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Source:Rediscovering the Book of Mormon:Ch:4:1:Colophons: 1 Nephi

2019-08-08T12:11:03Z

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==Colophons: 1 Nephi==
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In the heading before chapter 1 of 1 Nephi, we find Nephi's outline of his record. It begins, "An account of Lehi and his wife Sariah, and his four sons," and ends, "This is according to the account of Nephi; or in other words, I, Nephi, wrote this record." Sometimes these signposts appear before a section to tell us what is to come. Other times, they appear at the end to explain, recap, or mark the end of what has been said. For lack of a better word, I call them colophons, though technically colophons are notes or guidelines after a text.

Nephi set the pattern. He wrote his own titles, prefaces, summaries, and conclusions. All of 1 Nephi 9 consists of Nephi's statement about what he had been recording in the previous eight chapters and what he intended yet to write. Note too the subtle signal of his editorial guiding hand in the "amen" ending the chapter. In 1 Nephi 14 he summarized the preceding chapters and again concluded with "Amen." Other clear-cut examples are in 15:36 and in 22:31, which ends the book of 1 Nephi.

We understand from 2 Nephi 5:28-33 that Nephi began writing the small plates account—what was to become 1 Nephi through Omni—some thirty years after Lehi and Nephi left Jerusalem. Having a clear plan in mind when he began as to what to include on the small plates, Nephi could begin his book with the colophon that sounds like a table of contents....

Knowing the details of all these editorial comments is not necessary for readers primarily concerned with reading the text for its spiritual value. They do have value, however, in a number of other ways. For students of historical documents and ancient literary forms, they provide valuable clues to the process of writing and compiling the record. Furthermore, the large number of these statements in such intricate relations both with each other and in the overall structure of the book teach us something else. They make it obvious that they came from ancient writers, not from Joseph Smith.

Considering the way Joseph dictated the book to scribes, for the most part in a matter of weeks without revising what he had dictated, we should realize that he could not himself have come up with this complicated set of prefaces and summaries. It is unlikely that he would go to the trouble to insert anything like them (they are not required to move the story along). It is also most unlikely that, while dictating, he could keep in mind what he had promised in the prefaces and then remember to close off so many sections neatly with summaries. Much more believable are the claims in the Book of Mormon itself that the record was done by ancient writers working with written materials over long periods of time.<ref>{{Book:Sorenson Thorne:Rediscovering the Book of Mormon|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1111&index=5 Chapter 4]|author=John A. Tvedtnes|article=Colophons in the Book of Mormon}} </ref></blockquote></onlyinclude>

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[[Category:Rediscovering the Book of Mormon]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Complexity|Complexity and sophistication of the Book of Mormon]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Language/Hebraisms/Colophons|Colophons in the Book of Mormon]]

Book of Abraham/Facsimiles/Facsimile 2/Restoration of the upper right figure

2017-06-26T21:20:12Z

RogerNicholson:

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Regarding Facsimile 2, it should be noted that portions of the original Facsimile 2 appear to have been missing, and that the missing portions were filled in with characters or images taken from other sources before the image was published in the ''Times and Seasons''. It is not known who attempted to restore the missing sections of Facsimile 2, however, it may have been Reuben Hedlock, who created the wooden engravings of the facsimiles. It is not known whether or not Joseph Smith actually participated in the restoration of the missing sections. It does seem apparent that the material used to fill the missing sections was simply copied from figures or characters located on other sections of the Joseph Smith papyri. Among the missing sections may have been the area identified as section #3, which matches a figure which appears on Joseph Smith Papyrus IV.

The following isn't evidence, but is more likely simply the result of an educated guess. One interesting thing about this restoration is that the figure in the boat on the upper right actually does appear in this section of at least one other hypocephalus. The characters around the edge of the restored section, however, were simply copied from other fragments of the Joseph Smith papyri in order to fill in the gaps for publication and do not represent a restoration of the original characters.
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For more information on the complete hypocephalus on the right, see [http://culturalinstitute.britishmuseum.org/asset-viewer/hypocephalus-of-the-temple-musician-neshorpakhered/9AGrSAPk6AHHTA?hl=en Hypocephalus of the temple musician Neshorpakhered] at the British Museum.

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2017-05-10T18:58:03Z

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2017-05-10T18:57:36Z

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2017-04-25T20:52:04Z

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2017-04-25T20:49:19Z

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2016-12-05T19:42:42Z

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Source:BoM:References to Jershon as a land of inheritance

2016-12-05T19:42:38Z

RogerNicholson: /* The Book of Mormon refers to "Jershon" as a place of inheritance */

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==The Book of Mormon refers to "Jershon" as a place of inheritance==

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Joseph Smith could not have found the Book of Mormon name ''Jershon'' in the Bible, yet, "the name, though not found in the Bible, has an authentic Hebrew origin, the root *YRŠ meaning “to inherit,” with the suffix -ôn that denotes place-names, and may have the meaning 'place of inheritance.'" <ref>{{Interpreter|author=Stephen D. Ricks|article=[http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/a-nickname-and-a-slam-dunk-notes-on-the-book-of-mormon-names-zeezrom-and-jershon/ A Nickname and a Slam Dunk: Notes on the Book of Mormon Names Zeezrom and Jershon]|vol=8|date=2014|pages=191-194}}</ref> This fits perfectly with the use of this name in the Book of Mormon to designate a place of inheritance:

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22 And it came to pass that the voice of the people came, saying: Behold, we will give up the land of Jershon, which is on the east by the sea, which joins the land Bountiful, which is on the south of the land Bountiful; and this land Jershon is the land which we will give unto our brethren for an inheritance.
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24 And now behold, this will we do unto our brethren, that they may inherit the land Jershon; and we will guard them from their enemies with our armies, on condition that they will give us a portion of their substance to assist us that we may maintain our armies.
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14 And Alma, and Ammon, and their brethren, and also the two sons of Alma returned to the land of Zarahemla, after having been instruments in the hands of God of bringing many of the Zoramites to repentance; and as many as were brought to repentance were driven out of their land; but they have lands for their inheritance in the land of Jershon, and they have taken up arms to defend themselves, and their wives, and children, and their lands.
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Source:Oliver Cowdery:Letter to Cornelius C. Blatchly 9 November 1829:Gospel Luminary:10 December 1829:We saw the record...brought and laid before us by an angel

2015-02-28T17:31:38Z

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"You also wished Mr. Harris to inform you respecting his seeing this book, whether there could not possibly have been some juggling at the bottom of it. A few words on that point may suffice.— It was a clear, open beautiful day, far from any inhabitants, in a remote field, at the time we saw the record, of which it has been spoken, brought and laid before us, by an angel, arrayed in glorious light, [descended] out of the midst of heaven. Now if this is human juggling—judge ye."<ref>Oliver Cowdery letter to Cornelius C. Blatchly, 9 November 1829, quoted in "The New Bible," <i>Gospel Luminary</i> 2, no. 49 (10 December 1829): 194.</ref>
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Source:Oliver Cowdery:Letter to Cornelius C. Blatchly 9 November 1829:Gospel Luminary:10 December 1829:We saw the record...brought and laid before us by an angel

2015-02-28T17:31:04Z

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"You also wished Mr. Harris to inform you respecting his seeing this book, whether there could not possibly have been some juggling at the bottom of it. A few words on that point may suffice.— It was a clear, open beautiful day, far from any inhabitants, in a remote field, at the time we saw the record, of which it has been spoken, brought and laid before us, by an angel, arrayed in glorious light, [descended] out of the midst of heaven. Now if this is human juggling—judge ye."<ref>Oliver Cowdery letter to Cornelius C. Blatchly, 9 November 1829, quoted in "The New Bible," <i>Gospel Luminary</i> 2, no. 49 (10 December 1829): 194.</ref>
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2015-02-28T01:12:10Z

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2015-02-28T01:11:10Z

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2015-02-28T01:10:22Z

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Source:Gospel Topics:Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term “Urim and Thummim” to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters

2015-02-28T01:05:58Z

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==''Gospel Topics'': "Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term 'Urim and Thummim' to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters"==
==="These two instruments—the interpreters and the seer stone—were apparently interchangeable"===
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These two instruments—the interpreters and the seer stone—were apparently interchangeable and worked in much the same way such that, in the course of time, Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term “Urim and Thummim” to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters. In ancient times, Israelite priests used the Urim and Thummim to assist in receiving divine communications. Although commentators differ on the nature of the instrument, several ancient sources state that the instrument involved stones that lit up or were divinely illumin[at]ed. Latter-day Saints later understood the term “Urim and Thummim” to refer exclusively to the interpreters. Joseph Smith and others, however, seem to have understood the term more as a descriptive category of instruments for obtaining divine revelations and less as the name of a specific instrument. <ref>[http://www.lds.org/topics/book-of-mormon-translation?lang=eng "Book of Mormon Translation,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org (2013).</ref>
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Source:Echoes:Ch9:14:New World archaelogy: Santa Rosa

2015-02-26T23:48:09Z

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The archaeological site known forty years ago as Santa Rosa, which sat beside the Grijalva River in the Mexican state of Chiapas (the ruin now lies beneath waters impounded by a large dam), meets all the geographical requirements for the Nephite city of Zarahemla.67 Test excavations in a limited portion of Santa Rosa were made in 1958. An exact chronology and full picture of life there could not be determined in detail, but it was concluded that a "tremendous amount of building activity" likely took place in about the first century BC. In addition to earthen mound foundations up to more than 40 feet high, a huge platform built in the center of the place measured over 150 feet wide by 180 feet long and 22 feet high; this platform lay directly on the center line through the site. Presumably, various public buildings had once been built on top of the giant platform, although no search was made for evidence of such structures. At some point, likely in the first century BC (approximately when Mosiah2 was alive), this platform was newly covered with a layer of gravel, and a plaster floor was laid over that. The gravel on either side of a line that ran exactly through the middle of this "temple" was found to be of distinct composition, half from one geological source, the other half of a different origin. The excavator suggested that the divided floor "may be taken to imply two separate groups, each working on its section" in a ceremonial context. The surrounding residential area was also divided into two sections that were separated along an extension of the line between the gravels. The archaeologist involved thought that a division of the community into two social groups had prevailed and that the gravel laying had been a ceremonial act acknowledging the social separation.68

This dual pattern recalls the situation in the city of Zarahemla at the time of King Mosiah2 when his subjects, who spoke two different languages, assembled to hear him—"all the people of Nephi . . . , and also all the people of Zarahemla, and they were gathered together in two bodies" (Mosiah 25:4). At the least, Santa Rosa provides an example of the type of ethnically or linguistically divided Mesoamerican community reflected in Mosiah 25:4, whether or not it was the actual scene of the historical event reported there.<ref>{{Book:Parry Peterson Welch:Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1082&index=9 Chapter 9], {{sofr}}|author=John L. Sorenson|article=How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization?}}</ref></blockquote></onlyinclude>

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[[Category:Echoes and Evidences]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Culture/New World|New World]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Culture/New World/Archaeology|Archaeology (New World)]]

Source:Echoes:Ch9:14:New World archaelogy: Hagoth

2015-02-26T23:47:57Z

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Hagoth is reported to have built ships and sent explorers northward from a spot on the coast of the west sea "by the narrow neck of land" (see Alma 63:5–6). The time was shortly before the birth of Christ. This is the only instance in Book of Mormon history when mention is made of shipbuilding and exploring by sea in the Nephites' promised land. It so happens that on the west-sea side (Pacific) of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which qualifies on many criteria as the narrow neck of land, there are a pair of large, placid lagoons, over thirty miles long. They could have provided a sheltered place not only to construct Hagoth's ships but also to master their use. In the mountains overlooking the lagoons, the Spaniards long afterward located timber that they found ideal for their own shipbuilding purposes. Also, it is generally agreed by Mesoamericanists that over a period of many centuries large seagoing rafts (de facto "ships") from Ecuador actually came up the Pacific coast to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and beyond on trading expeditions.69 No other spot north of Panama fits the Hagoth story as well as the Pacific coast "by the narrow neck of land."<ref>{{Book:Parry Peterson Welch:Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1082&index=9 Chapter 9], {{sofr}}|author=John L. Sorenson|article=How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization?}}</ref></blockquote></onlyinclude>

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[[Category:Echoes and Evidences]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Culture/New World|New World]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Culture/New World/Archaeology|Archaeology (New World)]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Geography/New World|New world]]

Category:Coins in the Book of Mormon

2015-02-07T20:56:16Z

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2015-02-07T20:55:08Z

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Source:Welch:JBMS 8:2:this sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures

2015-02-07T20:53:35Z

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==John Welch (1999): "This sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures"==
John Welch,
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Midway through one of the most heart-wrenching accounts in the Book of Mormon, when Alma and Amulek were on trial for their lives and Amulek's faithful women and children were put to death by fire, the story is interrupted with an explanation of King Mosiah's system of weights and measures (see Alma 11:3–19). It is a strange interruption, a mundane hiatus, but at least a relieving diversion as the tension mounts in Alma and Amulek's showdown with Zeezrom and the legal officials in Ammonihah. Why would one bring up these incidental economic nuts and bolts at such a point in the record?

Several reasons might explain why this information was included at this point in the Book of Mormon. For one thing, these short metrological details are not only intertwined with the debate between Amulek and Zeezrom (see Alma 11:21–25), but they also provide an important building block in Mormon's grand narrative. By abusing the justice system and misusing the lawful weights and measures, the wicked people of Ammonihah effectively opened the floodgates of God's judgment upon themselves, a pattern that would apply later to Nephite civilization as a whole.

In addition, as this article will show, this sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures. For many reasons, these monetary details found in the large plates are weighty matters indeed. The attempted bribery, the overreaching of the lawyers, the royal standardization and official codification of these measures, their mathematical relationships, and the unusual names involved in Alma 11 have long intrigued readers.<ref>John W. Welch, [http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1398&index=6 "Weighing and Measuring in the Worlds of the Book of Mormon,"] ''Journal of Book of Mormon Studies'' 8:2 (1999).</ref>
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Source:Welch:JBMS 8:2:this sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures

2015-02-07T20:53:11Z

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Source:Echoes:Ch6:2:Nephi's temple

2015-01-13T03:43:01Z

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Nephi records that after their separation from the Lamanites, his people built a temple "after the manner of the temple of Solomon save it were not built of so many precious things" (2 Nephi 5:16). Smaller temples patterned after the temple of Solomon existed in ancient Israel at the time of Lehi in areas distant from Jerusalem. Israeli archaeologist Avraham Negev commented on one of these temples: "The most remarkable discovery at Arad is the temple which occupied the north-western corner of the citadel. . . . Its orientation, general plan and contents, especially the tabernacle, are similar to the Temple of Solomon."4 In other words, Nephi's construction of a simpler version of Solomon's temple in a remote location once he had established his people in a permanent city was not a unique event in Jewish history, but rather an expected occurrence, a fact of which Joseph Smith and his contemporaries (including especially his critic Alexander Campbell), lacking the aid of modern archaeology, would certainly have been unaware.<ref>{{Book:Parry Peterson Welch:Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1082&index=6 Chapter 6], {{sofr}}|author=Noel B. Reynolds|article=By Objective Measures: Old Wine in New Bottles}}</ref></blockquote></onlyinclude>

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[[Category:Echoes and Evidences]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Out of place in 19th century|Out of place in 19th century]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Elements/Temple|Temple in Book of Mormon]]
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Source:Martin Harris:William Harrison Homer 1869:For I saw the angel, I heard his voice

2015-01-13T03:41:09Z

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On our asking [Harris] to show us the [Kirtland] temple, he very kindly offered his services. After going through the building from the roof to the basement, during which time he uttered a great many abusive words and sentiments against President Brigham Young. I asked him what he now thought of the divinity of the Book of Mormon. His answer was, 'Young man, do you see that sun shining through that window? Just so sure as that sun shines and gives us light by day, and the moon and stars give us light by night, just so sure I know that the Book of Mormon is true. For I saw the angel, I heard his voice, I saw and handled the plates upon which the Book of Mormon was written; and by the power and influence of the Holy Ghost, whom I know by the power and gift of the Holy Ghost, was a true Prophet of God, chosen to open up the last dispensation—or the dispensation of the fullness of times, when all things shall be gathered into one.'<ref>"Martin Harris Interview with William Harrison Homer, 1869," ''Early Mormon Documents'' 2:313-314.</ref>
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Source:Stephen Robinson:BYUS 27:4:1987:In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place

2014-11-26T20:39:57Z

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==Stephen Robinson: "In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place"==
Of the matter of the Jupiter talisman that is alleged to have been among Joseph Smith's possessions at the time of his death, Stephen Robinson wrote:

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In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place. If the coin were Joseph's, that fact alone would tell us nothing about what it meant to him. But in fact there is insufficient evidence to prove that the artifact ever belonged to the Prophet. The coin was completely unknown until 1930 when an aging Charles Bidamon sold it to Wilford Wood. The only evidence that it was Joseph's is an affidavit of Bidamon, who stood to gain financially by so representing it. Quinn [and any other critic who embraces this theory] uncritically accepts Bidamon's affidavit as solid proof that the coin was Joseph's. Yet the coin was not mentioned in the 1844 list of Joseph's possessions returned to Emma. Quinn negotiates this difficulty by suggesting the coin must have been worn around Joseph's neck under his shirt. But in so doing Quinn impeaches his only witness for the coin's authenticity, for Bidamon's affidavit, the only evidence linking the coin to Joseph, specifically and solemnly swears that the coin was in Joseph's pocket at Carthage. The real empirical evidence here is just too weak to prove that the coin was really Joseph's, let alone to extrapolate a conclusion from mere possession of the artifact that Joseph must have believed in and practiced magic. The recent Hofmann affair should have taught us that an affidavit from the seller, especially a 1930 affidavit to third hand information contradicted by the 1844 evidence, just isn't enough 'proof' to hang your hat on.<ref>{{BYUS|author=Stephen E. Robinson|article=Review of ''Early Mormonism and the Magic World View'', by D. Michael Quinn|vol=27|num=4|date=1987|start=94|end=95}}</ref>
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Category:Joseph Smith/Magic

2014-11-26T20:39:50Z

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Category:Age of the earth

2014-11-24T20:42:55Z

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Source:John S. Lewis:Interpreter 8:71:Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?

2014-11-24T20:41:56Z

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==John S. Lewis: "Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?"==
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The antiquity of Earth was a subject of active debate in the early nineteenth century. Some adherents of a conservative interpretation of scripture ignored or sought to explain away the overwhelming evidence from geology. The more liberal scientific interpretations of geological history suggested an age of 100,000 to millions of years for Earth. Almost alone, W. W. Phelps, Joseph Smith’s Book of Abraham scribe, offered a vastly larger perspective. In the Times and Seasons, a letter from Phelps to the Prophet’s brother William states:
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That eternity, agreeable to the records found in the catacombs of Egypt, has been going on in this system [Page 76](not the world)3 almost 2555 millions of years; and to know that deists, geologists and others are trying to prove that matter must have existed hundreds of thousands of years:—it almost tempts the flesh to fly to God, or muster faith like Enoch to be translated and see and know as we are seen and known!
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Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old? The answer appears to be straightforward. Though 7000 Earth years is in conflict with all physical, chemical, genetic, archaeological, and linguistic evidence, 7000 years of God is not ruled out. The arithmetic is easy. One day of God is 1000 years of man, and therefore in Joseph Smith’s reckoning, a day of God is 365 × 1000 days of man. The 2.555 billion years in question therefore corresponds to 2,555,000,000/365,000 years of God, which is 7000 years of God for each day of Earth’s existence. A more careful calculation, using the true average length of the year including leap years (365.257 days) gives 2,556,799,000 Earth years. Clearly Joseph Smith did not intend the “7000 years” of Earth’s age to refer to Earth years.<ref>John S. Lewis, [http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-scale-of-creation-in-space-and-time/ "The Scale of Creation in Space and Time,"] ''Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture'' 8:71-80 (27 December 2013).</ref> {{read more|url=http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-scale-of-creation-in-space-and-time/}}
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John S. Lewis, [http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-scale-of-creation-in-space-and-time/ "The Scale of Creation in Space and Time,"]
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Source:Brigham Young:JD 14:116:whether the Lord...made the earth in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation

2014-11-24T20:41:26Z

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==Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made [the earth] in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject"==
Brigham Young:
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In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular...whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.<ref>{{JDfairwiki|author=Brigham Young|date=14 May 1871|vol=14|disc=16|start=116}}</ref>
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Source:Rediscovering the Book of Mormon:Ch:19:1:Kingship patterns in Mosiah 1-6

2014-11-22T23:55:29Z

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==Old world patterns of kingship in Mosiah 1-6==
Stephen D. Ricks,
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The first six chapters of Mosiah are remarkable in several ways....They also give us a picture of how Mosiah succeeded his father, Benjamin, to the Nephite throne. Many features of the ceremony that was involved reflect the traditions of ancient Israelite culture. First is the significance of the office of king. Second is the coronation ceremony for the new king. The details of this ceremony have parallels in Israel and other ancient Near Eastern societies and even in other parts of the world. Finally, the order of events reported in these chapters reflects the "treaty-covenant" pattern well known in ancient Israel and the ancient Near East. <ref>{{Book:Sorenson Thorne:Rediscovering the Book of Mormon|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1111&index=20 Chapter 19]|author=Stephen D. Ricks|article=King, Coronation, and Covenant in Mosiah 1–6}}</ref></blockquote></onlyinclude>

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[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Kingship|Kingship in the Book of Mormon]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Culture/Old World|Old World]]
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Category:Jesus Christ/Marriage

2014-11-07T14:46:45Z

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Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married

2014-11-07T14:46:32Z

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==Charles Penrose (1912): "We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married"==
Charles W. Penrose:
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'''Question 2''': Do you believe that Jesus was married?
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'''Answer''': We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married. The Church has no authoritative declaration on the subject. <ref>{{IE|author=Charles W. Penrose|article=Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered|date=September 1912|vol=15|num=11}}</ref>
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Source:Church spokesman:2006:The belief that Christ was married has never been official church doctrine

2014-11-07T14:46:14Z

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==Dale Bills (Church spokesman, 2006): "The belief that Christ was married has never been official church doctrine"==
Dale Bills, a spokesman for the Church:
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The belief that Christ was married has never been official church doctrine. It is neither sanctioned nor taught by the church. While it is true that a few church leaders in the mid-1800s expressed their opinions on the matter, it was not then, and is not now, church doctrine. <ref>"LDS do not endorse claims in 'Da Vinci'," ''Deseret News,'' 17 May 2006; ([http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,635208214,00.html Link]). See also "Book's premise not so shocking to LDS," ''The Salt Lake Tribune,'' 19 May 2006; ([http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_3844431 Link]).</ref>
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Category:Jesus Christ/Marriage

2014-11-07T14:45:57Z

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Source:John Taylor:2 March 1879:JD 20:167 and 257:First Vision Father and Son or angel

2014-11-07T02:40:59Z

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==John Taylor (2 March 1879): "the Father and the Son...came to Joseph Smith" and "the Prophet Joseph asked the angel"==
The following two statements were made by John Taylor in different discourses on the same day, 2 March 1879. In one, Taylor talks of Joseph Smith asking "the angel" which church was right, and in the other, Taylor clearly states that "the Father and the Son...came to Joseph Smith." This demonstrates how early Church leaders often used the term "angel" to refer to the personages that appeared in the First Vision, even though they clearly knew that they were the Father and the Son.
==="When the Prophet Joseph asked the angel which of the sects was right"===
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None of them was right, just as it was when the Prophet Joseph asked the angel which of the sects was right that he might join it. The answer was that none of them are right.<ref>{{JDfairwiki|author=John Taylor|vol=20|disc=19|start=167|date=2 March 1879}}</ref>
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==="When the Father and the Son and Moroni and others came to Joseph Smith"===
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When the Father and the Son and Moroni and others came to Joseph Smith, he had a priesthood conferred upon him which he conferred upon others for the purpose of manifesting the laws of life...
<ref>{{JDfairwiki|author=John Taylor|vol=20|disc=33|start=257|date=2 March 1879}}</ref>
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Notice how one refers to an "angel" and the other refers to "the Father and the Son." Taylor was clearly aware of the details of the First Vision. This also demonstrates how early Church leaders used the term "angel" to represent the personages that Joseph saw, even at the same time that they recognized that these personages were the Father and the Son.

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Category:Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Illegal

2014-11-06T16:11:03Z

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Category:Joseph Smith/Polygamy

2014-11-06T16:10:30Z

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Source:Madsen:Defining Adultery:Joseph Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844

2014-11-06T16:09:52Z

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==M. Scott Bradshaw: "Joseph Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844"==
M. Scott Bradshaw:
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Joseph Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844. Illinois law only criminalized adultery or fornication if it was "open". Had Joseph lived to face trial on this charge, he would have had good reason to expect acquittal because his relationships with his plural wives were not open, but were kept confidential and known by a relative few. Given a fair trial on this indictment, Joseph could have relied on several legal defenses.<ref name="defining">{{Article:Bradshaw:Defining Adultery/Full title|pages=}}</ref>{{Rp|402}}
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Template:Book:Madsen Walker Welch:Sustaining the Law/Full title

2014-11-06T16:08:52Z

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Category:Polygamy

2014-11-06T16:08:06Z

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Source:Madsen:Defining Adultery:Joseph Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844

2014-11-06T16:07:39Z

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Category:Polygamy

2014-11-06T16:07:21Z

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Source:John Whitmer reaffirmed his written testimony of the plates - Messenger and Advocate 2:286-287

2014-11-05T20:35:54Z

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==John Whitmer reaffirmed his testimony as printed in the Book of Mormon even after he left the Church==

John Whitmer published his witness to the plates, and reaffirmed the written testimony of the Eight Witnesses published in the Book of Mormon:

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It may not be amiss in this place, to give a statement to the world concerning the work of the Lord, as I have been a member of this church of Latter Day Saints from its beginning; to say that the book of Mormon is a revelation from God, I have no hesitancy; but ''with all confidence have signed my named to it as such''; and I hope, that my patrons will indulge me in speaking freely on this subject, as I am about leaving the editorial department. Therefore I desire to testify to all that will come to the knowledge of this address; that I have most assuredly ''seen the plates from whence the book of Mormon is translated, and that I have handled these plates, and know of a surety that Joseph Smith, jr. has translated the book of Mormon by the gift and power of God'', and in this thing the wisdom of the wise most assuredly has perished: therefore, know ye, O ye inhabitants of the earth, wherever this address may come, that I have in this thing freed my garments of your blood, whether you believe or disbelieve the statements of your unworthy friend and well-wisher.<ref>{{MAfairwiki|author=John Whitmer|article=[http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=1205&REC=3 Address To the patrons of the Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate]|vol=2|date=March 1836|num=6|start=286|end=287}} {{ia}}</ref>
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Source:John Whitmer reaffirmed his written testimony of the plates - Messenger and Advocate 2:286-287

2014-11-05T20:09:31Z

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==John Whitmer reaffirmed his testimony as printed in the Book of Mormon even after he left the Church==

John Whitmer published his witness to the plates, and reaffirmed the written testimony of the Eight Witnesses published in the Book of Mormon:

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It may not be amiss in this place, to give a statement to the world concerning the work of the Lord, as I have been a member of this church of Latter Day Saints from its beginning; to say that the book of Mormon is a revelation from God, I have no hesitancy; but ''with all confidence have signed my named to it as such''; and I hope, that my patrons will indulge me in speaking freely on this subject, as I am about leaving the editorial department. Therefore I desire to testify to all that will come to the knowledge of this address; that I have most assuredly ''seen the plates from whence the book of Mormon is translated, and that I have handled these plates, and know of a surety that Joseph Smith, jr. has translated the book of Mormon by the gift and power of God'', and in this thing the wisdom of the wise most assuredly has perished: therefore, know ye, O ye inhabitants of the earth, wherever this address may come, that I have in this thing freed my garments of your blood, whether you believe or disbelieve the statements of your unworthy friend and well-wisher.<ref>{{MAfairwiki|author=John Whitmer|article=[http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=1205&REC=3 Address To the patrons of the Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate]|vol=2|date=March 1836|num=6|start=286|end=287}} {{ia}}</ref>
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Category:Book of Mormon/Witnesses/Eight witnesses

2014-11-05T20:09:13Z

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{{:Source:Echoes:Ch2:11:John Whitmer 1876:I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony}}
{{:Source:John Whitmer handled the plates - "Theodore Turley's Memorandums"}}

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Category:Book of Mormon/Witnesses/Eight witnesses

2014-11-05T20:08:57Z

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Source:John Whitmer reaffirmed his written testimony of the plates - Messenger and Advocate 2:286-287

2014-11-05T20:08:18Z

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==John Whitmer reaffirmed his testimony as printed in the Book of Mormon even after he left the Church==

John Whitmer published his witness to the plates, and reaffirmed the written testimony of the Eight Witnesses published in the Book of Mormon:

<blockquote>
It may not be amiss in this place, to give a statement to the world concerning the work of the Lord, as I have been a member of this church of Latter Day Saints from its beginning; to say that the book of Mormon is a revelation from God, I have no hesitancy; but ''with all confidence have signed my named to it as such''; and I hope, that my patrons will indulge me in speaking freely on this subject, as I am about leaving the editorial department. Therefore I desire to testify to all that will come to the knowledge of this address; that I have most assuredly ''seen the plates from whence the book of Mormon is translated, and that I have handled these plates, and know of a surety that Joseph Smith, jr. has translated the book of Mormon by the gift and power of God'', and in this thing the wisdom of the wise most assuredly has perished: therefore, know ye, O ye inhabitants of the earth, wherever this address may come, that I have in this thing freed my garments of your blood, whether you believe or disbelieve the statements of your unworthy friend and well-wisher.<ref>{{MAfairwiki|author=John Whitmer|article=[http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=1205&REC=3 Address To the patrons of the Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate]|vol=2|date=March 1836|num=6|start=286|end=287}} {{ia}}</ref></onlyinclude>
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Category:Book of Mormon/Witnesses/Eight witnesses

2014-11-05T20:07:48Z

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{{:Source:Echoes:Ch2:11:John Whitmer 1876:I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony}}
{{:Source:John Whitmer handled the plates - "Theodore Turley's Memorandums"}}
{{:Source:John Whitmer reaffirmed his written testimony of the plates - Messenger and Advocate 2:286-287}}
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Category:Book of Mormon/Witnesses/Eight witnesses

2014-11-05T20:07:27Z

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{{:Source:Echoes:Ch2:11:John Whitmer 1876:I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony}}
{{:Source:John Whitmer handled the plates - "Theodore Turley's Memorandums"}}
{{:Source:John Whitmer reaffirmed his written testimony of the plates - Messenger and Advocate 2:286-287}}
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