zerinus wrote:Fair enough, I am willing to concede that Joseph Smith may have identified the mummies to be of Egyptian royalty; that proves what? And how does that affect his translation of the Book of Abraham one way or another?
First of all it proves that Joseph Smith was wrong in identifying a mummy as a king of Egypt. How ever he came to that determination (revelation or guessing) is your problem, zerinus. Joseph Smith did not have the body of a king of Egypt to match the antiquity and date which he claimed. It's impossibe. Thus we see that the so-called inspiration of the Mormon prophet was flawed -- false. Where is the Holy Ghost? Where is the all knowing Jesus Christ who speaks through Joseph Smith as feigned in the Doctrine & Covenants? Manuscript No. 6 is part of the translation work performed by Joseph Smith using his gift as a translator and getting his inspiration through the so-called Spirit. But it's utter rubbish.
Let me tell you what is also rubbish. The idea that Isis, a queen of heaven, mother of Horus, a woman having a divine vagina -- is, according to Joseph Smith, a mortal king of Egypt. That is rubbish. Also, the ridiculous claim that a king's name is in the writing of Facsimile No. 3 when in fact, the writing bears testimony to Isis, queen mother of heaven.
But you, zerinus, keep telling me that Joseph Smith knew something that Egyptologists don't know or can't seem to figure out. This business of turning a woman into a man and disregarding the text that labels her is utterly preposterous. The figure of Isis and her royal inscription is contained in the tombs, monuments, and records throughout dynastic Egypt. Isis is female and represented in her divine status as such on both stone and paper. You can't deny that. Never at any time did the Egyptians remove her vagina and strip her goddess stature from her to make her a mortal king.
But Joseph Smith did all that! A man who thought he had a mummy king in his possession. A man who lied about so many things. A man who lied to his own wife. A man who cannot be trusted with anything.