"Stone Box" Apologetics

[_cinepro]

As I noted in the other thread, the only "evidence" anyone has for the "washed down the hill" theory is that someone saw some flat rocks at the bottom of the hill and assumed they must have been part of the box.

Considering the size of the objects that were preserved in the box, the stones must have had at least some weight. Can you imagine what kind of rainfall would be required to move such rocks down a hill of that size?

[_The Dude]

I always like the explanation that one of the Whitmers carted it back to his home and planted a flower bed in it.

[_Ray A]

More logical fallacies. Who says the stone box ever even existed?

I second that.

[_Polygamy-Porter]

EDIT to add: After reading his thread and his blog, I am adding him to my list of defenders-about-to-defect.

This stone box thing is really bugging him..

Let me know when I get to play the Queen song!

And another one's gone, and another one's gone, another one bites the dust!

I've gotta admit, I thought this was pretty amusing.

Me too. that's why I posted it. But I have my hunches and your doubt was showing.

Besides that, Welcome to Shady Acres! Feel free to discuss what ever you would like and in pretty much any fashion you like, minus the heavier verbal punctuation.

Bearing testimonies and praising all things Joe & Co, are to be posted in the Celestial Forum.

Full contact discussion of all things Joe & Co occur here.

Making fun the temple is primarily found in the Telestial Forum.

You may park your trailer overrrrrr there.

[_beastie]

Moroni needed the box to hide his porn stash.

[_Joseph Antley]

Me too. that's why I posted it. But I have my hunches and your doubt was showing.

I wouldn't be so quick to arrogantly equate my doubt in a simple apologetic argument with doubt in the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Not everyone is so eager to join the sad and bitter stew I see bubbling around here.

[_badseed]

Your missing the option of "slipping" further into the earth......much like all the treasures that the Smith and Co Treasure Digging Co. failed to recover. Removing the weight of the plates from the stone box obviously initiated some sort of boobie trap a la Indiana Jones.

But forget about the box. What I want to know is where is in the cave? You know the one where the plates were returned. The one with the Sword of Laban and the breastplate and all those other records. One would think it'd be far easier to find than a little box.

[_SoHo]

My favorite line in that thread is that the box wouldn't have had any value with the contents gone. Could no one of that era and environs have anticipated that a 1,400 year old stone box would be a valuable treasure?

[_Yoda]

I voted "it was no longer needed".

If the gold plates were "taken up" to heaven, why not the stone box, too?

[_Uncle Dale]

..."slipping" further into the earth.....

As foretold in the sealed plates:

"Yea, and now there shall come to be a great curse upon the land,
because of the iniquity of the people, in the which, if a man should
open a box of stone, or go thither unto the place whither he would
surely find it, and behold, upon the morrow, he shall not find it,
for I, Mahroni, would that thou should know, that cursed are they
that shall not hide up their boxes; yea even boxes for reception
of the tool of Nephi. For in that day, the righteous shall hide up
their treasure boxes; but unto the unrighteous, lo, and behold,
their boxes shall become slippery and no longer shall the tool,
nor any holy thing be found in them; for they shall be a slipping
away into the bowels of darkness and unto the gnashing of teeth."

UD