For Aristotle Smith: How Does Q And Fire Mix?

[_Nightlion]

I resent scholar's spiritual recidivism that pirates scripture away from the gifts of God and redistributes the booty to their own gain. A 'Q' will do if there is no plunder-lust, ah, blunderbuss at hand.

Why is it scholars familiar with the Book of Mormon do not first consider that the existence of the Sermon on the Mount in 3 Nephi should cause them think better that those were more the actual words Christ spoke in Jerusalem as well and therefore construct the model of scripture assemblage with that in mind?

It seems that the opposite is forced solely to discredit Joseph Smith. Anyone can invent from history as if from whole cloth. Like saying long, long, ago, in a galaxy far, far away, and spin any yarn that suits them. We have to accept them at their word because they are learned? As the Lord spoke through Isaiah saying: The wisdom of the wise shall perish and the understanding of the prudent man shall be hid.

If Joseph Smith simply copied the King James Bible and caught a couple of necessary changes like 'farthing into senine' omit references to scribes, Pharisees and publicans, how then do you account for the more subtle changes that tweak the Book of Mormon unique in sharp contrast with the KJB?

KJB leaves open ended the fulfilling of every jot and title while the Book of Mormon slams the door shut, even tight like unto a dish, that in Christ all IS fulfilled and all things have now become new.

Why would a bald plagiarist add the word "and" to each of the Beatitudes? It seems more to take away from its stature. It seems very plausible that such was taken away from the KJB to make these more stately.

KJB does not say:
who come unto him (of the poor in spirit)
being filled with the Holy Ghost, (for those who hunger and thirst)

Nor does it preface the sermon with the rich send up of the first two Book of Mormon verses that twice reference the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost.
To the gifted, this is the best tell that the Book of Mormon is genuine. Only those whose eyes have been open to see recognize this as the keystone of Christianity.
The world knows nothing of it. The veracity of the entire Book of Mormon is sealed by this distinction that runs throughout the whole of it, such that no unhallowed black handed pirate can purloin.

If Joseph Smith were the blackguard thug of the scholastic NOM how could his righteousness exceed his generation? How could he have known what the actual truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ was when all about him did not?

The Mormons cannot champion this proof because it condemns them. LOL

No, LOL like a bawdy pirate, LOL argh!

[_Aristotle Smith]

Why is it scholars familiar with the Book of Mormon do not first consider that the existence of the Sermon on the Mount in 3 Nephi should cause them think better that those were more the actual words Christ spoke in Jerusalem as well and therefore construct the model of scripture assemblage with that in mind?

I think many Mormon scholars do just that. They make the reasonable assumption (reasonable if you consider the Book of Mormon to be an inspired translation) that it represents what Jesus actually spoke, verbatim, in the Sermon on the Mount.

If Joseph Smith simply copied the King James Bible and caught a couple of necessary changes like 'farthing into senine' omit references to scribes, Pharisees and publicans, how then do you account for the more subtle changes that tweak the Book of Mormon unique in sharp contrast with the KJB?

Which subtle changes? I know there are small changes here and there, but do they add anything substantial?

[_Nightlion]

Which subtle changes? I know there are small changes here and there, but do they add anything substantial?

I noted them. I said subtle not that the first two verses in 3 Nephi 12 fail to prove quite substantial. That these parts are included are in deliberate harmony with the impetus of the golden gospel thread woven throughout the entire Book of Mormon. That speaks to a composition that stands on its own, and not borrowed. It only need be a subtle stitch and we have better than that.