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"And I, Nephi, did build a temple; and I did construct it after the manner of the temple of Solomon" Later in the Book of Mormon, Smith yet again, brings up the concept of "after the manner" to prove his claim that construction of a particular item, whether a temple or a sword, is being duplicated ...

In the manner of could be meaning purpose and function. It could have been much smaller made of wood and adobe. But that's not what the record claims and Smith made no allusion to such things. The after the manner is clearly a pattern in showing what kind of "construction" they undertook in duplica...

Fun fact-based tidbits from the Web: Experts believe stones as long as 24 feet were extracted from the quarry and then dragged by oxen to building sites in Jerusalem for major projects such as Solomon's temple. Solomon had seventy thousand laborers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill count...

What might construction at a massive stone building look like in Nephi's day? With Nephi, Sam, Zoram, Jacob, Joseph, and the kids working on the temple every day, year after year, that leaves little time for anything else such as hunting food, raising crops, building homes, and attending to all the...

Can Stephen actually imagine Nephi, Sam, Zoram, and their band of children constructing a building after the manner of the temple of Solomon? The ruins shown in the picture were in Israel not the Yucatan. Smoot was demonstrating that building technology was present in that part of the world. If suc...

1) How were thousands of stones cut and transported to the temple site? 2) How were thousands of stones lifted and set in place? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57125c2c2b8dde54a34b537f/1567428707718-GJ7O6O49Z7Y05LWSGBSF/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kJQyhJNCPFaF3z6oMQ5KwFtZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQ...

Let's suppose this is Nephi's temple. This is an enormous undertaking requiring the services of a fulltime crew possessing many skills having to do with construction, stone cutting, material handling, mathematics, and so forth. It is an enormous undertaking that will require countless hours of manua...

Sic et Non “Another Temple in Judah!” and another victory for the Book of Mormon :roll: One of the criticisms often leveled against the Book of Mormon is that no Jew would have built a temple outside of Jerusalem. Yet Nephi does just that, sometime in the early sixth century before Christ: I could ...

I interrupt this thread in order to bring you a special message from Mormon Defender, Stephen Smoot. I'm afraid that Stephen is chasing shadows and playing a game which he has already lost. Can Stephen actually imagine Nephi, Sam, Zoram, and their band of children constructing a building after the m...

16 And I, Nephi, did build a temple; and I did construct it after the manner of the temple of Solomon save it were not built of so many precious things; for they were not to be found upon the land, wherefore, it could not be built like unto Solomon’s temple. But the manner of the construction was l...