clever attorney...and got himself elected to the IL legislature and then as POTUS...How did he do that without reading the book of mormon ???
Yes Joey Smith was uneducated...But for him it wasnt a virtue...
It was because he was lazy and thought the world owed him something for nothing...He and his family were con artists who were deep into the occult and Tarot card reading and money digging...
Many successful people have started out people have been uneducated but they werent child rapists, bank scam artists, and murderers and mutilaters like Joey Smith...
The only males my father ever castrated were the cats and the lambs...
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