“The account of the birth of Christ in the Book of Mormon was given by people who had never been to Jerusalem and had never heard of Bethlaham. But they knew of Jerusalem from the records that were passed down to them. Understand the audiance of who they are speaking. It’s in the land of Jerusalem..Over there where we originally came from.”
I thought mormonites believed that the book of mormon was inspired by God- directly translated by God as Joe looked into his hat and the words appeared to him miraculously.
Had God forgotten that day what He prophesied in Micah - the specific small town and specific area of the clan of David?
Sorry, but your explanation points out God had nothing to do with the book of mormon. The mormon god (created spirit being who used to be a man), just didn’t know what God (the Real God, eternally God, neither created nor made) had said.
That is the downside of a created god...
And yet Bethlehem is mentioned by Moses waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in Genesis while Jerusalem is not mentioned until AFTER Moses had been dead for years...
Genesis 35:19
New International Version (©1984)
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
New Living Translation (©2007)
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
English Standard Version (©2001)
So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
King James Bible
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem.
American King James Version
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
American Standard Version
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
Bible in Basic English
So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).
Douay-Rheims Bible
So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, that is Bethlehem.
Darby Bible Translation
And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
English Revised Version
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
Webster’s Bible Translation
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
World English Bible
Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).
Young’s Literal Translation
and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which is Bethlehem,
Ruth 4:11 Then the elders and all those at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.
1 Samuel 17:12 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul’s time he was old and well advanced in years.
Micah 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: “’But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.’” Matthew 2:4-6
John 7:42 Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from David’s family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”
And Jerusalem...
First found yeaars later in joshua 10:1...
Now Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and totally destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon had made a treaty of peace with Israel and were living near them.
Now, if the mythical characters in Joey Smiths head had records that mentioned Jerusalem, why were all those records in the Old Testament that mentioned Bethlehem missing ???
The book of mormon was “as far as it is translated correctly” and had those precious parts missing ???
Oh noez...