From Frederick B Williams claiming to record what Joseph Smith once said:
The course that Lehi traveled from the city of Jerusalem to the place where he and his family took ship, they traveled nearly a south, south east direction until they came to the nineteenth degree of North Latitude, then nearly east to the Sea of Arabia then sailed in a south east direction and landed on the continent of South America in Chili (sic.) thirty degrees south Latitude.[1]
Joseph considered all of America both North and South as the land of Zion.......even the Nephite Zion. If he was more anxious about textual accuracy than encouraging the troops he may well have defined the LG of the Book of Mormon.
Nobody wades through eight years of tribulation just to get from the Red Sea to the Sea of Arabia. That makes me wonder if Williams was mistaken and did not know what to call Vietnam or some place in Malaysia which is the more probable spot of the Land Bountiful where they built their ship. Still might have been 19 degrees North latitude but no way they wandered in the Arabian dessert for eight years.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_parallel_north
Nightlion wrote:Nobody wades through eight years of tribulation just to get from the Red Sea to the Sea of Arabia. That makes me wonder if Williams was mistaken and did not know what to call Vietnam or some place in Malaysia which is the more probable spot of the Land Bountiful where they built their ship. Still might have been 19 degrees North latitude but no way they wandered in the Arabian dessert for eight years.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_parallel_north
I agree with you NL, there is no way they wandered in the Arabian dessert for 8 years, nor the Arabian desert for that matter....
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