Has the Book of Mormon joined the literary canon?

[_silentkid]

I wonder, out of all those copies of the Book of Mormon that have been sold, placed, gifted, whatever...how many have actually been read, cover to cover? I haven't met anyone who read it in a few sittings or over the course of a week or two. My sister, the most TBM TBM I know, finally read the whole thing during Hinckley's challenge. I read it all the way through for the first time while at BYU (I didn't attend early morning seminary, hence my apostasy). It took me a whole semester. I read it again on my mission in English and a couple of times in Spanish. I preferred reading it in Spanish to work on my vocabulary and pronunciation. Plus, the spirit spoke to me in Spanish, not English. The Spanish translation didn't seem as repetitive as the English version, but it probably was: y acontecio, y acontecio, y acontecio...

[_SatanWasSetUp]

This one has a certain bcspace or Droopy feel to it:

This book has nothing to do with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...known to the unindoctrinated as "the Mormon Church", but rather this book comes from the Re-organised Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an offshoot of the the true Church of Jesus Christ. This edition has many things which were not translated by Joseph Smith, and are not in accordance with the teachings of the LDS church, and are therefore false doctrines meant to confuse those who don't know any better. One further note...the real Book of Mormon is free to all for the asking, as are all of the truths of our Heavenly Father.

Interesting that this is a different version. Does this version suck more or less than the "official" version?

[_CaliforniaKid]

That first review you posted was downright awesome, Trevor!

[_Sethbag]

One of my favorite parts of that review:

3. And it came to pass that thus were written the first two paragraphs of my review. And I know that the review which I write true; and I make it with mine own computer; and I make it according to my knowledge. And thus passeth away even the third paragraph also.

[_Trevor]

One of my favorite parts of that review:

3. And it came to pass that thus were written the first two paragraphs of my review. And I know that the review which I write true; and I make it with mine own computer; and I make it according to my knowledge. And thus passeth away even the third paragraph also.

That demonstration of blatant filler really makes you wonder about the ancient authors' supposed concern about space on the plates. It's not like the actual Book of Mormon is not filled with such empty calories.

[_Trevor]

That first review you posted was downright awesome, Trevor!

It reminds me of another personal fave: the Book of Zelph.

[_SatanWasSetUp]

That demonstration of blatant filler really makes you wonder about the ancient authors' supposed concern about space on the plates. It's not like the actual Book of Mormon is not filled with such empty calories.

I love that 3rd verse of the review. There is a bunch of similar filler in the Book of Mormon. Remember the part where the author spends about 8 verses talking about how many years passed? And then the 4th year passed, then the fifth, then the sixth, and then also the seventh and eight, and then the 9th, then the tenth year also passed, and also did 11 years, and 12, and then 13, yea and even 14 years passed etc. I'm paraphrasing of course, but I'm trying to picture Moroni painstakingly pounded out characters on the gold plates. He must've spent an extra few days just pounding out the filler crap in the Book of Mormon, and he probably wasted a couple precious plates. Supposedly the Book of Mormon is an abridment, but to abridge something is to shorten it without taking out the main point. Moroni sucked at abridging.

[_Trevor]

Remember the part where the author spends about 8 verses talking about how many years passed? And then the 4th year passed, then the fifth, then the sixth, and then also the seventh and eight, and then the 9th, then the tenth year also passed, and also did 11 years, and 12, and then 13, yea and even 14 years passed etc. I'm paraphrasing of course, but I'm trying to picture Moroni painstakingly pounded out characters on the gold plates.

Precisely. I mean, it's like you can see Joseph stalling for time. "What do I say now? Thinking, thinking... make more years pass, while I am reaching for something to say next..." It really makes little sense in the context of the supposed effort to engrave, the limited amount of space on the plates. It just beggars belief.

[_Brackite]

I Voted Yes Here.

And your reasons....?

I Voted Yes, For a few reasons here. Here are a few of the reasons, Why I Voted Yes here:


1. The Book of Mormon strongly condemns the abominable practice of Polygamy. (Please See Jacob Chapters one through three.) (1.)


2. I like the Chaismus contained in the Book of Mormon Passage of Alma Chapter 13, verses one through nine. (2.)


3. The Book of Mormon was labeled as sacred and/or holy by about 3%, of the American Population. The Koran came in second place at about 4%, of the American Population, While the Holy Bible came in First place at about 84%, of the American Population. (3.)


4. The National Geographic Society issued a Statement about the Book of Mormon, and even though the National Geographic Society came out very strongly against the historical claims for the Book of Mormon, within that statement of theirs, the National Geographic Society did include this sentence, within that statement of theirs:

The Book of Mormon is clearly a work of great spiritual power; millions have read and revered its words, first published by Joseph Smith in 1830.

(4.)


I do tend to believe that the Book of Mormon is Inspired fiction, For the most Part at least.




End Notes:



1.

The phrase, 'raise up seed unto the Lord' in the Book of Mormon means that the Lord God wants to raise up a righteous seed; righteous children, righteous sons and daughters, unto the Lord God. The Lord God intends to 'raise up seed unto the Him' in the Book of Mormon by meaning that the Lord will command just Monogamy to raise up seed unto Him.

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3.

A new Barna survey shows that more Americans accept the Bible as "holy" or "sacred" than they would other books.

Respondents of the survey for The Barna Group identified around 12 books they thought fit the bill as "sacred literature" or "holy books." The list included expected titles such as the Bible and the Koran and others such as Quiet Strength by football coach Tony Dungy.

However, the Bible stood out by far from other texts with 84 percent of Americans deeming it a holy book.

Only three books were recognized as holy by at least 1 percent of Americans. The Koran trailed behind the Bible in second place with 4 percent; the Book of Mormon as labeled by 3 percent as sacred/holy; and the Torah was deemed holy by 2 percent of the public.

Most of the other books listed in the survey failed to even garner 1 percent of the public's vote.

While only 7 percent of Christians in the study would categorize a book other than the Bible as holy, around 40 percent of non-Christians would point to the Bible as holy.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20 ... y-book.htm



4.

Thank you for contacting the National Geographic Society. Our position on the Book of Mormon has not changed, nor have we retracted any statements made previously.

The National Geographic Society has not examined the historical claims of the Book of Mormon. We know of no archaeological evidence that corroborates the ancient history of the Western Hemisphere as presented in the Book of Mormon, nor are we aware of empirical verification of the places named in the Book of Mormon.

The Book of Mormon is clearly a work of great spiritual power; millions have read and revered its words, first published by Joseph Smith in 1830. Yet Smith's narration is not generally taken as a scientific source for the history of the Americas. Archaeologists and other scholars have long probed the hemisphere's past, and the Society does not know of anything found so far that has substantiated the Book of Mormon.

In fact, students of prehistoric America by and large conclude that the New World's earliest inhabitants arrived from Asia via the Bering land bridge. (Lower sea levels during ice ages exposed the continental shelf beneath Bering Strait, allowing generations of ancient Siberians to migrate east.) National Geographic carried "The First Americans" in its September 1979 issue, perhaps on your library's shelf.

http://ezek27.truepath.com/NGeographic.html

[_Trevor]

I Voted Yes, For a few reasons here. Here are a few of the reasons, Why I Voted Yes here:

Your answer seems oddly inspired to me.