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- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Elder Holland may not be Secondly Anointed?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2059
Re: Elder Holland may not be Secondly Anointed?
It's a shame, in a way, Smith died when he did. Can you imagine how many people are missing out on their 3rd, 4th, 5th ... anointings?
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Mormons arguing that “Mormon” is as derogatory as the N-word
- Replies: 90
- Views: 3647
Re: Mormons arguing that “Mormon” is as derogatory as the N-word
I assume everyone is sitting alone on their computers or phones. Maybe no one is around but the dog or cat. Maybe a house plant or a clown chotchke. You're totally alone. Say "Mormon". Easy. Now say the "N" word. Did you say the "N" word? No right? Then stop it with these comparisons. I'm alone. I ...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Mormons arguing that “Mormon” is as derogatory as the N-word
- Replies: 90
- Views: 3647
Re: Mormons arguing that “Mormon” is as derogatory as the N-word
So when this guy hears them introduce the choir at General Conference he thinks to himself they are saying the equivalent of "N-word Tabernacle Choir"? And what about the "Book of N-word"? Mormons Oneandonlytrueandlivingchurchofjesuschristians are getting weirder by the minute (Hinckley's protestat...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Latter-day Saints have the highest rate of weekly church attendance
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1150
Re: Latter-day Saints have the highest rate of weekly church attendance
Simple math will tell you that this percentage is not based on the membership numbers the church reports. Church claims 17,000,000 members. Church says there are about 24,000 wards. 17,000,000 divided by 24,000 = 708 members per ward. 708 x 67% = 481 members in the pews each week. My guess that even...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Temple Sealings of Dead People who Were Married More than Once
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1771
Re: Temple Sealings of Dead People that Were Married More than Once
The devil is in the details. For fun, try and get a Mormon to explain how it’s all going work. Very quickly they’ll turn to “God will sort it all out, we just need to have faith” as a way of ending the chat. It always leads to that, at which point I ask: "What is the point of claiming to possess Go...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Why was the Book of Abraham written in Egyptian and not in Greek?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3092
Re: Why was the Book of Abraham written in Egyptian and not in Greek?
I believe that the LDS Apologist position has been that when the Book of Abraham was taken to Egypt, it was translated in Egyptian there. LDS Apologist John Gee stated : Nothing compels us to assume that the book of Abraham must necessarily have been written by Abraham in Egyptian and preserved in ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Why was the Book of Abraham written in Egyptian and not in Greek?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3092
Re: Why was the Book of Abraham written in Egyptian and not in Greek?
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...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Why was the Book of Abraham written in Egyptian and not in Greek?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3092
Re: Why was the Book of Abraham written in Egyptian and not in Greek?
I would think that over the 1600 years a new copy would need to be updated at least every century or so, if not sooner, just to keep it close. Asking a person to translate something they can't read only happened in 19th century New York. Actually, it didn't even happen in New York then either. It w...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Why was the Book of Abraham written in Egyptian and not in Greek?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3092
Re: Why was the Book of Abraham written in Egyptian and not in Greek?
fence sitter, I thought the idea was the book was written by Abraham who lived well before Greek had significant presence in Egypt. (Kishkumen, if that simple jump to a conclusion is wrong, please advise me.) Kishkumen has interesting observations about an Egyptian instead of a Canaanite family lan...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Why was the Book of Abraham written in Egyptian and not in Greek?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3092
Re: Why was the Book of Abraham written in Egyptian and not in Greek?
Thanks Kishkumen, I also recommend Scott Trafton's Egypt Land on 19th century Egyptomania and Race. I do understand why Smith made such a claim. I should have been clearer in my OP. My remarks were directed at those who are still trying to defend Smith's claim that he translated the Book of Abraham ...