Book of Mormon evidence

Welcome to the forum. We’re happy to discuss evidences of the Book of Mormon. If what you really want is the opinions of others who may not be fully orthodox, you’re welcome to post away. Our community standard is that we respect the opinions of others – and that’s a two way street. We each have our own experiences and points of view and freely share them here with the understanding that it’s not anyone’s place to declare themselves unequivocally “right” and anyone who doesn’t agree with a point of view as unequivocally “wrong.” To put it more directly, you are welcome to believe and share anything you want to believe about Book of Mormon evidence but you need to afford everyone else the same privilege whether they agree with you or not. (AofF 11).

[Moderator note: I deleted the duplicate post with the same content and one other post that did not fit the decorum of the forum. If you would like to write a proper introduction it would be appreciated. ]

Judd,

You are welcome here if your purpose is to try to StayLDS in spite of misgivings about the Church or its doctrine. If your purpose is to try to convince others about the truthfulness of any aspect of the Church, then you will be disappointed. I’m an atheist. I’m happy to have a conversation about the Church organization, lifestyle, benefits and drawbacks. I’m happy to talk about how to find peace in the face of a faith crisis. But, please, as a favor to me, recognize that I believe the BofM to be a man-made work with zero basis in history and people like me are able to stay in the Church to a substantial degree because of fellowship with this community, so I ask that you not disturb that peace here. Bottom line: I’m not going to try to convince you there is no God and I hope you will not try to convince me that there is. I respect your beliefs and frequently try to defend believers here. I do so because it’s how I would want to be treated and I hope you will treat me with the same kindness.

I am cool with hearing your ideas. I would only caution you with this audience to phrase your comments in a way that make your conclusions personal and tentative.

An example might be:

“Such and such discovery helps me to keep faith in the BoM as a history of ancient American cultures.”

As one of the originals here, I welcome you and whatever you would like to post. We try to be respectful of everyone, and our mission is focused on staying LDS, so anything you can contribute toward that mission is welcome and appreciated.

We tend not to be orthodox, so you might not get full agreement on the topic about which you want to post, but I hope we all can be respectful whether we agree, disagree or are neutral.

Yeah, stupid phone. My brain seems to shut down when I use it to comment. 😈

I fixed it.

Absolutely, OON.

SunBelt… I read some of that interchange I think.. Was that all the Hopewell Indian artifacts/ timeline facts in Florida (under a different Username I believe than OP here)? If so, it was quite interesting the back and forth on both sides. For me its at least interesting to hear new possibilities and the hard questions posed in opposition to those possibilities.