How likely is it that Jesus Christ appeared to the North American natives to deliver the good news about God and eternal salvation after his post-resurrection appearances in the gospels?
What about that angels also hid golden plates containing the Book of Mormon in North America and that only one divine prophet known as John Smith was the only one able to find and read these tablets... only no one else could see them or translate them except for him, and the process for which was him looking into a hat with rocks in it (seer stones) and the tablets to then be able to dictate them in English to an assistant who was made to sit behind a room dividing linen sheet that was hung up and were never allowed to look around it to see what exactly Smith was doing?
Because it seems sort of like a low chance to me that this happened. Seems a bit far fetched.
No doubt. Golden Plates are at New Cumorah Hill, intact.
Why did the American Israelites store their history in a golden three ring binder?
Zero percent likely
read.cesletter.org
Even if Hebrews somehow traveled to NA and were genocided by amerindians, the source material is evidently false
I do not care about religion or the majority of pointless arguments about how x is spooky demons or how y doesn't follow the nutsack creed.
The Book of Mormon describes indigenous people of the Americas as having steel, horses and chariots, elephants, other things. These days the common assumption is that it took place in Mesoamerica and this explains the huge cities and structures discussed, but it's obvious to anyone that Joseph Smith was talking about his local area in upstate New York, was basing it off his imagination after the discovery of native burial mounds, and was parroting a lot of contemporary religious theories about how Native Americans were a lost tribe of Israel. And it's such a European story anyway where some people discover a new land and settle it.
But some people believe the israelites were enslaved in Egypt and other random stories of great floods, so it doesn't make it as insane as any other religion.
I'm a Mormon AMA
If the BOM contradicted the NT or OT, which one would you trust?
If it became clear to you that the NT taught that Jesus is God, would you leave Mormonism? Or is there a sect of Mormonism that teaches the divinity of Jesus?
>If it became clear to you that the NT taught that Jesus is God, would you leave Mormonism? Or is there a sect of Mormonism that teaches the divinity of Jesus?
Not him but Mormonism teaches that Jesus is divine. Specifically it teaches that Jesus is a separate god from the Father, and that there are billions and billions of gods.
Keyed. Can't wait to get my planet.
According to Brigham Young you have to have multiple wives to get that
Working on that.
How can you believe the story of this obvious huckster and flimflam man?
Baited
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Mormonism is complete and utter bullshit in every sense of the word.
None. Deuteronomical law states that witness testimony must be discarded if there are not at least two witnesses. Jesus would never give us new information that contradicted his previous ministry without at least meeting Deuteronomical law.
A better question is how could those shitty plates even contain the book of mormon?
>The Book of Mormon began as 588 densely printed pages in 1830
Dude carrying around the equivalent of that written on gold plates would be a miracle in itself.
To give you an idea
>The world's largest gold bar stands at 250 kg (551 lb), measuring at the base 455 mm × 225 mm (17.9 in × 8.9 in) and 170 mm (6.7 in) high with 5 degree draft angle (equal to 15,730 cm3 or 960 cu in).
Now compare that to the volume of a book, which is actually printed with very thin paper pages
>In 1859 Harris said that the plates "were seven inches [18 cm] wide by eight inches [20 cm] in length, and were of the thickness of plates of tin; and when piled one above the other, they were altogether about four inches [10 cm] thick; and they were put together on the back by three silver rings, so that they would open like a book"
Not only should that be at least 100 kg of gold (that 250 kg gold bar is 45x22x17 vs the gold plates' 20x18x10, but the gold bar isn't even a full cube, it's in that usual ingot shape.)
but of course a stack of gold plates 10 cm thick couldn't possibly be equivalent to 588 "densely-printed" paper pages.