Shulem challenges RFM’s magical powers

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Kish doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Smith didn’t write the Book of Mormon. He dictated it with his head in a hat. He told stories. He did not write a book. It’s all fiction that he passed off as nonfiction which was his big lie. I don’t think Kish understands Smith at all.
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The Bible was written by fictional characters in a non-fictional geographical setting.

The American Bible was written by a non-fictional author in a geographical setting that is fictional.

To me it's still all fiction.
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Shulem wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:23 pm
I am right when I said many of the characters in the Bible were real people. Kings of Egypt are also mentioned. The Book of Mormon characters are fiction, all fake. Bible geography is real. Book of Mormon geography is based on imagination using Delmarva.
Read my post above. Fictional and fake are not disqualifying characteristics for the Biblical genre.
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Tator wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:51 pm
The Bible was written by fictional characters in a non-fictional geographical setting.

The American Bible was written by a non-fictional author in a geographical setting that is fictional.

To me it's still all fiction.
The geographical setting is America, Tator. Is America fictional?
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Shulem wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:37 pm
Kish doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Smith didn’t write the Book of Mormon. He dictated it with his head in a hat. He told stories. He did not write a book. It’s all fiction that he passed off as nonfiction which was his big lie. I don’t think Kish understands Smith at all.
Maybe you should go back to school or take some adult education courses on these topics, Shulem. Your ignorance on this topic is stunning. Oral composition in dictation to scribes is a perfectly normal option for composing books and other kinds of documents. Some writers spoke into cassette recorders and handed the cassettes to typists. Don’t opine so confidently when you are transparently clueless about something.
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Tator wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:22 pm
Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon as an American Bible.

So is it fiction or non-fiction?
So bookstore categories are the limits of literary understanding now?
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Kishkumen wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 5:07 pm
Tator wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:51 pm
The Bible was written by fictional characters in a non-fictional geographical setting.

The American Bible was written by a non-fictional author in a geographical setting that is fictional.

To me it's still all fiction.
The geographical setting is America, Tator. Is America fictional?
So that makes Joe's story true?
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Tator wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:22 pm
So is it fiction or non-fiction?
Walked into a bookstore the other day that had recently divided their inventory into just two sections: fiction and non-fiction. They chucked me out when I asked where I might find a copy of T. S. Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral.'
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Kishkumen wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 5:17 pm
Tator wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:22 pm
Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon as an American Bible.

So is it fiction or non-fiction?
So bookstore categories are the limits of literary understanding now?
You're right I haven't spent a dime on a literary degree so you and Joe are right, he wrote scripture straight from God. I get it.
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Tator wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 5:20 pm
So that makes Joe's story true?
Does geography make the Bible true?
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