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...
by Dan Wees | Jul 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“It remains unexplained why one does not encounter any Greek names in the [Book of Mormon] text until 600 years after Lehi’s departure from Jerusalem.” Dan Vogel, Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 30 April 2004),...
by Dan Wees | Jul 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
In paraphrasing Boyd K. Packer, LDS apologist Greg Trimble wrote: “I noticed that most of the people that condemned the Book of Mormon the loudest, had never even read the book.” An interesting dichotomy, given the fact that most who praise the Book of Mormon have...
by Dan Wees | Jul 9, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I think that for the church to remain strong it has to reconstruct its narrative. The dominant narrative is not true; it can’t be sustained. The church has to absorb all this new information or it will be on very shaky grounds and that’s what it is trying to do and...
by Dan Wees | Jul 9, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Mormons know how to poison, as well as murder, armed ‘Gentiles,’” the Alta California claimed in July 1857, carrying on a tradition of toxic charges that had followed the Latter-day Saints from Missouri to Illinois and ultimately to the Great Basin. Daily Alta...
by Dan Wees | Jul 9, 2018 | Miscellaneous
