And in 100 years there will still be 0 nephite/lamanite artifacts.
Maybe. So what? Even thousands of artifacts won't cause you to believe. Seeing and authenticating the gold plates themselves won't provide the kind of evidence you seek as pertaining to Christ and his message.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
No need for debate, one location of events from the Book of Mormon has been identified and officially confirmed by the Church.....
CUMORAH, HILL See also Book of Mormon; Moroni, Son of Mormon; Smith, Joseph, Jr. A small hill located in western New York, United States of America. Here an ancient prophet named Moroni hid the gold plates containing some of the records of the Nephite and Jaredite nations. Joseph Smith was directed to this hill in 1827 by the resurrected Moroni to get these plates and translate a portion of them. This translation is the Book of Mormon.
Nephites gathered at Cumorah:Morm. 6:2–4; Cumorah was in a land of many waters:Morm. 6:4; Mormon hid the records in the Hill Cumorah:Morm. 6:6; All but twenty and four Nephites were slain at Cumorah:Morm. 6:11; We hear glad tidings from Cumorah:D&C 128:20; Joseph Smith took plates from the Hill Cumorah:Joseph Smith—H 1:42, 50–54, 59;
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)
And in 100 years there will still be 0 Nephite/Lamanite artifacts.
Maybe. So what? Even thousands of artifacts won't cause you to believe. Seeing and authenticating the gold plates themselves won't provide the kind of evidence you seek as pertaining to Christ and his message.
Never will be seen...... That is because divine, resurrected, Savior Jesus is as mythological as the Nephites and the plates. Doesn't really exist.
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality. ~Bill Hamblin
