2CF should give your Delmarva thread in Celestial a hard look. I’d love to read a scholarly exchange between yourself and Brother Neville with regard to your excellent and well-researched theory. It was such an a-ha! moment.Shulem wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:31 pmTwoCumorahFraud wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 4:18 amBut Joseph Smith never stated the Book of Mormon occurred over the entire hemisphere, thus the Heartland idea. See the Wentworth Letter.
To my knowledge that is correct, Smith said no such thing. But others did, such as the idiot Pratt brothers who proffered interpretation of the geography in effort to visualize the story on the globe. Smith just nodded and went along with anything that made his made-up story look genuine.
Bottom line, it only took a single day to travel from one side to the other of the narrow neck -- from sea east to sea west. Just ONE day. And all it took was a day and a half to traverse the length of the neck seeing the neck was not very long but rather short.
- Doc