It doesn't necessarily mean that the entire continent of the Americas was the promised land. Just the small area that the Book of Mormon was in.
OK. Just for the sake of arguement, let's assume that "this land" denotes the areas of what we know as Southern Mexico and Northern C.A. Are we to believe that the memory of this area was wiped from the collective consciousness of those that passed through it on their way to populate South America?
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It doesn't necessarily mean that the entire continent of the Americas was the promised land. Just the small area that the Book of Mormon was in.
OK. Just for the sake of arguement, let's assume that "this land" denotes the areas of what we know as Southern Mexico and Northern C.A. Are we to believe that the memory of this area was wiped from the collective consciousness of those that passed through it on their way to populate South America?
It should also be noted that if the Book of Mormon is referring to Columbus finding the promised land, Columbus never found "America", but only found Central America and Cuba.
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