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To: John McDonnell
John, let me be brutally honest with the Book of Mormon accounts.

There's been a certain case in Utah, where a man kidnapped a teen-age girl, claimed to make her his "wife," and raped her daily.

Now, I suppose if we had access to this perp's "journal" during the kidnapping ordeal, journals like those in the lds and flds cultures are encouraged to keep, we might find some "compassionate" and "tender" entry on a particular day of how he "loved" his "wife."

But would that match overall reality? Even if one account could be truthfully rendered as to how "tender" he was toward his victim on a specific day, much like how "tender" the Book of Mormon jesus (who is not THE Jesus), that would not in any way, shape, or form offset what this rapist did to this victim.

So, likewise, for you to publish this section of verses, without bothering to mention that "Oh, BTW, the Book of Mormon jesus then proceeded to burn, drown, and bury them alive" is a major "joke" of a presentation by you!

What you have done would be tantamount to Joseph Smith taking the Upper room scene, where He was most tender toward the disciples, washing their feet, loving them with a servant-leaders' love...and then "JSTing"/"Inspired Versioning" it to death by adding a scene where the Smithian Jesus proceeds then to go downstairs, round up the townspeople, and proceed to burn, drown and bury them alive.

Do you think if Smith added such a scene to the JST/IV that people would come away reading that, "Oh, how 'stunningly beautiful.' How 'compassionate.' How 'tender.'"???

You can't wrestle one portion of 3 Nephi out of context with the 3 Nephi chapters 8-12! Because if you do, then you present a partial picture. It misrepresents the Book of Mormon jesus.

511 posted on 05/30/2010 9:17:11 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian
So, likewise, for you to publish this section of verses, without bothering to mention that "Oh, BTW, the Book of Mormon jesus then proceeded to burn, drown, and bury them alive" is a major "joke" of a presentation by you!

The destructions that occurred in Mesoamerica during the time that Jesus was suffering on the cross happened about a year prior to Christ visiting His people in Mesoamerica and blessing their children, as I have quoted from 3 Nephi. So your "jesus then proceeded to burn, drown, and bury" is a misrepresentation. The people who were destroyed a year earlier had been exceedingly wicked. The people that Jesus Christ came to minister to were Christians. They were at a religious gathering near the temple in the Land Bountiful when Jesus Christ descended from heaven to teach them in fulfillment of His promise in John 10:16: "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice..."

517 posted on 05/30/2010 10:01:12 AM PDT by John McDonnell
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