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Hello all, I posted on here some a while ago but as an exmo quickly found I didn’t fit well with the purpose of the site, was causing Ray unneeded stress, and have gone “inactive”.
However I have a legitimate reason, I think, to post that I believe will be within the confines of what is OK on here. I have begun working on a commentary on problems with the content of Book of Mormon – so far I’m only up to 1 Nephi 7. I am also intending to comment on things I like about the BoM as well as discuss criticisms I’ve seen that I don’t think hold water.
This is a personally interesting project to me, because my personal experience is I have read the Book of Mormon over 50 times and I found the more I read it the less I found I could believe that it was a historical book actually written by the Nephites. For me personally my loss of testimony in the LDS church was primarily because I could not accept the Book of Mormon.
I want to avoid being “anti-Mormon” here so I won’t post what I have so far. However, I do have a couple of questions:
1) Is anyone aware of anything like this that already exists? I know of two – skeptics annotated and a Evangelical Christian website. This are both helpful, but I find very incomplete and biased.
2) Is there anyone interested in working on this project with me in any capacity? Editing, writing, reviewing etc?
If you are interested please post here or you can send me a private message or just email me at
brian@brightbuilders.com Thanks,
Brian
We have lots of threads here about the Book of Mormon that discuss these things, so it would be best to contact Brian privately via PM here or through the email address he provided if you are interested in helping with this project. One thing all people can agree on is that it is literature. However this is often overlooked, in the effort to support/demolish it. It also – whatever its origin – reflects a certain amount of middle eastern values and literary style. It is more sophisticated than it appears on the surface.
Also some issues are complete red herrings e.g. adieu or how the abbreviation for junior was altered.
You might get more of a response from the New Order Mormon forum. bc_pg, I agree with Thoreau that this probably isn’t the right place. Perhaps you could describe how this book you are writing contributes to staying LDS.
I guess i would have task what the point would be. if you are already convinced the book is nonhistorical, then what further proof do you need? Most are convinced of that after a relatively few proofs (DNA, head in the hat, KJV verbatim quotes, anachronisms). the book itself says that at least part of it is nonhistorical. the question shouldn’t be whether the book is historical, but rather, whether it is inspired, worthy of being called “scripture” — and no amount of analysis will answer that question.
are you saying that in 50 times reading it, you have never felt of its spirit? in 50 times, has the book never witnessed to you of Christ? have you used the book to teach another person or share the gospel? if you have never felt anything about the book in 50 times trying, then perhaps the book, and this church, isn’t for you. it happens.
At any rate, if the 50th time brought less joy than the 49th, perhaps it’s time to set it aside for a while.
I’d try Jeff Lindsay’s site for the opposite of your finds http://www.jefflindsay.com/BMEvidences.shtmlhttp://www.jefflindsay.com/BMEvidences.shtml” class=”bbcode_url”>
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