Book of Mormon Geography

[Shulem]

You don’t believe in the RLDS Hemispheric model, which lead to the RLDS Two Cumorah Mesoamerican theory, copyrighted by L.E. Hills?

DCP and Jack Welch will call you an Apostate. Along with Heartlanders.

Nope, I do not believe in the Hemispheric or Mesoamerican models and I do not care what DCP, Welch, and Heartlanders think of me. I do no care about L.E. Hills.

I hope that answers your questions.

[TwoCumorahFraud]

You don’t believe in the RLDS Hemispheric model, which lead to the RLDS Two Cumorah Mesoamerican theory, copyrighted by L.E. Hills?

DCP and Jack Welch will call you an Apostate. Along with Heartlanders.

Nope, I do not believe in the Hemispheric or Mesoamerican models and I do not care what DCP, Welch, and Heartlanders think of me. I do no care about L.E. Hills.

I hope that answers your questions.

That’s good.
But, why don’t you care about L.E. Hills? He’s the one who invented M2C.
It’s being promoted by Welch and DCP in Utah.
And two RLDS groups in Missouri.
It didn’t come from nothing.

You can then discuss intelligently that the Reorganized Church reorganized the Geography of The Book of Mormon, instead of a 45-page tome of random thoughts.

And Sorenson ripped it off.
And his Mormon’s Codex books should be thrown into the nearest recycle bins to help save the Guatemalan rain forests.

President Joseph Fielding Smith warned against this trash:
https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1917mapArticle

[Shulem]

But, why don’t you care about L.E. Hills? He’s the one who invented M2C.
It’s being promoted by Welch and DCP in Utah.
And two RLDS groups in Missouri.
It didn’t come from nothing.

You can then discuss intelligently that the Reorganized Church reorganized the Geography of The Book of Mormon, instead of a 45-page tome of random thoughts.

Two,

It has not been my purpose to dive into negative attacks against the false models of the Book of Mormon, namely: Hemispheric, Mesoamerican, and Heartland. Although I have mentioned them on several occasions in my threads and recognize the various issues as they interrelate with the arguments. What I’m trying to say is that I want to keep this thread as positive as possible and my main interest is to spark interest and promote Delmarva as the real deal.

Again, I don’t care how Utah scholars steal from the RLDS and have no interest in getting into details on their accounts. I’m only concerned about Delmarva and showing how it was Joseph Smith’s private and personal model in which he worked with. You can take it or leave it. I don’t care one way or the other.

[Shulem]

Daniel Peterson discusses the possibility of Joseph Smith using a map to aid in producing Book of Mormon geography and stumbles upon the truth that ultimately leads to the peninsula of Delmarva:

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There are so many places you can trip up by messing up a reference flubbing the geography -- you got all these place names and descriptors that you’ve got to keep straight. You have to have some sort of internal map in your mind, OR HAVE IT BE A REAL MAP! I mean I could talk real consistently about the geography of the western United States and am not going to mess it up because it’s real and exists subjectively outside of me, I know that Montana is north of Utah, Arizona is to the south and I’m not likely to mess that up but if it’s an entirely imaginary map I’m going to forget what was north of what? And where was this river? And even without thinking about it I’ll put the river somewhere where it simply can’t be or I’ll put a town to the west where it should be to the east or something like that.

Dan,

I agree, in order for one to keep all that information straight and in good working order one would need some sort of internal map in their mind or have it be a real map. And remember, north is always north and south is always south! Likewise, west is west and east is east! So, in that vein, suppose Joseph was looking at a map of Mexico and evaluated the geography of the Tehuantepec neck. Do you suppose he would label the Pacific ocean as sea south or sea west? Which one, Dan? Do recall that in the Book of Mormon the narrow neck was in-between sea west & sea east, respectfully, therefore sea south would have no bearing along the narrow neck of the Book of Mormon! Right?

[Shulem]

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Geographic picture, it’s a consistent coherent geographical picture indicating that whoever wrote the Book of Mormon HAD A MAP in his mind. Now it’s more plausible to me to believe it’s a real map in Mormon’s mind than a hypothetical map never sketched out not hanging on the wall where he’s dictating so he can look up and say, “Oh yeah, yeah, that’s right, Zarahemla’s here.” It’s easier for me to believe that it reflects a real geography as conceived by the authors. But certainly it’s an impressive feat to keep the geography straight.

I have no doubt that the author of the Book of Mormon used a map -- consisting of the Delmarva peninsula and the northern lands leading up to the Great Lakes. Everything I have been able to piece together shows how Delmarva fits the bill perfectly in describing the basic landform and how it relates to the flow of what took place in the stories.

How about you, Dan, what do you think of Delmarva?

[Moksha]

Rumor has it that Dr. Peterson will be leading a Book of Mormon tour to the Chicken Pizza ruins of Mexico to possibly unearth the second Hill Cumorah.