I've read your threads as I have found them. So if I ask a question, it's probably because 1. I missed one somewhere (this forum is a big place) or, 2. I didn't understand and/or agree with your argument. As it has been with the Alma 22 length vs width discussion above -- I saw your maps but they didn't compute for me and I'm looking to understand your points.Shulem wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 1:30 pmI simply cannot understand why you are asking me “Where are we informed that also ‘the length of the neck from north to south only took a day and a half to traverse’”? I have explained it in my threads time and time again repeatedly. Read the threads and open your eyes, please.
Read the threads!!
In Alma 22:32, Mormon (not Alma) is not telling us how long it takes to walk from Bountiful to Desolation. He is telling us about the width of the Land of Nephi and Zarahemla and the land northward and the land southward in comparison to the small neck of land. That's why he ends the verse with:Shulem wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 1:30 pmAlma wanted his readers to know how long the neck was in correspondence to where Bountiful was aligned on its northern boundary at the base of the neck to that of Desolation which began at the top of the narrow neck which was one and a half day’s march northward. The neck is thus one and a half day long.
"and thus the land of Nephi and the land of Zarahemla were nearly surrounded by water, there being a small neck of land between the land northward and the land southward."
Since Mormon is trying to communicate that there's a narrow neck between a landmass in the north and a landmass in the south, he needs to compare the width, not the length, of those landmasses. So he tells us how long it takes a Nephite to walk "on the line Bountiful and the land Desolation, from the east to the west sea". This is a "line", like a border, as confirmed in 3 Nephi 3:23:
"And the land which was appointed was the land of Zarahemla, and the land which was between the land Zarahemla and the land Bountiful, yea, to the line which was between the land Bountiful and the land Desolation."
From your previous comments and maps it looks like you are saying there is a landmass with a Line Bountiful in the south and there is a landmass named Desolation in the north. Between them is a no-man's-land that Mormon tells us takes 1.5 days to walk through.
Am I understanding you correctly? Are you saying that there is a 1.5 day space between northern Bountiful and southern Desolation?