No because its been answered many times in pass but if is a favorite that like to resurface now and than!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1555210/posts
I think the Avenging Angel asked that question too!
Do you Colofornian remember the Avenging Angel?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1582827/replies?c=147
Who was banned for the various things he tried to say to me a while back?
Any way when the same old same (FR, especially hostile X-er's) asked the same old same old quesition I wonder what is their real agenda is it answers or just another opportunity to try to poison the water!
Avenging Angel? Orrin Porter Rockwell was once a poster at FR? Wow, I thought he was dead. If he's still around after all these years, he must be one of the three Nephites who will never die. LOL
Rather convenient, don't you think?
The other link you put up mentions the IRR content, but the IRR content is in reality BoM content.
Do you want to explain your own personal belief why it is that "the Son of" has been inserted into three BoM passages that was not in the 1830 version?
Do you want to explain your own personal belief as why later editors of the BoM changed kings in the text?
Do you want to explain your own personal belief as to why the BoM even has post-dictation editors?
Do you want to explain your own personal beliefs as to why a man-turned-angel named Nephi [and if Nephi was such a great man, why didn't he become a god?...in fact, that's a curious evolution: man to angel? do you believe you could become an angel?] would bother to painstakingly record on gold plates the phrase "and it came to pass" at least 999 times when such a phrase would be a cumbersome phrase to etch in gold?
For the record LDS authors like Brant A. Gardner concede that the BoM uses the phrase 999 times and that "that 'and it came to pass' appears to be even more prevalent in that edition that it does in the modern version
Haven't you ever been round a campfire when you just knew that somebody telling "The Legend of XYZ" was making it up on the spot...and that by throwing out excess baggage words, it gave them time to construct what was going to come next? If I was making up a new historical book, and I had to figure what "boogie men" were next going to fight God's righteous tribes, I think inserting the phrase, "and it came to pass" 1,000 times would give me just enough time to throw something together. And you know what, that phrase in my story would be more common in the beginning because it's harder when you're starting from scratch and you have to develop all the characters.
Well, surprise, surprise. 1 Nephi has the phrase in the 37 of its 49 chapters!
I have to ask you....
Why in the world do you continue to spark debate on this subject....And then wonder why you are getting fires?