by Dan Wees | Jul 12, 2018 | Miscellaneous
In preparing their vessels to travel, the Jaredites… “…collected ‘deseret, which, by interpretation, is a honey bee’ (Ether 2:3). Why Moroni draws specific attention to the honey bee is intriguing. Perhaps Smith knew of the ongoing debate over the...
by Dan Wees | Jul 11, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The transportation of fresh-water fish [across the ocean – in a sealed barge] is particularly troubling, although the record indicates that they ‘did also prepare a vessel, in which they did carry them, the fish of the waters’ [Book of Mormon, Ether] (2:2). The...
by Dan Wees | Jul 11, 2018 | Miscellaneous
[T]he parallels between the two stories [in Ether and Mormon] are so striking, down to the last battle occurring at the same hill, that Mormon writer B.H. Roberts wondered: ‘Is all this sober history? …Or is it a wonder-tale of an immature mind, unconscious of...
by Dan Wees | Jul 11, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“And now I am prepared to say by the authority of Jesus Christ, that not many years shall pass away before the United States shall present such a scene of bloodshed as has not a parallel in the hystory of our nation pestalence hail famine and earthquake will sweep the...
by Dan Wees | Jul 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
How Mormons perceive the size of their church – vs- The actual size of the Mormon church in 2016 vs world...
by Dan Wees | Jul 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[In 3 Nephi 19:4] eight of the twelve names (Timothy, Jonas [twice], Mathoni, Mathonihah, Kumen, Kumenonhi, and Shemnon) appear nowhere else in the Book of Mormon. Jeremiah, Zedekiah, and Isaiah never appear as Nephite names except here. Thus, one wonders if the list...
