Snufferites

[Physics Guy]

He almost had to be Adolf Schicklgruber. That is, he was indeed born Adolf Hitler, but his father had lived half his life under the surname of his unmarried mother and only got his name changed to Hitler, on dubious grounds, some years before Adolf's birth. History's most infamous racist never really knew his own ancestry and the name he made so infamous was probably fake.

[Aristotle Smith]

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[Res Ipsa]

Ran into this one on accident. Apparently there was a big Snufferite confab in Nevada recently. Rock Waterman gave a brief summary:

http://puremormonism.blogspot.com/2021/ ... nally.html

Apparently Denver Snuffer has solved the Book of Abraham problem. Linked there is a 4 hour video where Denver Snuffer performs this feat. Also there is a 69 page transcript of the video. I won't be watching or reading it. It sounds like Snuffer's solution is a long winded variation on "the scribes did it."

They do seem to be calling themselves the remnant movement at this point.

Finally, if someone is willing to take one for the team and plow through the 69 pages, I would be interested in reading a summary.

I skimmed for the highlights. Most of the transcript does not address the Book of Abraham.

1. "Translated" means "translated" by revelation of a record in heaven.

2. The scribes did it.

3. Because the Book of Abraham events do not take place in Egypt, but in Chaldea, we can't properly interpret the drawings using Egyptology.

4. Joseph said it's scripture, so it is.

5. It's really an expansion of Genesis, but God didn't tell Smith about it when he wrote that section of the JST because he knew Chandler would bring the mummies to Smith.

6. Vogel uses too much qualifying language in his book to be taken seriously.

[Aristotle Smith]

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[Moksha]

My encounters with Denver Snuffer have all been good. He came over to my house several times to see if I was okay. He even brought me different books he had written. I thought of him as an overall nice guy with sincere spiritual faith.

[Tim]

I skimmed for the highlights. Most of the transcript does not address the Book of Abraham.

Well done. Major kudos for something I was no where near interested enough to even begin to venture to browse.

3. Because the Book of Abraham events do not take place in Egypt, but in Chaldea, we can't properly interpret the drawings using Egyptology.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, Chaldeans had a coded drawing system that simultaneously communicated sophisticated Egyptian theology AND an alternative proto-Hebrew theology. . . .BUT they could not figure out how to use a vanishing point or cross-hatch shading.

[Res Ipsa]

I skimmed for the highlights. Most of the transcript does not address the Book of Abraham.

Well done. Major kudos for something I was no where near interested enough to even begin to venture to browse.

3. Because the Book of Abraham events do not take place in Egypt, but in Chaldea, we can't properly interpret the drawings using Egyptology.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, Chaldeans had a coded drawing system that simultaneously communicated sophisticated Egyptian theology AND an alternative proto-Hebrew theology. . . .BUT they could not figure out how to use a vanishing point or cross-hatch shading.

I don’t know, Tim. His point seemed to be that the Drawings couldn’t Egyptian because Abraham hadn’t arrived in Egypt. It was the first I’d ever heard this argument. So, the drawings are Chaldean, and so have a completely different meaning then they would in Egypt. Made no sense to me, but, hey, the guy’s a prophet, right?