Mamelukesabre only offered a single context (100 years ago) -- which failed to address ANY of the three potentially realistic contexts.
In post #21, I offered three contexts -- according to how people interpret the Book of Mormon:
(a) The English language as of 1830...182 years ago (not 100)
(b) The supposed "Reformed Egyptian" source of 2,600 years ago...which can't be changed minus having the original "gold plates" to relook @ it...
(c) The BEST context we have -- which is how that same phrase is used within the same supposed author -- Nephi -- in the same book within the Book of Mormon (2 Nephi)
And in post #21, 2 Nephi 5:21 clearly shows that Mamelukesabre avoided the best "contextual" evidence there is...how that "author" (supposedly "Nephi") -- meant those words in similar contexts!
This same contextual interpretation is used by those who study the Bible...If you want to further know how a Biblical author used a word or phrase, take at look at how he also used it in other contexts.
You, Volunbeer, and mamelukesabre flunk basic hermeneutics.
It would not be the first time I flunked something.
Playing with context over specific words is a nitpicking game. The fraud of the tablets among other plagiarism of Masonic rituals and other things in the book of Mormon along with the life story of Joseph Smith are the reasons I dismiss Mormonism. I did not need to play word games to dismiss it.
This is the kind of attacks the left specializes in where you can infer anything by simply changing the context. Did you believe that Trent Lott was praising the historical racism of Strom Thurmond by using nice words at a celebration that had nothing to do with views held decades before?
To me it’s the same kind of attack that is subject to interpretation. It’s not necessary given the major theological disagreements that I have with the LDS faith. I know for a fact given my families history in rural Appalachia that many elders of church congregations were active members in the KKK. They were wrong and I believe they were opposed to biblical teaching. They believed themselves to be right within the times during which they lived. That is historical context and I don’t blame my generation for the actions of previous generations. That is as silly as the idea of reparations to me, but I obviously don’t feel as strongly about all of this as you do.