Church scholars recognize that pyramid building in the ancient Egyptian civilization goes back a long way in the historical timeline. In fact, they are well aware that it greatly exceeds the 2,400 BC mark of Noah’s flood as chronicled in the Jewish Bible. The first pyramid of significance was the
Pyramid of Djoser built in the 2600’s BC and towered over the earlier Mastabas built by early dynastic kings. Equally, church scholars are aware that it exceeds Joseph Smith’s accounting of
*when* the Egyptian civilization was born as given in the Book of Abraham --
Ham via Egyptus & her son Pharaoh.
Bible Dictionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints wrote:
Egypt
This country was known to the Hebrews as Mizraim. The origin of the Greek name by which we call it is uncertain. The kingdom of Egypt was formed by the union under a single sovereign, the Pharaoh (“Great House”), of a number of districts, often divided by local jealousies and by differences of religious belief. The policy of the Pharaohs was to overcome these forces of disunion by a well-organized central administration and by a single state religion that should provide for the worship of all the various local deities. Church and state were closely knit together, and the priests formed a most influential class and a chief stay of the throne (Gen. 47:22). The country was rich and prosperous, and great public works were executed, including canals for irrigation, strong cities for defense, and royal monuments, especially tombs and temples, which are still among the wonders of the world. The state religion was much occupied with thoughts of the life after death, and Osiris, the god of the dead, is the most prominent of all the Egyptian deities. The safety of the soul after death was believed to depend on the care taken of the dead body. Hence the practice of embalming and the pains spent on providing safe and splendid tombs. The great pyramids are the tombs of early kings belonging to what is generally called the Old Empire.
The pyramid builders, who reigned at Memphis at least 3,000 years before Christ, were followed by a series of princes who reigned in Thebes.
Clearly, the forked tongue of church scholars proves their guilt in presenting history with a double-tongued mouth in which the Church is guilty of lying! This has been going on for a long time and I’m now calling out the Church and pointing my finger straight in the face of the Church that has been telling these lies for many years hoping not to get caught. Egyptologists Gee & Muhlestein are equally guilty of maintaining this coverup. But the Backyard Professor is going to sound it out long and loud on the housetop! Every ear will hear it and the apologists and the whole Church will shudder!
And now, for a special treat to reward those who are reading this thread and following along. I want to add something of significance regarding the anachronism of the word
Pharaoh being used wrongly in the Book of Abraham. This point of contention has been argued but all non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the word Pharaoh used in the Book of Abraham is an anachronism. So, I feel this point that I now raise is highly germane to this thread.
Most everyone reading this thread knows that the word
Pharaoh means literally
“Great House” as in the physical plan of a house or a building in which a person or family resides. The name title of Pharaoh was given to kings much later in dynastic Egypt and referenced the king’s palace in which he lived, that palace was GREAT and spacious.
In consideration to
Egyptus who named her son
“Pharaoh,” we must ask ourselves
*why* would she do that? Were they not nomads wandering away from Mount Ararat to discover the marshy land of the Delta under water in hopes of finding a new home? Why would Egyptus who didn’t even have a proper house in which to reside name her son “GREAT HOUSE?” It makes no sense at all that this wandering woman would name her son with the title of Pharoah=Great House when she didn’t even have a house and neither did her son!
Psyche! Think about that.
Philo, are you still there?