tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156106784389891523.comments2022-12-25T02:15:29.794-08:00Book of Mormon Wars (are over)jonathan3dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156106784389891523.post-65955049568451130012019-10-28T08:14:23.189-07:002019-10-28T08:14:23.189-07:00I assume you're referring to the anonymous Gos...I assume you're referring to the anonymous Gospel Topics Essays, which do discuss the stone-in-a-hat scenario. These essays do not represent Church doctrine. They are merely resources for further study. They have been edited in the past without notice and are always subject to future editing and correction. Hopefully some day they will be improved even more.<br />I don't disagree with you about why many members think the Book of Mormon is fiction because they've all been taught M2C. However, there is abundant evidence of the Book of Mormon in North America, right where Joseph Smith identified it (e.g., Zelph, the plains of the Nephites in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the New York Cumorah). jonathan3dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379975395372054926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156106784389891523.post-31947073642020000212019-10-22T20:31:40.014-07:002019-10-22T20:31:40.014-07:00It's not just Mormonism Unvailed that teaches ...It's not just Mormonism Unvailed that teaches the translation was done in part by a seer stone in a hat-the gospel topic essays do as well. Should we ignore the First Presidency sanctioned essays on the subject?<br />Also, the reason that many members of the church now believe the Book of Mormon to be a fictionally inspired narrative is the lack of historical, linguistic, genetic, and archaeological evidence supporting the historical narrative. <br />The Bible for example has loads of evidence of its historicity from coins found engraved with the name Pilot, to the Mesha stone and Sennacherib's prism to the identification of Biblical cities, languages, peoples, etc.<br />Tadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02382295530565566918noreply@blogger.com