Morley wrote:I guess I don't understand what the D&C has to do with the Book of Abraham papyri not translating. Or how she got him 'good.' Hers was a "God told me so" argument.
I didn't know what plagiarisms had to do with anachronisms either, so I'm not sure how you missed my joke. Oh well. I get good ideas but my delivery stinks, I guess.
Love ya tons, Stem
I ain't nuttin'. don't get all worked up on account of me.
stemelbow wrote:I didn't know what plagiarisms had to do with anachronisms either, so I'm not sure how you missed my joke. Oh well. I get good ideas but my delivery stinks, I guess.
Morley wrote: I guess I don't understand what the D&C has to do with the Book of Abraham papyri not translating. Or how she got him 'good.' Hers was a "God told me so" argument.
Joseph Smith was prophet enough to collect the Book of Mormon and D&C so why not the Book of Abraham? 1+1+1=3! Man, do the math.
Morley wrote:I guess I don't understand what the D&C has to do with the Book of Abraham papyri not translating. Or how she got him 'good.' Hers was a "God told me so" argument.
I didn't know what plagiarisms had to do with anachronisms either, so I'm not sure how you missed my joke. Oh well. I get good ideas but my delivery stinks, I guess.
Apologies. I'm dense enough to have thought you were serious.
stemelbow wrote:I didn't know what plagiarisms had to do with anachronisms either, so I'm not sure how you missed my joke. Oh well. I get good ideas but my delivery stinks, I guess.
Some of the plagiarisms are also anachronistic.
This isn't a problem if we assume this really is God's word, however, because God knows all things, including what the writers of those portions of Isaiah that weren't around in 600 BC were going to write as soon as they actually existed. Duh.
It's the same answer for why Nephi and those others in the years BC were referring to Jesus Christ. It's not anachronistic if God himself reveals that name to Lehi and his descendants!
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
“Being against something automatically puts a person in the losing camp. The person who gets to be FOR a position wins the argument. …
So what can the anti-Mormon's do? If they want to adopt a pro position, they can't attack, because they have to advance a positive position. Then they can't have the fun of pot shots. Flaming arrows. Poisoned darts.
So the anti's are set up to lose. Oh, yes. And we have the truth on our side.”
– Charity FAIR 1/9/2006
I was having a pretty nice day until you exhumed this. Thanks, Infymus, thanks a lot...
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
Quasimodo wrote:Simple in it's genius. It also explains the Book of Mormon's Elizabethan English. For, as we all know, God is both English and from the 16th century.
“Being against something automatically puts a person in the losing camp. The person who gets to be FOR a position wins the argument. …
So what can the anti-Mormon's do? If they want to adopt a pro position, they can't attack, because they have to advance a positive position. Then they can't have the fun of pot shots. Flaming arrows. Poisoned darts.
So the anti's are set up to lose. Oh, yes. And we have the truth on our side.”
– Charity FAIR 1/9/2006
"Being against something automatically puts a person in the losing camp."
Wow... I guess the following people all automatically win then:
- pro choice - pro gay marriage - pro death penalty - pro stem cell research - pro premarital sex - pro wrestlers...
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.