The Book of Mormon proves the supernatural exists

[MG 2.0]

Yikes. The Quran is supposed to be impressive like that, in Arabic—a long lyrical poem so arrestingly beautiful that one has to think twice about whether a mortal could possibly write it. The effect is acknowledged to be much reduced in translation, and I can attest to that much. In English, even in the much-lauded Pickthall interpretation, a lot of the Quran comes across as a tedious rant. It has legitimate gems even in English, though, passages that do sound like something that might be revealed by a God who was both infinitely remote from humanity and closer to each of us than our own neck veins.

The Book of Mormon is not a Quran. So far from impressing me as something that would have been very hard for Joseph Smith to make up, it strikes me as just exactly what someone like Smith would make up, to the point where I find it hard to imagine how the heck Mormons can be so impressed by it. Where the Quran can be eery, the Book of Mormon never does better than hokey, for me.

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Regards,
MG

[PseudoPaul]

Biblical people didn't even have the concept of the supernatural - the seed of the idea came about in the third century CE, but doesn't really enter Christian consciousness until the medieval period. .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatu ... he_concept