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The Book of Mormon isn't a text in the oral tradition which is what all of the other texts he mentions are or were--at one time or another. To be a work that's considered to be in the oral tradition, the work needs to have been passed from generation to generation without having been written down. ...

drumdude wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 17, 2023 1:49 am

MG 2.0 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 17, 2023 1:45 am

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Marcus, did I miss your answers/comments?

Regards,
MG

I hope she doesn’t answer you after you called her the “board nanny.”

Shame on you, MG. You are better than that.

I’m afraid that’s exactly what I think/meant. So I said it.

Regards,
MG

MG, it seems as though you decided not to finish the Lundwall presentation and find out what he had to say. Perhaps his observations are things you would rather not consider. No I haven’t finished it. If he talked about ‘loose translation’ I’d be interested in skipping to that part though. If I rem...

Yes it is. Your comments over on the “If Plates, Then God” thread lead me to think you are not aware of or are unwilling to accept that evidence. Regards, MG There’s that nasty little habit of yours again - snipping quotes. Stop it. Here’s what I actually said… The only reliable evidence available ...

Have you no shame? 80-90% of your responses to me are large volume cut and pastes. For being such a smart person (you do work in the academy from what I seem to remember) you sure do some dumb things. Any substantive original response to the post made upthread to PG? https://discussmormonism.com/vi...

I can only speak for myself, but I'm not going to bother to take any part of your gish gallop seriously unless you actually attach the sources for each part you quoted. Here you go, Marcus. Hope this helps. "a unified, coherent, history-like narrative of nearly 270,000 words and almost 200 named ch...

I Have Questions wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:23 am

The only reliable evidence available to us is the book itself. It’s testable.

Yes it is. Your comments over on the “If Plates, Then God” thread lead me to think you are not aware of or are unwilling to accept that evidence.

Regards,
MG

It’s amazing (well maybe not so much) that you are able to concisely explain how the Book of Mormon was created whilst at the same time ignoring all that has been written to the contrary that would poke holes in your one sentence shrink wrapped conclusion. And critics criticize believers for suppos...

*snip whole post Have you no shame? 80-90% of your responses to me are large volume cut and pastes. For being such a smart person (you do work in the academy from what I seem to remember) you sure do some dumb things. Any substantive original response to the post made upthread to PG? https://discus...

I don't understand what point you're making with these phrases, "one trick pony" and "flash in the pan". For one thing I think you may be misusing "flash in the pan". Something that happened only once or for a short time and was not repeated. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/flas...