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That would be a huge under taking. Are you going to be the chief editor?

Good luck, I would be happy to add my meagre remembrances, from an ex Mo./Evangelical/conservative/workingman perspective. I believe a sample of what you might be looking for, from your journey, would help?

What cracks me up is that in Lehi's Journey the apologist's use strict direction points as we do today (1 Nephi 16:13), but once they get into the LGT... real north is east, real south is west, real west is north, and real east is south, or something like that. One moplogist map I read calls East, "...

It was in my opinion part of his con, again con meaning always looking for an angle. It would have been interesting to see where he would have went with this if he was not murdered...The Book of Joseph? Yes, well, I do not see him as a simple con man. He is too consistent in his system to be a mere...

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"ADHA" = "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Aisorder?"

"Attention Deficit Homewners Association"? They get snarky if you finish mowing your lawn?

LOL, for me, because I have a little Mr. Monk in me, I get snarky if I do not end up with an even last run when mowing my lawns.

My point was that language evolves so much, in order to keep an original text it needs to be updated for accuracy, which Dr. Ritner pointed out in the 13 hour MS/RFM interview. I agree. Smith consistently relied on a very limited 19th century view of the world to produce scripture. And, I think, he...

Actually, it didn't even happen in New York then either. It was another story made up by Smith and Harris. In an 1844 letter from Charles Anthon to a Reverend William E. Vibbert, Anthon states: My remark was flippant remark about Joseph Smith as a translator...but I stand corrected; Vermont or New ...

So, back to my point about the Book of Abraham being in Greek. In order for the original text to have been written by Abraham and transmitted 1600 years it would have to have been copied at least a few times during that period as it is not believable that a single original version was kept by the E...

This is interesting. I find this really interesting...and adding to it that Simon wrote that the Journal is not exactly a five star publication... "He (Wade Miller) created a manuscript that was not accepted for publication and having later read it, I understand why. " To me it shows that Miller wa...

Hey, Markk- Yes, this is a good point. It was definitely to Smith’s advantage that few people existed who could actually read some Egyptian. Of course, the mummies came to him. The advertisement on the side of Chandler’s wagon identified them as coming from the time of the Patriarchs. This really c...

Well I would argue that because Chandler was dealing in Egyptian antiquity You only know Chandler was dealing in Egyptian antiquity, and it is only significant, after the fact. What other things were going on around this time that he could have selected as the next fraud? Well I don't think his con...