DCP: "Film makes Lehi's journey real"
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:42 pm
Wait, so are we back to believing that the Lamanites and Nephites were real?
http://www.mormontimes.com/article/2081 ... urney-real
Warning, large forehead.
I like this quote because I'm sure they're betting on it:
Ok, so we're back to it being Guatemala?
32 scholars eh? I'm betting they are all card carrying Mormons who will start with the Book of Mormon is true and walk backwards. No other self respecting scholar would head down to Guatemala and put their reputation on the line - that the Book of Mormon is a true account of the history of North and South America, that all the descendants of the natives used to be white Jewish settlers that wrote in reformed Egyptian - and brought with and used horses, wheat, honey bees, steel, chariots...
Ah yes, the Mayans were Lamanites, even though LDS leaders are moving away from who the Lamanites really were.
Mormons will eat this up and Daniel Peterson is selling this crap like snake oil.
http://www.mormontimes.com/article/2081 ... urney-real
Warning, large forehead.
For many years, Latter-day Saint scholars and travelers — including Hugh Nibley, Ross Christensen, Lynn and Hope Hilton, Warren Aston, George Potter, and S. Kent Brown — have studied the question of Lehi's route through Arabia from Jerusalem to Old World "Bountiful," where he and his party built a boat and sailed for the Americas. Their books and academic articles have reached a few interested readers.
Since 2006, however, a larger audience has been able to see the likely setting for much of 1 Nephi. They don't actually feel the staggering heat and harsh, whipping winds of the Arabian desert, but "Journey of Faith," filmed on location in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman, represents the next best thing to being there. The story becomes vividly real.
I like this quote because I'm sure they're betting on it:
The film takes its audience to locations that few Latter-day Saints will ever visit
Ok, so we're back to it being Guatemala?
A sequel, "Journey of Faith: The New World," appeared in 2007. Filmed, like its predecessor, on location — this time in the steamy jungles of Guatemala and Mexico — and featuring interviews with 32 scholars, it, too, runs 90 minutes. It covers the much larger American portion of the Book of Mormon story, accompanied by breathtaking footage of lush vegetation, rugged volcanoes, ancient ruins and Mayan art.
32 scholars eh? I'm betting they are all card carrying Mormons who will start with the Book of Mormon is true and walk backwards. No other self respecting scholar would head down to Guatemala and put their reputation on the line - that the Book of Mormon is a true account of the history of North and South America, that all the descendants of the natives used to be white Jewish settlers that wrote in reformed Egyptian - and brought with and used horses, wheat, honey bees, steel, chariots...
Ah yes, the Mayans were Lamanites, even though LDS leaders are moving away from who the Lamanites really were.
The sequel addresses temples, political structures, warfare, the likely location of the City of Nephi, the significance of Mesoamerican pyramids, chronological parallels between the development of Mesoamerican culture and events in the Book of Mormon, cultural similarities and differences between Maya and Book of Mormon peoples, and the possibility that a volcanic storm was the actual cause of the destruction described in 3 Nephi.
Mormons will eat this up and Daniel Peterson is selling this crap like snake oil.