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Trump uses words like 'evidence' the same way Smith used words like 'translate'.

Link? https://www.amazon.com/Pressing-Forward-Book-Abraham-Interpreter-ebook/dp/B07C85SLMC The date says 2018 but for some reason he was presenting it at the 2023 fair conference. Thanks Drumdude but your Amazon link is for an Interpreter review that Smoot did of Gee's horrible 2017 Book of Abraham...

drumdude wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:03 pm

Steven “Bukake” Smoot has a new book out which explains everything. I wonder if anyone has picked it up yet.

Link?

Link is not working for me.

What is his name?

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Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:08 pm

Interesting! When was he in the MTC?

I have a hypothesis that because of MTC culture, they are reluctant to make very many changes or updates to how they teach languages. I'd love to be proven wrong on that, though.

It has been 20 years since he was in the MTC.

I have a son who served a Spanish mission and now works as a linguist in the military. He learned a third language in the military. He taught languages at both the MTC and in the military. for what it's worth he thinks the military training is much better than how the Church taught him.

I am sure most already know this but the apocrypha in the Bible used by Smith had the name Nephi in it. Etymology of Nephi Based on a non-Latter Day Saint or secular perspective, hypotheses for the name's origin include: its appearance as a geographic name in 2 Maccabees of the Apocrypha ("And Neemi...

Your last link is broken.

Ben is giving me a headache He latest contribution on the MAD board "1: In their original context, I don't think that there was anything to do with Abraham on the papyri. I think that we could speculate endlessly about why Joseph Smith connected the papyri to Abraham - but, once he did so, he repur...

There is no evidence linking the Americas (or any other land) to the Book of Mormon. None. Any attempts to do so have been the same as trying to prove the Hobbit actually occurred in New Zealand.