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Bradley's chapter six ends with a well succinct description of the historical setting that existed in Israel prior to Lehi's departure into the wilderness. He describes Lehi as their Moses who set out to found a new promised land. Later, under Nephi, they would build what would be likened to a new J...

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Did Smith, or anybody involved in the production of the Book of Mormon, or anybody that ever spoke with anybody involved in the production of the Book of Mormon, ever mention anything at all related to the Delmarva Peninsula? To my knowledge, Smith never mentioned his SECRET to anyone but kept it e...

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Tue Mar 28, 2023 3:23 am

At what point do you think he lost confidence that there would be evidence of his story in Delmarva?

You just don't get it, do you? Smith never lost what he never had. He was never at anytime confident that there were ruins to support his story. It was all a lie.

Except for that time when he found a leg bone and launched into an elaborate story that was intended to serve as physical proof for his followers that the Plains of the Nephites were near Illinois, not Delmarva. He wrote this to Emma: " The whole of our journey, in the midst of so large a company o...

Okay, so Bradley continues discussing the differences between narratives given in first-person and third-person and how the missing manuscript can compare to the replacement that is within the covers of our existing Book of Mormon. He touches on when Mormon makes his introductions and more on the so...

Shulem, In all your researching, studying, and ponderizing did you ever get a sense for when Joseph Smith dropped the idea of a novelization of his story to adapting a ‘golden bible’ story revealed by god and intended as a religious artifact? - Doc That is a huge question and very loaded and one wh...

But why? If Delmarva was the location of Smith's promised land, then why be tight-lipped about it? The only reasons I can see for Smith keeping the map he used a secret would be because (1) he didn't want people to know where the Promised Land really was, or (2) the geography of the text was totall...

I thought Neville’s claim of Zarahemla being in Mississippi was interesting, in that I never heard of that before. The Book of Mormon does not support the idea of Sea West being a fresh body of river water that can be rightly called a "sea." This is one of the links in the Heartland theory that can...

Well we can't all be right about everything... but that is what makes discussing all ideas so important and fun. And it is fun! You know as well as I do that Smith was into covering things up and adapting to whatever means that helped move his cause. If the Pratts were happy about South America and...