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I don’t think the plan will be to covert the Kirtland temple into a functioning temple for the modern endowment. The temple is a National Historic Landmark and likely will be preserved as is. Being on the register as a National Landmark does not necessarily mean it can't be used as a Temple, in fac...

Philo Sofee wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:16 am

Such an astonishing lack of vision..... but hey, we gettin' PAID!!! You can buy anything in this world for money.

Reverse engineering this, is the CoC saying good bye to Joseph?

"It will not be converted into a functioning Latter-day Saint temple."

????? Why then???? Are they going to just offer free tours? Maybe have one of those coin things where you pay a quarter to stick a penny in it and get a stamped out replica of the Temple?

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...

Bret Ripley wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:08 pm

Dr. Shades wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:45 am

"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...