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Your #1754 again: Also, you totally sidestepped the issue of archeological evidence for great, advanced civilizations and battles between them in this new world. Nothing. There's nothing.

Take a look at Jeff Lindsay's Book of Mormon Evidences page for starters. (You have to read the whole thing, and you have to read the entire Book of Mormon twice, and compare the two in meticulous detail, before you try to claim with any credibility at all that there's nothing.) There's plenty!

But ask yourself. Your testimony, your witness, your inner knowing, that the Bible is the Word of God -- is it founded on Biblical archaeology? Does it depend on finding evidence in Jericho that walls fell down flat, or finding the pebble that killed Goliath, or a sword once used by David, or the fig tree that withered, or the Holy Grail, the cup used at the Last Supper?

Arafat says there never was a Temple on Mount Moriah where the Al Aqsa Mosque now stands, and some Israelis are worried that Palestinian mosque-building efforts there will destroy ancient Temple artifacts. Do you think they will ever prove to Arafat's satisfaction through archaeology that Solomon built a Temple there? Does your belief in the Bible depend on such things? Of course not. If so, your faith would be built on shifting sand.

Even though the spirits come to us as angels of light, we are to ignore them. At least that's what scripture says. The Book of Hebrews: When Christ finished His work here on earth (and what exactly were His dying words?)He ascended to His rightful place at the right hand of God. There was no more reason, according to scripture, for Him to incarnate. The Apostles were to teach the disciples and the disciples are to fulfill the Great Commission, to every land.

The stick of Joseph: Already passed in the New Testament, by the Messiah Jesus Christ, to the woman at the well, Samaria, Ephraim. It's not the Indians of North America who are Ephraim. Ephraim's well -- given to him by Jacob. Study the completed scripture, learn and understand. The elect are in all nations-- that's a tenet of the scripture, and I myself believe that some of the Indians of NA are conceivably of lost tribes, but the genetics right now, point to Asians and Indonesians. Still who knows? Ship travel was extensive. I believe that every true believer is elect and a member of the lost tribes, spiritually, possible even physically. Scripture doesn't contradict it. Ephraim got his stick long before they came here. Study and learn.

Does it depend on finding evidence in Jericho that walls fell down flat, or finding the pebble that killed Goliath, or a sword once used by David, or the fig tree that withered, or the Holy Grail, the cup used at the Last Supper?

If the book said there was a land of brigadoon far to the east of OZ, it'd make me wonder if no one ever found evidence of them anyplace at all.

If the book said there was a city of Bethlehem close by Jerusalem, and I didn't find them there, that'd make me wonder, too.

Guess what....they're there.

Now what are some city names in the Book of Mormon?