Tag: Timeline
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Mormon and the Nephite records
I\’m trying to set the record straight (pun intended) for myself with respect to Mormon\’s dealings with the Nephite records. Writing some sort of timeline is helpful: About 310 AD: Mormon is born probably somewhere in the land northward, which usually is not part of the Book of Mormon narrative. We know little of his…
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Book of Ether generations and timeline
This post reminded me of another interesting thing I found in the Book of Ether which exemplifies its consistency. I read about criticism of the Book of Ether a while back where someone had calculated that there must have been an average age of 55-60 years between these generations in the royal line. According to them, this…
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A serialized response to John Hamer – Part 2b
We are still dealing with Hamer’s claim that: “The Book of Mormon is far simpler than it first appears”. We will consider another argument he uses to back up that claim: “Although the text includes many characters and places, the author only had to have a few of each in his mind at any given time as he tells individual…