So where is the documentation and the proofs? Fact of the matter is mesoamerican history has been studed, explored and evaluated in great detail - yet not one undisputed piece of evidence of hebraic/egyptian culture has been found - nada, zero, zip. The fact is that the LGT area as progressively gotten smaller and smaller over time why - because these 'tantalizing' traces are only figments of the imagination and have not borne fruit under critical scientific study. Furthermore, this is not a single disciplinary study - but multi-disciplinary encompassing dna, anthropology, archaeology, linguistic, paleontology and geology just to name a few. So your statement that we still know 'very little' is no longer valid. There have been no cultures with advanced metallurgy, horses, old world crops, chariots (and other wheeled carts), concrete etc found - period.
For example, there are various schools of thoughts on when and where the hemisphere was first inhabited, ranging all over the map and from 7-25,000 years
You apparently are not familar with the bom story - most of which is focused on 350 BC - 600 AD.
ain't no pal of Joseph Smith, but I am definitely cutting Old Joe all possible slack on this particular subject ... and wish all of my Mormon friends debating the various controversies good luck and thanks for looking in to it.
There is no slack to 'cut'. Joseph smith claimed that the amerindians of his day were descendants of the hebrew party that arrived in the americas 350 bc. This has been shown to be false. Since smith 'made up' the story (lied), the rest of his 'revelations' are at best highly questionable and should cause all mormons to stop and think.
There is no slack to ‘cut’. Joseph smith claimed that the amerindians of his day were descendants of the hebrew party that arrived in the americas 350 bc. This has been shown to be false.
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Joey Smith also claimed that Jesus visited America abd spent most of His time here during the 40 days after He rose again from the dead...
However His time is all accounted for in the Bible...He spent His time with His disciples and there is no mention that he was absent for any length of time...
It was important to Him to spend as much time as He could with the ones He had taught for 3 1/2 years so that He coulod instruct them on what to do next...
He sent out His disciples to preach the Gospel...
His work was done when He said “It is finished...”
He never went anywhere but Israel before He ascended back into Heaven from where He had come and he had always been previously..