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https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/11/02/response-the-vision-of-all/#more-84223
Quote:At any rate, say I’ve got two minutes with the president of the Warner Bros. to give him the elevator pitch for optioning Joe’s book for the big screen. My elevator pitch of Joe’s book is this: the Book of Mormon is a lure, a trick, an elaborate Trojan horse more than 2500 years in the making designed by God to sucker the human race into finally reading Isaiah.
The Book of Mormon is the world’s most extravagant booby trap, a trap entirely designed to trick us into reading and understanding the one part of the Bible that nobody wants to read. The Book of Mormon itself is the cherry-flavored shell, the chocolate glaze, the spoon full of sugar designed to make Isaiah finally go down. Because only what God reveals there can save us and only what God promises there can heal our world.
This caught my eye because I enjoy the Isaiah chapters. (Not saying I understand them.)
I also enjoy the Isaiah chapters – and both agree with and laughed at the quote. 
As I have stated in a couple other places, I have recently undertaken an intense (for me) study of Isaiah. I am using the Oxford Annotated Bible (NRSV) and online resources (principally the commentaries and other translations found at Bible Hub). I have found my study enlightening and worthwhile, and I do understand what’s going on – and it’s not what most Mormons (and other Christians) think. other than the idea that what Isaiah says in the first 13 chapters are applicable across time, I’m not sure why they’re quoted in the BoM.
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