Book of Mormon took place in Parallel Universe?

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_SatanWasSetUp
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Book of Mormon took place in Parallel Universe?

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Here is an idea that the apologists might want to consider. Check out this article on parallel universes.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=paUniverse_sun14_parallel_universes&show_article=1&cat=0

The LGT is somewhat of a laughingstock among non-mormons, but this parallel universe thing is new and sexy. The best part is, it cannot be disproven. We don't have the technology to examine parallel universes. Nephi and his family could have been transported to another universe, and Moroni crossed back over to bury the plates. It is not only plausible, it is also really cool.
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Odell Campbell mentioned that a prominent LDS historian has voiced this same theory.
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_The Nehor
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Re: Book of Mormon took place in Parallel Universe?

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SatanWasSetUp wrote:Here is an idea that the apologists might want to consider. Check out this article on parallel universes.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=paUniverse_sun14_parallel_universes&show_article=1&cat=0

The LGT is somewhat of a laughingstock among non-mormons, but this parallel universe thing is new and sexy. The best part is, it cannot be disproven. We don't have the technology to examine parallel universes. Nephi and his family could have been transported to another universe, and Moroni crossed back over to bury the plates. It is not only plausible, it is also really cool.


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Re: Book of Mormon took place in Parallel Universe?

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The Nehor wrote:The Book of Mormon was never sexy; why try to make it so now?


Good point. Neither were Mormon apologetics, even though they have long been tarted up.
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Re: Book of Mormon took place in Parallel Universe?

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Trevor wrote:
The Nehor wrote:The Book of Mormon was never sexy; why try to make it so now?


Good point. Neither were Mormon apologetics, even though they have long been tarted up.


Am I an Apologist? Because I'm sexy.
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Re: Book of Mormon took place in Parallel Universe?

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The Nehor wrote:
Trevor wrote:
The Nehor wrote:The Book of Mormon was never sexy; why try to make it so now?


Good point. Neither were Mormon apologetics, even though they have long been tarted up.


Am I an Apologist? Because I'm sexy.


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_The Nehor
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Re: Book of Mormon took place in Parallel Universe?

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Blixa wrote:
The Nehor wrote:
Trevor wrote:
The Nehor wrote:The Book of Mormon was never sexy; why try to make it so now?


Good point. Neither were Mormon apologetics, even though they have long been tarted up.


Am I an Apologist? Because I'm sexy.


CFR


See avatar, I don't have any shirtless or speedo pics on this computer though ;)
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Post by _barrelomonkeys »

Oh thank God for that!
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_beastie
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Post by _beastie »

LOL!

I think the alternate universe is actually a more respectable argument than their current version of:

the Book of Mormon was written by a couple of Mesoamerican peons who suffered from delusions of grandeur

or, as I fondly refer to it: the Book of Mormon was written by a pimply teenage Mesoamerican kid hiding in his mom's basement, writing about a make believe world
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_moksha
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Post by _moksha »

Parallel Universe? Sounds doable. Just hope no one tries to work in Bizarro World as well.
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